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Cockchafer, European, 546 



Cocking (Annie E.), Fireball, 269, 2S9 



Coefficients of Capillarity of Liquid Carbon Compounds, 616 



Coffee-Leaf Disease, the, 252, 546 



Cohnstein (Dr.), Experiments on Nature of Blood, 4S 



Coleopterology of North America, 495 



Cole's Pits, Rev. A. Irving, 560 ; Joseph Stevens, 607 



Colini (Dr. G. A.), on Indians of Upper Amazon Regions, 



344 

 Colliery Explosions, on the Influence of Coal-Dust in, Paper 



Read before the Royal Society, 262 

 Collimator, New, for Reflecting Telescopes, G. J. Stoney, 



F.R.S., 22 

 Collins (J. H.), Mineralogy, 143 

 Colombo, Proposed University in, 641 

 Colonial and Foreign Reports, 370 

 Colorado, the Silver Districts of, Henry Gunn, 71 

 Colorado and European Russia, Geological Parallel between, 



614 

 Colour of Flowers, 519 

 Colours, Complementary, Dr. Konig, 308 

 Comets : Prof. R. S. Ball, 454 ; New, 83, 326, 346, 397 ; of 



1729, 519 ; of 185SIIL, the, 253 ; of 18S2, the Great, 42, 154; 



of 18S4 b (Barnard, July 16), 431, 458, 479, 496, 547 ; A. A. 



Common, 511 ; Comet 1884 c, 548 ; Periodical Comets in 



[8S5, 346 ; Brorsen's Comet of Short Period, 42, 300, 459 ; 



Approaching Appearance of Encke's Comet, 594 ; Approach- 

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Atkinson, 55, 463; the Southern, Ross, January 7> 2i > 



Wolfs Comet, 615, 643 

 "Comma-Shaped Bacillus," Alleged to be the Cause of Cholera, 



Timothy Richard Lewis, 513 

 Commercial Geographical Society of Paris, 644 ; of Oporto, 



644 

 Common (A. Ainslie), Rings of Saturn, 144 ; Loewy's New 



Telescope System, 434 ; Barnard's Comet, 611 

 Conference, International, on Education, 363 

 Congo, Exploration on the, 570 

 Conic Sections, G. Hale Pnckle, 631 

 Continental Climate, Difference between Sea and, with regard 



to Vegetation, Dr. M. Bergsman, 392 

 Continents, Permanency of, Rev. Geo. Henslow, 407 

 Copper Sulphate, on the Density and Thermal Expansion of 



Aqueous Solutions of , Prof. J. G. MacGregor, 227 

 Corals, Deep-Sea, Prof. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 464 

 Corea, Memoirs of the Interpreter, Otano Kigoro, on, Translated 



from the Japanese into Russian, 132 

 Cory (F. W.), How to Foretell the Weather with the Pocket 



Spectroscope, 606 

 Cotterill (James H., F.R.S.), "Applied Mechanics," Dr. J. F. 



Main, 382 

 Cotton Exhibition in America, 180 

 "Cotton-Spinner," Dr. F. Jeffrey Bell, 193, 335 

 Condi", Equatorial, of the Paris Observatory, Howard Gvubb, 



F.R.S., 123 

 " Conrants Telluriques, Etude des," E. E. Blavier, 106 

 Coverdale (Geo.), Action of Ammonia upon some Lepidopterous 



Pigments, 571 

 Crayfishes, Habits of Burrowing, in the United States, Ralph 



S. Tarr, 127 

 "Creation, Vestiges of," Robert Chambers's, Dr. G. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 73 

 Crehore (Dr. C. F.), Cannibal Snake, 408 

 Crepuscular Lights, Theories of the Late Remarkable, A. G. 



