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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 2i, 1878 



Curioni (Guilio), Death of, 599 



Currents, Ocean, M. Zoppritz on, 321 



Cycloid, the, and Cycloidal Curves, R. A. Procter, 355 



Cyclones : on Chinese Coast, 206 ; and Anticyclones, Eustace 

 Barham, 249 ; the Genesis of, H. T. Blanford, 328 ; and the 

 Winter Gales of Europe, S. A. Hill, 616 ; William Ellis, 641 



Cyon's Researches on the Ear, Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S., 



633, 657 

 Cyprus : an Account of, 302 ; the Climate of, 335 ; Proposed 

 Botanical Garden at, 423 ; Kiepert's Map of, 434 ; Dr. Phene 

 on, 483 ; New Maps of, 520 ; French Mission to, 681 ; 

 Hamilton Lang's work on, 693 



Daintree (R.), Obituary Notice of, 389 



D'Albertis (L. M.), his Expedition to New Guinea, Scientific 

 Results of, 72 ; Journey to London, l8l ; Arrival there, 359 ; 

 his Zoological Collections, 465 

 Dallinger (Rev W, H., F.R.S.), on the New "Oil Immersion" 

 Object-Glass constructed by Carl Zeiss, of Jena, 65 ; the Life- 

 History of a Septic Organism, 102 

 Daltonism, Researches on, 186 

 Danube, the "loess" Formations of the, 207 

 D'Anvers (N.), Heroes of South African Discovery, II 

 Daphnoidoe, Decorative Colouring in, 226 

 Darmstadt, Notizblatt des Vereins fiir Erdkunde, 186 

 Darwin (Dr. Charles, F.R.S.), Transplantation of Shells, 120 ; 



Elected Member of the Paris Academy, 392 

 Darwin (Francis), the Nutrition of Drosera rotundifolia, 153 

 Darwin (G. H.), some Results of the Supposition of the Vis- 

 cosity of the Earth, 265 ; on the Precession of a Viscous 

 Spheroid, 580 

 Darwin (Horace), Peaucellier Cell, 383 

 Davies (D. C), Slate and Slate Quarrying, 10 

 Davis (J. W. ), on the Occurrence of Certain Fish Remains in 



the Coal-Measures, 478 

 Davis (J.) and F. Arnold Lees' " West Yorkshire," 276 

 Davis (Prof. W. Monroe), Death of, 652. 

 Davy (Dr. E. W.), the Action of Chlorine upon Nitro- 

 Prussides, 473 ; and Dr. Cameron on the Action of Heat upon 

 Selenate of Ammonium, 473 

 Dawson (Principal J. W.), Dr. P. P. Carpenter's Collection, 



116 ; a Fossil Plant — Misquotation, 696 

 Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd, F.R.S.), Extinct and Recent Irish 

 Mammals, 169 ; the Sinks of the Animal World, 537 ; De 

 Ranee's Superficial Geology of South- West Lancadiire, 561 

 Deafness and the Telephone, 132, 169 

 Decimals, Recurring, T. Chartres, 291 ; Edmund P. Toy, 



541 ; Thomas Muir, 617 

 Decimal Weights, Measures, &c.. Uniform, 504 

 Deep-Sea : Dredging off the Gulf of Mexico, Prof. E. Perceval 

 Wright, 198 ; Soundings, Wire for, 357 ; Thermometer, a 

 New, 348 

 Degrees, the Archbishop of Canterbury and, 574 

 Deimos, Satellite of Mars, 618 

 Delafosse (Prof.), Death of, 681 

 De la Rue (Dr. Warren, F.R.S.) and Dr. Hugo W. MuUer, 



F.R.S., on Electric Discharges in Gases, 525, 547 

 Demavend, Mount, 647 

 Demography, Congress of, 237 

 "Demonstrator," the Stanhope, 506 

 Denning ( W. F. ), the Meteor Shower of Aquarids (July), 356, 



384 ; Meteor Shower of Andromedes I., 568 

 Derby (Orville A.), Rainfall of Brazil and the Sun-Spots, 384 

 " Deutsche geographische Blatter," 46 

 Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science,' &c., 



392 

 Dewar (Prof. J., F.R.S. ), Experiments in Electro-Photometry, 



186 ; his Lecture on " Dissociation," 437 

 Dewar and Liveing (Profs.), on the Reversal of the Lines of 



Metallic Vapours, 109, 321 

 Diapason Normal, the French, A. Cavaille-Coll on, 381 

 Diarrhoea, New Remedy for, 49 

 Diatomaceae and Radiolarians, the Supposed, of the Coal- 



Measures, Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 508 

 Dickson (Prof. Alex.), on the Stipules of Spergularia marina, 

 507 ; on the Inflorescence of Senebiera didyma, 508 ; on the 

 6-Celled Glands of Cephalotus, 508 ; Isoetes echinospora, 508 

 Didus and Didunculus, Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 251, 331 ; 

