FIRST YEAR SCIENCE 



References are to pages. 



Bee, see Honey-bee. 



Biplane, picture of 9 



Bison 432 



picture 406 



BItu'minous coal 78 



Blizzard 171 



Blood, corpuscles 228 



circulation 227 



Bottom lands 402 



Bowlders 367 



erratic 379 



pictures 369, 380 



Brain .224 



picture 225 



Breadmaking 211 



Budding 192 



Buds, terminal and axillary . . 192 



Buffalo 406,432 



Buttes (biuts) .... 412, 413 



Cactus 245 



Calde'ra 450 



Calorie of heat 57 



Ca'lyx 201 



Cambium layer .... 189, 191 

 Camera obscura 58 



eye compared to ... 230, 231 



Capillaries 226 



Capillarity , 97, 187 



Car'bohy'drates . . 197, 235, 236 

 Carbon dioxide, in^ir 112, 114, 178 



in animals 217 



in plants 196, 208 



in yeast 211 



Cattle tick 220 



Cells, electric 165 



of plants 186 



Centigrade thermometer . 51 



Centrifugal force 9, 11 



Chlo'rophyll 197, 209 



Cinders, volcanic . . 442, 444, 453 

 Circulation of the blood . . 228 



picture 229 



Clay, see Soils. 



Climate 174-178 



effects upon plants and animals 176 

 upon distribution of life . . 256 



upon man 177 



Clouds 126 



See also Moisture. 



Coal 78 



Coastal plains, see Plains. 



Coasts 292 



beaches 296 



depressed and elevated . 301, 304 



harbors 307 



of the U. S 309 



safeguarding the 307 



sand bars 297, 302 



spits 297 



waves 294 



Columbus, Christopher 

 (1445?-1506), discoverer of 

 the declination of the mag- 

 netic needle 34 



Compass, Mariners' . . . 40, 41 



points of the 23 



Conduction of heat .... 53 

 Conductors, of electricity . . 161 



of heat 53 



Conservation of energy . 46-49 

 Continental shelf . . . 272, 273 

 Convection of heat .... 54 



Cooking 238 



Coral islands or reefs 288, 289, 293 



atolls 289 



Corol'la 201 



Coro'na 128 



Cor'puscles, red and white . . 228 

 Crevas'ses of glaciers ... 365 



Cri'noid, picture of 276 



Currents of the sea .... 281 



map 280 



Cyclones 168 



map 172 



Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) . 19 



Day, lunar 29 



mean sojar 31, 32 



sidereal 29 



solar 29 



Day and night, cause .... 21 

 of equal length 28 



Dead Sea 325 



picture 324 



Declination of the magnetic 

 needle 34,35 



Degree of latitude and longi- 

 tude 32 



Delta 299,307,350-352 



