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INDEX 



xni 



Clavicles and Interclavicles, on the Reputed, of Iguanodon, 

 Trof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 591 



Clay (London) and Bagshot Beds, Lieut. Lyons, W. H. 

 Huddleston, F.R.S., 71 



Clayton (H. Helm), Is Cold the Cause of Anticyclones? 268 



Cleland (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Bosjes Pelvis, 598 



Clerke (A. M.) : Popular History of Astronomy, 43; a New 

 Cosmogony, Dr. Carl Braun, 321, 341 



Climate of Europe, Dr. Supan, 257 



Climatic Treatment of Consumption, the, J. A. Lindsay, 171 



Climatologists, 500 



Clocks and Watches, Fifty Years' Progress in, Henry Dent 

 Gardner, 392, 484 



Clothworkers Company and Technical Education, 42 



Clouds : Teisserenc de Port's Cloud Charts, 15 ; Meteoro- 

 logiske Institut at Upsala, and Cloud Measurements, Hon. 

 Ralph Abercromby, 319 ; Upper Cloud Movements in the 

 Equatorial Regions of the Atlantic, Capt. David Wilson- 

 Barker, 197 ; Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 222 ; Height of 

 Summer Clouds, 206 : the Nomenclature of Clouds, Dr. W. 

 Koppen, 208 ; on the Classification of Clouds, Dr. Koppen, 

 306 ; Iridescent, T. W. Backhouse, 77 ; Sky-coloured, T. W. 

 Backhouse, 269, 365, 556 ; Bishop's Ring, T. W. Backhouse, 

 365 ; Measurements of the Heights and Motions of Clouds in 

 Spitzbergen, Dr. Nils Ekholua, 459 ; Luminous Boreal Cloud- 

 lets, D. J. Rowan, 245 



Cloue (Admiral), Action of Oil on Troubled Waters, 167 



Clyde, Lighthouse Illumination and Signalling in, G. M. 

 Hunter, 64 



Clyde Sea-Area, Temperature of the, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 

 37, 56 



Coal-Dust, Relation of, to Explosions in Mines, Arthur Watts, 



221 



Coal-Mines, the Royal Society and Viscount Cross, 475 



Cocoa-nut Pearls, Dr. Sydney J. Hickson and W. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, F.R.S., 157 ; Dr. J. G. F. Riedel, 461 



Coffee-Plant, Fertilization of the, T. F. Bourdillon, 580 



Cohen (Julius B.), Owens College, Course of Practical Organic 

 Chemistry, 363 ; and Prof. Perkin on some New Cinnamic 

 Acids, 570 



Coils, Sounding, Prof. W. Stroud and Wertheimer, 262 



Cold the Cause of Anticyclones, Is ? H. Helm Clayton, 268 



Coleman (A. P.), Music in Nature, 605 



Colenso (Rev. J. W., D.D.), First Lessons in Science designed 

 for the Use of Children, 436 



Colladon (Daniel), Thunderbolt, 23 ; Artificial Waterspout, M, 

 Mascart, 576 



Colliery Explosions and Atmospheric Pressure, Hy. Harries, 

 437 



Collini (Dr. G. A.), Recent Additions to the Prehistoric and 

 Ethnological Museum of Rome, 526 



Collins (F. Howard), a Monstrous Foxglove, 508 



Collisions at Sea, Jurien de la Graviere, 215 ; Means of Avoid- 

 ing, Moise Lion, 432 



Colour, Perception of, C. E. Stromeyer, 246 ; T. W. Back- 

 house, 531 



Colour and Markings in Insects, Further Experiments upon the 

 Protective Value of, E. B. Poulton, 594 



Colour-mixing, on Newton's Law of. Dr. Konig, 96 ; Prof, von 

 Bezold, 119 



Colour-Names amongst the English Gypsies, W, E. A. Axon, 



599 

 Colour-Relation between Phytophagous Larvae and their Sur- 

 roundings, Further Experiments upon the, E. B. Poulton, 



594 

 Colours, Modem, the Extent to which Calico-Printing and the 



Tinctorial Arts have been affected by the Introduction of, 



Chas. O'Neill, 569 

 Colours for Naturalists, Nomenclature of, and Compendium of 



Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists, Robert Ridgeway, 124 

 Colours, Sunlight, Prof. S. P. Langley, 76 

 Colours of Thin Plates, Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S., 391 

 Colson and Gautier (MM.), New Method of Substitution of 



Chlorine in Hydrocarbons, 137 

 Combes (M.), New Tetrahydric Alcohol, 587 

 Combustion, Heats of, Berthelot, Recoura, and Louguinine, 



167 

 Comets : Discovery of a New, by E. E. Barnard (May 12, 



1887), 65, 552; Dr. E. Lamp, 90; Dr. H. Oppenheim, 



113, 138; Dr. H, Kreutz, 401; Brooks's Comet, H. V. 



