Nature, lune 7, i8i8J 



INDEX 



XI 



Consumptive Patients, Importance of, breathing Pure Air, 143 

 Contact Phenomena of Scottish Olivine Diabases, by Dr. Ernst 



Stecher, 527 

 Convergence, on a General Theorem of, by J. L. Jensen, 504 

 Cook (John), Class-book of Algebra Examples, 102 

 Cooper's Hill, Forestry School at, '529 

 Copeland (Ralph), an Incorrect Foot-note and its Consequences, 



343, 445 ; Demonstratio Eliminationis Cramerianse, Dr. 



Thomas Muir, 438 

 Copper Minerals from Utah, 623 



Copper Sphere, on the Rotation of a. Dr. R. C. Shettle, 166 

 Copper, Thermal Conductivity of, 328 

 Coral Formations : Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 393; 



John Murray, 414, 438 ; Prof. G. C. Bourne, 415, 546 ; 



Robert Irvine, 461, 509, 605 ; James G. Ross, Dr. H. B. 



Guppy, 462, 604 ; T. Mellard Reade, 535, 488 ; James G. 



Ross, 584 ; Captain David Wilson-Barker, 604 

 Coral Reefs and Islands, Theories of the Origin of, T. Mellard 



Reade, 54 

 Corea, Life in, W. R. Carles, 581 

 Corin (J.), Actions of Acids on Taste, 308 

 Correction, a, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 179 

 Cory (F. W.), the Use of the Spectroscope as a Hygrometer, 



Cotes (E. C.) and Colonel C. Swinhoe, Catalogue of the Moths 



in India, H. J. Elv/es, 386 

 Cotton Tree in Russia, 595 



Couldridge (Ward), Chlorophosphide of Nitrogen, 596 

 Cow-Pox and Vaccinal Syphilis, by Dr. C. Creighton, 483 

 Craigie (Major), Twenty Years' Changes in our Foreign Meat 



Supply, 212 

 Craters, History of the Changes in the Mount Loa, 163 ; James 



D. Dana, 500 

 Creation, the Method of, W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 270 

 Creation, Story of, Edward Clodd, 388 

 Credner (Prof. R.), Reliktenseen, 496 



Creighton (Dr. C), on Cow-Pox and Vaccinal Syphilis, 483 

 Crepuscular Phenomena of 1883-84, Prof. Annibale Ricco, 



118 

 Crepuscular Tints in Connection with the Hygrometric State of 



the Atmosphere, Prof. Costantino Rovelli, 404 

 Cretaceous, Texas Section of the American, 47 

 Crew (Henry), Spectroscopic Determination of the Rotation 



Period of the Sun, 495 

 Criminal Anthropology, M. Topinard, 163 

 Croft (Chas.), Atmospheric Effects at Sunset, 273 

 Crookes (W., F. R.S.): and the Transformation of Heat 



Radiations into Matter, Hugh Gordon, 536 ; Elements and 



Meta-Elements, 540 

 Crouch (Archer P.), on a Surf-Bound Coast, or Cable-laying in 



the African Tropics, 147 

 Crova (A.), on the Actinometric Observations at Montpellier, 



528 

 Crown Forests at the Cape of Good Hope, Management of, 



John Croumbie Brown, 198 

 Cruls (M.), on the Value of the Solar Parallax, 215 ; Brazilian 



Results from the Transit of Venus, 233 

 Crustacean Fauna of the Chalk of Bohemia, Prof. Dr. Anton 



Fritsche and Jos. Kafka, 51 

 Crystalline Form of Polianite, on the, by E. S. Dana and S. L. 



Penfield, 500 

 Crystals of Pyroxene, 47 

 Crystals, Snow, 343 



Cuboni (Prof. G. ), on the Peronospora of the Grape Vine, 525 

 Culin (Stewart), China in America, 88 

 Cultivation of Oysters, 572 

 Culture, English, Goschen and Huxley on, 337 

 Gumming (L.), Density and Specific Gravity, 584 

 Currents, Vapour, Experiments on. Dr. Robert von Helmholtz, 



48 

 Cyanide of Zinc, Action of the, on some Chlorides, 600 

 Cyclone at Mount Vernon, Illinois, 399 

 Cyclone Reports of the Meteorological Department of India, 



595 

 Cyclones and Anticyclones, Pressure and Temperature in, 



Prof. H. A. Hazen, 214 

 Cyclones, on the Movement of Cirri and their Relation to, M. 



