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INDEX. 



Chawls of Bombay, 339 

 Chemistry, great problems of, 

 86 



atomic theory of, 87 

 organic, 81 



Chloroform, deaths from, pre- 

 ventable, 147 

 Churchyards of London in 



eighteenth century, 318 

 City Press on increase of Profit, 



357 



Christianity of modern govern- 

 ments verbal only, 379 

 Clairvoyance, 198, 200, 204 

 Climate deteriorated by increase 



of dust, 84 

 Cloquet, operation by, during 



mesmeric trance, 206 

 Clouds and rain due to dust, 77 

 Coal, export of, immoral, 369 

 Color photography, 35 

 Combe, George, studies phrenol- 

 ogy, 162 



his life and character, 164 

 practical tests of phrenology, 



167 

 and Archbishop Whately, 



173 



Comets and meteor-streams, 101 

 Commissioners should have been 

 statisticians, 235 



on decline of small-pox after 



1800, 252 



on Scotch and Irish small- 

 pox, 255 



do not use the diagrams, 256 

 why conclusions of wrong, 



259 



do not compare small-pox 

 and general mortality, 261 

 illogical reasoning of, 259 

 neglect the method of com- 

 parison, 270, 284 

 on case of Leicester, 278 

 on small-pox in Army and 



Navy, 280 



on treatment of Army and 

 Navy small-pox mortality, 

 287 

 put opinions above faces, 



294 



Communication, sketch of prog- 

 ress of, 17 



Comte on no possible knowledge 

 of the stars, 49 



Conclusion, plain speaking justi- 

 fied, 313 



Continental small-pox, teaching 

 of diagrams of, 308 



Convulsionists and uniformitari- 

 ans, 113 



Cosmos, origin of, an insoluble 

 problem, 107 



Cox, Serieant, on clairvoyance, 

 204 



Creightou, Dr., history of epi- 

 demics, 246 



on substitution theory, 249 

 on variolous test, 217 



Crime and punishment, 325 

 increase of, 364 



Crookshank, Professor, on Inoc- 

 ulation, 216, 218 



Cuvier's Theory of the Earth, 

 111 



Daguerrotype 32 

 Dalton's atomic theory, 86 

 Dangerous trades, 355 

 Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, predicted 



steam carriages, 7 

 Darwin, Charles, effect of his 

 " Origin of Species," 141 

 his work comparable with 



Newton's, 142 



Davidson, Mr., on injurious ef- 

 fects of vaccination, 231 

 Davy, Sir H., discovery of so- 

 dium, 89 



Death from vaccination, a dread- 

 ful, 233 



certificates inaccurate, 229 

 Deaths stated to be of the vacci- 

 nated or unvaccinated, why 

 untrustworthy, 304 



in public institutions, 347 

 from alcoholism increasing, 



362 

 Defects, congenital, increase of, 



362 



Denudation, 116 

 rate of, 118 



Development, theory of, 144 

 De Ville, good phrenological test 

 by, 172 



