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omet, 1892, no; Discovery of a new Comet by Mr. 

 rooks, 453 ; the Present Comets, T. W. Backhouse, 561 

 mon (Mr.), Silvering Glass Mirrors, 597 

 bmmon Things, How to make, John A. Bower, 561 

 Comparative Spectra of High and Low Sun, 2ii 

 Complexly Continuous Closed Surface, To Draw a Mercator 

 Chart on One Sheet Representing the whole of any, Lord 

 ""elvin, P.R.S., 541 



pton (Theodore), a Mendip Valley : its Inhabitants and 

 iSurroundings, 268 



stock (Prof. G. C), Determination of the Constant of 

 berration, 41 



ichology : Land and Fresh-water Shells Peculiar to the 

 ritish Isles, T. D. A. Cockerell, 76; R. F. Scharff, 173 

 ference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, 443 ; 

 logical Photography, 434 ; Destruction of Wild Birds' 

 Rev. E. P. Knubley, 434 

 go Free State : Reported Death of M. Hodister, 424 

 Congress of Experimental Psychology, International, 362 ; F. 



W, H. Myers and James Sully, 261 

 Congress at Genoa, the Coming International Botanical, 208 

 Congress, German Anthropological, 420 

 Congress of Orientalists, International, 107, 472 

 Congresses of Prehistoric Archaeology and Zoology, the Coming 



Moscow International, 108 

 Congress of the Sanitary Institute, the Thirteenth, 449 

 Congress of Physiologists, International, 449 

 Connection, the Former, of Southern Continents, T. Mellard 



Reade, 77 ; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, loi 

 Conservatories, Electric Heating for, M. Olivet, 522 

 Constant of Aberration, Determination of the, Prof. G. C. 



Comstock, 41 

 Constant, Gravitative, Direct Determination of the, by means 

 of a Tuning-fork : a Lecture Experiment, A. M. Worthing- 

 ton, 490 

 Contagious Foot Rot in Sheep, Prof. G. T. Brown, 560 

 Contamination, Relative, of the Water- Surface by Equal Quan- 

 tities of Different Substances, Miss Agnes Pock els, 418 

 Contemporaneity of the Maori and the Moa, H. O. Forbes, 



433 

 Continents, Southern, the Former connection of, T. Mellard 



Reade, 77 ; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, loi 

 Conway's (Mr.) Mountaineering Expedition to the Himalayas, 



212, 525 ; Explorations in the Hindu-Kush, 370 

 Cook (A, J.), Amount of Honey Needed to Enable Bees to 

 Secrete One Pound of Wax, 255 

 k (Thomas), Death of, 276 



ke (Rev. A. H.), Geographical Distribution of the Land- 

 Mollusca of the Philippine Islands, 142 



ke "(Josiah Parsons), Laboratory Practice : a Series of Ex- 

 periments on the Fundamental Principles of Chemistry, 99 

 ley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, W. North, 463 

 land (Ralph), Nebular Spectrum of Nova Aurigse, 464 

 iper,Redeterminationofthe Atomic Weight of. Dr. Richards, 

 134 



per Implements and Ornaments in Ohio Mounds, Prof. F. 

 W. Putnam, 455 



1 Reefs : the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, W. Saville- 

 Kent, 523 



ell University, the Microscope and Histology for the Use 

 f Laboratory Students in the Anatomical Department of the, 

 Simson Henry Gage, W. H. Dallinger, 440 



er (J. H.), Sifting and Hauling Appliances in Portsmouth 

 Dockyard, 338 

 Cornwall (West), Earthquake in, 61 

 Coronoidal Discharges, the, M. J. Papin, 211 

 Corsica, Application of Conventional System of Rectangular 



Coordinates to Triangulation of Coasts of, M. Hatt, 556 

 Cosa's (Juan de la) First Chart of America, 453 

 Country Thoughts for Town Readers, K. B. Baghot de la Bere, 



246 

 Cox (E.J.), the Standard Course of Elementary Chemistry, 



559 

 Crab (Gelastimis), the Little Estuarine, Dr. A. Alcock, 574 

 Cranial Ganglia, the. Prof. J. C. Ewart, 405 

 Crater-like Depressions in Glaciers, R. Von. Lendenfeld, 466 ; 



