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INDEX 



XI 



Clarke (Dr. Hyde), Indian Life Statistics, 297 



Clarke (Colonel), Forest Conservancy in Ceylon, 606 



Classification of the Various Sp-cies of Heavenly Bodies, Sug- 

 gestions on the, J. Norman Lockyer, F R.S., 8, 31, 56, 79 



Clayton (H. Helm), Does Precipitation Influence the Movement 

 of Cyclones ?, 301 



Clausius (Prof. Rudolf Julius Emanuel). Obituary Notice of, 

 G. W. de Tunzelmann, 438 ; Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, 

 F.R.S., 491 



Clerke (A. M.) : Early Correspondence of Christian Huygens, 

 193 ; the New Astronomy, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 291 ; 

 Globular Star Clusters, 365 



Climate of the British Empire, 1887, 422 



Climate of Quaternary Times, 16a. 



Climatology of Constantinople, M. Coumbary, 133 



Climatology and Hydrology, International Congress of, 348 



Clinical Thermometers, the Verification of, 372 



Cloud Electric Potential, E. Douglas Archibald, 269 



Cloud Electric Potential, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 342 



Clouds, Sky Coloured, T. W. Backhouse, 196, 270; R. T. 

 Omond, 220 



Coagulation of the Blood, on the, Prof. W. D. Haliburton, 

 Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 331 



Cockerell (T. D. A.), a Lunar Rainbow, 365 



Cod and Whale Fisheries in North of Norway, 160 



Coefficients of Induction, W. E. Sumpner, 22 



Colenso(W., F.R.S. ), Ancient Tide-Lore, 373 



College at Tientsin, the New Foreign, 302 



Collins (F. Howard), Antagonism, 7 



Colloidal S'ate, C. Winssinger on the, 20 



Colorado, Biological Association, 625 



Colour of some Carbon Compounds, Prof. Carnelly and J. 

 Alexander, 141 



Colour of Flowers, Preserving the, A. W. Buckland, 270 



Colour, Photometry of, the Measurement of Reflected Colours, 

 Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., and Maj^r-General 

 Festing, F.R.S. , 212 ; Captain Abney, F.R.S. , 286 



Colour, Preserving the, of Flowers, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 245 



Colours, Latent, of Bodies, M. G. Govi, 631 



Columbia (British), Dr. Dawson's Exploration of, 115 



Columbus, the Fourth Centenary of the Discovery of America 

 by, 487 



Columns, Sun, Henry Harries, 566 



Combustion, Incompleteness of, on Explosion, Prof. H. B. 

 Dixon and H. W. Smith. 596 



Combustion of Organic Substances, the Slow, Th. Schlcesing, 48 



Comets: Comet 1888 a (Sawerthai), 43, 114, 168, 186, 258, 

 328 ; Prof. Lewis Boss, 88 ; Encke's Comet, 350 ; John 

 Tebbutt, 423 ; Comet 1888 c (Brooks), Dr. H. Kreutz, 397, 

 432, 503 ; Brooks and Faye, 576, 626 ; Dr. H. Kreutz on, 

 528 ; Fare's Comet, 432, 503 ; Discovery of a New Comet, 

 1888 e, E. E. Barnard, 503, 528, 626 ; YV. R. Brooks, 576 ; 

 the Short Period Comets and Asteroids, Prof. Kirkwood, 114; 

 Lagrange's Hypothesis on the Origin of Comets and Meteor.tes, 

 H. Faye, 215 ; Further Cometary Discoveries, W. R. 1'. rooks, 



375 

 Comey and Loring Jackson on a Sodium Salt of Zincic Acid, 



86; on Silicon Teirafluoride Compounds, 203 

 Companion to the Weekly Problem Papers, Rev. John Milne, 



76 

 Comparison of the Cranial with the Spinal Nerves, on the, Dr. 



W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 19 

 Compressed Oxygen Furnace, Fletcher's, 606 

 Compressibility of Water, Salt Water, Mercury, and Glass, 



Prof. P. G. Tait, 581 

 Compton (Earl), How Sea-Birds Dine, 618 

 Concrete Quantities, Multiplication and Division of, A. Lodge, 



281 

 Conductors, Iron, Self-induction in, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 55 

 Conference, International Maritime. 553 

 Congo and West Africa, Baron H. von Schwerin's Expedition 



to the, 424 

 Congre-s of Americanists, International, 552 

 Congress, International Geological, Prof. J. Prestwich, F. R.S., 



503, 518. 548 

 Congress, Proposed International Geographical, 259 

 Congresses, Projected Scieivific, in Paris, 255 

 Conic Sections, Solutions of the Examples in an Elementary 



Treatise on, Chas. Smith, 588 



Conies, the Geometric Interpretation of Monge's Differential 



Equation to all, Prof. Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, 564, 619 