H. Faye, 143 

 Cytinaceae, New Genus of {Botryocytinus), E, G. Baker, 478 



Dallinger (Dr. W. H., F.R.S.) : the Microscope in Theory and 



Practice, Prof. S. Schwendener and Prof. Carl Naegeli, 171 ; 



the Creator, and what we may know of the Method of 



Creation, 270 ; Annual Address to the Royal Microscopical 



Society, 448 

 Dalmatia, Earthquakes in, 186 



Dalton's Law, Prof. G. Guglielmo and V. Musina, 47 

 Daly (Mrs. Dominic D.), Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering 



Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, 363 

 Daly's (D. D.) Explorations in British North Borneo, 159 

 Dammara robusta, Scars occurring on the Stem of, S. G. 



Shattock, 119 

 Dana (E. S.) and S. L. Penfield, on the Crystalline Form of 



Polianite, 500 

 Dana (James), Volcanoes of Hawaii, 120 

 Danish Government and Geographical Research, 17 

 Danish Polar Expedition, Results of the Cruise of the Dijumphna, 



173 

 Darien, on the Use of Metals among the Ancient Inhabitants of, 



W. H. Holmes, 568 

 Darwen Free Public Library, 350 

 Darwin (Charles), Life and Letters of, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., 73 

 Darwin, Wyville Thom5on's Views on, 200 

 Darwin and the Beagle, 443 

 Darwin's Theory, Duke of Argyll on, 25 

 Darwinism and the Christian Faith, 397 

 Darwinism, Ethical Import of, Jacob Gould Schurman, Prof. 



Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 290 

 Darwinism in Paris, the Chair of, 256 

 Daubree (M.), Fumat Safety Lamp, 528 

 Davidson (George), Submarine Valleys off the Pacific Coast of 



the United States, 38 

 Davidson (Dr. Thomas, F.R.S.), Memorial to, 210, 397 

 Davidson's Discovery of Records ;of the Magnetic Declination, 



A.D. 1714, C. A. Schott, 379 

 Davison (William), appointed to the Curatorship of the Singa- 

 pore Museum, 112 

 Dawkins (Prof. W. B., F.R. S.), Ailurus anglecus, 359 

 Dawson (Dr. George M.), Notes and Observations on the 



Kwakiool People of Vancouver Island, 518 

 Dawson (Sir J. Wm., F.R.S. ), Microsauria and Dendrerpelon, 



393 



Day (Dr. Francis), British and Irish Salmonidse, 242, 296, 

 321, 366 



De Bary (A.), Lectures on Bacteria, 75 ; Comparative Morpho- 

 logy and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa, and Bacteria, 436 



De Bort, M. L. Teisserenc, on High Barometric Pressures of 

 Asia, 422 



Debierre(Ch.), L'Homme avant I'Histoire, 126 - 



Decaying Wood, Green Colouring-Matter of, Henry Robinson, 



536 

 Decimal Places, Too many, J. Rayner Edmands, 466 

 Decimal System, a Practicable, by R. T. Rohde, 493 

 Deep-sea Fishes, the Bathymetrical Range of, A. R. Hunt, 321 

 Deer, Rabies among, 440 



Definition, the, of Force, and Newton's Third Law, 511 

 Decrees to Women, Cambridge University, 443 

 Defaford, Spawning of American Char at, 89 

 Delauney's (M.) Astronomical Communications, 600 

 Delphini, /3, J. E. Gore, 353 

 Delta of the Nile, Borings in the, 64 



Dendrerpeton, Microsauria and, SirJ. Wm. Dawson, F.R.S., 393 

 Denmark, Remarkable Meteorite in, 258 

 Denning (W. F.):. October Meteor-Sh jwer of 1887, 69; the 



Planet Mercury, 178 ; Meteors, 273 

 Density and Specific Gravity, L. Gumming, 584 

 Denslow (Van Buren) and Jane M. Parker, Thomas [A. Edison 



and Samuel F. B. Morse, 199 

 Dependence of the Colour of Bodies on the Angle of Incidence 



of the Rays of Light, W. Rosenberg, 525 

 Derby (Earl of), on Education, 34 

 Derham (Dr.), on the Revenue Method of estimatmg and 



charging the Duty on Spirits, 481 

 Derham's (Dr.) Hydrometer, 497 



Dermeperithesis, 569 , 1. .r 



Deslandres (H.), Determination in Wave Lengths of the Iwo 



Red Rays of Potassium, 504 

 Desmaux (Emile), Mattie's Secret, 76 



