

,-nl action the great de- 



troyer ... 4;> 

 " example* of... *> 



ChiW. Dr., on spontaneous gone 



"" ' 



ration '" -,,- 



,. a fever swamp.. ' | 

 snow storm at 

 Chinese cheese, made of peas 



a.M beans 



City, . why it is free of fever 



ad ague 



" of Washington, S. S., loss 



of 



n ,. :l frvi-r swamp 115 



of the blood, M 



of the -.190 



of the blood in the 



body compared to a fire *g 

 Cloud;. > of J 10 ' 1 - ti 



Common sense, Sir John Her- 



schell 011 i( 



Common sense a poor guide to 



the study of science 10J 

 Coal, how form. .1 



ot vegetable origin ... 

 l>rof. Rogers on how it is 



baked ;; 



formed by petrifaction... 1 

 1 Nova Scotia, fields ... "' 



inexhaustible 

 a forest will only produce 



half an inch of ... 



" how hydrogen entered the 14 

 Cochineal, a parasite of the 



cactus 



Cobalt blue, magnetic 

 Columbus, Christopher . ... 08 

 Colour, length of red and violet 



rays of light j 



" vibratory theory of ... < 

 Herschell, Tyndall 



Maxwell, Helmholtz on J 

 " Atomagnetic theory of... 

 " a property of matter... 91 

 Compass magnetic, exhibition of 



mineral life ... J 



" cause of deviation of, 



in ships 

 " general ignorance of 



its action 99 



14 influence of a cargo of 



petroleum on the... 99 

 disturbed by auroras, 



why I 83 



Comets, two or three visit the 



earth every year ... ITS 

 " facts connected with . ITS 

 " not absorbed by the sun It A 



omeU, Jui-iti-r attracts , ...174 

 H alley * . 



kC*S ' 



,,,,. bT not tails ... 17 j 



why r-iK;lU-.l from the 



sun 



bow made periodical 

 have : 1 ' 



cause of the luminous 



tails Of \'l'. 



Consumption, cause of ^ 



:nctor on .. ''- 

 cure of l y; * 



yuur.- person 



nt-c<l i he of ... 1*W 

 Cornhill Magazine on seed bear- 

 ing meteors 



Coral insects, sermons preacV A 



on their industry MO 

 ' " unworthy of notice 145 

 live in shallow 



water 



merely parasites... 

 11 *' Agassiz on millions 

 of, fed from one 

 mouth "6 



" Agassiz's argu- 

 ment against Dar- 

 win with 



< " Dar win's theories of 14J 

 Sir Jolin Herschell 



on 



" how they keep the 

 Coral Islands 

 above water ... M 

 a species of ani- 



mal jelly 



" artistic taste of... 147 

 ' " possessed of admin- 

 istrative and go- 

 verning powers... 15j 

 Coral, bow it grows .- 



' found only in equatorial 



latitu.U-s - * 



grows by budding 

 Florida reefs of "J 



w bat causes the colour of 1 

 Islands.said to be sinking 1; 

 not formed wholly 



of coral 

 Coroner, danger of having a doc- 



tor as a 

 C<w, is a, the mother of mag- 



\ o ... V 



Crosse! Mr., producing insects 



Crosse. jO 



0-eatorrthe"Slimitablei>ower of 1W 



