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INDEX 



IX 



Cambrian Conglomerate, the Contents of, Dr. Hicks, 532 

 Cambridge: the Natural Science Tripos at, 21; the Newall 

 Telescope, 21 ; Philosophical Society, 42; Honorary Degrees 



Pat, 93 ; the Clerk Maxwell Scholarship at, 93 ; Cambridge 

 Local Lectures Syndicate, Invitation to Students to spend 

 August in Cambridge, 302 ; Report of the Local Lectures 

 Syndicate, 302 

 imera Club, Photographic Exhibitions at, 16 

 imeron (Mrs. Julia), Exhibitions of her Photographs at the 

 Camera Club, 16 



Cameroon, Proposed Swedish Expedition to, 280 

 Camphor, the Motions of, upon Water, Measurements of the 

 Amount of Oil necessary in order to Check, Lord Rayleigh, 

 F.R.S., 43 



Camping Voyages on German Rivers, Arthur A. Macdonell, 

 389 



Canada : Report of the Meteorological Service of, 65 ; Canada 

 Monthly Weather Review, 510 ; the Progress of biology in, 

 572 ; on the Later Physiographical Geology of the Rocky 

 Mountain Region in Canada with Special Reference to 

 Changes in Elevation and to the History of the Glacial Period, 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson, 650 ; Unexplored Canadian Territory, 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson, 207 



Canals, J. Stephen Jeans on Waterways and Water Transport, 

 634 



Candler (C), the Prevention of Measles, 243 



Canidae, a Monograph of the, including Dogs, Jackals, Wolves, 

 and Foxes, St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 35 



Capital and Interest, Prof. Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, translated 

 by William Smart, 462 



Carbon Monoxide, a Liquid Compound of Nickel and, A. E. 

 Tutton, 370 



Carbon Tetrafluoride, M. Moissan on, 67 



Carbonate of Lime Formations in Modern Seas, Coral Reefs 

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



Carbonate of Lime, the Secretion of, Irvine and Woodhead, 97 



Carburetted Iron, Aluminium in, W. J. Keep, 69 



Cardiff, Election of Mr. A. C. Elliott to Engineering Professor- 

 ship at, 252 



Carnelly (Prof. Thomas) : Death of, 458 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 522 



Carnot's (Sadi) Essay, Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat, 

 365 



Carpathians, the Eastern, Miss Menie Muriel Dowie, 580 



Carpenter (Dr. P. H.), on the Morphology of the Cystidea, 533 



Carpentry, Wood-work, &c., Syer's Class-room for, 573 



Carter (R. Brudenell), Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness, 55 



Cartography in Japan, Monument to Ino Chukei, 70 



Carus (Prof. Julius Victor), Prodomus Faunae Mediterranese, 

 221 



arus-Wilson (Cecil) : on some Decomposed Flints from South- 

 bourne-on-Sea, 7 ; on the Distribution of Flow in a Strained 

 Elastic Solid, 94 ; Musical Sands, 568 ; on a Luminous 

 Crayon, 573 

 asati's (Captain Gaetano) African Explorations, 280 



(Jasazza (Giuseppe), II Teorema del Parallelogramma della 

 Forze dimostrato erroneo (con figure), 413 



Caspary (F.), New Method of Exposition of Theory of Theta 

 Functions and Elementary Theorem relative to Hyperelliptic 

 Functions of First Dimension, 360 



Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata, Arthur Smith Wood- 

 ward and Chas. D. Sherborn, 122 



Caucasus, Prof. V. Moller on the Minerals of, 88 



< aught by a Cockle, D. McNabb, 415 

 ave. Exploration of the Ottoker, io8 



ayley (Prof., F.R.S.) and Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 

 French Honours Conferred on, 107 



Cecil (Henry), a Recently Established Bird Migration, 520 



'"-"- Secondary, the Working Efficiency of, 423 



Cells, 



Celtic Survivals in Hampshire, T. W. Shore, 402 



Central, Asia, the Exploration of, 518 



Cerebral Convolutions, the Influences at Work in Producing 



the, Prof. D. J. Cunningham, 125 

 Ceresin Manufactory, Curious P^lectrical Phenomena Observed 



in a, no 

 Cervical Ganglion, the Progressive Paralysis of the Different 



Classes of Nerve-Cells in the Superior, J. H. Langley, 



F. R.S., and W. L. Dickinson, 22 

 Cessation of Selection {see Panmixia) 

 Ceylon : Crystals from, 91 ; Native Addresses of Thanks to Sir 



Arthur Gordon for his Encouragement of Science and Learn- 



ing in, 280 ; Language of the Veddahs of, 280 ; Sir William 

 Gregory on the Colombo Museum, 575 



Chabot (P.), Optical Rotatory Power of Camphor in Solution in 

 Various Oils, 360 



Chabrie (M.), a New Gas, Methylene Fluoride, 181 



Clianiaa, on the Position of, in the System, Dr. Shufeldt, 33 



Chambers's Encyclopedia, New Edition, 77 



Chambers's Hand-book of Astronomy, 291 ; E. W. Maunder, 

 341 ; the Reviewer, 341 



Chandler (Prof S. C), on Variable Stars, 528 



Channel Bridge, Soundings for the Proposed, 647 



Character, Acquired, the Inheritance of, J. J. Murphy, 5 ; W. 

