Index 



Supplement to Nature, 

 Xcwember a6, 1891 



388 ; the Coming Chicago Exhibition, 258 ; and the McKinley 

 Bill, 351 ; Proposed International Conference of Electricians 

 at, 450, 575 ; Mines and Mining Department of, 476 ; 

 Representation of Colorado at, 501 ; the " World's Fair," 

 629 

 China : Is the Mariner's Compass a Chinese Invention ?, 308 ; 

 Botany of the Chinese Classics, 438 ; the Social and Religious 

 Ideas of the Chinese, Prof. R. K. Douglas, 510 

 Chlorine, the Function of, in Acid Chlorides, Prof. H. E. 



Armstrong, F. U.S., 71 

 Chlorofluoride of Phosphorus, A. E. Tulton, 333 

 Chlorophyll, Animal, Dr. Ludwig von Graff, Prof. E. Ray 



Lankester, F.R.S., 465 

 Chree (C.) : the Flying to Pieces of a Whirling Ring, 82 ; Ex- 

 periments on Liquid Electrodes and Vacuum Tubes, 191 

 Chronograph, Stanley's Phonometer, a New Form of, 239 

 Chrystal (Prof.), a Demonstration of Lagrange's Rule for 



Solution of Partial Differential Equations, 310 

 Cicada, the Song of the, 437 

 Citraconfluorescein, J. T. Hewitt, 71 



City and Guilds of London Institute, and Instruction in 'Wood- 

 work in Public Elementary Schools, 327 

 Clarke (J. F. M.), Geological Formations exposed in Bridg- 

 water Railway Cuttings through Polden Hills, 530 

 Clayden (A. W.), Brocken Spectres in a London Fog, 95 

 Cltrke (A. M.), the Sun's Motion in Space, 572 

 Climate, Dr. Bruckner upon Variations of, 325 

 Climate of Cephalonia, the, Dr. Partsch, 326 

 Climatology : Anieitung zur Bearbeitung meteorologischer 

 Heobachtungen fiir die Climatologie, von Dr. Hugo 

 Meyer, 27 

 Climatology of Northern Afghanistan, W. L. Dallas, 529 

 Clock for pointing out Direction of Earth's Orbital Motion in 



Ether. Prof Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 238 

 Clooer (Richardson), "Graphic Daily Record of the Magnetic 

 Declination or Variation of the Compass at Washington, 

 U.S.A., 82 

 Cloud Heights, Kinematic Method, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 



398 

 Clouds, Luminous, 231 ; O. Jesse, 229 

 Clouds, on the Solid and Liquid Particles in, John Aitken, 



F.K.S., 279 

 Clover, the Flavour of Maltese Honey derived from, 502 

 Clowes (Prof. Frank), Apparatus for Testing Sensitiveness of 



Safety-lamps, 260 

 Clyde Sea- Area, Physical Geography of. Dr. H. R, Mill, 167 ; 



Dr. John Murray, 232 

 Co-adaptation, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 7, 28 ; Prof. George 



J.Romanes, F.R.S., 28, 55 

 Coal and the Channel Tunnel Boring, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 



F.R.S.,479 

 Coal, the Spontaneous Ignition of. Prof. Vivian B. Lewes, 455 

 Coal in West Virginia, 87 

 Cobalt, Electric Resistance and Thermo-Electric Position of, 



Prof. Knott, 311 

 Cockerell (T. D. A.) : the Alpine Flora, 6 ; the Natural Selec- 

 tion of Indian Corn, 56 

 Cocoa-Nut Leaf, Diseases of, M. C. Potter, 167 

 Coccidas, W. M. Maskell on the, 550 

 Codrington (Dr. R. H.), the Melanesians, Studies in their 



Anthropology and Folk-Lore, 613 

 Coelho (Prof. J. M. L.), Death of, 500 

 Colardeau (M.), Vapour Tension of Saturated Water- Vapour 



at Critical Point, 119 

 Cole (Prof. Grenville A. J.), Aids in Practical Geology, Prof. 



