Index 



^SiippUinent to Nat lit 

 L December i, 1892 



Cyclic Chain Carbon Compounds, W. Markovnikoff, 532 ; a 

 New Course of Chemical Instruction, Grace Heath, 540 ; 

 Silver Salt of Sulphimide obtained by Dr. Wilhelm Traube, 

 551 ; the Standard Course of Elementary Chemistry, E. J. 

 Cox, 559 ; on the Origin of Elementary Substances and on 

 ••ome new Relations of their Atomic Weights, Henry Wilde, 

 F.R.S., Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 568; Laying Foundation 

 Stone of new Chemical Laboratory of St. Petersburg Uni- 

 versity, 572 ; Persulphuric Acid and the Persulphates, M. 

 Berthelot, 575 ; Comparative Evaporation of Solutions of 

 Sodium and Potassium Chloride and Pure Water, Pierre 

 Lesage, 580 ; a Lecture Course of Elementary Chemistry, 

 H. J. Lilley, 585 ; Glycol Aldehyde, Fisher and Land- 

 steiner, 596 ; New Method of Preparation and Photometry 

 of Phosphorescent Sulphide of Zinc, Chas. Henry, 504 ; 

 Arithmetical Chemistry, C. J. Woodward, 610 ; a New 

 Method of Preparing Acetylene Gas, M. Maquenne, 619 ; 

 Certain Points in Interaction of Potassium Permanganate and 

 Sulphuric Acid, G. A. Gooch and E. W. Banner, 627 ; the 

 existence of the Crystalline Hydrate of FejO^, M. van 

 Bemmelen, 628 

 Cherski (Prof.), Reported Death of, 576 

 Chert, Radiojarian, of Arenig Age, Messrs. Peach and Home 



on the, 428 

 Chestnut Wood, Tanning with. Baron Bertrand-Geslin, 617 

 Chibret (M. ), Waste of Nitrogen from Excessive Fatigue, 364 

 Chicago Exhibition : Projected Exhibit of "Worst Weeds" 

 from every State and Territory in the Union, 14 ; Mining at 

 the, 178, 601 ; Department of American Archseology and 

 Ethnology, 228 ; Solid Gold Brick Exhibit at, 256 ; the Ken- 

 tucky Tobacco Exhibit at the, 278 : Model of Ocean Currents 

 at, 451 ; Ethnology at the, the Native American Section, 

 Prof. F. W. Putnam, 454 

 Chicago University, 594 

 Chilton (Charles), a Tube-dwelling Amphipod {Ct'7-apus flin- 



dersi) from Port Jackson, 178 

 China : the Religions and Social Ideas of, as Illustrated in the 

 Ideographic Characters of the Language, Prof. R. K. Douglas, 

 23 ; Tidal Phenomena at Kiungchow, Hainan, R. H. Parker, 

 63 ; To the Snows of Tibet through China. A. E. Pratt, 150 ; 

 the Non Chinese Dialects of Hainan, Mr. Parker, 179; Per- 

 sian Ideas in China, Rev. Dr. Edkins, 522 ; Ancient Chinese 

 Coins Discovered in an Alaskan Grave, Lieut. Dix Bolles, 

 574 

 Chisholm (Geo. G.), Longmans' School Geography for North 



America, 585 

 Chisholm (Grace E. ), a Meteor, 490 

 Chlorine, the Reaction of Hydrogen with Mixtures of Hydrogen 



and. Dr. J. A. Harker, 402 

 Chloroform, on the Impurities in. Prof, Ramsay, 401 ; Fall of 

 Blood-pressure under, owing to its Action on Brain, not 

 Heart, Surgeon-Major Laurie, 572 

 Cholera : the Sanitary System Adopted by the Venice Con- 

 ference for the Prevention of Cholera, P. Brouardel, 215 ; 

 the Life of Cholera-Germs, Dr. Daremberg, 436 ; Prevention 

 and Vaccination, 466 ; Treatment of Cholera by Testiculary 

 Liquid, M. Brown-Sequard, 484; Places of Origin of Cholera 

 Epidemics, J. D. Tholozan, 555 ; Asiatic Cholera ; a New 

 Chemical Function of the Comma-Bacillus, J. Ferrati, 436 

 Chromium, the Alloys of Iron and, R. A. Hadfield, 526 

 Chronograph for Cape Town Observatory, Sir Howard Grubb's 



New, 167 

 Chronophotography, Movements of Minute Organisms Analysed 

 by Means o*", M. Marey, 47 ; the Movements of the Heart 

 Studied by Chrrinophotography, M. Marey, 604 

 Church (Prof. A. H., F.R.S.), Turacin, 22 

 Church Congress, Vivisection at the, 557 

 Cirro-stratus, J. Porter, 541 

 Civil Engineers, Institution of, 131 



Civil List Pensions for Year ending June 20, 1892, 254 

 Cladonema, a New Habitat for, Henry Scherren, 541 

 Clark (J.), the Separation of Arsenic, Antimony, and Tin, 22 

 Clark (Dr. J.), on the Natural Relations between Temperature 

 and Protoplasmic Movements, 404 ; Experimental Observa- 

 tions on the Functions of the Nucleus in the Vegetable Cell, 

 404 

 Clark (J. Edmund), the Height of the Nacreous Cloud of 

 January 30, 127 ; a Solar Halo, 222 ; the Perseids, 442 ; 

