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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1879 



Burmah : British, Capt. Forbes, 3 ; Domestic Life in Kahchen, 

 64 ; Natural History Notes from. Prof. R. Romanis, 362 



Burmeister's Science in the Argentine Republic, R. McLachlan, 

 F.R.S., 358 



Burnell (A. C), South-Indian Palaeography, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 



Butler (Samuel), "Evolation, Old and New," A. R. Wallace, 



141, 169 

 Butterflies, Philosophy of the Pupation of some. Prof. C. V. 



Riley, 594 

 Butterily, Headless, laying Eggs, 267 

 ButterHy Swarms, 183, 197, 208, 220, 243, 255, 266, 291, 581 



Caecilians, on the Early Stages of, 593 



Caillet (Rene), Removal of his Grave, 87 



Cairo, Earthquake at, 353 



Calamites, Sphenophyllum, and Asterophyllites, Professors Wil- 

 liamson and Weiss on, 375 



Calcite and Dolomite, 277 



Calderwood (Prof. H.), " The Relations of Brain and Mind," 

 Dr. Ferrier, F.R.S., 309 



Calendar Clock, a New, 35 



Callanish, Standing Stones of, W. J. Millar, 127 



Callaway (C), on the Origin of Certain Granitoid Rocks, 219, 

 266 



Cambridge : Philosophical Society, 71, 640 ; Honorary Degrei-s, 

 87, 184 ; the Rede Lecture, 87 ; Report on the Museums, 

 163; Newnham Hall, 234; Results of the Higher Local 

 Examinations, 379 



Campbell (J. F.), Twenty-nine Gleams of Sunshine, 403 



Camphius (G. W.), Effects of Lightning, 95 



Canadian Pacific Railway, Report on, 249 



Canal, Inter-Oceanic, 59 



Canoe, Discovery of a Prehistoric, 401 



Cape Colony, Flora of, 304 



Cape Town, the South African Museum at, 374 



Capercaillie in Scotland, 550 



Carbon and Carbo-Hydrogen Question, End-on Tubes brought 

 to bear upon the. Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 75 



Carboniferous Epoch : Existence of Flowers during the, R. 

 McLachlan, F.R.S., 5 ; E. A. Eaton, 315 ; Wm. Morris, 404 



Carica Papaya, Major S. P. Oliver, 337 



Carinthia, Earthquakes in, 615 



Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), Registrar of the University of 

 London, his Retirement from that Office, 69 ; Proposed Por- 

 trait of, 133 ; on Eozbon Canadense, 328 



Carpenter (P. H.), Pine-Pollen mistaken for Flowers of Sulphur, 



>95 



Carpenter (W. Lant), his Interview with Edison, 326 



Carrier-Pigeons in France, 112 



Carrington (John T.), Occurrence of Boar-Fish, 243 



Carter (H. J.), Change of Colour in Frogs, 580 



Cartography, Dr. C. P. Daly on, 582 



Cashmere, Snowfall in, 514 



Caspian and Black Seas, Proposed Connection of, 296 



Catalogue, a Universal, Aristides Brezina, 94 



Catlin (George), his Collection of Indian Portraits, &c., 249 



Catskills, the Topography of the, 296 



Cattle : Chewing Bones, H. C. Donovan, 457 ; a Habit of, W. M. 

 Williams, 505 



Caves: the Creswell, 211 ; Discovery of, in Algiers, 461 ; Dis- 

 covery of, at Guisseny, 616 



Cecil (Henry), Butterfly Swarms, 291 ; Sphinx (Deilephila) 

 lineata, 432 



Challenger Echini, 534 



Challenger Rhizopods, 534 



Chamberlayne (W. J.), Change of Colour in Frogs, 554 



" Characea: Americana;," New Work on, 18 



Chemislry: Chemical Action, M. M. Pattison Muir, 530; 

 Chemical Denudation and Geological Time, J. Mellard Reade, 

 526; Chemical Notation, J. J. Murphy, 290; Chemical 

 bociety, 48, 91, 186, 235 ; the Grants from the Research 

 Fund, 231 ; Chemical and Geological Essays, Sterry Hunt, 

 F.R.S., 621 ; Blyth's Manual of Practical Chemistry, 4; 

 " Chemistry of Common Life," Prof. James E. W. Johnstone, 

 F.R.S., 25 ; Organic Chemistry, H. Clements, 237 ; American 

 Chemical Journal, 331 ; Roscjeand Schorlemmcr's Chemistry, 

 623 



Chester Society of Natural Science, 563 



China : Exploration of, 130 ; the Hungarian Expedition through, 

 206; Coal Mines in, 461 ; Earthquake in, 542; Mining in, 

 563 ; Routes to, viii Assam, S. E. Peal, 5S3 



Chloride of Silver Battery, the Electric Discharge with De La 

 Rue and Miiller, 174, 199 



Chlorine, the Dissociation of. Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 



