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INDEX. 



of science, i. 98 ; 134 ; first statisti- 

 cal bureau, ii. 561. 



Colding, ii. 107, 109 ; indestructibility 

 offeree, 111, 125 ; heat, 112. 



Coleridge imports philosophy of Kant 

 and Schelling into England, i. 17 ; 

 healthy spirit of, 78; 'Christabel,' 



84 ; influence on metaphysical studies 

 of, 91 ; lectured at Royal Institution, 

 249, 264. 



College de France, i. 107. 



College et Ecole de Chirurgie, i. 107. 



Collignon (see Combes), ii. 101. 



Collins, invention of the calculus by 

 Leibniz comnmnicated to, i. 101. 



Colour, ii. 484 et seq. 



Combe, Geo., phrenology, ii. 477. 



Combes, Phillips et Collignon, ' Expose 

 de la Situation de la Mecanique ap- 

 pliquee,' ii. 101 ; quoted by Valson on 

 Cauchy, 637. 



Combinatorial school in Germany, ii. 

 642 ; analysis, Leibniz, 679 ; Mac- 

 Mahon on, ib. 



Combustion, theory of, i. 389. 



Commutative principle, ii. 717. 



Compayre, educationalist, on Rousseau, 

 i. 259, 260. 



Complex quantity, ii. 643 ; interpreta- 

 tion of, 653. 



Comte, Auguste, philosophy of, i. 18, 

 61, ii. 105 ; his three stages of 

 thought, i. 73 ; positivist theory of, 



85 ; 306 ; 'Philosophic Positive,' 307, 

 308, ii. 37, 239 ; scientific errors of, 

 i. 310 ; opposed to undulatory theory 

 of light, ii. 37 ; and De Blainville, 

 247, 266 ; theory of probabilities, 569, 

 608 ; 749. 



Comtism, failure of, i. 72. 



Condamine. La, astronomical constants, 

 i. 322. 



Condillac, ' Essai sur les Origines des 

 Connaissances humaines,' i. 144; ne- 

 glect of, by Napoleon, 149 ; his 

 ignorance of physiology, ii. 471 ; 

 language, 536. 



Condorcet, importance in French litera- 

 ture of, i. 105 ; quoted, 110 ; educa- 

 tional work of, 112 ; the theory of 

 probabilities, 120 ; alliance with medi- 

 cine, 126 ; Academic des Sciences 

 morales et politiques, 145; suicide of, 

 147; neglect of, by Napoleon, 149; 

 distinguishes education and instruc- 

 tion, 259, 260 ; statistics, ii. 570, 573. 



Conflict between the scientific and the 

 philosophical views, i. 205. 



Conformal representation, Gauss and 



.Riemanu on, ii. 700; Holtzmiiller 



on, 701. 

 Congruences, theory of, ii. 723 ; calculus 



of, 724. 



Conrad, Prof., 'The German Universi- 

 ties for the last Fifty Years,' i. 159 ; 



quoted on German universities, 160 ; 



'Die Deutschen Universitaten,' 197, 



198. 

 Conring, Hermann, statistics, i. 121, ii. 



555 ; political statistics, 562. 

 Consciousness, ii. 516. 

 Conservation of force, i. 218. 

 Constable, his influence on painting in 



France, i. 19. 

 Constant, Benj., visits Germany with 



Mine, de Stael, i. 17. 

 Continuity, of living forms, ii. 453 ; in 



geometry, 660. 

 Continuous, the, ii. '643. 

 Convention, decree on Academy of, i. 



148. 



Couvergency of series, ii. 646. 

 Conybeare, W. D., report on the pro- 

 gress of geological science, ii. 281 . 

 Cook, Captain, i. 5'2, 179 ; voyages, ii. 



222. 

 Cooper, Astley, English medical science, 



i. 208 ; no connection with the English 



universities, 272. 

 Co-operation, ii. 566. 

 Cope, E. D., ii. 271 ; neo-Lamarckiau, 



351. 

 Copernicus, i. 118 ; precursor of Kepler, 



317 ; stimulated star - gazing, 327 ; 



astronomical theory of, ii. 13. 

 Coriolis, St Venant quoted on, i. 369 ; 



practical school of, ii. 100. 

 Cornu, " Association Francaise," i. 298. 

 Correspondence in mathematics, ii. 



736. 

 ' Correspondenz, Monatliche,' Zach's, i. 



41. 



Corti, arcades of, ii. 372. 

 Cosmical view, ii. 369. 

 Cosmos, genesis of the, ii. 360. 

 Cossar Ewart on Jameson, i. 283. 

 " Cost " as factor in industry, ii. 155. 

 Coste, study of food fishes, ii. 232. 

 Cotes, Roger, 'Aestimatio errorum in 



mixta mathesi,' i. 324; "description 



and explanation of phenomena," 337; 



second edition of ' Principia, ' 351 ; 



preface to ' Principia ' misleading, 



^ 



OOt). 



Cotton, M. A., "Le Phenomene de 



Zeemann," ii. 197. 

 Coulomb, measurements of, i. 343, 



362, 368, 369; founded exact science 