Andre Delebecque, 490 

 'reighton (Dr. Charles), a History of Epidemics in Great Bri- 

 tain from A. D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague, 148 ; Immu- 

 nity of the African Negro from Yellow Fever, 200, 222 



Crew (Henry), an Unusual Sunset, 391 ; Daytime Seeing at the 



Lick Observatory, 465 

 Crichton-Browne (Sir James), Sex in Education, 13 ; Tooth 



Culture and White Bread, 229 

 Criminal Anthropology, Dr. J. S. Clouston, 432 : Dr. Bene- 



dikt, 433 

 Cristiani (H.), Removal of the Thyroid in the White Rat, 484 

 Croft (W. B.), Breath Figures, 236 

 Crompton (Mr.), the Backward State of Electrical Appliances 



in the Navy, 338 

 Crookes, (W., F.R.S.), Experiments of Electric Currents of 



High Potential and Extreme Frequency k la Tesla, 44 ; 



Burning Nitrogen, 185 ; London Water Supply for Septem- 

 ber, 1892, 617 

 Cross (Whitman), Post-Laramie Deposits of Colorado, 311 

 Crosskey (Dr.), Glacial Papers, 428 

 Crustacea : a Tube-dwelling Amphipod {Cerapus flindersi) 



from Port Jackson, Charles Chilton, 178 ; the Red Ocypode 



Crab of India, Dr. A. Alcock, 549 ; the Little Etuarine 



Crab, Gelasimus, Dr. A. Alcock, 574 

 Crystal Palace, Magic Lantern Illuminated by Arc Light at, 



39 

 Crystal Palace, the National Electrical Exhibition at the, 176 

 Crystals, the Optical Indicatrix and the Transmission of Light 



in, L. Fletcher, 581 

 Cuckoo in the East, F. C. Constable, 151 

 Culverwell (Edward B.), Lord Kelvin's Test Case on the Max- 



v»rell-Boltzmann Law, 76 

 Gumming (L.), the Temperature of the Human Body, 541 

 Cuneiform Writing : the Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British 



Museum, 49 

 Cunningham (D.), Mechanical System for the Distribution of 



Parcels, 429 

 Cunningham (David), Influence of Acoustic Clouds, 430 

 Curves of Muscular Contraction, Method of Recording, Prof. 



McKendrick, F.R.S., 404 

 Cyclone in Kansas, Destructive, 108 

 Cyclones, Another Blow to the Ascent Theory of M. Faye, 



144 

 Cyclones, Tropical, Maxwell Hall, 393 

 Cygni, Y., Light Variations of. Prof. Duner, 87, 134; Mr. 



Yendell, 134 

 & Cygni, Rutherfurd Measures of Stars about, Harold Jacoby, 



619 

 Cystocloniutn purpurascens, Tubercles on the Thallus of, Prof. 



F. Schmitz, 555 

 Cystopus candidus, on the Structure of, Harold Wager, 405 



Daehne (G. ), Mental Arithmetic, 247 



Dale (C. W.), Effects of the Weather (during April, 1892) upon 



Insect Life in Dorsetshire, 109 

 Dallas (W. L.), Appearance and Progressive Motion of Cyclones 



in Indian Regions, 435 

 Dallinger (W. H. ), the Microscope and Histology for the use of 



Laboratory Students in the Anatomical Department of the 



Cornell University, Simson Henry Gage, 440 

 Dana (Edward Salisbury), the System of Mineralogy of Ja me 



Dwight Dana, 1837-68, Descriptive Mineralogy, 217 

 Dana (Prof. James D. ), Subdivisions in Archaean History, 152 ; 



the Walker Prize (Boston Natural History Society) awarded 



to, 158 

 Danielssen (Dr.), the Crinoids and Echinoids of the North 



Atlantic, 333 

 Danner (E. W.), Certain Points in Interaction of Potassium 



Permanganate and Sulphuric Acid, 627 

 Darboux and Charcot (MM.), the Calculator Inaudi, 167 

 Daremberg (Dr.), the Life of Cholera-germs, 436 

 Darton (N, H.), Fossils in Archaean Rocks of Central Piedmont, 



Virginia, 311 

 Darwin (Major L.), Methods of Examination of Photographic 



Objectives at Kew Observatory, 188 

 Dauvergne's (M.), Pamir Journey, Geographical Results of, 



302 

 David (Prof. Edgeworth), Australian Mud Springs, 256 

 Davis (Prof. W. M.), Winter Thunderstorms, 483 

 Davison (Chas.), the Recent Earthquakes, 401 

 Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F.R.S.), the Museum Question, 280 

 Dawson (Geo. M., F.R.S.) and Alexander Sutheriand, Ele- 

 mentary Geography of the British Colonies, 100 



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