Nature^ May 30, 18 78 J 



INDEX 



Capron (J. Rand), Arctic Aurorae, 162 ; " Photographic 

 Spectra," 259 



Carbon of Plants, J. W. Moll's Researches on, 344 



Carnac, Archajological Researches at, James Miin, 379 



Carnivorous Plants, Francisco Ginez, 63 



Carpenter (Dr. P. P.), his Collection of Shells, 513 



Carpenter (Wm. B., F.R.S.)> the Radiometer and its Lessons, 

 26, 61 ; Mr. Crookes and Eva Fay, 81, loi, 122 



Carpmael (W.), Telephone Experiments, 342 



Cartilage, Transformation of, into Bone, 345 



Caspian, Prof. Grimm on the Fauna of the, 345 



Cassell's Natural History, Vol. i , 365 



Castleton, Local Museum at, 454 



Castor, the Binary Star, 105 



Caucasus, Prof. Abich's Work on the, 309 



Causation of Sleep, 124 



Cavendish (Henry), his Writings on Electricity, 75 



Cazin (Prof.), Death of, 16 



Cecil (Henry), Hearing and Smell in Insects, 102, 381 ; the 

 Wasp and tlie Spider, 448 



"Celestial Atlas," Dien's, 141 



Cerf (Mdlle, Henrietta), Death of, 71 



Cesnola (Gen. L. Palma di), "Cyprus," 397 



Chadwick Museum, 272 



Challens;er, the. Estimates of the Volume of the Gulf Stream, 

 T. Mellard Reade, 144 ; in the Atlantic, Sir Wyville 

 Thomson's Account of, 145, 185 ; Laboratory Experiences on 

 the, 394 



Channel Islands, a Zoological Station for the, W. Saville Kent, 

 102, 475 



Chappell (Wm., F.S.A.), Music a Science of Numbers, 32 



Charkow, University of, 195 



Charnwood Forest, the Rocks of, 294 



Cheeseman (T. F.), Fertilisation of Glossostigma, 163 



Cheijan (Omer), Translation of the Poems of, 351 



Chemistry : Chemical Society, 40, 75, 134, 215, 255, 315, 394, 

 439, 499, 519; the Research Fund, 291, 309, 454; Anniver- 

 sary Meeting of the Society, 479 ; a Problem in Chemical 

 Affinity, 151; Chemical Notes, 150, 269; Die chemische 

 Industrie, 251 ; Fowne's Manual of, 24; Prof. Kekule on the 

 Position of, 55 ; N. N. Lubavin on Physical Chemistry, 240 ; 

 Institute of, 291, 309 ; Chemistry and Algebra, Prof. J. J. 

 Sylvester, F.R.S., 284, 309; Frankland's Researches in, 

 Prof. J. Emerson Reynolds, 318; Dictionaries of, 455, 514 



Chester Society of Natural Sciences, 16 



Chili: Insect-Fauna of, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 162; A. R. 

 Wallace, 182 j the Insects of Chili and New Zealand, 221, 

 260 



Chimpanzee at the Westminster Aquarium, 153 



China: Telegraphy in, 310; Exploration of, 346; the Tele- 

 phone in, 392 ; Mr. Baber's Report of the Grosvenor Mission, 

 434 ; Geographical Notes, 452 ; Chinese Remedy for Cynanche 

 tonsillaris, 475; "Gray's China," 484; Chinese Plants and 

 Animals in Paris, 513 



Chloride of Silver Battery, Dr. De la Rue's Researches on the 

 Electric Discharge with, 214 



Chronometers, Trial of German and Swiss, 409 



Cinchona, Cultivation of, 410 



Cissbury : Exploration of the Cave-Pits, 53, 171, 215, 409 



Clark (Xenos), Singing in the Ears, 342 



Cleopatra's Needle, 251 



Cliff-Dwellers in the United States, 409 



Climatology : of the Spanish Peninsula, 248 ; of the Fiji Islands, 

 248 ; of India, 307 ; of English Sea-side Resorts, 356 



Clock, a Watchman-Controlling, 292 



Clusters and Nebulae, Literature of the, 288 



Cobalt and Nickel, lodates of, 150 



Cochin China, the French Colony in, 492 



Coggia's Comet, 497 



Cohesion Figures in Liquids, Diffusion of, 124 



Cole (Alan S. ), State Aid to Music, 474 



"Coleoptera Sanctas-Helense," Wollaston's, 338 



Colley (Prof. R.), Electrical Experiment, 282 



Collieries, Telegraphic Warnings in, 16 



Colonies, Exploring, 290 



Colorado, Atlas of, 371 



Colours, Comparison of the Intensity of Light of Various, 438 



Colour Sense of the Greeks, Prof. W. Robertson Smith, 100 



Columbus, the Burial-place of, 17 



Comets : De Vico's, 15 ; of Short Period of 1878, 36; of 1873, 



46 ; the Comet of 1672, 63 ; the Austrian Comet-Medal, 129 ; 



Donati's Comet of 1858, 149; the Comet 1106, 189; the 



Comets of 1618, 247; the Periodical Comet 1873, 344- 



Tempel's Comet of Short Period, 408 ; Coggia's Comet, 497 '. 



