Nature, May lo, 1877] 



INDEX 



Christie (\V. H. M. ), Centralisation of Spectroscopy, 489 



Chronometers, Ships', Parkinson and Frodsham, 470 



Chytridium with True Reproduction, 458 



Cinchona Cultivation in India, George K'ug', 446 



Circle, Books on Squaring the, 155 



" Clang," the Vowel, 441 



Clarke (Col. A. R.), Just Intonation, 253, 353 



Clavalina Szaboi, Dr. von Hantken's Foraminifera of, 115 



Climate, the Cause of Changes of, 17 



Climates : Former, D. Pidgeon, 275 ; Investigation of, T. Ste- 

 venson, 556 



Climbing Plants, Tendrils of, 558 



Clock : Public, in Paris, 169 ; a New Astronomical Sir Wm. 

 Thomson, F.R.S.. 227 



Clocks, Pneumatic Tu'.^e applied to Regulating, 418 



Clouds, Measurement of the Height of, 313, 431 



Clyde, the River, 99 



Coal-fields of Nova Scotia, 462, 488 



Coffee Cultivation in Coorg, 418 



Coffee-leaves as a Substitute for Tea, 540 



Coloenis Julia in Texas, Dr. L. Ileiligbrodt, 339 



Colorado, the Upper, Prof. A'. Geikie, F.R.S., 337 



Colour-blindness, no, 346 



Colours of Animals, 16 



Colours, Accidental or Subjective, 384 



Colton and Burrows, " Concise Instructions in the Art of Re- 

 touching," 156 



Comber (Thomas), Evolution and the Vegetable Kingdom, 467 ; 

 Morphology of Seliginella, 548 



Combus'ion, Influence of Pressure on, 167 



Comets: The Fourth of 1857, 15; the Comet of the Bayeux 

 Tapestry, 126; Periodical Comets in 1877, 186. 206; De 

 Vico's, of Stiort Period, 206 ; of 1812, 323 ; the New Comet, 

 342, 361, 381; Borelly's, 431; D'Arrest's, 457; Biela's 

 Comet in 1805, 479; of 1873 (Tempel), 520; Winnecke's, 

 520, 53t, 549 



Commensalism among Caterpillars, 264 



Compass-Plant, 298 



Compisses at the Tiflis Observatory, 109 



Conte (Prof. Joseph Le), Hog-Wallows, or Prairie Mound*, 530 



Coorg, Coffee Cultivation in, 418 



Copeland (Ralph), the New Star in Cygnus, 315, 361 



Coral, Pink, Discovery of a Bed of, 128 



Coral : Growth of, 418 ; Coralean Rocks of England, 347 



Cordoba, Observations at the Observatory, 531 



Comu (Prof. A.), the Spectrum of the New Star, 158 



Cosmos, 127 



Ciianiology, Prof. Virchow on Bulgarian, 364 



Cretinism in Austria, 384 



Crocuses, Yellow, A. G. Renshaw, 530 



Crookes' ( Wm., F.R.S.), Experiments with the Radiometer, 224, 

 299 ; "Translation of Auerbach's Anthracen," 507 



Crustaceans, Eyeless, 559 



Cryptogamic Flora of Russia, 459 



Crystals, Prof. Maskelyne, F.R.S., on, 523 



Crystallised Nitro-glycerine, Experiments with, 71 



'* Crystallography, Groth's, 372 



Cuckoo and Swallows at Menton, Douglas A. Spalding, 528 



Cumberland Scientific and Literary Societies, 129 



Cumiuing's (Linnaeus) "Theory of Electricity," 526, 549 



Cunningham (R. O.), Hearing in Insects and Birds, 293 



Cyclones: of October 31, 1876, 89, 126; at Backergunge, 68; 

