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INDEX 



VU 



Cathetoraeter, the, 467 



Cavaille-Coll (A.), on Musical Pitch, the French Diapason 

 Normal, Scheibler's Tuning- Fork?, &c., Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 



381 



Caves : Kent's Cavern, 468 ; a Remarkable, in Kentucky, 575 ; 

 Bone, in Styria, 618 ; the Darkness of Cavern-:, Prof. Salvador 

 Calderon, 427 



Cazin (A,), " La Spectro?copie," 564 



Cecil (Henry), Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by Wasps, 

 625 



Cell of the Bee, Edward Geoghegan, 385 



Cell, Peaucellier, Horace Darv^dn on the, 383 



Cephalotus, the 6- Celled Glands of, Prof. Alex. Dickson, 508 



Cervus megaceros, W. Williams, 478 



Chairs, Easy, the Science of, 637 



Challenger Report, Progress of the, Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 534 



Chamrcleons, Sense of Fear in, R. Morton Middleton, 696 



Chambers (Fred.), Meteorology of Bombay, in 1876, 199; Sun- 

 spots and Weather, 567 ; Sun and Earth, 619 



Chartres (R.), Circulating Decimals, 291 



Chateau (Prof. J. L.), Death of, 290 



Chemical Society, 55, no, 164, 271, 323 ; Soiree, 157 ; Research 

 Fund, 465 ; the Faraday Lecture, 651 



Chemistry: Jahresbericht der Chemie, 105; "Kolbe's Inor- 

 ganic," 106 ; German Works on, 106 ; the Chemical Attributes 

 of Vegetable Physiology, S. II. Vines, no; the Scientific 

 Aims and Achievements of. Prof. Aug. Kekule, 210 ; Payen's 

 Industrial, 218 ; a New Triumph of Chemical Synthesis, 251 ; 

 Chemical Notes, 336, 679 ; Tidy's Handbook of, 586 ; Miller's 

 Elements of, 614 



Chesapeake Bay, Oyster Beds of the, 653 



Chiddey (Alfred), the Telephone, 94.; the Microphone in In- 

 direct Circuit, 464 



Chili, Meteorological Stations in, 600 



China : Chinese Medical Education, 23 ; Cyclone on Coast of, 

 206; Exploration of, 228; the River "China's" Sorrow," 

 228; Official Rank Hereditary in, 424; Robert Swinhoe's 

 Collection of Chinese Birds, 465 ; P. C. H. Lepper's attemp- 

 ted Journey to, 599 ; a New Chinese Magazine, 601 ; John 

 McCarthy's Journey through, 68 1 ; Missionjiry Exploration 

 of, 681 ; proposed Railway from Taku to Tientsin, 697 



Chiroptera, Catalogue of, in the British Museum, G. E. Dobson, 



Chlorine, the Action of, upon the Nitroprussides, Dr. E, W. 



Dav)', 473 

 Chlorochromic Anhydrids, the Spectrum of. Dr. Johnstone 



Stoney and Prof. Reynolds, 473 

 " Choice and Chance," W. A. Whitworth, 666 

 Christiania, Discovery of Fossils in the Bay of, 263 \ 



Christie (Alex. Craig), Menziesia ctcrulea, 66 

 Christy (Thomas), Hydro Incubation, 542 

 Church (Prof. A. H.), Real Brown Bread, 229; Gelatine as a 



Food-Preserver, 546 

 Cincinnati Observatory, 103 ; Society of Natural History 



Journal, 636 

 Circulating Decimals, R. Chartre?, 291 ; Edmund P. Toy, 541 ; 