Encke's Comet in 1878, 507 * 



Compass Adjustment in Iron Ships, Sir William Thomson, 



F.R.S., 331, 352, 387 

 Compasses, the Geometry of, Oliver Byrne, 199 

 Congo, the Yallala Rapids on the, 62 

 Connaissance des Temps for 1879, 70 

 Conrad (Timothy Abbott), Death of, 39 

 Conservation of Energy, Lecture Experiment, W. A. Shen- 



stone, 45 

 Cooke (C. J.), Landslips near Cork, 425 

 Cooke (Conrad W.) Cumulative Temperatures, 322, 448, 486 

 Cooling Powers of Various Liquids, 132 

 Cooper (Robt.) Mr. Crookes and Eva Fay, 183 

 Copeland (Ralph), Meteor, 29 

 Corbett (Dr. Joseph Henry), Death of, 410 

 Cordoba Observatory, 83, 209 



Corfield (Dr. W. H.), Elements of Articulate Speech, 447 

 Cork, Landslip near, C. J. Cooke, 425 

 Corpse, Spasms in a Guillotined, 437 

 Corsica, Exportation of Blackbirds from, 309 

 Coryphodon, Brain of a Fossil Species of, 222 

 "Cotton Goods, the Sizing of," Thomson, 4 

 Cotton (Dr. R. P.), his Collection of Ilford Fossils, 231 

 Crabs, Horse- Shoe, 289 



Craig- Christie (A.), the Future of our British Flora, 62 

 Crawfish, Artificial Culture of, 133 



Cremmen, Discovery of a Prehistoric Burial Ground near, 391 

 CroU (Dr. James, F.R.S.), Age of the Sun in Relation to 



Evolution, 206, 321, 464 

 Crookes (William, F.R.S.), the Radiometer and its Lessons, 7, 



43; and Eva Fay, 81, lOi, 122, 183, 200 

 Cruelty to Animals' Act and Physiological Teaching, Frank W. 



Young, 45 

 Crustaceans, Classification of Decapod, 127 

 Cryptogams, Hofmeister's work on, 344 ; Cryptogamic Society 



of Scotland, 133; Cryptogamic Society of Italy, 491 

 Cumberland Association of Literature and Science, 133 

 Cumulative Temperatures, 308, 322, 448, 486 

 Curious Phenomenon, 10 

 Cyanide of Gold, Double Salts with, 151 

 Cycadese, Structure of, 222 

 Cyclones and Anti- Cyclones, 134 

 Cynanche tonsillaris, Chinese Remedy for, 475 

 " Cyprus," General L. Palma di Cesnola, 397 



D'Albertis' and Beccari's Voyage Round the World, 53 



D'Albertis' Exploration of New Guinea, 383 



Danish Greenland, Dr. Henry Rink, 57 



D'Anvers (N.), " History of North African Discovery," 280 



Danube, the, and the Aach, 233 



D' Arrest's Spectroscopical Researches, 311 



Darwin (Charles, F.R.S.), Conferring an Honorary Degree on 

 at Cambridge, 52, 64 ; Fritz Muller on Flowers and Insects, 

 78; Proposed Memorial to, 95, 350; "Different Forms of 

 Flowers," 445 



Darwin (Francis), Insectivorous Plants, 222 ; Analogies of 

 Plant and Animal Life, 388, 411 



Darwin (G. H.), Geological Time, 509 



Davids (T. W. Rhys), Buddhism, 239 



Davyum, Sergius Kern, 245, 292 



Dawson (G. M.), Drowned by a Devil Fish, 282 



Deaf and Dumb Language, 479 _ 



Decapod Crustaceans, Classification of, 127 



Declination Ranges and Sun-spots, Prof. Balfour Stewart, 

 F.R.S., 326 



Deep-Sea Ascidians, 289 



Deer, Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the, of the Miocene and Pliocene 

 Strata, 255 



De la Rue's Diaries and Calendars, 1 1 



De la Rue (Warren, F.R.S.), Researches on the Electric Dis- 

 charge with the Chloride of Silver Battery, 214 



Dendritic Gold, 283 



Denning (W. F.), Meteor of October 19, 1877, 10; Shooting 

 Stars, 201 



Density and Sound, J. Cameron, 507 



Development in Plants, the First Stages of, 433 ' 