 at Chitlagong, 69 ; Storm Waves of, 261, 311 ; Polar, 312 



Cyclones and Storms, on a Mode of investigating. Dr. Buys 

 Ballot, 216 



Cygnus, a new Star in, 146, 166, 186, 206, 295, 303, 315, 361 



Czchovicz (Prof), Influence of Electricity on Certain Spectra, 70 



Czerny (Dr. Francis), the Action of the Winds in determining 

 the P'orm of the Earth, 239 



D'AIbertis's Expedition to New Guinea, 165, 452 



Dale (T. Nelson), the Rhoetic Strata in the Southern Tyrol, 4 



Damorseau's Tables of Jupi'.er's Satellites, 414 



" Danube and the Black Sea," Barkley's, 134 



D'Arrest's Comet, 457 



Darwin (Charles, F.R.S.), Sexual Selection in Relation to 

 Monkeys, 18 ; " Geological Observations," 289 ; " The 

 Effects of Cross- and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable 

 Kingdom," Prof. Dyer, 329 ; Testimonial to, 356, 410 



Darwin (Francis), Hygroscopic Seeds, 374 



Darwin (G. H.), Influence of Geological Changes on the Earth'f 

 Axis of Rotation, 360 



Darwin'sche Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Re 

 ligion und Moral, 176 



Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 247 



Davis (Capt J. E.), Death of, 325 



Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F.R.S.) on .Museums, 129 



De Notaris (Guiseppe), Notice of, 561 



I )eas (James), the River Clyde, 99 



Deep-Sea Manganiferous Muds, E. T. Ilardman, 57 



Deep-Sea Muds, John Murray, 319, 340 



Deer, Persian, 66 



Definiteness and Accuracy, Prof. P. G. Tait, 77 



De Mosenthaland Harting, "Ostriches and Ostrich Farming, "176 



Denmark, Geographical Society, 128, 188 



Denning (Wm. F.), Radiant Points of Shooting Stars, 15S, 217 ; 

 Meteor of January 7, 1877, 335 



Dental Anatomy, Tomes's Manual of, t6i 



Descent Theory, Weismann's Researches on the, 451 



Deutsche geologische Gesellschaft, 208 



De Vico's Comet of Short Period, 206 



Dewar (Prof. James), Physiological Action of Light, 433, 453 



Dioncea mtiscipula, Contractions of the Leaf of, 379 



Diseases Germina'ed in Hospitals, 15 



Disinfectants, Report of Russian Committee on, 16 



Diurnal Barometric Range at High and Low Levels, 187 



Dobson (G. E.), Protective Mimicry among Bats, 354 



Dodge (Col.), "The Hunting Grounds of ttieGreat vVest," 194 



Dobson (Dr. Anton), Proposed Zoological Stations in Heligo- 

 land and Kiel, 57 



Donnelly (Major), the London Industrial University, 519 



Donnisthorpe (Wordsworth), the Arctic Expedition, 116 



Double Stars : 14, 470 ; Variable Components of, 303 ; Lord 

 Lindsay's List of, 381 



Douse (T. Le M.), " Grimm's Law," Rev. A. H. Sayce, 309 



Draper (Prof. H.), Photographs of the Spectra of Venus and 

 a Lyroe, 218; Atmosphere of the Rocky Mountains, 354 



Drew's " Northern Barrier of India," 396 



Drosera rotiindifolia. Abnormal Growtti of, 18 



Drummond (James), Death of, 208 



Dreyer (J. L. E.), Tycho Brahe's Portrait, 530 



Dumont (Andre), Geological Maps of Belgium, 304 



Duncan (Wm. S.), Mind and Matter, 78, 295 



Dun Echt Observatory Publications, 381 



Duplex Telegraphy, an Account of, 180 



Dupre (Dr. A.), Estimation of Urea of Means of Ilypobromite, 



399 



Dutch Society of Sciences, Gold Medal of, 207 



Dutch Guiana, W. G. Palgrave, 311 



Dyer (Prof. Thiselton), Darwin on Fertilisation, 329 ; Mor- 

 phology of " Selaginella," 489 



" Dynamics," Bottomley's, 467 



Dynamo- Magnetic Phenomena, 72 



Earth : the Solidity of the, W. M. Williams, 5 ; Internal Fluidity 



of the. Prof. H. Hennessey, 78; Population of, 127; Actioa 



of the Winds in Determining the Form of, 239 

 Earth's Axis of Rotation : Influence of Geological Change on the, 



G. H. Darwin, 360 ; Possible Displacements of, 443 

 Earthquakes : at Irkutsk, 18 ; in Germany, 18 ; in ttie Canton 



of Neuchatel, 189; in Sweden, 461 ; at Oban, 561 

 East Anglia, Geology of, 130 



Eaton (H. S.), Greenwich as a Meteorological Observatory, 489 

 Echidna, a new Species of, 66 

 Eclipses: the Nineveh of B.C. 763, 65; Sir G. B. AiryJ on 



Ancient Solar, 115; Ancient Solar, i86; Solar, of Stiiclas- 



tad, 1030, 206; Solar, of 1567, 342; Total Solar, 457 

 Edinburgh : Royal Society, 109, 192 ; Royal Physical Society, 



422 ; Observatory, Deep Soil Thermometers at, 521 

 Edward (Thomas, A.L.S.), Life of, by Samuel Smiles, 349, 



439 ; Testimonial to, 479 

 Edwardes (Rev. D.), Holly-Berries, 295 

 Edwards' Butterflies of America, 70 

 Eel, the, 324 ; Electric, 414, 501 

 Effendi (Emin), Travels ^i, in Africa, 169 

 Egypt, Educational and Scientific Institutions in, 364 

 Electric Motor Pendulum, Dr. Paget Higgs, 98 

 Electric Light in Paris, 284 

 Electricil Phenomenon, Prof. George Forbes, 450 

 Electricity : Influence of, on certain Spectra, 70 ; Cumming's 



Introduction to the Theory of, 526, 549 



