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Index 



612; Surliision of Metals and Alloys, Prof. W. C. 

 Roberts Austen, F.R.S. , 619; Detection of Sulphides, 

 Sulphates, Sulphites and Thiosulphates in each other's 

 Presence, P. E. Browning and E. Howe, 634 ; an Old 

 Alloy, D. Berthelot, 635 ; New Hydrated Chromium Oxide, 

 H. G. Bauge, 635 ; Researches on Double Iodides and 

 Borates, H. Allaire, 635 



Child (C. D.), Potential Gradients at Electrodes discharged by 

 X-Rays, 187 



Chili, Earthquakes in, 299 



China : Geographical Notes on Central and Southern, 133 



Chinese Antiquities at Shashih, 133 



Chinese Herbal Prescription, Ingredients of, J. B. Davy, 255 



Cheriton (W. W.), a Simplified Euclid, 150 



Chree (Dr. C. , F. R.S. ), Kew Experiments on Aneroid 

 Barometers, 215; Recent Work in Thermometry, 304; 

 Magnetic Storm, 468 



Chromatolysis in Plants, Dr. B. Longo, 329 



Chromosphere, Photograph of the. Prof. Naegamvala, 526 



Chrystal (G.), Introduction to Algebra, for the Use of Secondary 

 Schools and Technical Colleges, 340 



Church (Colonel George Earl), Opening Address in Section E 

 of the British Association, 586 



Churchill (W. A.), the Supply of Amazonian Rubber, 603 



Chyzer (Cornelio), Araneiv himgariic, 365 



Cinchona Cultivation in India, 423 



Cirrhosis, Hepatic, Clinical Varieties of. Dr. Alex. James, 349 



City Banquet to the Medical Profession, 37 



City Pavements, Mirage on, R. W. Wood, 596 



Clark (J, Edmund), Luminous Clouds or Aurora, 546 



Ciayden (Mr.), Meteorological Photography, 534 



Clayton (H. H.), Diarnal Changes in Temperature and 

 Humidity at different Heights in Free Air, 59 ; Record 

 Broken for High Kite Flight, 513 



Clemow (Dr. F. G.), Rats and the Plague, 551 



Clouds, Iridescent, E. Armitage, 390 



Clouds, Luminous, Arthur P. Jenkin, 521 



Clouds, Luminous, or Aurora, J. Edmund Clark, 546 



Clowes (Prof. F.), on Equivalent Replacement of Metals, 556 



Coal Question, on the Economic and Mechanical Features of 

 the, Forster Brown, 608 



Coals at the Imperial Institute, Indian, Bennett H. Brough, 380 



Cocaine, the Injection of^ as a Remedy for Stings, 497 



Coccus, a 'is&^ , Echinospora ventricosa, L. Leger, 516 



Cockburn (G. B.), Halogen Derivatives of Fenchene, 238; 

 Oxidation of Fenchene, 238 



Cockerell (Prof. T. D. A.), a Case of Inherited Instinct, 546 



Coffee Cultivation in India, 423 



Cohen (E.), the Weston Standard Cell, 335 



Cohen (Prof. Ferdinand), Death of, 206 ; Obituary Notice of. 

 Prof. J. B. Farmer, 275 



Colenso (Rev. W.), a Maori-English Lexicon, 364 



Coles (Alfred C), the Blood : how to Examine and Diagnose 

 its Diseases, 269 



Colin (E. ), Destruction of the French Observatory in Mada- 

 gascar, 259 



Collins (J. R.), Blurring Aberration in the Telescope, 88, 280 



CoUinson (R. W.), Lauronolic Acid, 23 



Colloids, the Compressibility of, C. Barus, 634 



Colnaghi (Sir D.), Ten Pound Island (Massachusetts) Fish 

 Hatchery, 489 



Coloration, Assimilative, W. L. Distant, 525 



Coloration of Insects, Observations on the, Brunner von 

 Wattenwyl, 193 



Colour Bands, Flow of Water shown by. Prof. Osborne 

 Reynolds, F.R.S., 467 ; Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 467 



Colour Photography, Krdmskop, Frederick Ives, 124 



Colours of Natural Waters, Prof. W, Spring, 580 



Colours, Warning, Mimicry and, Frank Finn, 279 



Comets : Comet Perrine (March 19), 19, 42, 60 ; Dr. Berberich, 

 400 ; Comet Perrine (June 14). 232, 280 ; Tempel's Comet, 

 (1867 II.), M. Gautier, 19; Comet Tempel (1866 ?), Herr 

 Pechuele, 490; Comets Tempel (1866) and Perrine- 

 Chofardet, 515: Encke's Comet, 160; thd Movement of 

 Encke's Comet, Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden, 520 ; Comets 

 now Visible, 181, 210 ; Cometary News, 258 ; Wolfs Comet, 

 330. 356, 375 ; Periodic Comets, M. Schulhof, 526 ; Comet 

 Brooks, 630 



Commission Bill, the University of London, 176 



Companions of Argon, Prof. William Ramsay, F R.S., and 

 Morris W. Travers, 182 



Compositors and Readers, Rules for, Montague Browne, 368 

 Compressibility of Colloids, the, C. Barus, 634 

 Conference on the International Catalogue of Scientific Liter- 

 ature, 578 

 Conference, International, on Scientific Literature, Report of. 



