CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Cohesion (Lat. cohcereo), a property of matter, 195. 



Coir, the dry fibrous pericarp of the cocoa-nut, 

 372. 



Coke, 420. 



Coleoptera, beetles (Gr. koleos, a sheath, pteron, a 

 wing), an extensive and varied order in ento- 

 mology, 149. 



Colic, treatment of, 771. 



Colon, in Human Physiology, 1 16. 



Colour, influence of on radiant heat, 207. 



Colours and pigments, in Applied Chemistry, 340. 



Colubrina (true snakes), family in Zoology, 164. 



Columbium, one of the metallic elements, 315. 



Columns, monumental, in Architecture, 469. 



Colymbidae (family of the Divers), in Ornithology, 

 1 68. 



Combustibles, manufacture of, 351. 



Combustion, chemical, 313; vital, 113; products 

 of, 482. 



Comets, their motions, constitutions, &c. described, 

 12. 



Commensalism, in Zoology, 134. 



Common earth-worm, 141. 



Compass, mariner's, in Maritime Conveyance, 460. 



Compensation, in Horology, 303. 



Compensation pendulums, in Horology, 297. 



Compositae, in Botany, 99. 



Composite order, in Architecture, 471. 



Composts, in Gardening, 547. 



Compound engine, 431. 



Compressibility, a property of matter, 194. 



Compression or crushing, in Mechanics, 216. 



Condenser, in Steam-engine, 427, 431. 



Condor (Sarcoramphus), family Vulturidae, 176. 



Confections, in Food, 743. 



Conformable, term in Geology, 19. 



Conglomerate, or plum-pudding stone, in Geology, 

 1 8, 26. 



Coniferae, or cone-bearing trees, 107, 505. 



Constellations, in Astronomy, 8, 1 5. 



Constipation, treatment of, 771. 



Consumption or phthisis, treatment of, 774. 



Continents and islands of the globe, 53-54. 



Contractibility, a property of matter, 194. 



CONVEYANCE, INLAND, 433-448 ; MARINE, 449- 

 464. 



Convolvulaceae, order in Botany, 102. 



COOKERY PREPARATION OF FOOD, 753-768 ; 

 boiling and stewing vessels, 753 ; cottage cook- 

 ery, 767 ; roasting, 753 ; baking, broiling, fry- 

 ing? 75 J ; boiling, 753 ; stews, hashes, and made 

 dishes, 754 ; soups, 754 ; sauces and flavours, 

 761 ; fish, 756 ; pies and tarts, puddings and 

 dumplings, 764. 



Copernican and Ptolemaic systems, 3. 



Copper, in Chemistry, 307, 327 ; in Metallurgy, 

 404 ; ores, smelting process, 404 ; uses of, 405. 



Coppice, management of, in Forestry, 607. 



Coprolites (Gr. kopros, dung, lithos, a stone), 

 the geological term for petrified excrements 

 which are found in all the systems of the 

 secondary and tertiary epochs. They are 

 chiefly the voidings of fishes and sauroid 

 animals, and yield unequivocal evidences of 

 their origin in containing scales, bones, and 

 other fragments of the creatures on which these 

 voracious animals preyed, 392. 



Coral, economically considered, 392 ; corals, 

 corallines,. 137, 138. 



Coral islands, 58. 



Corinthian order, in Grecian Architecture, 470. 



806 



Cormorants, family Pelicanidas, in Zoology, 168. 



Cornice, in Grecian Architecture, 469. 



Cornish engine, the, 428. 



Corolla, the true flower or blossom, 74. 



Corolliflorse, one of the Jussieuian subdivisions, 



ICO. 



Corona, in Astronomy, 6. 



Corpora quadrigemina, in Human Physiology, 124, 



Corpora striata, in Human Physiology, 124. 



Correlation of Physical Forces, 244. 



Corrosive sublimate, a poison, 414, 783. 



Corundum, 400. 



Corylaceas, order in Botany, 107. 



Coryza, treatment of, 772. 



COSTUME, 789-800. 



Cottage system, in Agriculture, 542-543. 



Cotton (Gossypium\ botanical character of, 91 ; 

 growth and preparations of, carding and spin- 

 ning* 372-376 ; weaving and dressing, dyeing 

 and printing, 346 ; British cotton manufacture, 

 statistics of, 373. 



Cotton clothing, hygienic properties of, 786. 



Cotton (gun), Professor Schonbein's discovery of, 

 352. 



Coursing, 696. 



Cow, general management of, 634-636. 



Cow-houses, 634. 



Cowry-shell (Cypr&a), in Conchology, 152. 



Crabs, sea and land species, 143 ; in Fisheries, 713, 



Cranberry, varieties and cultivation of, 588. 



Cranes, family Gruidas, in Ornithology, 169. 



Cranks, in Practical Machinery, 221. 



Crater (Gr. krater, a cup or bowl), 20. 



Cray-fish, in Zoology, 143 ; Fishery, 713. 



Cream, in Dietary, 748. 



Creepers (Certhiadae), 174. 



Cress, garden and water, nature and culture of r 



555- 

 Cretaceous system (Lat creta, chalk), in Geology, 



30. 



Cricket, family Achetidae, in Zoology, 147. 

 Crinoline, in dress, 799. 



Crocodiles, Crocodilidae, family in Zoology, 166. 

 Crocus and Snowdrop, cultivation of, 566. 

 Crop-out, or out- crop, in Mining and Geology, the 



edge, or exposure of a stratum at the surface, 



387. 



Crops, green crops, 525 ; white, 528 ; rotation of 

 crops, 532 ; special rotations, 533. 



Croup, treatment of, 772. 



Crown-wheels, in Machinery, 220. 



Crows, family Corvidas (Lat. coruus, a crow), 173. 



Cruciferse, one of the Jussieuian orders, 91. 



Crust of the earth, in Geology, defined, 17. 



Crustacea, class in Zoology, 142 ; in Geology, 30 j 

 in Dietary, 747. 



Cryptogamia (Gr. cryptos, concealed, and gamos, 

 nuptials), the name given to those plants in 

 which the organs of reproduction are not ap- 

 parent, as the ferns, lichens, mosses, fungi, and 

 sea-weeds, 75, 82, 89, no. 



Crystal, crystallisation, crystallography, 305. 



Crystalline lens, in Optics, 246. 



Cuckoo, family Cuculidas, in Zoology, 172. 



Cucumber, nature and culture of, 558. 



Cucurbitaceae, a Jussieuian order in Botany, 97. 



CULTURE OF WASTE LANDS, 537-541. 



Cumulus, one of Howard's cloud-formations, 36. 



Cunard Steam-ship Company, 455. 



Cupola furnace, description of, in Metallurgy, 409. 



Curd, in Dietary, 748. 



