Nature, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



XI 



Columns and Beams, Treatise on the Strength of, Robert H. 



[Cousins, 73 



iber (Thos.), a Simple Heliostat applied to Photo-micro- 



Fgraphy, 167 



lets and Meteor-swarms : Bredichin on, 20 ; Spectra 



lof Comets, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 20, 112; Comets of 

 Short Period, Richard A. Gregory, 31 ; the Meteoric Theory 



of, W. H. S. Monck, 90; the Companions of Brooks's (V. 

 1889), 487 ; Brooks's Comet {a 1890), 38 ; Spectrum of, A. 

 Fowler, 162 ; Dr. Bidschof, 183 ; Photograph of, 183 ; Dr. 



Bidschof, 331 ; Discovery of a New Comet, W. F. Denning, 



317 ; Distribution of the Perihelia of Comets, Dr. Henry 

 Muirhead, 330; Brorsen's Comet, E. Barnard, 331 ; Two 



New Comets {b and c 1890), 331 ; Comparison of the Spectra 



of Nebulae and Stars of Groups I. and II. with those of 



Comets and Auroroe, Prof. J- Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 



.342, 393 ; Coggia's Comet (b 1890), Dr. Berberich, 355 ; 



Denning's Comet (6- 1890), Dr. A. Berberich, 378; Coggia's 



and Denning's Comets {b and c 1890), Dr. Berberich, 404 ; 



Observations of Comets, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 576 ; a New 



Comet ((/ 1890), E. E. Barnard, 601; D' Arrest's Comet, 



[Prof. Krueger, 619 ; Spectroscopic Observations (Sawerthal's 



iComet 1881 I. and 3 Lyras), Dr. Nicolaus von Konkoly, 650 

 iparison of the Spectra of Nebulae and Stars of Groups I. 

 ad II. with those of Comets and Auroras, Prof. J. Norman 

 jckyer, F.R.S., 342, 393 



imercial Geography of Africa, J. Scott Keltie, 580 

 imon (A. A., F.R.S.): Astronomical Telescopes, 183; 

 Variable Stars near the Cluster 5 Messier, 460 

 ipetition, some Aspects of, Prof. Alfred Marshall, 491 



>mpetitions, the Indian Civil Service and the Indian Forest 



'Service Competitions, 265 

 'ompound Locomotives, 61 

 Conchology, Helix nemoralis and hortensis, J. W. Williams, 



457 

 Confessions of a Poacher, 567 

 Congress, the American Iron and Steel, 553 

 Congress, Berlin International Medical, 352 

 Congress of Hygiene, the Proposed International, 233, 278 

 Congress, International, of Americanists, the Paris Meeting, 



426 

 Congress, the Oriental, 617 

 Congress, Sanitary, the, 180 

 Congress, Shorthand, the International, 233 

 Connaissance des Temps, Extrait a 1' Usage des Ecoles 



d'Hydrographie et des Marins du Commerce, pour I'an 



1891, 124 

 Convolutions, Cerebral, the Influences at Work in Producing 



the. Prof. D. J. Cunningham, 125 

 Cooke (M. C), Introduction to Freshwater Algae, with an 



Enumeration of all the British Species, Alfred W. Bennett, 



385 

 Cooper (W. J.) and J. Alfred Wanklyn, Air Analysis, with an 



Appendix on Illuminating Gas, 591 

 Cope (Prof.), the Mechanical Causes of the Development of the 



Hard Parts of the Mammalia, 32 

 Copper Potassium Chloride, on the Behaviour of, and its 



Aqueous Solutions at Different Temperatures, Prof. J. H. 



Van't HolT, 522, 531 

 Coral: the Zoological Affinities of Heliopora carulea, BL, W. 



Saville-Kent, 340 ; Dr. Sydney J. Hickson, 370 

 Coral Islands, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. on Eua Island. 86 

 Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent : Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 29, 



81, 100, 148 ; Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 81, 172; 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 53, 100 {see also Atolls) 

 Coral Reefs and other Carbonate of Lime Formations in Modern 



Seas, Dr. John Murray and Robt. Irvine, 162 

 Coral Reefs— Snail Burrows, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 147 

 Cornu (Prof. A.), on Spectroscopy, 399 

 Corolla in Flower-Fertilization, Dr. John Harker, 100 

 Corona, Structure of the Solar, 37 

 Correspondence on Russian Transliteration, H. A. Miers and J. 



