Nature, AW. 27, 1879] 



INDEX 



VU 



CroU (Jas.), Climatic Effects of the Present Eccentricity, 602 



Croolves (W., F.K.S.), Translation of Ville's Artificial Manures, 

 I 216; Molecular Physics in High Vacua, 228, 250; on Radiant 

 Matter, 419, 436 



Cro.'sley's Moditication of Hughes's Microphone, 503 



Crustaceans, Atlantic Stalk-Eyed, 535 



Cryptojjamic Society, 400 



Crystallography and Crystallophysics, Notes on, J. Milne 

 : (F.G.S.), 73 



1 Crystalli>ation of Supersattirated Saline Solutions, J. M. Thom- 

 ; son, 592 



1 Curare, Cure of Hydrophobia by, 183 

 t "Culm" and "Kulin," 487 



Cushing (F. H.), on tlie Making of Flint Arrow-Heads, 483 



Cyclone^;, J. J. Murphy, 56 



Cyclops, 472 



Cyprus, Forests of, 536 



" Dairy Farming;," J. P. Sheldon, 336 



Danish, how to Learn, by E. C. Otte, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 93 



Darwin (Chas., F.K.S. ), Baly Medal Awarded to, 65 



Darwin (G. PI.), on the Secular Effect of Tidal Friction, 246 



" Darw ini>m and Other Essays," John Fiske, 575 



Daubree (A.), Etudes Synthetiques de Geologic Experimentale, 



501 

 Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F.R.S.), Antiquity of Man, 571 

 Dawson (Prof.), on tlie Genesis and Migration of Plants, 257 ; 



on Eozbon canadense^ 329 

 Debaize (Abbe), his Expedition through Africa, i8l 

 Decoy, Golden Eagle and a. Prof. A. Laki--, 122 

 De l.a Hue and iliiller on the Electric Discharge with the 



Chloride of Silver Battery, 174, 199 

 Deltaic Growths, P\ S. Crawford, 432 

 Denning (W. F.), the April Meteors, 29 ; the August Perseids, 



457 

 Depth of the Sea, Dr. Boguslawski on the, 181 

 Derby (Orville A.), the Plague of Rats in Brazil, 65 

 Descartes, the Cranium of, 304 



Detonating Agents, Prof. Abel, F. R.S., on, 10, 4?, 67 

 Dewar and Eiveing (Professors) on the Reversal of the Lines of 



Metallic Vapours, 46 

 Diffusion of Liquids, W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 587 

 Distant (\V. L.), Quatrefage's " Human Species," 429 

 Dixon (Charle>), Migration of Birds, 219 

 Dobschau, the Ice-Cavern of, W. Bezant Lowe, 151 

 Dobson (G. Y,.), the Climbing Perch, 169 

 Dodel-Port (Prof.), on the P'ertili.-alion of Red Seaweeds by 



Infusoria, 463 ; "Atlas der Botanik," 590 

 Dodgson (Chas. L., M.A.), Euclid and His Modern Rival, 240, 



404 

 Dolomite and Calcite, 277 

 Dolomite Reefs of the Southern Tyrol and Venetia, Edm. M. 



von Mojsvar, 167 

 Dominica, Notes on, 296 ; Earthquake in, 431 

 Donegal, North- West, Hart's Flora of, 353 

 Donovan (H. C), a Habit of Cattle, 457 

 Dor (Ur. PI. 11.), on Colour-Blindness, 17 

 Double-Stars, the Colours of, Niesten on, 330 

 Dov\ nes and Blunt, on Effects of Sunlight on Plydrogen Peroxide, 



, Draper (Dr. Henry), on Oxygen in the Sun, 212 

 Draper (Ur. J. W.), the Blow-Pipe Coi.e-.Spectrum and the 



' Distribution of the Intensity of Light in the Prismatic and 



1 Diffraction Spectra, 301 



■ Dudgeon (P.), intellect in Brutes, 77 



' Duncan (Prof. P. Martin, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 



, C at the British Association Meeting, 448 



I Dun:-iiik Observatory, Dublin, 269 

 Du])ro (Dr. A.), Intellect in Biutes, 243 

 Diiren, Roman Remains found near, 183 



( Durham (J.), the Carving of Valleys, 552 



\ Dynamoaieter, Edison's New, 232 



I Dynamo Electric Machines, Improvements in, 467 



Earnshaw (Rev. S.), Etherspheres as z.vera ^a/«a of Natural 



Philosophy, 446 

 Earth- Heat, the Mechanical Theory of, J. P. Lesley, 168 ; Rev. 