 Coninck(M. O. de), Contribution to the Study of the Ptomaines, 



168 

 Constant of Aberration, 185 

 Constantinople, Climatology of, 133 

 Contemporary Review for June, Dr. Romanes's Article in the, 



Edward B. Poulton, 295, 364 

 Contraction-Theory of Mountain-Formation, History of, Charles 



Davison, 30 

 Convulsions produced by Cocaine, Influence of the Organic 



Temperature on, MM. P. Langlois and Ch. Richet, 168 

 Cook on the Part of American Geologists in the International 



Geological Congress, 452 

 Copper and Carbon combined to form a Compensated Resistance 



Standard, Prof. Nichols, 232 

 Copper, Specific Resistance of Pure, 232 

 Coral Formations, G. C. Bourne, 5 ; C. R. Dryer, 6 ; Robert 



Irvine, 54 

 Coral Reefs, Foundations of, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, 568 

 Coral Reefs of the Indian Archipelago, Dr. Guppy's Expedition 



to, 228 

 Corfield (W. H.), Electric Fishes, 515 



Cornil and Toupet (MM.), Bacterial Disease of the Duck, 216 

 Cornish Blown Sands, the, R. H. Curtis, 55 

 Coronal Light during the Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886, 



on the Determination of the Photometric Intensity of the, 



Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, 407 

 Corry (J. II.) and S. A. Stewart, Flora of the North-East of 



Ireland, 514 

 Cosmogony, on the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of 



Meteorites and on Theories of, Prof. G. 11. Darwin, F.R.S., 



573 



Cotes (E. C), Investigations on the Insect Pe ts of India, 17 



Coudreau (M.), Explorations m Guiana, 398 



Couette (SI. M.), on a New Apparatus for studying the Friction 

 of Fluids, 408 



Coumbary (M.), Climatology of Constantinople, 133 



Courts of Justice, Scientific Assessors in, 289 



Cowles's Process for the Production of Aluminium, 162 



Cranial Nerves, on the Comparison of the, with the Spinal 

 Nerves, Dr. W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 19 



Cranial Nerves, Note on some of the Motor Functions of 

 certain, and of the three first Cervical Nerves in the Monkey, 

 Chas. E. Beevor and V. Horsley, F.R.S., 357 



Crawford's (Lord) Collection of Astronomical Instruments, 598 



Crawford (P.), Reminiscences of Foreign Tiavel, 126 



Creation, the Method of, Henry W. Crosskey, 5 



Ciisp (Frank), Micromillimetre, 22: 



Croffut (William A.), United States Geological Survey, 421 



Croft (W. B. ), Watches and the Weather, 245 



Crommelin (A. E.). Partial Eclipse of August 7, 365 



Crosskey (Henry W.), the Method of Creation, 5 



Cryptogams, on the Occurrence of Aluminium in certain Vascular, 

 A. H. Church, 140 



Crystal Models, a System for the Construction of, John 

 Gorham, 411 



Crystalline Rocks, on the Origin of the Primitive, A. Michel- 

 Levy, 525 



Crystalline Schists, on the Classification of the, Prof. Albert 

 Ileim, 524 



Crystalline Schists, on, Dr. T. S terry Hunt, F.R.S., 519 



Crystalline Schists, some Questions connected with the Problem 

 presented by the, together with Contributions to their Solution 

 from the Palaeozoic Formations, Prof. K. A. Lossen, 522 



Crystalline Schists, Remarks on some of the more Recent Pub- 

 lications dealing with the, Prof. J. Lehmann, 549 



Crystalline Schists of the Western Alps, on the Constitution 

 and Structure of the, Prof. Ch. Lory, 506 



Crystallization, on Solution and, Prof. Liveing, 215 



Crystals, the Absorption Spectra of Crystals, At Becquerel, Ak 

 E. Tutton, 343 



Cudworth (William), Life of Abraham Sharp, 304 



Cunningham (Lieut. -Colonel Allan), Geometric Meaning of 

 Differential Equations, 318 



Curious Resemblance, a, W. J. Lockyer, 270 



Curtis (Charles E.), Practical Forestry, 171 



Curtis (R. H.), the Cornish Blown Sands, 55 



Curve Pictures of London for the Social Reformer, Alex. B. 

 Macdowall, 410 



