INDEX. 



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Buff and Berger, 30. 



Buff, Dr., 06, 69. 



Bunsen lamp, theory of, 132. 



Bureau and Poisson, 345. 



Burner for sensitive flame, 101. 



Burnham, S. W., C, 8, 43. 



Burrill, T. J.,336. 



Bussey Institution, 351. 



Butlerow, 120. 



Btitschli,0., 300, 301,311. 



Bays-Ballot, 72, 73, 76. 



Calcite, 154. 



Caloptenus spretus, 225. 

 Calycauthus, fluorescence of, 340. 

 Cambier, Captain, 202. 

 Cambridge, Rev. O. P., 315. 

 Camel, the wild, 297. 

 Campbell, F., 113, 178. 

 Canal across the isthmus, 3S2. 

 in the Mississippi, 3S5. 

 interoceanique, 192. 

 Candles recovered from the sea, 147. 

 Candolle, De, 33S. 

 Canstall, Oscar, 193. 

 Caoutchouc, solubility of, 148. 

 Cape observations, 33. 

 Capillary action, experiments on, 96. 

 Carbon disulphide antiseptic, 130. 



of plants, source of, 364. 

 Carbons for electric light, 127. 

 Carboniferous rocks in Kentucky, 174. 

 Carib race, 227. 

 Caribbean sponges, new, 302. 

 Carll and Chance, 230. 

 Carpenter, Dr. P. P., 416. 



Dr. W. B., 277, 300, 304. 

 Carpmael, 64. 

 Carr, Lucien, 263. 

 Carter, 301. 

 Cartier, 324. 

 Cartography at the Centennial Exposition, 



191. 

 Caspari, O., 209. 

 Cassinite, analysis of, 155. 

 Caswell, J. H., 156. 

 Catfish, 291. 

 Cave fauna, a new, 309. 

 Cayley and Adams, Profs., 24. 

 Cazeueuve, 146. 

 Cazin,Prof.,41G. 

 Celler, 192. 

 Celoria, 14. 

 Celsius, 54. 

 Centennial Exposition, cartography at, 



191. 

 Central Africa, civilization, etc., of, 202. 



Europe, the loess of, ISO. 

 Centrarchidae, new, 293. 

 Ceratodontids, 290. 

 Cerf, Mademoiselle Henrietta, 416. 

 Cesati, 32S. 

 Chambers, Ch.,55. 



of Bombay, 86. 



V. T., 307. 

 Champlain, 339. 

 Chance, 230. 

 Chandler, S. C, 5, 21. 

 Chapman, 17. 



Charcoal for gunpowder, 344. 

 Chart of deep basins in the ocean, 190. 

 Charts for Navigators, new, 1S3. 

 Cheese-mite, 315. 



I Chemistry, 131. 

 Chesapeake Bay, 822. 



Chester, Prof. A. H., 156. 

 Cbeyne, C. II., 410. 

 Chikolef, 128. 

 Chili, climate of, S5. 



expedition to, 16. 

 Chimaera plumbea, 290. 

 China, work on, 200, 

 Chinese railroad, 394. 

 Tart a iv, 1V-. 

 Chittagong, 341. 

 Chloride of potassium, 370. 

 Christie, 5, 35. 

 Chun, Dr. C.,2S3. 

 Church, Prof., 144, 160. 



J. A., 217. 

 Cienkowsky, 246. 

 Cincinnati anticlinal, geology of, 173. 



Observatory, Mount Lookont, 

 0..43. 

 Circular to the American observatories. 



35, 36. 

 Clark, Alvan, and Sons, 28. 



telescope of, 20. 

 S.F.,279. ' 



W.,119. 

 Cleyden and Heycock, 114. 

 Climate and geology, 89. 

 hygiene, 88. 

 Climatology, 85. 

 Clocks, regulation of, 27. 

 Cloe'z, 145. 

 Clouds, etc., 77. 



Clove-furnace, Greenwood, 402. 

 Coal-trade of 1877, 413. 

 Coast Pilot, 224. 



Survey, U. S., 1S4, 222. 

 Cobra poison, 241. 

 Cochineal iusect,320. 

 Coefficients of expansion, 103. 

 Coffin, J. W., 73. 

 Coggia, 25. 



Coghlan, Lieutenant, ISO. 

 Cohen, Dr., 254. 

 Conn, 241, 24S, 323, 330. 

 Cohne, 133. 



Colens verschaffeltii, red color in, 144. 

 Colin, Prof., 244. 

 Collins, 158, 159. 

 Color and locality, 279. 



blindness, ilt'. 



mixture, laws of, 119. 



subjective, 116. 

 Colors, comparing, 116. 

 Colombia and Ecuador, 192. 

 Columbite of North Carolina, 155. 

 Comatula star-fish, 304. 

 Comets, 25. 



Commercial sponges, 301. 

 Compiegne, Marquis de, 416. 

 Composition of plants, 372. 

 Compressibility of liquids, 94. 

 Compression, law of gaseous, 96. 

 Comstock lode, 217. 

 Congo and Lualaba rivers, 191,200. 

 ConllingjA.E.,217. 

 Conrad, Timothy Abbott, 410. 

 Consumption, influence of climate on, 89. 

 Contiuho, Dr., 344. 

 Convection currents, 105. 

 Cooke, M.C., 134, 329, 834. 

 ( !ope, Prof., 275, 270, 277, 293. 

 Copeland,5. 