Egbert, 454 ; Dr. Franz, 478 ; Discovery of a New Comet 



(August 24, 1S87), W. K. Brooks, 431, 480, 504, 552; 



Olbers' Comet (1815 L), 504; 1887, W. H. Brooks, 527; 



O. Tetens, 588 ; the Great Southern Comet (1887(1), Dr. J. 



M. Thome, 161 ; Mr. Chandler, 185 

 Companion of Sirius, Prof, A. Hall, 186 

 Comrades, 341 



Condensation of Gases, A. E. Tutton, 105 

 Conduction of Electricity through Gases, Prof. A. Schuster, 



F.R.S.,522 

 Conductors, Lightning, Prof. Tyndall on Imperfect Construction 



of, 430 

 Conglomerate, on the Discovery of Carboniferous Fossils in a, 



at Moughton Fell, near Settle, Yorkshire, Robert Law and 



James Ilorsfall, 571 

 Congo Boundary, the New French, 17 

 Congo, Mobangi Tributary of, Capt. van Gele's Exploration of, 



66 

 Congo State, Discovery of Instruments of the Stone Age in, 



Ed. Dupont, 116 

 Congo, M. Edward Dupont's Proposed Geological Investigation 



of the, 162 

 Congress (Astronomical) International, 429 

 Conic Sections, with Solutions of Questions in London Univer- 

 sity and other Examination Papers, G. Heppel, 602 

 Connaissance des Temps, 459 

 Constable (F. C), the Cuckoo in India, 245 

 Constant P in Observations of Terrestrial Magnetism, on the, 



Wm. Harkness, 366 ; William Ellis, 436 ; Prof. Arthur W. 



Rlicker, F.R.S., 508 

 Constantinople, Earthquake in, 587 

 Constitutional Formulae and the Progress of Organic Chemistry, 



368 

 Constitutional Formulae, Dispersion Equivalents and, Dr. J. H. 



Gladstone, 570 

 Consumption, Climatic Treatment of, J. A. Lindsay, 171 

 Consumption, the Prevention of, C. Candler, Dr. E. Klein, 



F.R.S., 340 

 Consumption, the Scientific Treatment of, G. W. Hambleton, 



599 

 Contact, Rolling, of Bodies, Prof. Hele Shaw, 92 

 Contact of Gases, Electricity of the, with Liquids, J. Enright, 



365, 460; Prof. Oliver J, Lodge, F.R.S., 412 

 Conte (Joseph Le), on some Phenomena of Binocular Vision, 



551 

 Continental Lands, on the Effect of, in Altering the Level of 



the Adjoining Oceans, Prof. Edward Hull, F. R. S., 549 

 Cook (J.), Hughes's Induction Balance, 605 

 Cope (E. D.), Origin of the Fittest, Essays on Evolution, Dr. 



Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 505 

 Copper, on the Polarization of, M. Krouchkoll, 119 

 Copper Sulphate, a Remedy against Vine-Mildew, Prof.Pollacci, 



262 

 Cora (Prof. Guido), Map of District round Massowah, 91 

 Cordilleras, Dr. Brackebusch's Explorations of the, 283 

 Cordoba Observatory, 527 



Corea, Stone Men of, Mirzeks or. Prof, de Lacouperie, 615 

 Corfield (W. H., F.R.S.), Treatment and Utilization of Sewage, 



73 

 Cornish (Vaughan) and Percy F. Kendall, Mineralogical Con- 

 stitution of Calcareous Organisms, 571 

 Cornus macrophylla, a Real Weeping Tree, 564 

 Correlation between Two Orders of Facts, Note on the Method 



of Research for, M. de Montessus, 23 

 Corrigenda in Various Star-Catalogues, Prof. Peters, 543 

 Corsica and Eastern Pyrenees, Comparative Study of Geolc^ical 



Systems of, Ch. Deperet, 383 

 Cosmogony, a New, Dr. Carl Braun, A, M. Clerke, 321, 



341 

 Cotton Fibre, the Chemistry of, F. H. Bowman, 569 

 Cowper's Writing Telegraph, Modification of, J. H. Robertson, 



540 . .0 



Crambus alpinellus, Stainton, 528 

 Craters, Mount Loa, History of the Changes in the, James D. 



Dana, 551 

 Credner (Dr. R.), Die Reliktenseen, 65 

 Critchett (A.), Introductory Lecture at St. Mary's Hospital, by, 



541 