 Reflection on Valley Fog, 514 

 Clark Cell, Dr. Dahle on the, 8 



Clayton (Helen), Tornado of July 26, 1890, at St, Lawrence 



Mass., 420 

 Clayton (H. H.), Recent Efforts towards Improvement of Daily 



Weather Forecasts, 435 

 Gierke (Miss E. M.), Jupiter and His System, 620 

 Climates, Mountain, Physiological Eftects of, M. Siault, 240 

 Clinical Medicine, Atlas of. Dr. Byrom Bramwell, 389 

 Clouds, Luminous, W. Clement Ley, 294 

 Clouds, Luminous Night, W. Foerster, O. Jesse, 575 

 Clouds, Invitation to observe the Luminous Night, W. Foerster 



and Prof. O. Jesse, 589 

 Clouston (Dr. T. S.), Criminal Anthropology, 432 

 Clowes (Prof.), Miners' Safely Lamp converted mto instrument 



for detecting coal damp, 44 ; Investigations of a proposed 



Safety Lamp, 402 

 Clutt (J. A.), Innervation of Cerata of some Nudibranchiata, 



339 

 Coal-Tar Colouring Matters, Gustav Schultz und Paul Julius, 



R. Meldola, 313 

 Coast Lines, the Geographical Development of, Prof. James 



Geikie, 348 

 Cockerell (T. D. A.), Land and Freshwater Shells peculiar to 



the British Isles, 76; a Suggestion for the Indexing of 



Zoological Literature, 442 ; the West Indian Fauna in South 



Florida, 458 ; Peripatus Re-discovered in Jamaica, 514 

 Cocoanut, a Double, 185 



Cohn (Dr. Ferdinand) Heitriige zur Biologic der Pflanzen, 461 

 Coiffure of a Kanaka Labourer, Sir William Turner, 433 

 Coin-counting Machine in the Royal Mint, Ingenious, Lieut. 



W. B. Basset, 430 

 Cole (Frof. G. A. J.), the Lithophyses in Obsidian of Rocche 



Rosse, Lipari, 95 

 Collie (N.), Production of Pyridine Derivatives from Lactone 



of Triacetic Acid, 311 

 Collins (F. Howard), Atmospheric Depressions and their 



Analogy with the Movements of Sunspots, 489 

 Coluian (H. G. ), the Preparation of GlycoUic Acid, 22 

 Colorado, Polybasite and Tennantite from, Penfield and Pearce, 



310 

 Coloration, Animal, an account of the Principal Facts and 



Theories relating to the Colours and Markings of Animals, 



F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., Edward B. Foulton. 533 

 Colardeau (E.), Experiments at Eiffel Tower on Falling Bodies 



and Air- Resistance, 262 

 Colour : the Constitution of a Colour Map, Walter Baily, 23 ; 



the Law of Colour in relation to Chemical Constitution, 



William Akroyd, 23 

 Colour-blindness, Apparatus for Measuring, Brudenell Carter, 



44 

 Colour Phenomena connected with Cloudy Condensation, John 



Aitken, F.R.S., 91 

 Colour Sense, Current Theories regarding, Prof. William 



Rutherford, F.R.S., 342 

 Colour Vision, E. Hunt,' 485 

 Colour Vision, Report of the Royal Society's Committee on, 



33 

 Colour and Light, our Unit of Measurement of, J. W. Lovibond, 



93 

 Colouring Matters, Coal Tar, Gustav Schultz und Paul Julius, 



R. Meldola, 313 

 Colours, Photography in, 12 

 Colours, the Photography of, E. Lippmann, 24 

 Colours on the Surface of Mars, Prof. Pickering, 179 

 Columbian Exposition, Astronomy at the, 372 

 Columbus, the Fourth Centenary of, 185 



Columbus Celebration, Projected publication by Berlin Geo- 

 graphical Society of Alias of unpublished early maps as 



memento of, 424 

 Columbus Exhibition, the : Juan de la Cosa's (the first) Chart 



of America, 453 

 Comets : A new Comet discovered by Prof. Barnard, 59.7 ; Comet 



Barnard (October 12), 619 ; Comet Brooks (August 27, 1882), 



496; Comet Brooks (Autrust 27, 1892), F. Ristenpert, 551 ; 



Comets of Brorsen (1846 VII.) and Brooks (1892 "(/"), 



W. F. Denning, 514; Comet, 1892, Denning (March 18), 



65 ; Comet II., 1892 (Denning, March 18), W. F. Denning, 



541, 551 ; Swift's Comet, 1892, 1 7 ; Spectrum of Swift's 



Comet {a 1892), W. W. Campbell, 17, Prof. Konkoly, 17 ; 



Comet Swift (March 6, 1892), 65, 87, 230, 258; Comet 



Swift (March 6, 1892), 423, 453; Winnecke's Periodic 



