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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. 28, 1889 



lates of Rhodium, 254 ; Chemical Affinity, M. M. Pattison 

 Muir, 273 ; Use or Abuse of Empirical Formulae, and of 

 Differentiation, by Chemists, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F. R. S., 

 273 ; Tellurium, Dr. Brauner, 284 ; a New Test for Bromine, 

 F. Swarts, 286 ; the Solidification of Nitrous Acid, Fl. 

 Birhans, 287 ; an Oxybromide of Copper analogous to Ata- 

 camite, Et. Brun, 287 ; a New Reaction for Cholesterin, Dr. 

 Obermiiller, 288 ; a New Dioxide of Cobalt, M. Rousseau, 

 307 ; the Brounian Movement, M. Gouy, 311 ; an Extreme 

 Case of "Mass" or "Catalytic" Action, Morse and White, 

 328 ; Monobenzyl-derivatives of Phenylenediamines, Meldola 

 and Coste, 335 ; Yellow Pigment in Butterflies, F. G. Hop- 

 kins, 335 ; the Hydration of Cyanides, Prof. H. E. Arm- 

 strong, 335 ; Quantitative Analysis of Bicarbonate of Soda in 

 Milk, L. Pade, 336 ; Action of Propionyl and Butyryl Chlor- 

 ide on Phenol, Dr. W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 335; Melting- 

 point of Salicylic and Anisic Compounds, Dr. W. H. 

 Perkin, F. R.S., 335; Inorganic Chemistry, Ira Remsen, 

 339 ; Use or Abuse of Empirical Formulae, and of Differ- 

 entiation, by Chemists, Spencer Pickering, 343 ; an Attempt 

 to apply to Chemistry one of the Principles of New- 

 ton's Natural Philosophy, Prof. D. Mendeleeff, 354 ; the 

 International Chemical Congress, 369, 394 ; the Use of 

 the Prefixes bi- and di-, 370 ; the Use of the Suffix 

 •ol, 370 ; Ketones and the Nomenclature of the Ace- 

 tones, 370 ; the Nomenclature of Cyanogen, 370 ; M. 

 Chabrie on Sulphur Compounds, 370 ; Ring- Formulae 

 containing Nitrogen, 370 ; Nomenclature of Naphthalene, 

 370 ; M. Combes on Benzene, 370 ; an Elementary Text- 

 book of Chemistry, William G. Mixter, 389 ; Electrolysis of 

 Potassium Iodide, E. F. Mondy, 417 ; Sir Lowthian Bell, 

 F. R.S., on the Manufacture of Iron, 473 ; Agricultural 

 Chemistry, Influence of Gypsum Soil on Fixation, &c., 

 of Nitrogen, Pechard, 539 ; Agricultural Chemistry, Rela- 

 tions between Physical Characters of Plants and Propor- 

 tion of Elements of Fertility in Soil, G. Ville, 659 ; Agricul- 

 tural Chemistry, the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, M. 

 Berihelot, 539 ; Agricultural Chemistry, the Nitrification of 

 Ammonia, Th. Schloesing, 539 ; Vice-Presidential Address 

 of Prof. William L Dudley at the American Association, 558 ; 

 the Life-work of a Chemist, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 

 578 ; Influence of Silicon on the Properties of Steel, 587 ; 

 J, W. Hogg, on the Volatilization of Lead Oxide and its 

 Action upon Glass at Lowr Temperatures, 587 ; Prof. Liveing, 

 on a New Developer, Eikonogen, 587 ; C. T. Heycock and 

 F. H. Neville, on Raoult's Method Applied to Alloys, 587 ; 

 Prof. Bedson, on Dr. Netto's Process for the Manufacture 

 of Aluminium from Cryolite, 587 ; Dr. Richardson, on the 

 Action of Light on the Hydracids, 587 ; Dr. Richardson, on 

 a New Self- Registering Actinometer, 587 ; Prof. H. B. Dixon, 

 F.R.S., on the Explosion of a Mixture of Hydrogen, Chlorine, 

 and Oxygen, 587 ; Dr. Isaac Ashe, Dimidium, an Attempt 

 to Represent the Chemical Elements by Physical Forms, 

 588 ; Prof. P. F. Frankland, on a New Ferment, 588 ; 

 Combinations of Cupric Oxides into Amylaceous Matters, 

 &c., C. E. Guignet, 588 ; Teaching of Chemistry in Public 

 Schools, 589 ; the Vapour-density of Aluminium Chloride, 

 Profs. Nilson and Pettersson, 596 ; Present Method of Teaching 

 Chemistry, 599 ; Observations on Reciprocal Displacement 

 between Oxygen and the Halogens, M. Berthelot, 612 ; Raffin- 

 ose, M. Berthelot, 612; Air in the Soil, Th. Schloesing, Jils, 

 626 ; Alloys, Heycock and Neville on, 628; Isolation of Methyl 

 Hydrazine, Dr. Gustav von Briining, 628 ; Reciprocal Dis- 

 placements between Halogen Elements and Oxygen, Berthelot, 

 636 ; New Relations between Sugars and Furfuric Compounds, 

 Maquenne, 636 ; Service Chemistry, Vivian B. Lewes, 639 ; 

 Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F. R.S., 

 640 ; Pinol, an Isomer of Camphor, Drs. Wallach and Otto, 

 65s ; on the Existence of Sulphate of Phosphonium, A. 

