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INDEX. 



of science, i. 98 ; 134 ; first statisti- 

 cal bureau, ii. 5t)l. 



Coldiiig, ii. 107, lu9 ; indestructibility 

 of force. 111, 125 ; heat, 112. 



Coleridge imports philosophy of Kant 

 and Schelling into England, i. 17 ; 

 healthy spirit of, 78; ' Christabel,' 



84 ; influence on metaphysical studies 

 of, 91 ; lectured at Royal Institution, 

 249, 264. 



College de France, i. 107. 



Colh'ge et iScole de Chirurgie, i. 107. 



CoUignon (see Combes), ii. 101. 



Collins, invention of the calculus by 

 Leibniz communicated to, i. 101. 



Colour, ii. 484 et seq. 



Combe, Geo., phrenology, ii. 477. 



Combes, Phillips et Collignon, ' Expose 

 de la Situation de la M^canique ap- 

 pliquee,' ii. 101 ; quoted by Valson on 

 Cauchy, 637. 



Combinatorial school in Germany, ii. 

 642 ; analysis, Leibniz, 679 ; Mac- 

 Mahon on, ib. 



Combustion, theory of, i. 389. 



Commutative principle, ii. 717. 



Compayre, educationalist, on Rousseau, 

 i. 259, 260. 



Complex quantity, ii. 643 ; interpreta- 

 tion of, 653. 



Comte, Auguste, philosophy of, i. 18, 

 61, ii. 105 ; his three stages of 

 thought, i. 73 ; positivist theory of, 



85 ; 306 ; ' Philosophie Positive,' 307, 

 308, ii. 37, 239 ; scientific errors of, 

 i. 310 ; opposed to undulatory theory 

 of light, ii. 37 ; and De Blainville, 

 247, 266 ; theory of probabilities, 569, 

 608 ; 749. 



Comtism, failure of, i. 72. 



Condamine, La, astronomical constants, 

 i. 322. 



Condillac, 'Essai sur les Origines des 

 Counaissances humaines,'i. 144; ne- 

 glect of, by Napoleon, 149 ; his 

 ignorance of physiology, ii. 471 ; 

 language, 536. 



Condorcet, importance in French litera- 

 ture of, i. 105 ; quoted, 110 ; educa- 

 tional work of, 112 ; the theory of 

 lirobabilities, 120 ; alliance with medi- 

 cine, 126 ; Academie des Sciences 

 morales et politiques, 145 ; suicide of, 

 147 ; neglect of, by Napoleon, 149 ; 

 distinguishes education and instruc- 

 tion, 259, 260 ; statistics, ii. 570, 573. 



Conflict between the scientific and the 

 philosophical views, i. 205. 



Conformal representation, Gauss and 



Riemann on, ii. 700 ; Holtzmiiller 



on, 701. 

 Congruences, theory of, ii. 723 ; calculus 



of, 724. 

 Conrad, Prof., 'The German Universi- 

 ties for the last Fifty Years,' i. 159 ; 



quoted on German universities, 160 ; 



'Die Deutschen Universitaten,' 197, 



198. 

 Conring, Hermann, statistics, 1. 121, ii. 



555 ; political statistics, 562. 

 Consciousness, ii. 516. 

 Conservation of force, i. 218. 

 Constable, his influence on painting in 



France, i. 19. 

 Constant, Benj., visits Germany with 



Mme. de Stael, i. 17. 

 Continuity, of living forms, ii. 453 ; in 



geometry, 660. 

 Contifiuous, the, ii. 643. 

 Convention, decree on Academy of, i. 



148. 

 Convergency of series, ii. 646. 

 Conybeare, W. D., report on the jjro- 



gress of geological science, ii. 281. 

 Cook, Captain, i. 52, 179 ; voyages, ii. 



222 ; Von Baer on, 304. 

 Cooper, Astley, English medical science, 



i. 2("i8 ; no connection with the English 



universities, 272. 

 Co-operation, ii. 566. 

 Cope, E. D., ii. 271 ; neo-Lamarckian, 



351. 

 Copernicus, i. 118 ; precursor of Kepler, 



317 ; stimulated star - gazing, 327 ; 



astronomical theory of, ii. 13. 

 Coriolis, St Veuant quoted on, i. 369 ; 



practical school of, ii. 100. 

 Cornu, "Association Frau9aise," i. 298. 

 Correspondence in mathematics, ii. 



736. 

 ' Correspondenz, Monatliche,' Zach's, i. 



41. 

 Corti, arcades of, ii. 372. 

 Cosmical view, ii. 369. 

 Cosmos, genesis of the, ii. 360. 

 Cossar Ewart on Jameson, i. 283. 

 "Cost" as factor in industry, ii. 155. 

 Coste, study of food fishes, ii. 232. 

 Cotes, Roger, ' Aestimatio errorum in 



mixta mathesi,' i. 324; "description 



and e-xplanation of phenomena," 337 ; 



second edition of 'Principia,' 351; 



preface to ' Principia ' misleading, 



355. 

 Cotton, M. A., " Le Phenomene de 



Zeemann," ii. 197. 

 Coulomb, measurements of, i. 343, 



362, 368, 369 ; founded exact science 



