[Natun, Dec. 29, 1 88 1 



Butterflies of Europe, Henry Chas. Lang, M.D., 177, 283 

 Buxton Thermal Spring, Analyses of the Mud deposited round 

 the, 542 



Calabar Bean as a Preservative, Dr. E. MacDowel Cosgrave, 

 583 



Calorimeter, a Simple Form of, 41 



Cambridge : Annual Report on the Museums, 93 ; Observatory 



Report, 158 

 Canadian Naturalist, 133 



Cantor Lectures, 40 



Caoutchouc, Electric Expansion in, iSo 



Cape, Thunder Storm at the, C. Tomlinson, j66 



Capper (Thomas), Six-Fingered Family, 166 



Capron (J. Rand) : Optical Phenomena, 284; the Comet, 2S5, 

 3S0, 430; Comet b 1881, 431 



Capsdla Bursa-Pastoris, F. W. Hutton, 188 



Carbon, the Galvanic Properties of, 294 



Carbon Battery, a New, 3S7 



Carbonic Acid Gas, Not Free in Sea Water, Prof. P. Martin 

 Duncan, F.R.S., 213 



Carnelley's (Dr.) Experiment with Mercuric Chloride, J. B. 

 Hannay, 77 



Carnot, Statue to, 265 



Carpenter (\Vm. Lant), Telephones in New Zealand, 141 



Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.) : i?« W. L Bishop, 188; Geo. 

 J, Romanes, F.R.S., 21 1 



Carpenter (P. Herbert), Pronomenia Sluiteri, Hubrecht, 509 



Carr (Lucien), Notes on the Crania of New England Indians, 

 140 



Casey (John, F.R.S.), Sequel to the First Six Books of the 

 Elements of Euclid, 52 



Castrop (Westphalia), Fall of a Meteoric Stone at, 427 



Caterpillars, Train Stopped by, 65 ; Plague of, at Swatow, 132 



Carter (W.), Effects of Pressure on the Germination and Growth 

 of Plants, 79 



Carriage, a Prehistoric, 265 



Celestial Objects, Cycle of, Admiral W. H. Smyth, 234 



Celluloid, Uses of, 540 



Census of Japan, 613 



Central African Lakes and Back, to the, &c., J. Thomson. 353 



Ceraski's Variable U Cephei, 542, 591 



Ceylon, Birds of, Capt. Vincent Legge, 3 



ChamEeleons, Popular Account of, St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 

 309. 335 



Chaney (H. J.), International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 

 384 



Changeri in Anatolia, Earthquake in, 540 



Channel Tunnel, 177, 225 



Chappell (Wm.), How to Prevent Drowning, loi 



Chasles (M.), Sale of the Library of the, 201 



Chatel (M.), How to Prevent Drowning, 142 



Chavanne (Josef), Afrika im Lichte unserer Tage. Bodengestalt 

 und geologisoher Bau, 581 



" Cheline Memorial " volume, 224 



Chemistry: Chemical Notes, 41, in, 203, 293, 542 ; Chemical 

 Society, 46, 95, 207 ; the Weight of Chemical Reactions, 

 112; Text-Book of Practical Organic, for Elementary Stu- 

 dents, H. Chapman Jones, 124 ; Inorganic Chemistry, Dr. 

 W. B. Kemshead, 139 ; Chemical Equivalents, 284 ; Che- 

 mistry of the Farm, R. Warington, Prof. A. H. Church, 

 379 ; Chemical Action between Solids, Prof. Thorpe, F.R.S., 

 467 ; Dictionary of Chemistry and Allied Sciences, H. Watts, 

 F.R.S., 530; Solar Chemistry, 581 ; Chemical Differenoe 

 between Living and Dead Protoplasm, 592 



Chimpanzee, Gorilla and the, 203 



China, Science in, John Fryer, 9, 54; New Maps of, 19 



Chinese in the United States, 225 



Chinese, Spread of Vaccination among the, 503 



Chio and Tehesme, Earthquake at, 88, 426 



Chloride, Mercuric, Dr. Carnelly's Experiment with, J. B. 

 Hannay, 77 



Chlorine, the Velocity of Sound in, 67 



Chlorophyll, on the Influence of Intermittent Illumination on 

 the Development of, 292 



Christie (W. H. M., F.R,S.), the Comet, 197, 236 ; Appointed 

 Astronomer-Royal, 339 



Chromous Salts, 41 



Chrysanthemum, 611 



Church (Prof. A. H.), Chemistry of the Farm, R. Wai-ington, 

 379 



Cinchona Plantation, Government, Dr. King's Report on the, 



S90 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, Meeting of American Association for the 