 O. Fisher, 218 

 j Earthquakes: 134, 182 ; at Sigmarinjen, 18; in Per-ia, 18; at 



Florence, 42; at Bologna, 42 ; at Aachen, 160; at Idstein, 

 160; at Plastings, 161 ; at Agram, 256; in North Wales, 

 276 ; near Mount Etna, 326 ; at Athens, 326 ; in Switzer- 

 land, 353 ; at Cairo, 353; and Volcanic Phenomena during 

 1878, 378 ; H. O. Foroeson, 481 ; in Dominica, 431 ; in the 

 Society Islands, 435 ; at St. Thomas, 483; in Ctiina, 542; 

 in Cannthia, 615 ; Superficial, E. S. Burke, jun., 629 



Earth, the Figure of the, J. Herschel, 33 



Eaton (E. A.), Did Flowers Exist During the Carboniferous 

 Epoch? 315 



Echini, the Challenger, 534 



Eddas, the Home of the, C, G. W. Lock, 265 



Eden (C. H.), " Frozen Asia," 576 



I'Minburgh : Royal Society, 140, 188, 204, 231 ; the University 

 Cameron Prize, 352 ; the Catalogue of the Advocates Library, 



423 



Edison's Experiments in Electric Lighting, 66, 256, 277 ; his 

 New Dynamometer, 232 ; his Workshops, &c., 326 ; on the 

 Action of Heat in Vacuo on Metals, 545 



Edison (C. P.), Death of, 640 



I'Mucation, George Combe's Work on, 549 



lidwards (Edward), Death of, 423 



Egg, an Abnormal, 56 



Elasticity of Wires, B.A. Report on, 441 



Elbe, the River, T. Mellard Reade, 169 



Electric Arc, Thompson and Houston on the, 327 



Electric Cables, New, 482 



Electric Clock, a New Form of, 259 



Electric Clocks, W^. M. F. Petrie, 403 



lilectric Conductivity of Aqueous Fluids, 232 



Electric Discharge with the Chloride of Silver Battery, De La 

 Rue and Midler, 174, 199 



Electric Discharges in Vacuum Tubes, 21 1 



Electric Light : 85, 169, 190; Prof. Tyndall on, 16; Exhibition 

 at the Albert Hall, 39 ; M. Jamin's Apparatus, 39 ; Edison's 

 Experiments, 66, 256, 277; Dr. Hopkmson on the, 66; Use 

 of Jablochkoff Candles in Paris, 89, 183 ; Sir William 

 Thomson on, no; at the Horticultural Society, in; at 

 Niagara, 134 ; Divisibility of, by Incandescence, 139 ; at the 

 Pans Exhibition, 160, 641 ; Works on the, Silvanus 

 Thompson, 165 ; Report of the Committee of the House of 

 Commons on the, 182 ; in Liverpool, 255 ; Experiments at 

 Chatham, 275 ; the History of the, 277 ; in Au.-tralia and 

 Africa, 278 ; Clamond's New Thermo-Eleciric Light Battery, 

 301 ; A. Matlock, 314 ; at St. Moritz, Upper Engadine, 401 ; 

 at the British Museum, 590, 615 ; and Eastern Monarchs, 

 61S 



Electrical Clocks and Clockwork, H. Dent Gardner, 345 



Electrical Drilling by "Secondary Couples" 134 



Electrical Phenomena in the Jura, 423 



Electrical Railway, Siemens and HaUke's, 207 



Electricity : Noad's, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 118 ; on the 

 Conduction of, A. J. C. Allen, 468 ; Ploughing by, in ; as a 

 Motive Power, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 568 ; Influence of, on 

 Vegetation, 587 



Electro-Magnetic Engine, a New, 17 



Elephants : Intellect in, 21 ; Use of, in African Travel, 266 



Ellery (Robert J.), a Remarkalile Meteor, 121 



Ellis (Jaiues), Inherited Memory, 122 



Ellis (William), on the Relation between Solar Spot Frequency 

 and the Range of Magnetic Declination and Horizontal 

 Force, 91 ; the Recent Weather, 313; Greenwich Meteoro- 

 logical Oijservations, 576, 624 



Elongated Nebula;, the, 402 



Elster (llerr), on the Electro-Motive Forces which occur in Free 

 Water Jets, 66 



Elton (J. Frederick), Journals of Travels in Africa, 218 



End-on Tulies, brought to bear upon the Carbon and Carbo- 

 Ilydrogen Question, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 75 



F.iitomology, Bulletin of the Brooklyn P^ntoniological Society, 17 



Entomological Society, 92, 188, 283, 404, 500, 619 



Entomological Colleciijiis, Museum Peats in, 106 



Eiitomologische Nachrichten, 641 



lintozoa. Dr. Spencer Cobbold's Work on, 312 



Eocene Floras in the Arctic Regions, J. Staikie Gardner, 10 



Eozbon Question : Pruf. Moebius on the, 272, 297 ; Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter, F.R.S.; Prof. Dawson, P\R.S., 32S ; How did 

 it Originate, and is Graphite a Proof of Organic Beings in 

 the Laureiitian Period ? Otto Kuntze, 425 



Erbiuf, Sj ectrum of, 41 



