GENERAL INDEX. 



Castalia, fountain of, iv. 167 

 Cat, the, ii. 78 ; viii. 167 

 Catacombs of Thebes, ii. 117 

 Caterpillars, viii. 124 

 Cattle, transport of, iii. 7 

 Caucasian, viii. 84 

 Celestial bodies, vii. 27 



globe, vii. 166 



phenomena, ii. 65 



poles, vii. 149 



Centering of lenses, ix. 20 



Centigrade thermometer, vi. 155 



Central America, ix. 150 



Centrifugal force, iii. 60 



Century, vii. 6 



Ceramic museum of Dresden, ii. 147 



Ceratites nodosus, xi. 68 



Ceres, vi. 163 



Cetus and Perseus, vii. 197 



Chacornac's discovery of planets, 



vi. 167 



Chain pump, v. 191 

 Chaldini, i. 131 ; xii. 191 

 Chanvallon's experiments, i. 119 

 Characters, telegraphic table of, iv. 42 

 Charcoal, experiments with, ii. 11 ; 



ib. 195 ; iii. 124 

 Charlemagne, hailstones in his reign, 



iii. 96 

 Charles II., iii. 25 



V., ii. 136 



Chevalier, Charles, viii. Ill ; ix. 72 



Chimneys, ii. 202 



Chimpanzee, viii. 62 



China clay, analysis of, ii. 130 



Chinese porcelain, ii. 124-8 



Chippewayan and Rocky Mountains, 



ix. 151 



Chirotherium, xii. 62 

 Chloride of silver, i. 121 

 Choke-damp, ii. 13 

 Cholera, ii. 85 



Choroid coat of the eye, v. 52 

 Christ, comet signalising the birth of, 



ii. 82 



Christian era, vii. 5 

 Chronologists and astronomers, vii. 6 

 Chronometers, i. 109 ; vi. 44 

 Ciliary processes of the eye, v. 52 

 Ciphers, iv. 93 



Circulation of the blood, vi. 103 

 Circumpolar region, vii. 147 

 Civil time, v. 121 

 Civilisation, v. 2 



Clack pump valve, v. 183 

 Clairaut and Lalande, xi. 179 

 Classic springs, iv. 167 

 Cleavage, plane of, vi. 205 

 Clepsydra, or water-clock, vi. 4 

 Climate, iii. 69 ; ix. 165 

 Climatology, xi. 5 



Clock, v. 73 ; vi. 5 ; ib. 30 ; vii. 34 

 Clouds, i. 19 ; iii. 37 ; ix. 182 ; 



x. 180 



Clyde, steamers on, x. 114 

 Coal, iv. 168 ; ib. 197 ; vi. 144 ; xi. 



125 



Coal-fire, ii. 200 

 Cocoons, x. 45 

 Coddington lens, viii. 107 

 Cold water pump of steam-engine, v. 



32 



Coleridge and Wedgewood, ii. 143 

 Colours, i. 85 ; ib. 203 ; ii. 84 ; v. 



74 ; vii. 73 ; ib. 109 

 Columbus, xii. 168 

 Coma, ii. 69 



Combustion, ii. 10 ; ib. 194 

 Comets, i. 163 ; ii. 68, 93 ; xi. 147- 



196 



Common Prayer-book, vii. 10 

 - year, vii. 21 



Commutator, iii. 178 ; ib. 186; iv. 18 

 Compensation of forces in watche?, 



vi. 26 



Compositor, xi. 5 

 Compressor, ix. 40 

 Concave reflector, vii. 87 

 Concavo-convex lens, v. 201 

 Condensation of vapour, ii. 105 

 Condenser, viii. 97 

 Condensing engines, v. 30 ; iv. 205 

 Conduction of heat, vi. 148 

 Conductors, lightning, iii. 120; x. 184 

 Cones, volcanic, iv. 172 

 Confusion, year of, v. 162 

 Congelation ty radiation of heat, vi. 



146 



Constellations, vii. 151 

 Contemporaneous period, xii. 152 

 Continental railways, vi. 141 



roads, iii. 22 ; iv. 119 



Continents, average height of, ix. 188 



Convex lens, viii. 100 



Convulsion of the earth's surface, iv. 



149 

 Cooper, Mr., his charts of 45,000 



stars, vi. 167 



2 195 



