Supplement to Natii 

 June 2, 189a 



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Index 



XI 



Denning's Comet (b 1892), Dr. R. Schorr, 569 ; Comet Swifr 

 1892, 569 ; Winnecke's Comet, Dr. G. F. Haerdtl, 617 

 Commerce, Evolution of, Gardiner G. Hubbard, 588 

 ■Conchology of the West Coast of South America, Robert E. C. 



Stearns, 89 

 Congo, French, Copper Mines of, 135 



Congress, Botanical International, to be held at Genoa in con- 

 nection wiih Celebration of Quatercentenary of Discovery of 

 America by Columbus, 545 

 ■Congress at Chicago, Proposed International Electrical, 64, 278 

 Connaissance des Temps, 186 

 Conn (Prof. H. W.), the Living World, Whence it Came and 



Whither it is Drifting, 317 

 Cons (Miss E.), Polytechnics and Recreation, 28 

 Coode (Sir John), Death of, 443 

 Cooke (M. C), British Edible Fungi, 75 

 Cope (Prof. E. D.), Discovery of New Species of Frog in New 



Jersey, 208 

 Copeland (Ralph): New Star in the Milky Way, 325; New 



Star in Auriga, 454, 527 

 Copernic et la Decouverte du Systeme du Monde, Camille Flam- 



marion, 77 

 Copper Mines of French Congo, 135 



Copper-mining on Lake Superior, Prehistoric Mines in Neigh- 

 bourhood, E, B. Hinsdale, 39 

 Cordova Observatory, 446 

 Corleone, Earthquake at, 184 

 Cornaglia (Signor), Sul Regime delle Spiaggie e sulla Regola- 



zione dei Porti, 362 

 Corlie (Rev. A. L.), the Chromosphere Line Angstrom 6676*9, 



103 

 Coste (F. H. Perry): Salts in Natural Waters, 176; on Insect 



Colours, 513, 541 ; Pigments of Lepidoptera, 605 

 Cotes (E. C), the Wild Silk Insects of India, 520 

 Cotterill (Prof. James A., F.R.S.), Superheated Steam, 414 

 Courty (M.), Photography of the Eclipsed Moon, 117 

 Cox (E. J.), Problems in Chemical Arithmetic, 293 

 Cranbrook (Lord), and the University Extension Movement, 



155 

 Crane (Agnes), the Mexican Atlatl or Spear- Thrower, 102 

 Crawford (A.), Results of the Government Travelling Dairy in 



Victoria, 39 

 Crawshay (Mrs. R, M.) : the Recent Eclipse of the Moon, 



134; a Double Moon, 224 

 Cremation, Progress of, 379 

 Crew (Dr. Henry), Observations of the Spectrum of Nova 



Aurigse, 569 

 Crichton- Browne (Harold), Dwarfs and Dwarf Worship, 269 

 Crime, Photography applied to the Detection of, Dr. Paul 



Jeserich, 568 

 Crismer (M.), Two New Methods of preparing Free Solid 



Hydroxylamine, 185 

 Crocuses, Sparrows and, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 441 

 Croft (W. B.) : Nickel Heat Engine, 392 ; Sensitive Water 



Jets, 606 

 Cromer Drift, Striated Surface under the, William Sherwood, 511 

 Crookes (Prof. W., F.R.S.), Electricity in Relation to Science, 63 

 Croonian Lectures, 19 

 Crops, Farm, J. Wrightson, 247 



Cruise on the Broads, How to Organize a, E. R. Suffling, 52 

 Crura (John), Prof. Wiborgh's Air Pyrometers, 304 

 Crustacea, Freshwater : a New "Isopod," Charles Chilton, 66 

 Cryptogams : British Edible Fungi, M. C. Cooke, 75 

 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, the Coming, 64 

 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 113, 261, 356 

 Crystals, Ice, Gilbert Rigg, 319 ; Bernard Hobson, 365 

 Cuckoo, Torpid, A. Holte Macpherson, 416 

 Cundale (J. T.), Dissociation of Liquid Nitrogen Peroxide, 92 

 Cunningham (Dr. D. J., F.R.S.), the Skeleton of the Irish 



Giant Cornelius Magrath, 147 

 Cunningham (Prof, J, T.), Growth of the Pilchard or Sar- 

 dine, 25s, 558 

 Cunningham (Rev, Prof. W.), the Relativity of Economic 



Doctrine, 519 

 Cuthbertson (Clive), Mental Arithmetic, 78 

 Cyclone Memoirs of the Arabian Sea, W. L. Dallas, 135 

 Cyclone, the Samoan, of March 16, 1889, 161 

 Cyclone in Siam, 86 

 Cyclones in the Arabian Sea, 276 

 Cyclones in Europe, 1 14 

 Cyclopaedia of Nature Teachings, H. Macmillan, 248 



Cygni, the Relative Motion of 61, Prof. A. Hall, 547 



Cygnus, Photographs of a Part of, M. Faye, 624 



Cyst, Formation of a Temporary, in the Freshwater Annelid 



Aiolosoma, Frank E. Beddard, 28 

 Czapski (Prof. ), the Calculable Limit of Microscopic Views, 575 



Daffodil in the Basses Pyrenees, Extermination of the Wild, 545 

 Dairy Farming in Victoria, Results of the Government Travel- 

 ling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39 

 Dakyns (J. R.), the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill and Meall 