 Besson, 659 ; Simultaneous Synthesis of Water and Hydro- 

 chloric Acid, Hautefeuille and Margottet, 659 



Chervin, the Birth-rate in France, 92 



Chester Society of Natural Science and Literature, 421 



Chetham College, Technical Education at, 45 



Chevalier (Pere), Bulletin of the Sikawei Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory, 253 



Chimpanzee's Humour, a, Harold Picton, 224 



Chicken Cholera, Experiments with Microbes of, Dr. O. Katz, 

 401 



China: Inclement Weather in, 179; the Trade of, 493; 



Priority of Chinese Inventions, 165 

 Chiriqui, Ancient Art of the Province of, W. H. Holmes, 437 

 Cholesterin, a New Reaction for. Dr. Obermiiller, 288 

 Christiania Museum, Plants from Yemen presented to, by Dr. 



Schweinfurth, 254 

 Christie (Robert W. D.), Test of Divisibility by any Prime, 



247 

 Chromic Acid as a Depolarizer in Bunsen's Battery, J. Wilson 



Swan, 586 

 Chronograph for Measuring Velocity of Projectiles, &c., Captain 



H. C. L. Holden, R.A., 66 

 Cidaris papillata. Dimorphism of Tentacles of, Prof. M. Duncan, 



237 

 Circolo Matematico of Palermo, the, 316 

 Circulation of the Atmosphere over the Equator, Hon. Ralph 



Abercromby, 297 

 City of London College Science Society, 328 

 Civilization, History of Ancient, Rev. J. Verschoyle, 7 

 Clark (Richard), a Remarkable Meteor, 573 

 Clarke (F. W.), a New Occurrence of Gyrolite, 404 

 Clarke (Hyde), on the Right of Property in Trees on Another's 



Land, 633 

 Classified Cataloguing, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 392 ; Dr. Jas. 



Lewis Howe, 644 

 Claudel (Louis), the Colouring-Matter of the Spermoderm in 



Angiosperms, 384 

 Clay, Boulder, Bored Stones in, G. W. Lamplugh, 297 

 Clayden (A. W.) : the Formation of Ocean Currents, 66; on 



some Photographs of Lightning and " Black " Electric Sparks, 



262 ; on Dark Flashes of Lightning, 585 

 Clayton (H. H.), Diurnal and Annual Oscillations of Barometer, 



445 

 Gierke (A. M.) : Photographic Star-gauging, 344; GEuvres 



completes de Christiaan Huygens, 591 

 Climate on Race, the Effect of, Dr. Alfredo da Luy, 423 

 Climatological Table of British Empire, 654 

 Clocks, Japanese, A. A. Rambaut, 86; V. Ball, F.R.S., 151 

 Clouds, Luminous Night, D. J. Rowan, 151 

 Clouds, Noctilucous, Prof. John Le Conte, 544 

 Clouds, Rain, on Lake Titicaca, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 12; 



Dr. Julius Hann, 78 

 Clouds, Shining Night, an Appeal for Observations, T. W. 



Backhouse, 594 

 Coa-l Districts in Victoria, Proposed Government Survey of, 



595 



Coal and Mineral Charcoal, Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 

 on, 608 



Coal and Tin Discoveries in Western Australia, H. P. Wood- 

 ward, 304 



Coals compared with their Chemical Composition, Heat-produc- 

 ing Powers of Different, W. Thompson, 86 



Cobalt, a New Dioxide of, M. Rousseau, 307 



Cobra in Indian and Chinese Folk- Lore, Alleged Avenging 

 Habits of the. Dr. Macgowan, 423 



Cockshott (A.) and Rev. F. B. Walters, a Treatise on Geo- 

 metrical Conies, 390 



Cod, Turtle-headed Rock, 77 



Cod-Fisheries on the Coast of Finland, 254 



Cod-Fishery, the Norwegian, 229 



Coffee-Rrot Disease, the Brazilian, Dr. Golde, 108 



Cogwood, Jamaica, 162 



Colardeau (E.) and L. Caillefet, the Condition of Matter near 

 the Critical Point, 239 



Colenso (William), Maori Folk-Lore, 596 



College for Working Men and Women, Morley Memorial, 653 



Colombia, Agriculture in, 423, 596 



Colomes and Plumandon, Synoptic Table of Weather Predic- 

 tion, 61 



Colour, C. T. Whitmell, 518 



Colour-Blindness and Defective Far- Sight among the Seamen 

 of the Mercantile Marine, 438 



Colour-Blindness, Testing of. Rev. J. F. Heyes, 572 



Columbus, the Proposed Commemoration of the Work of, 548 



Columnar Structure in Ice, T. D. La Touche, 35 ; Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.R.S., 55 



Colymbosaurus, Structural Peculiarities of, Prof. H. G. Seeley, 



653 

 Combustion of Carbons, Heat of, Berthelot and Petit, 167 



