h'aiure, May II, 1876] 



INDEX 



ild (Dr. T. S., F.R.S.), Sutton's Report on Trichinosis, 

 ; Van Beneden's "Animal Parasites, 303 



Cobbold 



105 , 

 CofTee, Cultivation of, in India, I75 ; »° Dominica, 38, 187 

 Coggia's Comet, 151 

 CoIJomia, Dr. Asa Gray, 85 

 Colorado, Map of, 414 



Colour in Flowers, 150, 129, 348, 366, 427 465 

 Coloured Solar Halos, 466 

 Comets, 486; of 1729, 129; Cc^gia's, 151; of 1702, i6S ; 



Encke's, 188 ; of 1874 and 1680, 208 ; Olbers' of 1S15, 348 ; 



Biela's, 368 ; of 1840, 386 ; D' Arrest's, 428 ; A Southern (?), 



449 

 Compass, Mr. Casella's New, 135 

 Compressed Air Locomotives, 489 

 Compulsory Education, Dr. Lyon Playfair on, 35 

 Condensed Air Tramways, 228 

 " Congo and Gorilla Land," R. F. Buiton's, 123 

 Congo, the River, Monteiro's Angola and, 161 

 Conia, Properties of, 300 

 Conic Sections, W. H. Besant's, 24 



Continued Fractions, Early History of, Thomas Muir, 448 

 Cook (A. J ), " Injurious Insects of Michigan," 424 

 Cooke (Josiah P.), "Scientific Culture, 284 

 Copenhagen, Meteorology of, 197 

 Coral Sand, the Formation of, 510 

 Corn, Sunspots and the Price of, 15 

 Comu (M. ), Experiments on Light, 112 

 "Cosmos," 114, 155, 530 



Costerus (J. C), Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 427 

 Crab, H. Woodward, F.R.S., on a New Fossil, 58 

 Creation, Prof. Haeckel's History of, 121 

 Creswell Crags, Bone-Caves of the, 534 

 Croll (James), Oceanic Circulation, 66 

 Crookes (W., F.R.S.), Award of Royal Society :kredal to, 34 ; 



Radiometers, /158, 489 ; Repulsion and Radiation, 391, 450 

 Crova (M.), Apparatus for Demonstrating the Transformation of 



Force, 434 

 Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 36 

 Cuckoo, Furst Heard, 475 



Gumming (Linnaeus), Physical Science in Schools, 330 

 Curley (E. A.), Nebraska, 7 

 Curve-Tracing, Works on, 483 

 Cyclometers and other Paradoxes, Part II. , 28 

 Cyclones, 386 ; in Mauritius, 456 



D'Albertis (Sig.), Discoveries in New Guinea, 154, 435 



Dall (W. H.), Moimtains of Alaska, 53 



Dammaa's Race-Photographs, E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 184 



Dammer (Dr.), "Kurzes Chemisches Handworterbuch," 4S3 



D'Arrest's Comet, 428 



Darwin (C, F.R.S.), on Climbing Plants, 65 ; Theory of Pan- 

 genesis, 333 



Darwin (Francis), Vivisection, 385 



Dasent (Rev. M.), Migration of Species, 367 



Davenport (S. T.), Death of, 216 



Davis Straits, New Harbour near, 54 



Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F.R.S.), Plagiarism of Map, 7, 26 



