Nature, Nov. l6, 1876] 



INDEX 



C. Kingzett on the Action of Alcohol on the Brain, 486 ; 

 Surgeon-Major Johnston on the Diet of the Natives of 

 India, 486 ; Mr. Wanklyn on Drinking-water, 486 ; Dr. 

 Paton on the Action and Sounds of the Heart, 487 

 Section E {Geography). — Opening Address by the President, 

 Capt. F. J. Evans, C.B., F.R.S., 412 ; Mr. Octavius Stone 

 on his Recent Journeys in New Guinea, 489 ; Mr. Kerry 

 Nicholls on the Islatids of the Coral Sea, 489 ; Capt. 

 Cameron on his Journey through Equatorial Africa, 489 ; 

 Col, Playfair on Travels in Tunis in the Footsteps of Bruce, 



490 ; Staff-Commander Tizzard on the Temperature ob- 

 tained in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cruise of the 

 Challenger, 490 ; Mr. J. Murray on the Geological Distri- 

 bution of Oceanic Deposits, 491 ; Mr. Buchanan on the 

 Specific Gravity of the Surface-water of the Ocean, 491 ; 

 Prof. Porter on the Physical Conformation and Antiquities 

 of the Jordan Valley, 491 ; Signor G. E. Cerruti on his 

 Recent Explorations in North-west New Guinea, 491 



Section F. {Economic Scitnce and Statistics). — Dr. William 

 Jack on the Results of five Years' Compulsory Education, 



491 ; Mr. J. Hey wood on the Memorial in favour of a Per- 

 iranent Scientific Museiun, 491 ; Resolution on the same, 

 491 



Section G {Mechanical Science). — Opening Address of the Pre- 

 sident, Charles W. Merrifield, F.R.S., 491 ; Mr. Baldwin 

 Latham on Hydro-Geological Surveys, 492 ; Mr. W. J. 

 Miller on the Strength and Fracture of Cast Iron, 492 ; Sir 

 William Thomson on Naval Signalling, 492 

 British Channel, Soundings in the, 581 

 British Guiana, the Natives of, 488 ; , Schomburgk's Botanical 



Reminiscences of, 568 

 British Manufacturing Industries, 145, 423 

 British Medical Association and the Vivisection Bill, 299 

 British Phannaceutical Conference, 381 

 Brodie (Sir B. C, F.R.S.), The Analysis of Chemical Events, 



323 

 Brontotheridae, Prof. Marsh on the, 36 

 Broun (J. A., F.R.S.), Barometric Variations in India, 162; 



On Simulteneous Variations of the Barometer, 464 ; " Scott's 



Weather Charts and Storm Warnings," 565 ; Barometric 



Variations, 572 

 Brussels, Congress of Scientific Societies at, 259 ; Geographical 



Congress at, 443, 466 

 Bryce (Dr. James), Report on Earthquakes in Scotland, 454, 



456 

 Bulletin International, 121 

 Bulletin de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences, 142 

 Bulletin de 1' Academic Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 



583 

 Burma, Blyths Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of, 153 



Calcutta, Zoological Gardens at, 120 



Calvert (Grace), Scholarship at Owens Collie, 581 



Cambridge : Woodwardian Museum, 79 ; Philosophical Society, 

 83, 144; Natioral Science at, 216 ; Cavendish College, 580 



Cambridge, U.S.A. Museum of Comparative Zoology at, 109 



Cameron (Capt.), his Journey through Equatorial Africa, 489; 

 Testimonial to, 561 



Campen (S. R. van), " The Dutch in the Arctic Seas," 246 



Canada, Meteorological Reports of, 536 



Cape of CJood Hope University, 36 



Cape Town, the South African International Exhibition, 443 



Carboniferous Land Shells, J. W. Dawson, 317 



Carboniferous Rocks, 480 



Cardiographs, Prof. Marey on, 214 



Carnarvon (Lord), Vivisection Bill, 65, 87, 172 



Carnivorous Plants, Prof. Morren, 68 

 J Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), A New Laurentian Fossil, 8, 68 

