GENERAL INDEX 



"Cedar of Lebanon," the, 4, 



292. 

 Ceilings of ancient dwellings, 9, 



i54- 



Celestine III., Pope, decided 

 that tithes of the mediaeval 

 wind-mills belonged to the 

 clergy, 6, 69. 



Cell contents, studies in, by Von 

 Mohl, 4, 123; observed by 

 Corti in 1774, 4, 124; redis- 

 covered by Treyiranus in 1807, 

 ibid.; filled with fluid called 

 "sarcode," 4, 124. 



Cell theory, Schwann and Schlei- 

 den and the, 4, 118122; fore- 

 shadowed by Wolff and Trev- 

 iranus, 4, 122; elaborated, 4, 

 122-128. 



Cell, voltaic, 6, 163 ; action of, 6, 

 163. 



Cell walls of vegetables, Payen 

 and, 4, 124. 



Cellini, Benvenuto, records an 

 attempt to poison him by 

 diamond dust in his salad, 9, 

 296. 



Cells, essential structure of 

 living organism, 4, 129; prin- 

 ciples of mechanical con- 

 struction of, 5, 225. 



Celsus, Cornelius, his manu- 

 script found in the fifteenth 

 century, 2, 40. 



Centrosome, discovered by Van 

 Beneden, 6, 226. 



Chabas, a student of Egyptology, 

 1, 28. 



Chaldean, a name once synony- 

 mous with magician, 1, 66. 



Chaldean magic, tablets relating 

 to, 1, 70; symbolism of the 

 black and white cloth, 1, 71; 

 song of the seven spirits, 1, 

 72 ; exorcisms to ward off dis- 

 ease, 1, 73; birth portents, 

 ibid.; omens furnished by 

 dogs, 1, 74. 



Chambers, Robert, his Vestiges 

 of the Natural History of Crea- 

 tion, 4, 161; quotation from, 

 4, 162164. 



Champollion, Jean Frangois, a 

 famous student of the science 



of Egyptology, 1, 27; de- 

 cipherment of the Rosetta 

 Stone, 4, 290. 



Chandler, Professor, his address 

 before the " Society of Elec- 

 tro-Chemistry," 6, 298. 



Chapman, the cable road of, 7, 

 123. 



Charcot, Dr., on the phenomena 

 of hypnotism, 4, 269. 



Charles II., his attempt to change 

 the fashion of his time, 9, 62. 



Charles V. accepted cotton gar- 

 ments made by the Aztecs as 

 gifts suitable for the monarch, 

 9, 7- 



Charlotte Dundas, constructed 

 by Symington to be used as 

 a towing vessel, 7, 67. 



Charms and incantations, 1, 46 

 5 1 ; effect of a lock of hair or 

 nail parings incorporated in 

 a waxen figure, 1, 46; the 

 magical spell of enemies the 

 source of all human ailments, 

 1,47; efficacy of a beetle as a 

 medicinal agent, 1, 48. 



Charpentier, the secret of his 

 superior pottery, 9, 232. 



Chaucer, Geoffrey, a chance 

 reference in a poem proves 

 that the points of the compass 

 had been established before 

 his day, 7, 9. 



Chemical affinity, 4, 5764; 

 theory of digestion, 4, 88. 



Chemistry, the phlogiston theory 

 in, 4, 310; at the beginning 

 of the eighteenth century, 4, 

 1 1 ; Lavoisier and the found- 

 ation of mpdern, 4, 28; since 

 the time of Dalton, 4, 38-72; 

 organic, 4, 53-56; foremost 

 workers in, 4, 55. 



Chemistry Since the Time of 

 Dalton, Chapter III, 4, 38. 



Chemistry, The Beginnings of 

 Modern, Chapter II, 4, n. 



Chemistry, The Phlogiston 

 Theory in, Chapter I, 4, 3. 



Ch6ron, M. Andr6, three-lens 

 camera devised by, 8, 240; 



process of color-photography 

 improved by, 8, 240. 



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