Day (Francis), Collection of Indian Fishes, 334 



Deep-sea Telegraphs : How they are Tested, 517 



Deer, the Tufted, of China, 334 



De la Rue (W., F.R.S.), Chloride of SQver Batteries, 277 



Denning (W. F.), Large Meteors, 287 ; Meteor in the Daytime, 

 207 



Derby (Lord) on the Endowment of Scientific Research, 141 



Der Naturforscher, 533 



Deutsche Seewarte, 375 



Devon and Cornwall, the Drift of, 58 



Diagrams, Agricultural, 36 



Diarrhcea, Registrar-General on Infantile, 35; Report on the 

 Epidemic of, in Leicester, 273 



Didot (M.), Death of, 358 



"Difference Engine, the," 215 



Dinocerata, Prot. Marsh on the, 374 



Dinosaurian Vertebrae, Prof. R. Owen, F.R.S., 99 



" Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century," by 

 R. Routledge, F.C.S., 45 



" Diseases of Modem Life," Dr. Richardson's, 508 



Dittmar (Prof. W.), " Qualitative Chemical Analysis," 507 



Dixon (W. Hepworth), "White Conquest," 23 



D-lme Spectra, Major W. A. Ross, 366 j Prof. G, G. Stokes, 



F.R.S., 247 

 Dominica, Coffee in, 38, 187 



Dodel (Arnold), " Die Neuere Schopfungsgeschichte," 265 

 Dog, a Criminal, R. S. CuUey, 66 ; Retriever, and Cat, 36 

 Dohrn (Dr.), Cambridge Students at his Zoological Station, 113 

 Donati, Proposed Monument to, 455 

 Donkey, a Relapsed, Prof. E. Bonavia, 486 

 Double Stars, 449 ; Rugby Catalogue of, 287 

 Drasche (Dr.), on the Pbilippine Ishnds, 435 

 Dresden, the, " Gorilla," Dr. A. B. Meyer, 106 

 Dresden Zoological Museum, 464 

 Drinking Water, Organic Impurities of, Pro£,Frankland, F.R-S., 



330 

 Dublin, Professorships at Trinity College, 1 5 ; Royal Irish 



Academy, 100 ; Scientific Societies, 470 ; Duncan (Prof. P. 



Martin, F.R.S.), the Animal of Miilepora, 465 

 Dtmdee Free Library, Report of, 175 

 Dunraven (Earl oO, "The Great Di\-ide,"' 264 

 "Dyeing and Calico Printing," Dr. F. Crace-Calvert ; R. 



Meldola, 283 

 Dyer (Prof. Vi. T.), Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 348 



Earth, J. Willis on the Intemil Heat of the, 8 



Earthquakes, in Algiers, 135, 457; in Algeria, 274, 375; at 



Berne, 475 ; in Bombay, 135 ; at Gisbome, New Zealand, 95 j 



at Lyons, 114; in North Carolina, 94 ; Porto Rico, 155 ; in 



Peru, 274 ; in United States, 236 

 Earth's Age, Prof. Tait on the, 486 

 Earth's Magnetism and the Sun's rotation, 466 

 Earth's Magnetism, Effects of the Sun's Rotation and the Moon's 



Revolution on the, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 328 

 East Angiia, Physicjd Geography of, during the Glacial Period, 



198 

 Eastbourne, Natural History Sociely, 155 

 Easter, to find, 487 

 Easter Sunday, date of, 315, 326 

 Ecker (Dr. A.), on the Character of the Hand, 8 

 Eclipse, the Late, Dr. A. Schuster, 86, 207 

 Eclipses, Solar, of 1605, loS ; Solar, of 1999, 169 ; Solar, of 



March 25, 1876, 248 ; Total Solar, of 1876, 268 ; Solar, of 



1706, 307 ; Solar, of 1883, 406 

 Eden (Cbas. H.), Australian Heroes, 323 

 Edinburgh, Royal Observatory at, 45 ; Royal Society, 77, 340 ; 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 100 

 Education, Dr. Lyon Playfair on Compulsory, 35 ; in Holland, 



528 ; Science in, 48 

 Eds, Tenacity of Life in, 531 

 Egypt and the NUe, 43 

 E filers on the Cfuetopoda, 75 

 Electric I-amps, 414 



Electrical Appliances, Exhibition of, in Paris, 54 

 Electrical Induction, Experimental Researches in, Prof. Volpi* 



celli, 437, 475 

 Electricity, the flow of, in a plate, 459 ; Lighting by, 256 

 Electro-Magnetic Rotation, Experunent on, W. Spottiswoode, 



F.R.S., 498 

 Electrode Polarisation of, 298 

 Ellery (Prof.), Meteorology ot Australia, 196 

 Encke's Comet, 188 

 " Encyclopaedia Britannica," voL iii.. Prof. A. H. Garrod, 221 j 



the Article "Birds" in. Prof. A. H. Garrod, 266; Prof. 



Huxley, F.R.S., 247; Prof. Newton, F.R.S., 1S6 

 Endo.vmentof Scientific Research, Lord Derby, 141 

 Engel's " Musical Instruments at South Kensington," 443 

 Entomological Society, 79, 140, 219, 340, 419, 536 

 Eosin, Action of, on the Photographic Spectrum, 255 

 Ericsson (Capt. J.), Thermal Energy and Radiation, ii.^ j 



Thermal Energy from the Solar Surface, 224 

 Ericsson's Researches on the Sun, P. A. Secchi, 46 

 Eskimo, Dr. Rink's Tales and Traditions of, 103 

 Eucalyptus Globulus, 117 



" Euclid Simplified," J. R. Morell'sy«K>2, 405, 427 

 Evans (J., F. R.S.), Anniversary Address at the Geological So- 

 ciety, 354, 376 ; Water Supply of the MetropoUs, 425 

 Everett (Prof. J. D.), Prof. Tait on the Earth's Age, 4S6 

 Evers' (Dr. H.), "Mathematical Tables," 494 

 Examinations, School, and the University of London, 286 

 Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at South, Kensington, 36, 



196, 231, 274, 295, 315, 349, 375, 413, 503 