 Searles V. Wood, 301 



Dilatation of Bodies, on a Universal Law Relative to, 608 



"Dissociation," Prof. Dewar's Lecture on, 437 



"Divide et Impera," E. W. White, 142 



Dixon (Charles), Landrails, 116 



Dobson (G. E.), Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the British 



Museum Collection, 585 

 Dobson (Thomas), Whirlwind, 250 

 Dodel-Port (Dr. Arnold), " Anatomisch-physiologischen Atlas 



der Botanik," 317 

 Donegal, the Crystalline R.ocks of, 478 

 Double Stars, 334 ; Measures of, 225 

 Dowling (Henry P.), a Quadruple Rainbow, 142 

 Downes (Dr. Arthur) and T. P. Blunt, on the Influence of 



Light upon Bioplasm, 308 

 Draper (Dr. Henry), the Eclipse of the Sun, 462 

 Draper (Dr. J. C), on the Presence of Dark Lines in the 



Solar Spectrum, which correspond closely to the Lines of 



the Spectrum of Oxygen, 654 

 Dredging, Deep-Sea, off the Gulf of Mexico, Prof. E, Perceval 



Wright, 198 

 Dress, Sexual Selection and, 632 

 Drew (Dr. Joseph), the Sea-Serpent Explained, 489 

 Drosera rotundifolia, the Nutrition of, Francis Darwin, 153 

 Druce (G. C), Menziesia ccerulea, 116 

 Dublin, the British Association Guide-Book, 403 

 Dudgeon (Dr. R. E.), Examination of Small Organisms in 



Water, 196 

 Dudley (W. L., M.D.), Hearing of Insects, 568 

 Duelling in German Universities, 242 

 Dundee Free Library Report, 159 

 Dunlop (Dr. Andrew), Abnormal Coccyx, 94 

 Dunman (Thomas), " Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and 



Physiological Terms," 614 

 Diirkheim, Discovery of Prehistoric Remains near, 555 

 Durville (H.), " La Revue Magnetique," 615 

 "Dust- Whirl," Observations on a. Prof. Francis E. Nipher, 



488 

 Dutch Meteorological Institute, 680 

 Dutch North Polar Expedition, 360, 521 

 Dutch Society of Sciences, 158 



Dyer (Prof. W. T. Thiselton), Opening of Museums on Sun- 

 days, 194 

 Dynamic, Prof. Clifford's Work on, 89 



"Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies," E. J. Routh, F.R.S,, 

 247 



Eagles, New Work on, 684 



Ear, Cyon's Researches on the. Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S., 



633. 657 

 Earth: the Interior of the, Sir Geo. B. Airy, F.R.S., 41 ; Re- 

 markable Changes in the Earth's Magnetism, Capt. F. J. 

 Evans, C.B., F.R.S., 80; some Results of the Supposition 

 of the Viscosity of the Earth, 265 ; Population of the, 

 338 ; the Theory of Internal Heat of the, &c., 397 ; the 

 Figure and Size of the, Karl Maria Friederici, 556, 577, 

 602 ; the Earth and Sun, F. Chambers, 619 



Earth Pillars, James H. Midgley, 569 ; J. Edmund Clark, 6 1 7 



Earth's Orbit, Nearest Approximations of Small Planets to the, 

 225 



Earthquakes : at Constantinople and Nicomedia, 77 ; at Cua, 

 105 ; at Gotdngen, 105 ; at Caracas, 105 ; in Britanny. 105 ; 

 in Venezuela, 130 ; in Japan, 182 ; in Lisbon, 182 ; in France, 

 263 ; in the Island of Tanna, 262 ; on the Philippines, 265 ; at 

 Jenbach, 393 ; at Innspruck, 466 ; at Cologne, 503 ; at Rocca 

 di Papa, Italy, 533 ; at Buir, 575 ; at the Pic-du Midi Obser- 

 vatory, 600 ; at Osterath, 600 ; at Cartago, Costa Rica, 600 ; 

 at Buir, 632 ; near the Hudson, 683 ; and Volcanic Phenomena 

 during 1877, 241 ; Curious Phenomenon near Florence, 532 ; 

 Records of, in Japan, 373 



Earthworks, B.A. Report on, 470 



Easton (Edward, C.E.), Opening Address in Section G at the 

 British Association, 452 



Eastward Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism, Prof. Balfour 

 Stewart, F.R.S,, 38 



Easy Chairs, the Science of, 637 



Eberstein's Walking Stick for Naturalists, 372 



Eclipses : the Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878, 261, 353, 394, 425- 

 430; Prof. Newcomb's Instructions for Observations, 181; 

 J. Normal} Lockyer, F.R.S,, 401, 457; Dr. Henry Draper, 