 Ainslie HoUis, 6 



Charlois (M.), a New Asteroid, 162 



Chartres (R. ), Gregory's Series, 341 



Chatelier's (Le) Pyrometer, 210 



Chelsea Botanic Garden and the Society of Apothecaries, 318 



Chemistry : the Application of the Microscope to Physical and 

 Chemical Investigations, Dr. O. Lehmann, i ; Death of 

 Eugene Peligot, 16 ; Pyrogallol-benzein, a New Colouring 

 Matter, 19 ; Chemistry and Medical Students, Dr. W. J. 

 Russell, F.R.S., 23 ; Chemical Society, 23, 45, 46, 71 ; on 

 the Germination of some of the Graminece, by H. T. Brown, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. G. H. Morris, 45 ; Chemistiy in its Appli- 

 cation to Arts and Manufactures, or Chemical Technology, 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 25 ; a New Flash-light, by Dr. 

 Thomas Taylor, 35 ; Drs. Seubert and Pollard on Cyanogen 

 Iodide, CNI, 36 ; the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, by Sir J. B. 

 Lawes, F.R.S., and Prof J. II. Gilbert, F.R.S. , 41 ; Note 

 on the Hydrosulphides, by S. E. Linder and H. Picton, 45 ; 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., and A. E. Tutton, on Phosphorous 

 Oxide, 46 ; the Action of Chlorine on Water, Prof. A. 

 Pedler, 46 ; Prof. A. Pedler on the Explosion of Hydrogen 

 Sulphide and of Carbon Sulphide, 46 ; M. Moissan on Carbon 

 Tetrafluoride, 67 ; Liquid Hydride of Phosphorus, Drs. Gat- 

 termann and Haussknecht, 89 ; Chemical Changes in Rocks 

 under Mechanical Stresses, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., loi ; 

 the Synthesis of Pyrazol, Prof. Balbiano, in ; Isomeric 

 States of Chromic Bromide, 120 ; Simple Derivatives of 

 Hydroxylamine, 137 ; Conductivities of Ammonia and Aniline 

 Compounds with Oxybenzoic Acids, D. Berthelot, 143 ; Re- 

 searches on Dispersion of Fatty Alcohols, Barbier and Roux, 

 143 ; Artificial Sea-water for Aquaria, Edmund Perrier, 

 143 ; Formation of Tin Ore by Malaysia Mineral Waters, 

 Stanilas Meunier, 143 ; Copper Salts a Remedy for Potato 

 Disease, Aime Girard, 143 ; Dr. Bruhn's Researches on 

 Adenin and Hypoxanthin, 144 ; Properties of Pure Magnesium 

 obtained by Distillation iti Vacuo, Burton and Vorce, 161 ; the 

 Characteristic Equation of Nitrogen, Ch. Antoine, 168 ; 

 Determination of Molecular Weight at Critical Point, P. A. 

 Guye, 168 ; Chloral Salts of Iridium, A. Joly, 168 ; the 

 Reduction of Sulphates of Alka;lies by Hydrogen and Carbon, 

 M. Berthelot, 168 ; a New Gas, Methylene Fluoride, M. 

 Chabricf, 181 ; Relation of Optical Activity to Character of 

 Radicals united to Asymmetric Carbon Atom, Prof. Crum 

 Brown, 215 ; the Various Isomeric Inosites and their Heats 

 of Transformation, M. Berthelot, 215 ; Combination of Phos- 

 phorus Pentafluoride with Nitrogen Tetroxide, Emile Tassel, 

 215 ; Chloralimide, and its Isomeride, Behal and Choay, 215 ; 

 Experiments on Action of Carbon Heated to Whiteness in Elec- 

 tric Arc on Gaseous Compounds, Prof. Lepsius, 235 ; some 

 Phosphates of Lithium, Beryllium, Lead, and Uranium, L. 

 Ouvrard, 240 ; Combinations of Double Chlorides of Phos- 

 phorus and Iridium with Arsenious Chloride, G. Geisen- 

 heimer, 240 ; Sub-fluoride of Silver, M. Guntz, 240 ; 

 Stachyose, a New Crystalline Carbohydrate extracted from 

 Bulbs of Stachys tuberifera^ by Drs. von Planta and Schulze, 

 255 ; Application of Coefficient of Optical Rotation to Deter- 

 mine Nature of Compounds produced by Action of Malic 

 Acid on Neutral Tungstatesof Soda and Potash, D. Gernez, 

 263 ; Conditions of the Act of Chemical Combination, Prof. 

 Menschutkin, 264 ; Practical Chemistry for Medical Students, 

 Samuel Rideal, 269 ; Manual of Pharmaceutical Testing, 

 Barnard S. Proctor, 270 ; Biophene, a New Intermediate 

 between Fatty and Aromatic Series, Dr. L. E. Levi, 28 1 ; 

 Method for Estimation of Sulphur in Organic Bodies, Berthelot, 

 Andre, and Matignon, 288 ; Artificial Musk, 300; La Revolu- 

 tion Chimique — Lavoisier, Marcellin Berthelot, 313 ; Mannite 

 Hexachlorhydrin, Louis Mourges, 312 ; Expansion of Silica, 

 H. l!e Chatelier, 312; Comparative Heat of Formation of 

 Amides and Anilides, Berthelot and Fogh, 336 ; Certain 