Breac, 360 

 Dallas (W, L.), Cyclone Memoirs of the Arabian Sea, 135 

 Dallinger (Rev, W. H., F. R.S.), the Microscope and its 



Revelations, W. B, Carpenter, F.R.S., Prof. E. Ray Lan- 



kester, F.R.S., 313 

 Darwin (Charles), Boehm's Statue of, 19 

 Darwin (Francis, F.R.S.), elected Member of Athenaeum Club, 



566 

 Darwin (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.) : the Capture of Lexell's Comet 



by Jupiter, 526 ; " The Cause of an Ice Age," Sir Robert 



Ball, F.R.S., 289 

 Darwinian Society of Edinburgh, the, 19 ; William White, 53 ; 



John S. Flett, 104 

 Dary (George), L'Electricite dans la Nature, 460 

 David (T. W. E. ), on Volcanic Action in Eastern Australia and 



Tasmania, 424 

 Davis (Floyd), "An Elementary Hand-book on Potable Waters," 



Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F. R. S. , 25 

 Davison (C), the Elements of Plane Trigonometry, 509 

 Dawes (Prof. W. M,), Ferrel's View of the General Circulation 



of the Atmosphere, 357 

 Dawson (Sir J. William, F.R.S.), Dr. Carpenter, on Eozoon, 



461, 606 

 Deep-Sea Deposits {Challenger Expedition), Murray and 



Renard's Report on, Prof. John Judd, F.R.S., 409 

 Delagoa Bay, its Natives and Natural History, Rosa Monteiro, 



124 

 Deniker (J.), and P. Hyades, Mission Scientifique de Cap Horn, 



577 

 Denning (D.), the Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making, 459 

 Denning ( W. F.) : the Red Spot on Jupiter, 272 ; Large Meteor 



of January 24, 1892, 317; Rotation of Jupiter, 473; New 



Comet, 484 ; a New Comet, 513 

 Denning's Comet {b 1892), Dr. R. Schorr, 569 

 Derrecagaix (General), New Measurement of the Perpignan 



Base, 384 

 Deslandres (M.), the Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, 117 ; 



Photography of Solar Prominences, 404, 522 

 Determinants, the Theory of, in the Historical Order of its 



Development, Thomas Muir, 481 

 Deutsches Meteorologisches Jahrbuch, 1890, 587 

 Devonian Limestone of South Devon, on the Microscopic 



Structure and Residues ius jlublein Hydrochloric Acid in the, 



Edward Weihered, 597 

 Devonshire, the late Duke of, and Science, 182 

 Devonshire (Duke of). Election to Chancellorship of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, 233 ; Preliminary Installation as 



Chancellor of University of Cambridge, 257 

 Dewar (Prof.), Attractions of Liquid Oxygen by Faraday 



Magnet, 154 

 Dewdney (Hon, E.), Aborigines of the Dominion of Canada, 



587 

 Diamond Industry at the Chicago Exhibition, the South African, 



567 

 Diamonds in the Iron, a new Locality for Meteoric Iron, with 



a Preliminary Notice of the Discovery of, Prof. A. E. Foote, 



178 

 Diatoms, Alleged Pseudopodes of, Alfred W, Bennett, 177 

 Dictionary, the Century, W. Dwight Whitney, 316 

 Dielectric Power, the, Julien Lefebvre, 95 

 Dietrich (Dr. F. C), Death of, 155 

 Diffraction Effects produced by placing Screens in Front of 



Object Glasses, Prof. Pritchard, 237 

 Dines (W, H.), Anemometer Comparisons, 623 

 Dinornis, .Evidence of a Wing in, Henry O. Forbes, 257 

 Diphtheria, its Natural History and Prevention, by R. Thome 



Thome, F.R.S., 123 

 Diptera, an Account of British Flies, Hon. M. Cordelia E. 



Leigh and F, V. Theobald, 173 

 Disease, a Zoologist (Dr. Elie Metschnikoff) on. Prof. E. Ray 



Lankester, F.R.S., 505 