623 . F . 



Congress at Dieppe, International Sea Fisheries, 461, 511 

 Congress of Sanitary Institute, 522 

 Conies, Elementary, Dr. W. H. Besant, 318 

 Conies, Examples in Analytical, for Beginners, W. M. Baker,. 



318 

 Constant of Aberration and Stellar Magnitudes, Prof. Doberck, 



258 

 Convection Currents : the supposed Photographs of Currents- 



from Human Body, Dr. A. Guebhard, 207 

 Conway (Sir W. M.), Ascent of Yllimani, 513 

 Cook (Prof. A. J.), the Nature and Habits of Pliny's Solpuga,. 



247 

 Cook (Dr. E. H.), on the Action of Electricity on Plants, 533 

 Cooke (W. E.), Severe Storm off N.W. Australia, 178 

 Cooled Metal, Transference of Heat in, Henry Bourget, 2CX>, 



521 ; Albert T. Bartlett, 411 ; John Stone Stone, 596 

 Coote (Mr.), on Alkaline Chlorates and Sulphates of the 



Heavy Metals, 556 

 Copeland (Prof.), the Total Solar Eclipse of January 21, 1898, 



3" 

 Corals, the Stramberg, Maria M. Ogilvie, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 



282 

 Corals, the Building of Atolls, Stanley Gardiner, 425 

 Corbino (O. M.), New Action of Light traversing Metallic 



Vapours in Magnetic Field, 635 

 Cornelius (H), Psychologic als Erfahrungswissen.schaft, 316 

 Cornish (Vaughan), Sea-Beaches and Sandbanks, 42 

 Corundum in Ontario, 2!,6 

 Cos (F.), Meteorological Observations at Madrid, 1860-94, 



230 

 Costa (A.), Reciprocal Action of Animal Toxins, 303 

 Coupin(H.), Toxicity of Copper Salts for Wheat, 492 

 Couriot(H.), Mixture of Marsh Gas and Air not Exploded by- 

 Glowing Filaments of Incandescent Lamp, 635 

 Courmont (P.), Experiments with Anti-streptococcic Serum, 



278 ; Clinical Value of Agglutination of Koch's Bacillus by- 

 Human Serum, 540 

 Cox (S. Herbert), Prospecting for Minerals, 7 

 Crab in Mythology, the. Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, 143 

 Craniology : Study of Hawaiian Skulls, Dr. Harrison Allen, 



230 

 Crannog on the Clyde, Discovery of a, 488 ; W. A. Donnelly, 



488 

 Crannoges in Estuaries, W. F. Sinclair, 521 ; R. J. Ussher, 571 

 Crawford (Robert), South American Sketches, 198 

 Crawshay (Rosemary), Distant Thunderstorms affecting Flowers, 



390 

 Creation, the Process of, Discovered, James Dunbar, 8 

 Creation Records Discovered in Egypt, G. St. Clair, 315 

 Crehore (Prof A. C. ), High Speed Telegraph Transmission by 



Means ot Alternators, 211 

 Crew (Prof. Henry), Latitude Variation in a Rigid Earth, 232 

 Crofts (J. H.), Molecular Weights of Permanganates, Per- 



chlorates, and Periodates in Solution, 94 

 Crofts (Mr.), on the Oxidation of Glucose, 557 

 Cromer, Iridescent Surf at, Constance F. Gordon Gumming, 



174 

 Cromlachs near Dublin, Astronomical Destination of, Prof. J. 



P. O'Reilly, 61 

 Crookes (Sir William, F.R.S.), Position of Helium, Argon and 



Krypton in Scheme of Elements, 383 ; Helium in the 



Atmosphere, 570 ; Inaugural Address at the Meeting of the 



British Association at Bristol, 438 ; Monium, 556 

 Crookes' Tube, Circulation of Residual (Jaseous Matter in, A. 



A. C. Swinton, 119 

 Cross (C. F. ), Action of Hydrogen Peroxide on Carbohydrates 



in Presence of Iron, 94 ; Carbohydrates of Barley-Straw, 23 

 Cross (Whitman), Geology of the Denver Basin in Colorado, %2 

 Crova (A. ), an Absolute Actinometer, 95 

 Crustacea : Plankton Studies on Lake Mendota, Dr. E. A. 



Birge, 259 ; Capture of Curious Crustaceans, E. L. J. 



Ridsdale, 597 

 Crystal Palace, Photography at the, 14 

 Crystallography : a Compensated Interference Dilatometer, A. 



E. Tutton, 118; a New Dilatometer, Mr. Tutton, 311 ; the 



