INDEX. 



621 



Corks and Acids, 3S4. 

 Corn-cobs, Prepared, 383. 

 Coryaria Thymifolia, 380. 

 Cotteni, Mr., 364. 

 Cotton Fibre, Tension of, 4S6. 



Dyeing with Aniline, 439. 



in "Nature's Color," 443. 



in Surgery, Iodized, 591. 

 Cotton-seed, Use of, 4S5. 

 Court-plaster, Preparation of, 3S4. 

 Cows, Food of, and Milk, 337. 

 Crabs, Hermit, 229. 

 Craig, Dr., 234. 



Creosote for preserving Fruit, 302. 

 Crinoids injected with Silica, 225. 

 Crocodiles and Alligators, Relation of 



Weight to Length of, 259. 

 Croll, James, 21. 

 Crookes on Psychic Force, 608. 

 Croup and Inhalation of Glycerine, 55S. 

 Cows, to keep, from green Fields, 332. 

 Crucibles, to render infusible, 456. 

 Cruise of the School-ship Mercury, 147. 

 Crustacea, Influence of fresh and'salt Wa- 

 ter on, 226. 

 Crustaceans, new Gulf Stream, 270. 



new Fossil, 228. 

 Cuba, Fishes of, 211. 

 Cunduraugo, 579, 595, 596. 

 Curare Poison, Effect of, 237. 

 Cure for Snake-bites, 175. 

 Curtain Cord, Tightening of, 3S4. 

 Czerny, Mr., 300. 



D. 



Dacca Muslin, 486. 



Dale & Milner, Messrs., 404. 



Dall, Mr. W. H., 224. 



Dallas, Mr., 214. 



Dambose in Caoutchouc, 79. 



Dammann, Prof., 358. 



Dana, Prof., 94, 152, 22S, 251. 



Darien Canal, Report on, 143. 



Darwin, Mr., 156, 219, 245. 

 Collections, 272. 

 Origin of Species, 253. 



Darwinism, Mr.Wm. Thompson on, 160. 



Davidson, Prof., 137. 



Davies, Dr., 548. 



Daw, M. Mario, 38. 



Dawkius, Mr. Bovd, 91, 242. 456. 



Dawson, Dr., 225, 229, 24S, 2S6. 



Day, Lieut., 195. 



Death of fresh-water Fish in salt Water, 

 265. 



Sign of, 550. 



Decaisne, Prof., 301, 555, 558. 



De Castro, Mr., 491. 



Decomposition of Animal Substances con- 

 taining Phosphorus, 239. 



Deformities, Hereditary, 163. 



Delafontaine, Prof., 38. 



Del au nay, M., 38. 



Delhi Boil, 171. 



Demerara, Great Waterfall in, 148. 



Denbighshire, Caves in, 242. 



Deodorizer, Spongy Iron, 551. 



Descent of Man, Darwin on, 156. 



Desort, Mr., 179. 



Dextral Pre-eminence, 238. 



Dextrine, 451. 



and Gum Arabic, 457. 



Diamond cutting hot Glass, 455. 



Fields in South Africa, S2. 



Diamond in Xanthophyllite, 81. 

 Diatoms, Cleaning of, 228. 

 Di Cessnola, Mr., 78. 

 Dicyuodon, 82. 

 Didunculus Strigirostris, 192. 

 Diegoau Province, 152. 

 Dietlen, F., 43. 

 Din as Stone, Fire-proof, 421. 

 Dingier, Dr., 457. 

 Dinornis, 152. 



Diptera, Parthenogenesis in, 221. 

 Discoveries of Payer and Weyprecht, 120. 

 Disease of Caterpillars, New, 223. 

 Distomata, 171. 

 Doane, Lieut., 136. 

 Dodo Pigeon, 192. 

 Dog, Esquimaux, 172. 

 Diihrn, Dr. Anton, 274. 

 Doull, River, 81. 

 Dove, Prof., 27. 

 Dragon's Blood, Gum, 530. 

 Draining with Fascines, 314. 

 Draper, Prof. Henry, 148. 

 Drawings, Fixing of, 497. 

 Drying Woolens, 427. 

 Dualin and Dynamite, 415. 

 Dubois, Mr., 93. 

 Dubost, Mr., 219. 

 Dubrunfaut, Mr., 80. 

 DuChaillu,M.,177,563. 

 Duchemiu, Mr., 41. 

 Duchemon, Mr., 458. 

 Duckham's Weighing Machine, 465. 

 Ducks and Hens, Fecundity of, 332. 

 Dufour, Prof., 25. 

 Duncan, Prof., ISO. 

 Duns, Prof., 189. 

 D'Urville, Admiral, 110. 

 Dust as a Ferment, 540. 

 Inhalation of, 540. 

 Dutrochet, Mr., 219, 290. 

 Dyer, Prof., 326. 

 Dyes for Candies, 561. 

 Dynamite aud Gun-cotton, 415. 



for Artesian Wells, 415. 



E. 

 Earth, Temperature of, 37. 

 Earthquakes and Magnetic Currents, 98. 

 Eastman, Prof., 3. 

 Ebony from Sea-weed, 463. 

 Echinus, Rare, 225. 

 Ecuadorian Province, 153. 

 Ecuador, Physical Phenomena, 99. 

 I Edhil's Saccharometer, 491. 

 Edwards, Mr. Ernest, 500. 

 Egg and Chick, Ratio in Size of, 192. 

 Eggerty, Mr., 66. 

 Egg-oil, 362. 



Eggs, Cooling of Brooding, 333. 

 Marks of Sex in, 191. 

 Preserving, 362. 

 Rancid Taste in, 332. 

 Ehrcnberg, Prof., 269. 

 Ehrle, Dr.,551. 

 Eikocalanus, 209. 

 Elasmognathus Bairdii, 27S. 

 Elasmosaurus, 134. 

 Electric Amalgam, Improved, 43. 

 Light, Intermittent, 526. 

 Pile, Duchemin', 41. 

 Electricity not in the Human Body, 175. 

 on Colored Tissues, 296. 

 opposite Currents of, 50. 



