INDEX. 



"763 



of electricity, 347 ; torsion balance, 

 360 ; attraction and repulsion of 

 electrified bodies, 361 ; 370 ; two- 

 fluid theory of electricity, ib.; 

 electro-static formula of, 371 ; Young 

 and, ii. 30 ; modern view of electrical 

 phenomena, 67 ; 72 ; referred to, 78, 

 92 ; laws of, 79 ; practical school of, 

 100; electrical theory of, 153; the 

 atomic view of nature, 188, 191, 

 193; 698. 



Counting and measuring, ii. 732. 



Couper, chemical researches of, i. 447. 



Courcier, geometrical work of, i. 114. 



Cournot, testimony to work of German 

 universities, i. 225. 



Cousin guillotined, i. 147. 



Cousin, Victor, testimony to work of 

 German universities, i. 225. 



Couturat, L., ii. 734. 



Cowley, Ode on Bacon, i. 96. 



Cowper, 'The Task/ i. 285; Letters, 

 286. 



Cramer, ' Analyse des lignes courbes,' 

 &c., ii. 682. 



Crawford, Dr, influenced by Black's 

 lectures, ii. 102. 



Crell's ' Chemische Annalen,' i. 41. 



Crelle's 'Journal fur die reine und 

 angewandte Mathematik,' i. 41, 186, 

 ii. 58 ; correspondence with Gauss, 

 185. 



Cremona, i. 188 ; quoted, ii. 665 ; 

 proves Steiner's theorems, 681. 



Critical methods, ii. 626. 



Crofton, M. W., "Probabilities," ii. 

 569. 



Crome, Prof., statistics, ii. 579. 



Cronsted, inventor of blow-pipe, i. 117. 



Crookes, Sir William, quoted on Prout's 

 hypothesis, i. 403 ; sodium vapour 

 in the sun's atmosphere, ii. 48 ; ex- 

 periments and discoveries, 190 ; "cor- 

 puscular" theory of cathode rays, 

 192; (see Sir Norman Lockyer), 361. 



Cruveilhier, French medical science, i. 

 208. 



Crystallographic and atomic laws, anal- 

 ogy between, i. 444. 



Crystallography, i. 116, 441. 



Crystals, laws of formation of, Hauy's, 

 i. 117; ii. 22'2. 



Cullen, metaphysical leaning in medi- 

 cine, i. 126 ; 272. 



Culverwell, ii. 595. 



Curie, geometrical treatment of crystal- 

 lography, i. 443. 



Currie, first use of thermometer at 

 bedside, ii. 388. 



Curtius, Ernst, ' Alterthum und Gegen- 

 wart, ' i. 215 ; on English archae- 

 ologists, 294 ; quoted, 295 ; on M. W. 

 Leake, 296. 



Curves, degree, class, genus of, ii. 641. 



Cuvier, Georges, scientific report of, 

 i. 42, 152, 154 ; ' Tableau ' and 

 'Lecons,' 82; 112; on Priestley as 

 chemist, 115 ; on Hatty, 118 ; ad- 

 vance in study of organic life, 119 ; 

 services of, to practical science, 125 ; 

 126 ; Eloge of Halle, 127 ; ' Le Regne 

 animal,' 128 ; quoted, 129, 132, 141, 

 146, 147, 150, ii. 249 ; makes nervous 

 system of animals the basis of classi- 

 fication, i. 130 ; training of, 133 ; 

 description of the "Karlschule," 134; 

 the greatest representative of the aca- 

 demic system, 136 ; first great his- 

 torian of^ience, 137 ; quoted on 

 science and revolution ,138 ; palaeon- 

 tological work of, 139 ; Eloge of Four- 

 croy, 140 ; elementary scientific text- 

 books, 143; report of French Insti- 

 tute, 149 ; educational institutions, 

 155 ; 163, 171 ; mistrusted specu- 

 lative spirit in science, 178 ; his 

 ideas triumph over those of Geoffroy 

 St Hilaire, 179 ; 200 ; in praise of 

 French science, 231 ; quoted on 

 science in England, 235 ; 264 ; and 

 Brongniart, founders of palaeontology, 

 291 ; 306 ; depreciated by Comte, 

 310 ; zoological labours, ii. 222 ; 

 study of fossil remains, 225 ; ana- 

 tomical dissection, 232 ; zoological 

 work, 235 ; morphological and ana- 

 tomical study of animal life, 237 ; 

 classifications, 238, 239, 254,; fos- 

 sils, 240; rejects idea of "Echelle 

 des etres," 243 ; controversy with 

 Geoffroy, 246, 253; palaeontology, 

 247; "catastrophism,"250, 251 ; and 

 " theory of analogies," 254 ; the 

 question of the fixity of species, 

 256 ; combats influence of Oken, 

 259 ; extension of morphological 

 view, 260, 266; influence of, 276; 

 'Ossemens fossiles,' 277 ; exploration 

 of Paris basin, 294 ; one-sided in- 

 fluence of, 300, 301 ; and Buffon, 

 309 ; Eloge <le Lamarck, 316 ; views 

 of Lamarck and Geoffroy, 320 ; and 

 Newton, contrasted with Darwin, 

 341 ; a founder of comparative an- 

 atomy, 386, 406; "vortex," 422; 

 751. 



" Cyclical " view, ii. 286. 



Cyclopaedia, Nichol's, i. 330, ii. 133. 



