546 
Canal, the Soonkasala, 394 
Cane sugar, conversion of into elu- 
cose, 116 
Cannizzaro, Prof., “ The Faraday 
Lecture, 409 
Cannon powder, modern, 58 
Carbazol in aniline, 4r1 
Carbon in meteoric iron, 541 
— — meteorites, 116 
— oxidation of, 409 
— specific heat of, 401 
Carr’s disintegrator, 267 
Cement for leather, 537 
— new, for microscopic purposes, 271 
Charcoal-iron, 520 
— pills, an antidote to phosphorus, 
4II 
‘* Chemical Physiology,” by J. L. W. 
THUDICHUM (review), 380 
“Chemical Technology, Handbook 
of,” by R. WaGNeErR (review), 502 
‘“* Chemistry,” by H. E. Roscoe (re- 
view), 377 
“ Chemistry, Elements of,” by Dr. W. 
A. MILLER (review), 381 
“‘Chemistry, Index to Gmelin’s 
Handbook of,” by H. Warts (re- 
view), 384 
— progress in, 112, 279, 409, 540 
Chili, copper mines of, 159 
Clay, analysis of a, 540 
Cleveland distri@, blast-furnaces in, 
99 
Coal Commissioners’ Report, 38 
Coal-cutting machinery, 385 
“* Coal Economy,” by F. C. DANVERS 
(review), 361 
— exploration for in the Wealden 
formation, 386, 517 
— gas occluded in, 114 
— in blast-furnaces, roo 
— machinery for cutting, 519 
— safety in working, 385 
— search for, 98 
— statistics of production, 257 
— Sutherlandshire, 517 
Cobalt in tin ores, 390 
Coinage, gold, 224 
Cold from evaporation of ether, 272 
— on vapours, action of, 124 
— production of by mechanical action, 
272 
Colliery explosions, 385 
— Inspector’s Report, 98 
CoLLINGwoop, C., ‘‘ A Vision of Cre- 
ation” (review), 371 
Combustion, spontaneous, 410 
— — of a wooden beam, 531 
“ Comets, Observations of from Chi- 
nese Annals, by J. WILLIAMS 
(review), 367 
INDEX. 
(October, 
Compound prisms, 119 
Conduétibility of liquids for eleCtricity, 
276 
Copper, existence of in certain waters, 
115 
— mines of Chili, 159 
‘Cornwall, Royal Institution of, Ad- 
dress to by W. J. Henwood” (re- 
view), 78 
“Corso di Geologia del Professore 
ANTONIO STOPPANI’’ (review), 506 
Corundum, 521 
Cotton, printing on, 542 
‘iCreation, Wision Of,” by C.sCore 
LINGWOOD (review), 371 
Crookes, W., Psychic Force, 136 
Cryptomorphite, 522 
Cuprite, mineral, 390 
‘Curve Tracing,” by P. Frost (re- 
view), 378 
Cyclones, origin of the great, by Prof. 
Maury, 417 
Cylindrical lenses, employment of in 
spectroscopic observations, 269 
ALLAS, W. S., ‘‘ Man in the 
Past, Present, and Future’’ 
(review), 374 
Danks, S., mechanical puddling, 99 
Danks’s puddling furnace, 259, 388 
Danvers, F. C., ‘Coal Economy ” 
(review), 361 
— paper at the International Exhibi- 
tion, 463 
Darwin, C., ‘“ Origin of Species” 
(review), 374 
Datolite, mineral, 522 
Dead or alive, 135 
‘“Debatable Land between This 
World and the Next,” by Rost. 
Dae OwEN (review), 237 
Decimal system, thoughts on the, 293 
DESCHANEL, A. P., *‘ Natural Philo- 
sophy (review), 255 
Designs, reproduction of, 537 
Detonators, electrical, 403 
Dextrine, preparation of, 111 
Diamonds, South African, 102, 262 
Diatoms, re-mounting, 122 
‘‘ Discovery of a New World of 
Being,” by G. THomson (review), 
381 
Distance of fixed stars, 118 
DoueErrty, H., ‘‘ Organic Philosophy” 
(review), 79 
Dolmen mounds and amorpholithic 
monuments of Brittany, 1, 436 
Dolomite for oxyhydrogen light, 268 
Dona.pson, W., ‘“ New Formulas for 
the Loads and Deflections of Solid 
Beams and Girders”’ (review), 504 