Mocenigo, 82 

 Cresswell Caves in Derbyshire, 153 



Cretaceous Flora of North America, Sir J. W. Dawson, 631 

 Crinoids, Anatomy of, Dr. Herbert Carpenter, 82 

 Crompton (R. F. B.), Artificial Lighting, 281 

 Crops, Field and Garden, Diseases of, Geo. Murray, 605 

 Crosskey (Henry W., LL.D.), Peripatetic Method of Instruc- 

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 Crystalline Rocks, the Origin of, T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S., 227 

 Crystalline Schists, Origin of the, Dr. Johannes Lehmann, 



Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 121 

 Cube, to Find the, of any Number by Construction, R. Tucker, 



539. 56i, 584 

 Curare, the Gaseous Inhalation and Exhalation in the Case of 



Animals affected with, Prof. Zuntz, 96 



Currents, Earth, ic6 



Currents, Terrestrial, Dr. Wild, 223 



Dairoku (Kikuchi), at Meridian Congress, 567 



Dallinger (Rev. W., F. R.S.), Researches on the Origin and 



Life-Histories of the Least and Lowest Living Things, 619, 



645 

 Dalton (John), Reminiscence of, 431 



Daniel (Alfred), Text-Book of the Principles of Physics, 49 

 Darkness at Midday, Extraordinary, Rev. S. J. Perry, 



F.R.S., 6 

 Darwin (Charles), Five Bursaries at St. Petersburg University 



in his Name, 344 

 Darwin (Francis, F. R.S ), Absorption of Water by Plants, 7 

 Darwin (W. E.), Worm-Eating Larva, 146 

 Dawson (Principal Sir J. W., F.R.S.), Geology of the Country 



Traversed by the Canada Pacific Railway, 95 ; Prehistoric 



Man in Egypt and Syria, 95 ; Knighted, 494 ; Cretaceous 



Flora of North America, 631 

 Day (Francis), Salmon-Breeding, 48S 

 Decharme, Experiments of, 568 



Deep-Sea Deposits, on the Nomenclature, Origin, and Distribu- 

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Starkie Gardner, 192, 264 ; Dr. J. G. Jeffreys, F.R.S., 215 

 Deep-Sea Dredging, American Initiative in Methods of, R. 



Rathbun, 399 

 Deme and the Horde, the, Howitt and Fison, 235 

 Denning (W. F.), the Rotation Period of Mars, 55 ; Jupiter 



I2 5 

 Diatomaceous Deposits in Scotland, Prof. W. J. Macadam, 181 

 Diderot Centenary, 346 

 Diffusion of Species, Duke of Argyll, 462 ; Dr. G. C. Wallich, 



512 ; R. Scot Skirving, 512 

 Dijniphna Expedition, Proposed New, 64 

 Dilatation of Liquids, 396 

 Diller (J. S.), Atmospheric Sand-Dust from Unalaska, Report 



on, 91 

 Dinosaurs, American Jurassic, 201 



Dipper (Cinclus), the Ancestor of the, Dr. C. C. Abbott, 30 

 Discomycetes, a Manual of the British, 130 

 Distant (W. L.), Insect Pests in Ceylon, 634 

 Dittmar (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Composition of Ocean Water, 



292 

 Dixon (H. N.), Carnivorous Wasps, 408 

 Dobbie (J. J.) and T. and A. Gray, on the Relation between the 



Electrical Qualities and Chemical Composition of Glass, 70 

 Dog-Poison, the Dilution of, 97 

 Dogs, Plague of, in Australasian Colonies, 345 

 Dolbear (Prof.), the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, 



56 



Double-Star 99 Hercuhs, 375 



Double-Stars, New Southern, 616 



Double-Storied Houses in the Himalayas, B. D. Oldham, 30 



Dragon-Flies at Moscow, Clouds of, 223 



Drosera, Voracity of the, A. Balding, 241 



Dublin Royal Society, 22, 72, 162, 331 



Dublin, Sanitary Institute at, 557 



Dublin University Experimental Science Association, 187 



Dumas (J. B.), the Late Eloges on, 15 



Dumas (Mathieu), Proposed Statue of, Dr. W. H. Perkm, 263 



Duncan (Prof. Martin, F.R.S.), Deep-Sea Corals, 464 



Dust : Atmospheric, R. Brough Smyth, 170; Alexander McAdie, 

 194 ; Solar, Prof. E. Douglas Archibald, 559 ; T. W. Back- 

 house, 633 



Dust-Free Spaces, E. W. Serrell, jun., 53; Prof. O. Lodge, 54 



Duter (M.), Experiments on Magnetic Shells, 568 



Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.), Younger School of Botanists, 



559 

 Dynamic Electricity, J. Hopkinson, J. N. Shoolbred, and R. 



E. Day, 144 

 " Dynamo-Electric Machinery," Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 144, 630 



Earth Currents, 106 



Earth, the Movements of the, by J. Norman Lockyer, F R.S. 

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