W. Gregory, 316 

 Cortic (Aloysius L.), Father Perry, F.R.S., 221 

 Cotyledons and Leaves, the Shapes of. Sir John Lubbock, 



F.R.S., 81 

 Coues (Prof. Elliott), Hand-book of Field and General Orni- 

 thology, a Manual of the Structure and Classification of 



Birds, 541 

 Courmelles (Dr. Foveau de), Les Facultcj Mentales des Ani- 



maux, 413 



Courtenay (Right Rev. Bishop Reginald), on the Soaring of 



Birds, 463 

 Cousins (Robert H.), Treatise on the Strength of Beams and 



Columns, 76 

 Couture (Jules), L'Eclairage Electrique Actuel dans Differents 



Pays, 145 

 Co wham (Joseph H.), Graphic Lessons in Physical and Astro- 

 nomical Geography, 542 

 Cradle-Land, the Aryan, J. S. Stuart Glennie, 544 

 Craniology : Skulls of the Lucayan Indians, W. K. Brook, 



253 ; Cephalic Index in Population of France, Dr. CoUignon, 



408 

 Crayon, Luminous, Cecil Carus- Wilson on a, 573 

 Cretaceous Mammalsof North America, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 579 

 Cricket and Dragon-fly, E. Giles, 135 

 Criminal Anthropology : the Criminal, Havelock Ellis, Francis 



Gallon, F.R.S., 75 

 Crocodile, Occurrence of a, on Cocos Islands, H. N. Ridley, 



457 ; A. L. Caldwell, 463 

 Crocodiles, Habits of, Voeltzkow, 376 

 Croft (W. B.): Breath Figures, 92; Stream Lightning, 126; 



Electro- magnetic Repulsion, 198 ; Experiment in Subjective 



Colours, 391 

 Crook (H. T.), on the Present State of the Ordnance Survey, 



580 

 Crookes (Prof.), Lunar Photography, 569 

 Cross (Dr. Kerr), on Africa, 580 

 Crossbills in Waterford, R. J. Ussher, 135 

 Crotti (Dr. Primo), Musical Science, 259 

 Crucible Steel-making at Sheffield, 355 

 Cryptogamia : Illustrations of the Fungi of Maryland, 87 ; 



Fungus Foray of the Essex Field Club, 533 

 Crystal Palace, Mining Exhibition at, 65 

 Crystallogenesis, Prof. Dr. O. Lehmann on, i 

 Crystallography, Chemical, Dr. A. Fock, A. E. Tutton, 387 

 Crystals, on Atom-Grouping in, W. Barlow, 578 

 Crystals of Calcite, Idiocyclophanous, H. G. Madan, 99 

 Crystals from Ceylon, 91 

 Cunningham (Prof. D. J.), the Influences at Work in producing 



the Cerebral Convolutions, 125 

 Cunningham (Dr. D. D.) : the Ripe Figs of Fictis Roxburghii, 



255 ; on the Phenomena of Fertilization in Ficus Roxburghii, 



Wall, 587 

 Curie (M.), the Inductive Power and Conductivity of Dielec- 

 trics, 486 

 Currents, General Circulation of Ocean, 66 

 Curtel (George), Physiological Researches on Floral Envelopes, 



632 

 Curves produced by the Vibration of Straight Wires, Dr. Edward 



Sang. 575 

 Cyanogen Iodide, CNI, Drs. Seubert and Pollard on, 36 

 Cyclone, Bengal, of August 21-28, 1888, A. Pedler, 328 

 Cyclones, Accessory Phenomena of, 655 

 Cyclones during April 1890 in the North Atlantic Ocean, 87 

 Cyclones of the North Atlantic, H. Habenicht, 109 

 Cyclopaedia, Blackie's Modern, 567 

 Cygnus, New Variable Star in, 112 

 Cystidea, the Morphology of, Dr. P. H. Carpenter, 533 



Daffodils, Conference at Chiswick, 426 ; Prof. Michael Foster, 

 F.R.S., J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 426 



Dakyns (1. R.), on the Yoredale Beds in Yorkshire, 532 



Dallas (W. L.), Distribution of Barometric Pressure at Average 

 Indian Hill-Station Level, and Effect on Cold-weather Rain- 

 fall, 214 



Dallas (W. S.), Obituary Notice of, 132 



Dallet (Gabriel), Le Soleil, les Etoiles, 221 



Dallinger (Rev. W. H., F.R.S.), on Putrefactive Organisms, 

 381 



Dana (E. S.), some Tellurium and Selenium Minerals from 

 Honduras, 311 



Dana (Prof. James D.) : Characteristics of Volcanoes, with 

 Contributions of Facts and Principles from the Hawaiian 

 Islands, 266 ; on the Origin of the Deep Troughs of the 

 Oceanic Depression— Are any of Volcanic Origin ?, 357 ; on 

 Prof. Emerson's Bernardston Series of Metamorphic Upper 

 Devonian Rocks, 655 



Daniel-sen (Dr. D. C), Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition, 

 1876 78, 367 



Danube Valley, Earthquakes in the, 458 



