Index 



323 



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Cavendish, Henry 14, 69, 73, 83-6 

 Density of earth - 87 



Law of inverse square- 81 

 Meteorological observa- 

 tions organized - 208 

 Cawley - - 101 



Cayley, A. - 128, 129 



Cells, nucleus of - 244 



Challis, James - - 126, 127 

 Chambers, R. - - 275 



Chance, Messrs. - 172 



Charles II., interest in 



science - - 57, 203, 227, 233 

 Chemical Society - - 212 

 Chemistry, industrial appli- 

 cation - - 194-202 

 Chloroform, discovery of - 305 

 Action on heart - - 303 

 Chrystal, G. - 133 

 Christy, S. H. - - 147 

 Chronometer - 96 

 Chromosphere, spectrum of 171 

 Ciliary apparatus of eyeball 300 

 Circle of Willis - - 297 

 Circles, divided - 96, 97 

 Circulation of blood - - 294 

 Clarke, A. R. - - 176 

 Clausius, R. - - 28 

 Clifford, W. K. - - - 147 

 Clift, W. - - - - 265 

 Clifton, R. B. - - 151 

 Clocks : 



Anchor escapement - 95 

 Temperature compen- 

 sation - - 96 

 Coagulation of blood - 299, 305 

 Coal-tar industry, history of 



199-201 



Cobbett, L. - - 306 



Coherer - - 191 



Coke tower condenser, in- 

 vention of - 197 

 Colloids - - 145 

 Colour : 



Dispersion - -54, 98 



Photography - - 173 

 Thin plates - 19 



Vision - - 128, 300 

 Comet, Halley's - . 59 



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Common, A. A.- - - 170 

 Compass : 



Early knowledge of 3 



Improved by Airy - 121 



Conductivity, see under Heat. 



Conservation of energy 8, 22, 135 



Cooke, Sir W. F. - 188 



Cooper, A. - 264 



Coral - 317 



Cordite - - 202 



Corporation of Surgeons - 265 



Corpuscular theory of light 17 



Cotes, R. - 56 



Coulomb - 69, 70 



Courtois - - - 115 



Crabtree, W. - - 88, 89, 95 



Crawford - - 131 



Critical temperature - 140 



Crookes, Sir W. - - 151,199 



Electric discharge - 181 



Radiometer - 180 



Thallium, discovered - 159 



Cruikshank - - 113 



Cryptogamic botany - - 250 



Crystalline structure - 130, 312 



Crystallography - 130 



Cugnot, N. - - 104 



Cullen, William - - 65 



Curie, M. and Mme. - - 183 



Cuvier - - 115, 265, 282 



On organization of Royal 



Society - - - 212 



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