357 

 Chocolate and Science, 183 

 Cho-goo, the Canal of, 267 



Christie (W. H. M.), on the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, 575 

 Church (J. A.), Heat of Comstock Mine, 503 

 Ciamician (G. C), on the Influence of Pressure upon the Spectra 



of Gases and Vapours, 90; his Researches in Spectroscopy, 



435 

 Cinchona Culture in British India, 112; Cinchona Plantations 



in Sikkim, 515 

 Clamond, New 'I'hermo-Electric Light Battery, 301 

 Clark (Henry), Intellect in Brutes, 220 

 Clement's Organic Chemistry, 237 



Clifford (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.), hU Mathematical Papers, 195 

 Climatic Effects of the Present Eccentricity, Rev. O. Fisher, 



577, 626 ; Jas. Croll, 602; E. Hill, 626 

 Clock, a New Calendar, 35 

 Clocks, Electrical and Clockwork, H. Dent Gardner, 345 ; 



W. M. F. Petrie, 403 

 Clocks, Luminous Dials for, 543 

 Close Time for Indigenous Animals, 444 

 Coal : Discovery of, in the Takashima Mines, Japan, 66 ; in 



Japan, 327 

 Coal Fields and Coal Production of India, V. Ball, 469 

 Cobaltous and Nickelous Sulphates, Mill and Smith, 234 

 Cobbold (Dr. Spencer, F.R.S.), "Parasites," 312 

 Coffee- Leaf Disease in Ceylon, 305, 374, 424 ; D. Morris, 557 

 Colorado, Coues's Birds of, I 

 Colour-Blindness : 427; Dr. H. H. Dor on, 17; in Negroes, 



89; Dr. B. Joy Jeffries' Work on, Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 



477 ; Prof. Piazzi Smyth on, 504 ; John Aitken on, 627 

 Colour- Variation in Lizards, Dr. A. Ernst, 290 

 " Combe's Education," 549 

 Comets : Brorsen's, 5, 27, 37, 94 ; Tempel's Comet, 1S67, II., 



37,59.83,248; Biela's Comet, in 1879, 129, 156,459,512, 583; 



ihj Great Comet of 1874, iSi ; Swift's New Comet, 205, 218, 



226, 24S, 265, 315, 433; Comet 1759 (HI.), 226; Olbers', 



of iSiS, 226; Periodical, in 18S0, 270; Palisa's, 455, 533, 



604 ; on the Cause of the Bright Lines of, G. Johnstone 



Stoney, F.R.S., 466; the First, of 1699,482; Near Approach 



of, to the Earth, 534 

 Common (A. A.), Saturn's Dusky Ring, 577 

 Comparative Anatomy of Man, Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 222, 244, 



267 

 Compass, Mariner's, New Form of, 233 

 Compound Harmonic Curves, Machine for Drawing, 103 

 Comstock Mine, Heat of, 503 ; Accidents in, 543 

 Concretion Balls from Mineral Water, 486 

 Cone-Spectrum, the Blowpipe, Dr. J. \V. Draper, 301 

 Conic Sections, Rev. S. Bolton Kincaid, M.A., 218 

 Cook (Capt.), his Accuracy in his Charts, Capt. S. R. Franklin, 



6 ; Statue to, 7 

 Cooke (W. FothergiU), Obituary Notice of, 244 

 Copenhagen, Fourth Centenary of, 185 

 Copper, Physiological Action of, 303 

 Coppock (Chas.), an Observatory of Newton's, 7 ; Distribution 



of the Black Rat, 266 

 Corals, on the Structure of the Stylasteridx, H. N. Moseley, 



F.R.S., 339 

 Corea, New I'orts in, 536 

 Coreans in China, 325 

 Corfield (Prof.), Sanitary Fallacies, 643 

 Cornu (M.), his New Spectroscope, 256 

 Cotta (Bernhard von). Obituary Notice of, 505 

 Coues (Dr. Elliott), and a Bibliography of Ornithology, 208 

 Coues's " Birds of the Colorado," I 

 Cow-Birds, Enormous Flights of, in Mexico, 88 

 Cowie, N. B., Zoological Station at, 372 

 Cox (Serjeant E. W.), Intellect in Brutes, 315 

 Crania, the Average Size of, 304 

 Crape, the Japanese Manufacture of, 89 

 Crawford (F. S.), Deltaic Growths, 432 

 Crayfish, Muscles of, 106 

 Cresswell Caves, 211 