Advancement of Science at, 146, 486 

 City and Guilds of London Institute, 262, 386, 590 

 Civil Engineers, Institute of, Mr. Walter R. Browne on the 

 Relative Value of Tidal and Upland Rivers, Estuaries and 

 Harbours, 17 

 Civilisation and Barbarism in South Africa, 227 

 Clarke (Hyde), Mr. Wallace and the Organs of Speech, 380 

 Clarke (Wm. Eagle) and W. Denison Roebuck, Vertebrate 



Fauna of Yorkshire, 379 

 Claypole (Prof. E. W.), American Association, 486 

 Clayton (Capt. Emilius), Earthquake in Van, 189, 238 

 Cleland (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Evolution, Expression, and Sensa- 

 tion, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., I 

 Clouds, Phenomena of, Henry Muirhead, M.D., 237 

 Coal Gas, Flame Length of, Lewis T. Wright, 30 

 Coal-beds in Sumatra, 314 

 Coal, a New Variety of, 204 



Coal-seam, discovery of near Victoria, Huon, Tasmania, 541 

 Coal, Diamonds and Gold of India, W. Ball, 579 

 Coffee, Liberian, 39 



Cold, Birds Suff'ering from, J. V. Sladek, 165 

 Collieries, Electric Light in, 383 ; at Sesamy, 510 

 CoUiery Explosions, Cause of, 512 

 Colouring Geological Maps, Whewell on. Prof. Thos. McK. 



Hughes, F.R.S., 14 

 Colza Oil, the Electric Discharge Through, Dr. A. Alacfarlane, 



46s 

 Comets: Cornet 1881 a (Swift, May l), 18, 41, 65, 248; 

 R. S. Newall, Dr. William Huggins, F.R.S., W. H. 

 M. Christie, F.R.S., Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., E. J. 

 Stone, George M. Seabrooke, 197 ; Chas. E. Burton, E. 

 J. Stone, F.R.S., Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., A. 

 Percy Smith, 222; A. Ainshe Common, 223; Admiral 

 Mouchez, 223; W. H. M. Christie, F.R.S., 236; Dr. 

 Henry Draper, 236 ; M. Wolf, 261 ; J. Rand Capron, 285 ; 

 F. C. Constable, 2S5 ; Dr. Henry Draper, 308 ; J. Birming- 

 ham, 308; Observations on June II, Dr. B. A. Gould, 342 ; 

 the Great Comet of 18S1, 375; Comet of 1812, 40; Comet 

 1880 V. (Pechule, December 16), 41 ; Biela's v 1805, 178; 

 i8ioand 1863 (V), 1 1 1 ; Comet iSSi /', 277 ; J. Rand Capron, 

 431 ; Geo. M. Seabrooke, 431 ; the Photographic Spectrum of 

 Dr. W. Huggins, F.R.S., R.S., 464; Comet 1881 c, 278, 292 : 

 Encke's, 291, 425, 478; Schfeberle's Comet, 342, 375, 425, 

 478 ; J. Rand Capron, 3S0, 430 ; Tebbutt's, Origination of 

 its Proper Light, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 430 ; Comet V 1863), 

 541 ; a New,/ 541 ; W. F. Denning, 557, 591,612; Comets 

 and Balloons, W. de Fonvielle, 3S1 

 Common (A. Ainslie), the Comet, 221 

 Coniferae, Chapter in the History of the, the Cupressineas, J. 



Starkie Gardner, 103 

 Conservation of Electricity, Doctrine of, Prof. Silvanus P. 



Thompson, 78, 164 

 Conservation of Electricity, G. Lippmann, 140 

 Constable (F. C), Sound of the Aurora, 53 ; the Comet, 285 

 Constancy of Insects in Visiting Flowers, J. T. Powell, 509 

 Conway (Moncure D.), the Wandering Jew, 458 

 Copernicus, Discovery of an Unknown Work by, 246 

 Corals of Singapore, 591 

 Corea, a Geography of, 541 

 Cosgrave (Dr. E. MacDowel), Calabar Bean as a Preservative, 



583 

 Countries of the World, Robert Brov/n, 306 

 Cranes, Natural History of the, Edward Blyth, 77 

 Crania of New England Indians, Notes on the, Lucien Carr, 



140 

 Crania, the Collection of, at the Oxford Museum, 564 

 Cranium, Relation between the, and the Rest of the Skeleton, 



388 

 Craniology : Skulls of the Crimean Tartars, 132 

 Creighton (Dr. C), the Micrococcus of Tubercle, 604 

 Cretaceous Flora, American, Prof. J. S. Newberry, 191 ; J. S. 



Gardner, 531 

 Crevaux (Dr.), his South America Journey, 114 

 Crispin (A. Trevor), Red Rainbows, 510 ; the Dark Day, 605 

 Crookes Tube, Acoustic Phenomenon noticed in a, C. R. Cross, 



45 

 Crookes (Wm., F.R.S.), on Discontinuous Phosphorescent 

 Spectra in High Vacua, 89 



