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INDEX. 



Colza, 938. 



Combination, 3, 12, 35, 125, 138, 



769. 

 — changes pi:oduced by, 



6. 

 Combining numbers, 125, 138. 



— weights, 144—369. 

 Combustion, 26, 32. 



— results of, 32, 40, 94. 

 Common salt, 216, 893. 

 Composition of animal matter, 554. 



— organic matter, 316. 



— plants, 317. 



— soils, 666, 758. 



— stones, 267, 660. 

 Compounds, binary, 316. 



— definite, 124, 135. 

 Compounds, saline. 111. 



— ternary and quater- 



nary, 316. 



— their composition, 17. 

 Contagion, 176. 



Contagious matters, 185. 

 Cookery, 617. 

 Copper, 302, 458, 550. 



— in plants, 650. 



— oxide, 302. _ 



— pyrites, 302. 



— salts of, 303. 



— sulphate of, 304, 458. 

 Copperas, 270, 794. 

 Coprolites, 877. 



Corn, 266, 755, 904, 907. 

 Corrosive sublimate, 186, 301. 

 Cotton, 321, 323, 324. 

 Couching, 692. 

 Cream, 574. 



— cheese, 587. 



— of tartar, 498. 

 Crops, rotation of, 753. 

 Cobic nitre, 217,903. 

 Cultivated lands, 748. 

 Curd ofmilk,568, 683. 

 Currants, 496. 



D. 



Daguerreotype, 295. 

 Dahlia, 334. 

 Death of plants, 741. 

 Decay, 11,105, 145, 765. 



Decay, influence of lime, 235, 837, 

 846, 872. 



— like burning, 105. 



— of humus, 677. 



— of plants, 145, 354. 



— results of, 11, 105, 354. 



— under water, 131. 

 Decomposition, 9, 12. 



— induced, 15, 358. 



— of rocks, 649, 750. 



— spontaneous, 15, 358. 

 Deliquescence, 203, 251. 



Dew, 44. 



Dextrine, 360. 



Diamond, 87. 



Diastase, 360, 416, 686, 725. 



Digestion, 604, 631. 



— derangement of, 633. 

 Diseases of plants, 740, 744. 

 Distillation, 73, 396. 

 Ditch scrapings, 865. 

 Double salts, 112. 

 Dough, 438. 



Drainage water, 825, 867. 

 Draining, 857. 

 Dunder, 409. 

 Dung, 800, 812, 989. 



— cow, 812, 991. 



— farmvard, 802, 1002. 



— horse, 812, 993. 



— pigs', 812, 994. 



— sheep, 812, 990. 



— rabbit, 812. 

 Dutch rushes, 550. 

 Dyeing, 324, 542. 



E. 



Earth, 225. 

 Earth-nut, 938. 

 Earths, 225, 268. 



— alkaline, 225, 246. 

 Earthy matter in the air, 644. 



— silicates, 650. 



— substances in plants, 644, 

 732. 



Effervescence, 229. 



Egg, white of, 560. 



p:iaine,5l6, 594. 



Electricity, influence on plants, 703. 



Elements, 16, 19, 135. 



