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Index 



xlu 



Columbia, British, Superstitions of the Shuswaps of, Colonel 

 C. Bushe, 199 



Columbia, British, a New Coaly Mineral from, 280 



Columbia College, U.S.A., Astronomy at, 159 



Columbia College, New York, the Loubat Prizes, 496 



Comets : Comet in Andromeda, 40 ; Comet Barnard (October 

 12), 18, 40 ; Comet Brooks (August 28), 18, 41, 63 ; a Bright 

 Comet discovered by W. R. Brooks, 114; Comet Brooks 

 (November 19-20, 1892), 133, 208, 235, 257, 281, 304, 326, 

 352, 376, 399, 425, 451 ; Prof. Kreuiz, 159 ; Berberich, 186 ; 

 Comet Holmes (November 6, 1892), 114, 132, 159, 186, 209, ' 

 235, 281, 303, 351, 376, 425, 473; in Bigourdan, 88; Spec- 

 trum of, 235; Lewis Boss, 256; Rev. E. M. Searle, 257; 

 Mr. Roberts, 257; M. Schulhof, 257, 451, 498; Dr. F. 

 Cohn, 326 ; Dr. R. Schorr, 326 ; W. Y. Denning, 365 ; Prof. 

 E. Barnard, 399; Prof. Keeler, Prof. C. A. Young, 518 ; 

 Swift's Comet, Prcf. Barnard, 186 ; Comet Swift (a 

 1892), A. E. Douglas, 546; a New Comet, 133; the New 

 Comet, 63 ; W. F. Denning, 77 ; the Present Comets, T. 

 \V. Backhouse, 127 ; Kemarkable Comets, Mr. Lynn, 376 



Commensalism, a Strange ; Sponge and Annelid, James Hornell, 

 78 



Commission, University, i 



Common (A. A.), Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, 208 



Comparative Sunshine, Bishop Reginald Courtenay, 150 



Conchology : Marine Shells of South Africa, G. E. Sowerby, 

 27; Hints for Collectors of Mollusks, William H. Dall, 140 



Congo Free States : Progress of the Matadi- Stanley Pool Rail- 

 way, Major Thys, 189 



Congress at Moscow, International Zoological, 236 



Conifers : List of Conifers and Texads, Dr. Masters, 619 ; Prof. 

 Carl Hansen's Pinetum Danicum, 619; Coniferae of Japan, 

 H. J. Veitch, 619 ; Conifers for Economic Planting, A. D. 

 Webster, 619; the Timber of Exotic Conifers, D. G. Mac- 

 kenzie, 619; Insects Injurious to Conifers, W. F. H. 

 Blandford, 620 



Conjugate Angles ; on the Need of Ja New Geometrical Term, 

 Prof. A. M. Worthing;on, 8 



Continuity, Optical, Francis Galton, F. R.S., 342 



Convention signed, International Sanitary, 585 



Conway's Karakoram Range Expedition, 19; Crossing of the 

 Hispar Pass, 327 



Cook (C. H.), the Protection of Sea- Fish, 396 



Cooke (J. H.), Discovery of Ursus Arctos in Malta Pleis- 

 tocene, 62 



Cooke (M. C), Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms, 99 



Coote (A. H.), Note on the Action of Phenylhydrazine on 

 Mono- and di-carboxylic Acids at Elevated Temperatures, 

 311 



Copper Resources of the United States, the, James Douglas, 132 



Coppet (L. de), Temperature of Maximum Density of Alcohol 

 Solutions, 48 



Corn-Cockle, Dangers of Adulteration of Food Seeds with, 185 



Corncrake caught in Wales, December 8, 1892, 157 



Corona, a New Method of Photographing the, M. H. Des- 

 landres, 327 



Corsica, Studies in, John Warren Barry, 462 



Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the Boundaries of, Dr. H. 

 PolakovNsky, 257 



Coues (Elliott), the Rule " Once a Synonym, Always a 

 Synonym," 39 



Courtenay (Bishop Reginald), Comparative Sunshine, 150 



Couttwell (G. E. W.), Foundations of Two River Piers ol Tower 

 Bridge, 545 



Craters, Lunar, Mr. H. Maw, 31 



Cremation in England, the Progress of, 396 



Criticism of the Royal Society, 145 



Croft (W. B.), Optical Illusions. 78 ; Breath Figures, 187 ; 

 Spectra of Various Orders of Colours in Newton's Scale, 190 ; 

 Science Teaching, 359 ; Dust Photographs and Breath 

 Figures, 364 



Croonian Lecture, the, Prof. Virchow, 487 



Cross-Striping of Muscle, the. Prof. Richard Ewald and Prcf. 

