Index 



269 



China, two skulls of tiger from, 



193- 

 Christie, S. H., biography of, 7 ; 



resignation of, 41. 

 Cilia, action of solutions on, 129. 

 Cleavage in rock and vein-structure 



in ice, 134, 142. 

 Clifford, W. K., election of, and 



biographical note on, 71 ; death 



of, 72. 



Clifton, R. B., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 82. 

 Climatal conditions within Arctic 



circle in Miocene times, 1 76. 

 Clock, astronomical, controlled by 



magnets, 230. 

 Cloth of flax and wool, 119 ; Lady 



Moira's proposal for, id. 

 Clunn's Hotel, place of first dinner, 



i. 

 Coal discovered at Heraklea, 124 ; 



in India, 197. 

 Cocoa-nut, alleged formation of 



pearls in a, 232. 

 Cold, effect of, on vitality of seeds, 



202. 

 Colour-blindness, report on an 



investigation of, 216. 

 Comatula, function of its sarcode 



cord, 181. 

 Committee appointed to consider 



fusion of the Royal and the 



Philosophical Clubs, 87. 

 Committees of Management ap- 

 pointed, 2, 3. 

 Communications to Club, proposed 



analysis of, 76. 



Composite photographs for a por- 

 trait, 206 ; applied to represent 



disease, 213. 



Compte Rendu, suggested, 27. 

 Conservation of solar energy, hypo- 

 thesis proposed by Dr. Siemens, 



218, 219. 

 Copper, native, near Lake Superior, 



1 1 1 ; arsenide of, in green muslin, 



204. 

 Coral reef, account of boring in a, 



2 53 ; organisms forming a, 255. 

 Corals, method of making sections 



of, 211. 

 Cornu, Professor, on optical study 



of deformed elastic bodies, and 



on light, 1 86 ; on reversing spec- 

 tral lines of metals, 190 ; on 

 control of a clock, 230. 



Cornwall, model of rocking stones 

 in, 1 80. 



Corona of sun, photographs of dur- 

 ing a total eclipse, 187 ; proved 

 to be part of the sun, 189. 



Cortina, houses at, buried by gravel 

 slides, 149. 



Corundum, artificial forms of, 203. 



Cottrell, Mr., instrument to show 

 effect of sounds on a flame, 

 194. 



Craven (Yorkshire), glaciation in, 

 165. 



Cresswell, Lieut., on wood and shells 

 upon Arctic islands, 122. 



Crinoid from deep water west of 

 Norway resembling Apiocrinvs, 



175- 



Crinoids, physiological structure of, 

 180, 181. 



Cronstadt, plan for closing channel 

 leading to Bay, 125. 



Crookes, W., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 84 ; constructs 

 improved radiometers, 199 ; com- 

 munications from, 241, 247, 248, 

 256. 



Cuttriss' Hotel, place of second and 

 third dinners, 3. 



Czar of Russia, his assassination 

 and explosives, 215. 



Daguerrotype for astronomical pur- 

 poses, 112, 113, I IT. 



Dalton, John, priority in discovering 

 Avogadro's lav.-, 244. 



Dardanelles, undercurrent through, 

 into the Black Sea, 191. 



Darwin, C. R., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 39 ; communi- 

 cation from, 154; resignation of, 

 57 ; death and funeral, 220. 



Darwin, F., election of, 89 ; bio- 

 graphical note on, 90. 



Darwin, G. H., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 83 ; communi- 

 cation from, 245 ; resignation of, 



93- 



Dasypus, brain of, and transitional 

 character of the animal, 171. 