 \ Cast Iron, the Strength and Fracture of, 492 



Cats, Sagacity in, M. M. Pattison Muir, 192 



Caumont (M. de). Statue to, 279 



" Causeries Scientifiques," Rothschild's, 543 



Cavendish College, Cambridge, 580 

 I Cavern Researches in New Zealand, 576 

 ' Centenarian, Death of a, 300 



Central Asia, Col. Prejevalsky's Exploration of, 60 



Cephalisation, 571 



Ceratodus, Specimens of the Fish, 466 

 ;: Cerruti (Signor), Explorations in North-West New Guinea, 491 

 Cetacea, Dr. Cunningham on the Spinal Nervous System of the, 

 486 ■ 



Ceylon, Atmospheric Phenomena in Ceylon, 163 ; Coffee in, 

 Rev. R. Abbay, 375 ; the Rodiyas^of, 488 



Cezanne (M.), Death of, 243 



Chacomac's Variable Nebula, 545 



*' Challenger," the Cruise of the, 93 



Challenger Expedition, 14, 119, 197, 199; Dred^ings of the, 

 214 ; Dinner to the Staff of the, 238; Sir C. Wyville Thomson's 

 Address on, 492 ; Grerman Naturalists on the, 515 



Channel Tunnel, 260 



Chappell (Wm., F.S.A.), Early History of Magnetism, 147 



Chemical ; Events, the Analysis of, Sir B. C. Brodie, F.R.S., 



323 

 Chemical Research, Dr. Andrews on certain Methods of, 12 

 Chemical Research Fund, 217 

 Chemical Society, 18, 38, 143, 162, 203 ; Journal of the, 17, 261, 



301, 467, 562 ; W. Noel Hartley, 169 

 Chemistry, the Organisation of the Profession of, 125 

 Cherry, the Pollen of the, A. W. Bennett, 28 

 Cherry Blossoms, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 28 

 China, Magnetic Observations in. Rev. S. J. Perry, 196 

 Chinoline and Aniline, Prof. Dewar on, 455 

 Chiroptera, Asiatic, G. E. Dobson, 279, 472 

 Chloride of Sodium in a Coal Fire, 506, 570 

 Christie (Lieut., R.E.), Selenium in Telegraphy, 279 

 Chwolson (M.) on Magnetic Induction, 202 

 Cienkowski's Observations on Monads, 298 

 Cimbri, Ethnology of the, 82 

 Cirques and Sack- valleys, A. Helland on, 422 

 City Guilds, W. H. James, M.P., on the, 559 

 " City of Health," Dr. Richardson's, 301 

 Clark (J. Edmund), Meteor Observations, 331 

 Clerici, Anatomie dell' Ape, 139 

 Clermont, French Association at, 298 

 Clough (J. C), "The Existence of Mixed Language," 503 

 Coal Beds of Bohemia, Feistmantel on the, 268 

 Coal Measures, Prof W. C. Williamson on the Fossil Plants of 



the, 182, 487 ; the Plants of the, 456 

 Cohn on the Biology of Plants, 326 

 Coffee, 38 ; Coffee Production in Cayenne, 361 ; Coffee in Ceylon, 



Rev. R. Abbay, 375 

 Cole (Sir Henry), Freedom of the City of London Conferred on, 



299 

 Colorado, U.S.A., Geological Survey of, 35 

 Comatula rosacea. Major Fred. H. Lang, 527 

 Comets, 357 ; Biela's, 10 ; of 1743, 49 ; of 1698, 152 ; Stephan's, 



1867, 192 ; of 1698, 192 ; of 1686, 257 ; De Vico's, 277 ; 



Reissig's, 311; The Second of 1844, 337; of 1847, 357; 



Tuttle's, 378 ; Pigott's, of 1783, 475 ; Blanpain's, 545; 

 Compass, the Early History of the, 147 

 Compulsory Education, 491 

 Conferences at the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 34, 



72, 92, 140; Opening Addresse-s 54, 114 

 Congress, International, of Americanists, 355 

 Congress of Orientalists at St. Petersburg, 380, 442 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 498 

 Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Report on the, 325 

 Copal Tree, 38 

 Corals of Tasmania, 82 

 Coral Sea, the Islands of the, 489 

 Cordoba " Uranometria," 417 

 Comelissen (Lieut. J. E.), Death of, 16 

 Crab, Habits of Parasitic, 272 

 Cremation, the Dreiden Society for, 581 

 Creswell Caves Exploration, 381 

 Crimea, the, and Trans-Caucasia, J. B. Telfer, 368 

 CroU (Dr. James, F.R.S.), the Tidal Retardation Argument 



for the Age of the Earth, 481. 

 Crookes's Radiometers and Actinometers, 16 

 Cruelty to Animals Bill, 65, 87, 172 

 Cubit of Kamak, the Harris, 168 

 Cuckoo, the, 210, 231, 250, 309, 369 



D'Albertis' Exploration of New Guinea, 138, 157, 465 



Darwin (Charles, F.R.S.), Cherry Blossoms, 28 



Darwin (Frarcis), Protective Mimicry, 329 



Daubenton's Herbarium, 382 



Davies (G. C.)> *' Angling Idylls," 270 



Dawson (J. W.), Carboniferous Land Shells, 317 



Day's Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, 129 



Deaf-Muteness, Prof. Poplavsky on, 553 



Dee, Physical History of tlij|, 38 