 Haycraft, 92 



Crystallised Carbon, 370 



Crystallites, Ice, Rev. Dr. A. Irving, 126 



Crystals ; Dendritic Forms, Sydney Luplon, 13 



Crystals, Growth of. Prof. Sollas:, 213 



Crystals, Two Experimental Verifications Relative to Refraction 

 in, J. Verschaffelt, 428 



Crystals, Ice, C. M. Irvine, 31 ; B. Woodd Smith, 79 

 Gumming (L.), Science Teaching, 359 

 Cuneiforui Tablet, the Tell elHesy, F. J. Bliss, 302 

 Cunningham (J. T.), Blind Animals in Caves, 439, 537 

 Curie (P.), Magnetic Properties of Bodies at Different Tem- 

 peratures, 96 ; Magnetic Properties of Oxygen, 240 

 Cuverville (Rear Admiral Cavelier de), Experiments in Use of 



Oil in Calming Waves, 279 

 Curzon's (Hon. E. M.) Journey in Indo-China, 617 

 Cygni, Parallax of )8, Harold Jacoby, 399 

 Cyprus, the Vineyaids of, M. Mouillefert, 517 



Dairy Industry in Cape Colony, the, A. C. Macdonald, 471 

 Dairy Work, Manual of, Prof. James Muir, Walter Thorp, 



555 

 Dall (William PL), Hints for Collectors of Mollusks, 140 

 Dallinger (Dr. W. H.), on the Chromatic Curves of Microscope 



Objectives, 501 ; Prof. Biitschli's experiments on the so-called 



Artificial Protoplasms, 526 

 Dallmeyer (j. R.), the new Telephotographic Lens, 161 

 Dante's " Qusestio de Aqua et Terra," Edmund G. Gardner, 



295 

 Danzig Nalurforschende Gesellschaft, isoth anniversary of, 37 

 Darwin, a Criticism on. Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 127 

 Darwin and After Darwin, Geo. John Romanes, F. K.S. , 290 

 Darwin (Charles) : His Life told in an Autobiographical 



Chapter and in a Selected Series of his Published Letters, 



53 

 Darwin (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), the Geology of the Asiatic Loess, 



30 ; Reduction of Tidal Observations, 402 ; Die Entwicke- 



lung der Doppelstern-Systeme, T. J. J. See, 459 ; Roche's 



Limit, 581 

 Daubree (M.), Observations on the conditions which appear to 



have obtained during the formation of Meteorites, 432 

 Davidson (J. Ewen), Thunderstorms and Auroral Phenomena, 



582 

 Davies (Thomas), Obituary Notice of, L. Fletcher, F.R.S., 371 

 Davis (Prof. W. M.), the General Winds of the Atlantic Ocean, 



574 

 Davos Platz, Record of Medical Experience at, Dr. Spengler, 



Dawson (Dr. Geo., F.R.S.), Lizard-Superstition of Shuswap 



Indians, Bri'i.-h Columbia, 184 

 Dawson (Sir William, F.R.S.), Fossil Floras and Climate, J. 



Starkie Gardner, 582, 556 

 Day of the Week, a Simple Rule for finding the, corresponding 



to any given day of the Month and Year, 509 

 Day (Mr.), Experiments on the value of the Steam-jacket, 20 

 De Morgan (W.), Earthenware Manufacture in Egypt, 613 

 Dean (Bas-hford), Dicnea, 423 

 Decapods : on the Minute Structureof the Gills of Palaemonetei 



varians, Edgar J. Allen, 261 

 December Meteors (Geminids), W. F. Denning, 226 

 Decharme (C), Displacements of a Magnet on Mercury under 



action of Electric Current, 48 

 Decimal System, the, S. Montagu, M.P., Sir William Harcourt, 



J. H. Yoxall, 323 

 Decorative Art, the Evolution of, Henry Balfour, 606 

 Deduction, Induction and, Edward T. Dixon, 10, 127, E. E. 



Constance Jones, 78 

 Defence, Remarkahle Weapons of, G. F. Hampson, E. Ernest 



Green, 199 

 Deherain (M.), Influence of Manure on Development of Roots, 



280 ; Drainage Waters of Cultivated Lands, 287 

 Delcommune's (M. Alexandre) Lomami Expedition, 209 ; Re- 

 turn of the, 590 

 Demavend (Mt.), Sven Hedin's Ascent of, 19 

 Dendritic Forms, Sydney Lupton, 13 

 Dendy (Arthur), an Introduction to the Study of Botany, with 



a special chapter on some Australian Natural Orders, 125; 



the Hatching of a Peripatus Egg, 508 

 Denning (W. F.), the New Comet, 77 ; Holmes's Comet, 365 ; 



December Meteors (Geminids), 226 ; Astronomical Dis- 

 coveries in 1892, 256 

 Densities of the Principal Gases, the. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 



567 

 Des-Iandres (M. H.) Motion in the Line of Sight, 88 ; Proper 



Motions, 115 ; a new Method of Photographing the Corona, 



327 