Thomas Muir, 617 

 Circumnavigation, Lieut. Biard's Student Expedition round the 



World, 308 

 Cissbury, Description of a Male Skeleton found at, 215 

 Claret, New Flavouring Dye for, 23 



Clark (J. Edm.), the Meteor of May 12, 142 ; Earth Pillars, 617 

 Clark (Latimer), Time and Longitude, 40 

 Clarke and McLeod on the Telephone, 1 1 

 Clarke (Rev. W. B., F.R.S.), Death of, 205; Obituary Notice 



of, 389 

 Classification of the Vegetable Kingdom, Prof. Camel's, 646 

 Cleistogamous Flowers in Grasses, 253 

 Clifford (Prof. W. K.), "Elements of Dynamic," 89 

 Climatology, Climate in Higher Latitudes during Geological 



Periods, 27 

 Clock : Herr Noll's Decimal, 133 ; a New, with Perpetual 



Calendar, 575 

 Close (Rev. M. A.), on the Extent of Geological Time, 477 

 " Close Time," Report on Establishing a, for Indigenous 



Animals, 440 

 Cloud, Dr. Hellman's Observations on, 68c 

 Clousel, Discovery of a Grotto at, 653 

 Club-Root, Prof. E. Perceval Wright, 271 



Coal, Prof. T. E. Thorpe's History of, 133 



Coal-Field, a New, near Hemsworth, 394 



Coal-Gas, the best Means of Developing Light from, 468 



Coal-Measures, on the Occurrence of Certain Fish Remains 

 in, J. W. Davis, 478 ; the Supposed Radiolarians and Diato- 

 macece of the. Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 508 



Coccyx, Abnormal, Dr. Andrew Dunlop, 94 



Coffee, Preservation of, in Salt Water, 344 



Coimbra, the University of, 374 



Colenso, (F. E.), Socialism in South Africa, 194 



Collins (Jerome J.), American Storm Warnings, 4, 31, 61 



Cologne, Earthquake at, 504 



Colorado, Geological Maps of, 290 ; Saurians from the Cre- 

 taceous Rocks of, 476 ; Geological Exploration of, 704 



Colour, the Sense of, in Men, 371 ; the Origin and Distribution 

 of Organic, W. Saville Kent, 523 



Colour-Blindne-s in Relation to the Homeric Expressions for 

 Colour, Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 676, 700 



Comets : Tempel's Comet, 1873, II., 67, 130, 281, 358, 385 ; 

 Reappearance of Encke's Comet, 104, 131, 358, 589; 

 Brorsen's Comet of Short Period, 179, 589; Periodical Comets 

 in 1879, 306; a New Comet,' 307 ; the New Comet (Lewis 

 Swift), 335, 520; Biela's Comet, 588; Prof. Newton (U.S.), 

 on the Origin of, 687 



Complementary Colours, 323 



Composite Portraits, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 96 



Conder (Lieut. C. R.)," Tent- Work in Palestine," 538 



Conservation of Energy, Dr. G. Krebs on, 706 



Constantinople: Musuem of Antiquities at, 21; Earthquake 

 at, 77 



Contact Electricity, J. Brown, 12 



Cook (Capt.), Colossal Statue of, 263; Discovery of a MS. 

 Copy of his Diary, 496 



Cope (Prof. E. D.), the Structure of Coryphodon, 67; on the 

 Saurians of the Dakota Cretaceous Rocks of Colorado, 476 ; 

 on the Remains of a Permian Fauna in North America, 482 



Copper, AUotropic Modification of, 336 



" Copra " as Food for Cattle, 49 



Coralline Oolites of Yorkshire, W. H. Huddlestone, 136 



Corea, 68 ; the Condition of, 317 ; Timber from, 317 



Ccrfield (Dr. W. H., F.R.S.), Opening of Museums on Sundays, 

 170, 194, 220 



Cornu (M. A.), Elected to the Academy of France, 262 



Cornwall and Ireland, the Prehistoric Moniunents of, 478 



Corpura Volcano, the, 423 



Correlation of Lines of Direction on the Globe, Prof. O'Reilly, 



507 

 Coryphodon, the Structure of, Prof. E. D. Cope, 67 

 Cosmic Meteorology, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 126, 151 

 Cosmical Results of the Modern Heat Theory, J. Loschmidt, 184 

 Costa Rica : Grasshoppers in, 344 ; Earthquake in, 600 

 Cotta (Bernhard von), " Geologic der Gegenwart," 380, 487 

 Craniology, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., on the Methods and 

 Results of Measuring the Capacity of Crania, 480 ; the Varia- 

 tion of Volume of the Cranium, 324 

 Crannog, Scottish, Discovery of a, Dr. Robert Munro, 695 

 Crinoids, Transition Forms of, in American Palaeozoic Rockp, 



646 

 Crises, Prof. Jevons on the Periodicity of, 483 

 Crofton(M. W., F.R.S.), " Elements of Applied Mechanics," 



247 

 Croll (James, F.R.S.), Cataclysmic Theories of Geol(^caI 



Climate, 187 

 Cross (Chas. R.), Helmholtz's Vowel Theory and the Phono- 

 graph, 93 

 Crustaceans, Stridulating, 53, 95; C. Spence-Bate, F.R.S., on 



the, 483 

 Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 553, 652 

 Crystals, the Planes of Symmetry in, 163 

 Crystalline Form of Chemical Substances, Prize for Essay on. 



Crystalline Rocks : the Origin and Succession of. Prof. J. Sterry 



Hunt, F.R.S., 443 ; of Donegal, 478 

 Crystallography, Groth's Zeitschrift, 106 

 Ctenodos, the Genus, 483 

 Cua, Earthquake at, 105 

 Culley (R. S.), "Practical Telegraphy," 166 

 " Culture-Map" of Asia Minor, 434 

 Cumberland Association, Annual Meeting, 21 

 Cumulative Temperature, Wm. F, Stanley, 41 