A. H. Green, F.R.S., 25 

 Coleoptera of Yarkand, 318 

 College at San Paulo, Brazil, Projected Agricultural and 



Mechanical, 549 

 Collie (Dr. J. N.) : some New Reactions of Dehydracetic Acid, 



287 ; Lactone of Triacetic Acid, 287 

 Collins (F. H.), the Diminution of the Jaw in Civilized Races, 



326 

 Colorado, the Survey of the Canon of the, 437 

 Colorado at the Chicago Exhibition, Representation of, 501 

 Coloration, Protective, a New South Wales Beetle (fam. Cur- 



culionidse) as an Example of, Mr. Froggatt, 57^ 

 Colour-Associations with Numerals, &c.. Dr. Edward S. Holden, 



223 

 Colour-Blindness in Savage Races, Rarity of. Dr. L. W. Fox, 

 477; Colour Tests used in Examinations for Mercantile 



Marine, G. T. Swanston, 500 ; Colour-Blindness Generally 

 Considered, T. H. Bickerton, 595 



Colour-Measurement and Mixture, Captain Abney, F.R.S., 313 



Colours and Noises, Startling, the Use of, Alfred O. Walker, 106 



Colours, Registration in Numbers of, and Apparatus to show 

 Greater Sensitiveness of Eye to Different Colours, Captain 

 Abney, F.R.S., and General Festing, F.R.S., 187 



Comber (T.), a Negative of Amphipleura pellucida produced 

 with Zeiss's New ^V '^^ i'6 N.A. and Sunlight, 239 



Comets : Re-discovery of Wolf's Comet (1884 III.), 69 ; Wolfs 

 Periodic Comet, 209, 478 ; Observations of, G. Bigourdan, 

 192 ; a Comet observed from Sunrise to Noon, Capta;n Wm. 

 Ellacott, 82; Brooks's Comet (1890 II.), G. Rayet and L. 

 Picart, 168 ; the Great Comet of 1882, Sereno E. Bishop, 

 293 ; Return of Encke's Comet, 355 ; Dr. Backlund, 438 ; 

 the Capture Theory of Comets, 209 ; the Action of Jupiter 

 on. Prof, Newton, 453 ; Physical Appearance of Periodic 

 Comets, E. E. Barnard, 551 ; Discovery of Tempel- Swift's 

 Comet, 551; Tempel-Swift's Periodic, G. Bigourdan, 608; 

 a New Comet, 578 ; Comet e 1891, 631 



Commerce, the History of, in England, H. de B. Gibbins, 222 



Comparative Palatability, E. B. Titchener, 540 



Compass, Mariners, is it a Chinese Invention?, 308 



Compounds, the Fusing and Boiling Points of, Dr. Gustavus 

 Hinrichs, 174 



Confectionery and Birch Oil, 391 



Congresses: Vienna International Ornithological, ill ; Inter- 

 national Congresses of Hygiene and Demography, 337, 344 ; 

 the International Geographical Congress at Berne, 355 ; In- 

 ternational Agricultural, 450 ; International Electro-technical, 

 450 ; of German Naturalists and Physicians, 499 ; the Inter- 

 national Folk-lore, 527 ; Inlernational Statistical, 527 ; In- 

 ternational, of Analytical Chemists and Microscopists, 574 ; 

 Projected International Botanical, at Genoa, 598 



Conies, Elementary Geometry of, Dr. Taylor, 517 



Conifers, propo.'-ed Conference on, 476 



Conroy (Sir John, Bart.), proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 



15 

 Cons (Miss Emma), Morley Memorial College, 469 

 Consumption : the Prevention of. Dr. Arthur Kansome, 369 ; 



Dr. Finkelnburg on the Influence of Soil on, 370 

 Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium, 528 

 Cook (Mr. O. F.), projected Natural History Expedition to 



Liberia, 548 

 Cook's Tours, the Business of Travel, W. Eraser Rae, 247 

 Cooke (J. H.), Geology of the Maltese Islands, 550 

 Copeland (Dr. Ralph) : on Bright Streaks yi the Moon, 454 ; 



a Rare Phenomenon, 494 

 Copepoda as an Article of Food, Pfof. W. A. Herdman, 273 ; 



I. C. Thompson, 294 

 Coptic Palaeography, Henri Hyvernat, 609 

 Coral Reef, Animal Life on a. Dr. S. J. Hickson, 90 

 Cordylophora lacuslris, John Bidgood, 106 ; Thomas Shepheard, 



151 ; Henry Scherren, 445 

 Corea, Northern, Record of a Journey in, Mr. Campbell, 233 

 Corn, Indian, the Natural Selection of, T. D. A. Cockerell, 56 

 Cornish (T. IL), on some Remarkable Catches of Fish, 19 

 Correlation of Geological Formations, Mr. Gilbert, 505 ; Prof. 



E. W. Hilgard, 506 

 Cosmic Physics, the Society of Friends of Astronomy and, 



507 

 Cosmical Evolution, a New Theory of the Mechanism of Nature, 



Evan McLennan, 342 

 Coste (F. H. Perry) : Five Years' Pulse-curves, 35 ; Tortoise 



inclosed in Ice, 520 

 Cotes (E. C), on the Locust in India, 18 

 Cotteswold Hills, a Microscopic Study of the Inferior Oolite of 



the, Edward Welhered, 95 

 Cotton-bleaching by Oxygenated Water with Calcined Magnesia, 



M. Prudhomme, 192 

 Cotton Cultivation in Russian Turkestan, 163 

 Coulter (Prof. John M.), on the Future of Systematic Botany, 



472 

 County Councils and Technical Education, Sir T. H. Farrer, 



6 ; J. C. Buckmaster, 588 

 Courtenay (Right Rev. Bishop Reginald), the Spinning Ring, 



106 

 Cowper (J.), Occurrence of the Ringed Snake in the Sea, 541 

 Cracknell (A. G.), Solutions of the Examples in Charles 



Smith's Elementary Algebra, 444 

 Cracow Academy of Sciences, 312 



