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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1879 



Colour- Variation in Lizards, Remarkable Local, Alfred R. 

 Wallace, 4 ; Prof. Leith Adams, 53 ; J. Wood-Mason, 53 ; 

 Dr, Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 97 ; P. Herbert Carpenter, 122 



Columbus (Christopher), Letters of, 323 



Comatulse, Report on the, of the Challenger Expedition, P, 

 Herbert Carpenter, 450 



Comets : of Short Periods, "42 ; Biela's Comet and Jupiter in 

 I794> 75 ; the Second Comet of 1582, 123 ; Biela's and Hal- 

 ley's, 204; Tempel's Comet, 1867, IL, 217, 347, 389, 457; 

 Olbers' of 1815, 268, 366 ; Brorsen's, 299, 420, 510, 527, 

 S32, 559. 579i 582; Prof. H. A. Newton on the Relation of 

 Meteorites to, 315, 340; Comet 1871, V., 365 ; Faye's Comet, 

 469 



Commercial Crises and Sun- Spots, Prof. Stanley Jevons, 

 F.R.S., 33, 588; John Kemp, 97 ; A. Stephen Wilson, 196 



Commercial Geography, Proposed Society of, 421 



Commercial Plants, New, Thos. Christy, 265 



"Commercial Products of the Sea," P. L. Simmonds, 3 



Conroy (Sir John) on Metallic Reflexion, 259 



Constance, Lake, Examination of, 85 



Cook (Capt.), Centenary of, 324, 334, 373 ; Statue of, at Syd- 

 ney, 394 ; his Accuracy in his Charts, Rev. S. J. Whitmee, 

 408 ; his Collections, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 409 



Coomber (T. J.), the District of Mount Cameroons, 348 



Copernican Society at Thorn, 516 



Copernicus, a Descendant of, 302 



Copper, Discovery of, at Howe Sound, 279 



Coppock (Chas.), Unscientific Art (?), 484 



Corals, Australian Fossil, 469 



Corea, Japanese Relations with, 298 



Corsican Herpetology, Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 97 



Cossa (Prof.) on the Occurrence of Cerium, Didymium, and 

 Lanthanum, 424 



Cotopaxi, the Volcano, 17 



Cotton Mills in Japan, 61 



"Countries of the World," Dr. Robert Brown's, 554 



Cowper (E. A.), Telegraphic Writing Machine, 323 



Crace Collection of Maps, &c., of London, 351 



Craig- Christie (A.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 221 



"Cram" Books, 51 



Crane (A.), "Survival of the Fittest," 197 



Crannog, Discovery of a, in Ayrshire, Dr. Buchanan White, 

 32 ; Robert Munro, 54 



Crayfish, Physiology of the Nervous System of, James Ward, 

 451 ; Action of the Heart of the, 470 



Cremation at Gotha, 232 



Crevaux (Dr. Jules), Exploration of French Guiana, 298, 395, 



515 

 Crocodile, the Skull of the, L. C. Miall, 383 

 Crocodiles, Dwarf, 91 

 " Cronica Cientifica," 232 

 Crookes (Wm., F.R.S.), on Repulsion from Radiation, Part VI., 



88 ; Experimental Researches on the Repulsion arising from 



Radiation, 511, 533; Experiment with a Vacuum Tube. 458 

 Crustaceans of the Caspian Sea, 446 

 Crystal Palace, Proposed Permanent Exhibition at, iS 

 "Crystallography," H. P. Gurney's, 171 

 Cumberland Association of Literature and Science, 132 

 Cunnington (H. A.), Experiment with a Vacuum Tube, 458 

 Cyclones and Anticyclones, Inclination of the Axes of. Rev. W, 



Clement Ley, 275 

 Cyclopaedia, Ripley and Dana's American, 264 



Darien Isthmus, Proposed Canal Across, 516, 542 



Darwin (Chas., F.R.S.), Fritz Miiller on a Frog having Eggs 

 on its Back — on the Abortion of the Hairs on the Legs of 

 Certain Caddis-Flies, &c., 462 ; Rats and Water-Casks, 481 ; 

 the Darwin Memorial Fund, 445 



Darwin (G. H.), on a Theory of the Viscosity of the Earth's 

 Mass, 292 ; the Formation of Mountains and the Secular Cool- 

 ing of the Earth, 313 



Davies (William), Geological Climate and Geological Time, 33 



Davy (Sir Humphrey), Centenary of his Birth, 59 ; Celebration 

 of, at Penzance, 374 



Dawson (George M.), Salmon in Rivers of the Pacific Slope, 528 



Decimal Weights and Measures, 207 



Declination Magnet, Notes on the Inequalities of the Diurnal 

 Range of the, as Recorded at Kew Observatory, 259 



De La Rue's Diaries, &c., 181 



Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, Canal between, 233 



Deltaic Growth, Pat. Doyle, 506 ; George Higgin, 555 



Deltas, Dr. G. A. Credner on, 156 



Denning (W, F.), the Expected Meteor Shower, 33 ; the Meteor 

 Shower of January 2, 221 



Dental Grafting, 260 



De Ranee (C. E.), Geology of Natal and Zululand, 467 



Dew, Mist, and Fog, George Dines, 523 



Dew, the Theory of, 447 



Diamonds, Cape, B. G. Jenkins, 582 



Dick (Robert), Dr. Smiles' Life of. Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 

