INDEX. 



595 



Coral, composition of, 226. 



Corchorus capularis, 362. 

 olitoi-iiis, 362. 



Cornelissen, Lieiiteiiaut J. E.,542. 



Coroual-liiie 1474 K,44. 



Corroi'ion of plaliuuiu stills by sulphuric 

 acid, 212. 



Costa Rica, reptiles lu, 315. 



Cottou, 291. 



covering with silk, 502. 

 silicate, 457. 



Cones, Dr. Elliott, 262. 



Court-plaster, increasing the adhesive- 

 ness of, 430. 



Crackuell, 16S. 



Cramp & Sons, 4GS. 



Cremation in France, 185. 



Cresson, John C , 542. 



Croce-Spinelli and Sivel, 449, 450. 



Crocker, Charles, 402. 



Crookes, Prof., 520. 



Crosby, 99. 



Crossley's observatory, IS. 



Crotch, Duppa, 299. 



Cruickshank, 34S. 



Crustacea, metamorphosis of, 334. 



Cryohyd rates, 195. 



Crystallization, instantaneous, 13S. 



Crystals, polarizing, 272. 



Cuban tishes, Poey's catalogue of, 320. 



Cuir-liege, a new fabric, 505. 



Culley, 447. 



Culture of plants among the aborigines, 

 370. 



Cunningham, Capt. Allen, 141. 



Currents of air in different directions si- 

 multaneously, 89. 

 of the atmosphere, the upper, 

 106. 



Curter, 175. 



Curves and equations, curious, 4. 



Cuvier, 276. 



Cyanides, a new class of, 199. 



Cyclones, laws of, 89. 



mechanical theory of, 101. 

 origin of, 127. 



D. 



Dahmen, Dr., 2. 



Dall, W. H., 262. 



Dallas, W.S., 341. 



Dallinger and Drysdale, 267. 



Daltoii's law and the constitution of the 



atmosphere, 105. 

 Damoiseau prize for astronomical work, 

 52. 

 tables of, 32. 

 Damonr, 222. 

 Dana, Prof ,226, 278. 

 Danforth, Dr., 532. 

 Darhev, P. H., 398. 

 D'Arrest, 16, 37, 48. 

 D'Arrest's periodic comet, 37. 

 Darwin, 276. 

 Date & Eichbaum, 417. 

 Daubree, 83, 227. 

 Daubreite, a new mineral, 220, 

 Davidson, 106. 

 Davies, Prof. Charles, 542. 

 Davis, Henry, 324. 

 Davy and Brewster, 198. 



jVIarie, 94, 162, 384. 



Sir Humphrey, 178. 

 Death of tishes, one cause of, 405. 



Decaisue, 534 



Decomposition of water, 195. 

 Decrease of birds in Massachusetts, 309. 

 Deep-sea sounding by photography, 151. 



soundings, red clay of, 273. 

 Deer, a new Califurnian, 304. 

 Deflections of the plumb-liue, 67. 

 De Fonvielle, 14. 

 De Haldat, 160. 

 De la Blanchere, 405. 

 Delachanal & Mermet, 415. 

 De la Rive, Prof., 75. 

 De la Rue, Warren, 177. 

 Delphi, problem of, 1. 

 Delvigue, Gustave, 542. 

 Deinbowski, 23. 

 Dental process, improved, 536. 

 Denza, 129. 



Deposition of fine sedimeuts, 229. 

 De Rossi, 72. 



Desilverization of argentiferous zinc, 204. 

 Desmouliiis, Charles, 542. 

 Desor, 229. 



Destroying the Siberian marmot, 382. 

 Destruction of lield-mice by fumigation, 

 ^^1 

 of the buffalo, rapid, 302. 

 Detroit River, whitetish hatching in, 403. 

 Development of salpa, 338. 



of sulphuretted hydrogen, 

 196. 

 Deviation of the compass, 162. 



in iron ships, 

 163. 

 Deville, 195. 



and Debray, 195, 206. 

 De Vries, 347. 



Dewar and Tait, Proft^., 147. 

 Diameter of the inferior planets, 29. 

 Diarrhoea, Cochin China, 5.35. 

 Diatoms in wheat straw, 342. 

 Dickson, Oscar, 242. 

 Dietheroscope, the, 187. 

 Digestion in myriapods, 336. 



in the cockroach, 328. 

 Digitalis purpurea, 527. 

 Diminution of water in springs, etc., 131. 

 Diodes, cissoid of, 1. 

 Direction of cirrus clouds, 98. 

 Discoveries, Marsh's recent, 297. 

 Disease among dogs in China, peculiar, 

 .533. 



of olive and orange trees, 364. 



the potato, 363. 

 Dispersion of light by prisms, 152. 

 Distoma crassum, 337. 

 Distribution of atmospheric pressure, 90. 



of public time, 60. 

 Doberck, 44. 

 DolHn,Dr.,.3.38. 



Dollen's determination of local time, 5. 

 Dolores River, 248. 



Domestic and household economy, 411. 

 Domesticating the prairie chickeu,310. 

 Domeyko, 220. 

 Donnadieu, A. L., 332. 

 Doppler's theorv, 20. 

 D'Orbigiiv, Prol'.,542. 

 Dorii, Dr.", 120. 

 Double star z 634, 18. 



stars, catalogue of, 17. 

 colors of, 17. 

 Double-balance method in duplex teleg- 

 raphy, 169. 



