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INDEX TO VOLUME III. 



BUNSEN. 



Bunsen on combustion, 332 ; on dis- 

 sociation, 304 ; photometer of, 

 122 ; spectroscope of, 24. 



Bushmills, electrical railway at, 408. 



CABLE, repair of, after submersion, 

 174 ; ship, should have special 

 facilities for manreuvring, 174. 



Calorific power of coal in units of 

 heat, or force, or chemical action, 

 62. 



Calorimeters, 121. 



Capital, duties and rights of, 128. 



Carbon, one pound raised one foot 

 represents one foot pound of 

 energy, 89 ; one pound separated 

 from oxygen capable of developing 

 11 million foot pounds of energy, 

 89. 



Carbon, heat developed by, 98. 



Carbonic acid in limestone difficult 

 to account for, 309 ; in earth's 

 atmosphere, 10,000th part, 309. 



Carnot, energy, researches on, refer- 

 ence to, 325 ; heat and mechanical 

 motion, views regarding, 106, 184. 



Carpenter, W. B., hydrography, 

 labours of, in, 346. 



Carr's disintegrator, grain ground 

 in, 83. 



Catalan process, reference to, 138. 



Central college at South Kensington 

 for City and Guilds of London 

 Institute, 386. 



Channel steam ferry proposed by 

 Fowler, J., 349. 



Channel tunnel,considerations affect- 

 ing, 58, 313, 314, 349 ; letter to 

 the Times on, 313 ; proposal to 

 fill with carbonic acid as effectual 

 barrier against foe, 313, 314. 



Charge or induction in cables, 39 ; 

 different iu different insulating 

 substances, 39 ; explanation of, 

 39 ; formula for, 39 ; length of 

 cable determined by, 39 ; measure- 



CLAUSIUS. 



ment of, 33, 39 ; tests, order of, 

 40 ; unit of, definition of, 33 ; 

 " Wippe " method of determining, 

 40. 



Chasms in sea bottom, cables lying 

 over, liable to fracture, 22. 



Chatterton's mixture, 10. 



Cheapness, contest for, England 

 holds her own in, 209. 



Chemical progress, Chemical Society, 

 record of, 74. 



Chemical research by dynamo-elec- 

 tricity by Liveing, 258. 



Chemical Society, chemical investi- 

 gations by, 65 ; record of chemical 

 progress, 74. 



Chemistry, researches in, by Ber- 

 zelius, Dalton, Lavoisier and 

 Liebig, 325. 



Chinese way of reward, 385. 



Chromium adds strength and hard- 

 ness to steel, 143. 



Chronometric governor, Siemens's, 

 W. and C. W., 119 ; applied by 

 Airy, Sir G., at Royal Observatory, 

 283. 



City and Guilds of London Institute, 

 address of Siemens, C. W., on dis- 

 tributing prizes to students of, 

 384 ; apprentices, advantages of, 

 to, 387 ; central college at South 

 Kensington for, 386 ; educational 

 establishments affiliated to, 385 ; 

 prosperity of, 384. 



Civil engineering, definition of, Tel- 

 ford's, suggested by Tredgold, 319. 



Civil Engineers, Institution of, 

 papers on telegraph engineering 

 read before, at lengthy intervals, 

 66. 



Civilized man, what constitutes, 236. 



Clark, L., pneumatic despatch tubes 

 first applied by, 77 ; testing joints, 

 method of, 43 ; Wheatstone, Sir 

 C., address on, reference to, 109. 



Clausius, energy, researches on, refer- 

 ence to, 325 ; on heat and mechan- 