 189 



Didymium, Cerium, and Lanthanum, Prof. Cossa on the Occur- 

 rence of, 424 



Digestion, Heidenhain's Experiments on, 544 



"l3igger" Mollusc, the, 470 



Di-Iodide of Mercury, the Effects of Heat on, G. F. Rodwell, 

 354 



Dimensional Properties of Matter in the Gaseous State, Prof. 

 Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 435 



Dinosaurs, American Jurassic, 76 



Diplograph, Report on the, 236 



Discosporangium, a New Genus of Algje, 584 



Diurnal Oscillations of the Barometer, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 

 366 



Dog, Intelligence in a, 458 



Donax fossor, 470 



Donnelly (Col. J. F. D.), Migration of Birds, 289 



Dorthesia, Plague of, in America, 396 



Double Stars : Flammarion on, 216 ; South, 190, 583 



Dove (Heinrich Wilhelm), Obituary Notice of, 529 



Doyle (Pat.), Deltaic Growth, 506 



" Dragon Cave," Mixniz, Styria, 161 



Drainage and Sewerage, Alfred S. Jones, 53 



Draper (J. C), Oxygen in the Sun, 352 



Draper (Dr. J. W.), "Scientific Memoirs," 25 ; and the Electric 

 Light, 242 



Dresden : IVIittheilungen of the Zoological Museum, 553 ; Edu- 

 cational Exhibition in, 591 



Drought, the, Hyde Clarke, 53 



Dry Ground, the Gas-Absorption of, 544 



Dublin, Science at Trinity College, 234 



Duncan (Prof. Martin), " Popular Natural History," 345 



Dundee: Naturalists' Society, 85 ; the Free Library of, 352 



Duplexing the Atlantic Cable, 38 ; Herbert Taylor, 52 



Dutch Geographical Society, 44 



Dutton (Capt. C. E.), the Geological History of the Colorado 

 River and Plateaus, 247, 272 



Dyer (Prof. W. T. Thi'^elton), Madagascar Forms in Africa, 527 



Dynamics, Blaikie's Elements of, 30 



Dynamite, Major Majendie on, 473 



Eagle, Golden, and Goslings, 554 



Ear Affection, 315; Dr. G. L. Wallich, 340; Dr. W. Ainslie 

 Hollis, 364; Dr. Urban Pritchard, 364; John Harmer, 365 



Earth, the Secular Cooling of the, and the Formation of Moun- 

 tains, G. H. Darwin, 313 



Earth's Mass, Viscosity of the, G. H. Darwin, 292 



Earthquakes: 560; at Buir, in Prussia, 17 ; at Sierra Leone, 

 60 ; at Jucuapa, 85 ; at Suram and Borjom, 108 ; at Balna- 

 cara, N.B., 131 ; in Cologne, 160; at Seefeld, 207; in 

 France, 256 ; in Switzerland, 352 ; in Shetland, 396 ; at Are- 

 quipa, 423 ; at Alaghir, Caucasus, 446 ; Southern Austria, 

 446 ; in Persia, 493 ; in North Wales, 555 ; at Cadiz, 555 ; 

 in France, 591 



Eastern Yucatan, Dr. A. Woeikof, 554 



Eccentric Anomalies, Calculation of, 14 



Echini, Spines of, 319 ; New Species of, 389 



Echinoderms, the Morphology of. Dr. Ludwiij's Work on, 406 



Eclipses : the Solar, of July 19, 1879, 42 ; the Total Solar, of 

 January 11, 1880, 74; the Annular, of January 22, 1879, 99 ; 

 Dr. Hayden's Party's Observation of the Solar Eclipse of 

 July 29, 1878, 159 



Edinburgh: Botanic Garden, 445; Royal Society, 116, 260, 

 283, 379, 571 ; Keith Medal of the Royal Society of, 346 



Edison's Electric Light Inventions, 44, 60, 517, 53^; his Micro- 

 tasimeter and Carbon Telephone, 68 ; his Invention for Mea- 

 suring the Electric Current, 107 ; his Telephone, 471 



" Education as a Science," Prof. Alex. Bain, 457 



