206 
Carboniferous limestone fossils from the 
county of Limerick, on, 62. 
Carboniferous series of Ireland, on the 
relations of the rocks at or below the 
base of the, 66. 
Carlile (Dr. H.) on the functions of the 
human ear, 116, 
Carpenter (Philip P.) on peculiarities of 
growth in Cecide, 102. 
Celtic races, on the source and origin of 
the, 146. 
Chadwick (E.) on the economical, edu- 
cational and social importance of open 
and public competitive examinations, 
158; on the dependence of moral and 
criminal on physical conditions of 
populations, 2b. 
Chalk, white, of the S.E. of England, on 
the occurrence of a boulder of granite 
in the, 62; on the forms of Diatomacez 
found in, 97, 
Chemical notes, 47, 
Chemistry, 44. 
Chesney (Major-Gen.) on the routes of 
communication between England and 
India, 123. 
China, on, 129, 
Chloroform, on a new method of ad- 
ministering, 51; on an instrument for 
the local application of, 115. 
Clarke (Dr.) on certain alterations of 
level on the sea coast of part of the 
county of Waterford, and the cause 
thereof, 65. 
Clay (H.) on the effect of good and bad 
times on committals to prison, 158. 
Cleavage, slaty, on, 92. 
Cloacz, on the purification of large towns 
by means of dry, 52. 
Clocks, on controlling the movements of 
ordinary, by galvanic currents, 13. 
Clyde, on the advantages arising from 
the improvement of tidal rivers, as ex- 
emplified by the state of the, 167. 
Cnicus tuberosus at Avebury Hills, 95. 
Coals, on some modified results attend- 
ing the decomposition of bituminous, 
by heat, 50. 
Coal-burning engines, on, 178. 
Coal-field, on the composition of the iron 
ores of the Leitrim, 44. 
Coal-measures near Glin, on a new fossil 
fern from the, 63. 
Coal-mines, on the working and yentila- 
tion of, 180. 
Cobalt, ammonio-iodide of, 55, 
Cocoon, on machinery for spinning silk 
from the, 189. 
Coils, on Mr, Whitehouse’s relay and 
induction, in action on short circuit, 21. 
INDEX II, 
Coinage, on the use of prime numbers in 
English, 174, 
Collodion plates, on the preservation of 
albuminized, 61, 
Comatula rosacea, on the reproductive 
zooids of, 108, 
Comets, on the distribution of the orbits 
of the, in space, 23, 
Competitive examinatious, on the econo- 
mical, educational and social import- 
ance of open and public, 158, 
Confectionary, on coloured, 55. 
Continent, on the progress of free trade 
on the, 163, 164. 
Copper, on the presence of, in the tissues 
of plants and animals, 55. 
Corbett (Professor J. H.) on Australian 
crania, 126. 
Cork, on the jointing and dolomitization 
of the lower carboniferous limestone in 
the neighbourhood of, 68. 
Couch (R, Q.) on the embryo state af 
Palinurus vulgaris, 102. 
Crania, on Australian, 126, 
Cranium of osseous fishes, and its verte- 
brate and articulate homologies, 104. 
Crawfurd (J.) on the effects of the gold 
of Australia and California, 160, 
Crime, on the prevention of, 162. 
Criminal statistics, on, 168, 171, 
Cull (Richard) on the character, extent, 
and ethnological value of the Indo- 
European element in the language of 
Finland, 127 ; letter to, on the present 
condition of the natives of Australia, 
154, 
Cumberland, on the lower sedimentary 
rocks of, 67. 
Curtis (Prof.) on a system of geodetics 
and the conjugate system, 2. 
Cyanogen, on some compounds of, 44. 
D’Abbadie (Antoine) on the ethnological 
and physical characters of the negro 
variety of mankind, 117, 
Danson (J. T.) on the ages of the popu- 
lation in Liverpool and Manchester, 
158. : 
Daubeny (Dr.) on a method of refining 
sugar, 45; on the conversion of paper 
into parchment, 45, 
Davis (Sir John F., Bart.) on China, in 
more immediate reference to pending 
operations in that quarter, 129, 
Decimal scale, on the application of a, to 
the construction of maps, 145, 172, 
Decomposition, on the time required by 
compounds for, 61. 
Development, on the influence of inade- 
quate or perverted, in the production 
