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iNDEX Vv 
Carpels, Awned, of Erodium, Prof. G. Macloskie, 174 
Carpenter (Dr. William B., F.R.S.), Struggle of Parts in the 
Organism, 6, 52, Vignettes from Nature, 435, 480, 554, the 
Microscope and its Revelations, 502 
Cassell’s Popular Natural History, Edited by P. Martin Duncan, 
F,R.S., 107 
Cassiopeix, Binary Star 7, 186 
Castelfrentano, Earthquake at, 420 
Cat, the, St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 286 
«Catalytic Action,” so-called, 567 
Caucasus, the Geology of, 277 
Cave discovered in the Bela Lime Alps, 89 
Cecil (Henry), Meteor, 78 
“Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes,” Rev. T. W. Webb, 98 
Cell, on an Experimental Form of Secondary, Prof, A. S. 
Herschel, 363, 527 
Centaurea jacea, Polymorphism of the Flower Heads of, 
Dr. Hermann Miiller, 241 
Central Asia, Dr. Regel’s Journey in, 349 
Ceraski’s Variable Star U Cephei, 493 
Cerebral Localisation, Prof. Sigmund Exner, Dr. David Ferrier, 
214 
Cerium Metals, New Compounds of, 568 
Ceylon, the Lepidoptera of, Henry Trimen, 32, 338; F. Moore, 
79; the New Ceylon, 315 
Chalk, Red Flints in the, W. Fream, 437; J. Badcock, jun., 
7 
Ehallencer, Echinoids of the, Prof. H. W. Mackintosh, 41 ; 
Pressure Errors of the Challenger Thermometers, Prof. P. G. 
Tait, 90, 127 
Chambers (V. T.), Burrowing Larve, 529 
Channel Tunnel, A. Strahan, 463; Tele-dynamics and the Accu. 
mulation of Energy—their Application to the, E. Walker, 152 
Charts, Daily Weather, in the North Atlantic, 605 
Chemistry : an Error in the commonly-accepted Theory of, Prof. 
A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., 21; Chemical Society, 48, 95, 
167, 192, 331, 379, 427, 474, 546, 547, 595, 619; “A Trea- 
tise on Chemistry,’’ H. E. Roscoe, R.S., and C. Schor- 
lemmer, F.R.S., H. Watts, F.R.S., 50; Student’s Handbook 
of Chemistry, H. Leicester Greville, 123; Inorganic Chemis- 
try, Theoretical and Practical, W. Jago, 150, 364; Practical 
Chemistry, J. Howard, 150; Chemistry of the Planté and 
Faure Accumulators, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and Alfred 
Tribe, 221, 461 ; Annalsof Chemical Medicine, Dr. J. L. W. 
Thudicum’s 263 ; Chemistry of Bast Fibre, C. F. Cross and 
E. J. Bevan, 351 ; Chemistry of the Atlantic, J. Y. Buchanan, 
387, 411; ‘‘Chemical Cause of Life Theoretically and Ex- 
perimentally Examined,” Oscar Loew and Thos. Bokorny, 
457; Chemical Notes, 567; ‘‘ Chemical Repulsions,” 567 
Chesterfield, Electric Light at, 42 
Chieti, Earthquake at, 420 
China: Telegraph in, 88 ; Competitive Examinations in, 160 ; 
Medical Women in, 206; Experiments in the Culture of 
Chinese Soja Bean, 250; Earthquakes in, 325; Gray’s Ana- 
tomy translated into Chinese, 394; Scientific Lectures in 
Chinese at the Schools in Peking, 449; E. C. Baber’s Travels 
and Researches in Western, 472; Railways in, 493; a Sys- 
tem of Meteorological Observations in the China Seas, 368 ; 
Dr. A, Woeikof, 410 ; Chinese Burial in Former Times, 518 ; 
Dr. Bretschneider on Chinese Botany, 614 
Chios, Earthquake at, 492 
Chisholm (G, G.), the Two Hemispheres: a Popular Account 
of the Countries and Peoples of the World, 337 
Chlorophyll, Researches on Animals containing, Patrick Geddes, 
303, 361; Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 338; Dr. E. 
Perceval Wright, 361 
Chlorophyll Bodies, Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the 
Roots of certain Plants and on, Chas, Darwin, F.R.S., 489 
Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S.), Sun-Spots, 337 
Christison (Sir Robert), Death of, 324 ; Obituary Notice of, 339 
Chrystal (Prof. G.), Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 237 
**Cinchona,” 420 
City and Guilds of London Institute, Distribution of Prizes and 
Certificates in the Schools connected with, 161 
Clark (J. Edmund), Phenological Observations on Early Flowers 
and Winter Temperatures, 552 
Clarke (Hyde), Climate of Atacama, 9 ; Alleged Diminution 
in the Size of Men’s Heads, 32 
Clenching of Hands from Emotional and other Causes in the 
two Sexes, on the, Arthur Stradling, 364 
Climate of Atacama, Hyde Clarke, 9 
Climate of North Northumberland as regards its Fitness for As- 
tronomical Observations, Rey. Jevon J. Muschamp Pervy, 
317, 364; J. Lingwood, 339 
Climate, Glaciers and Glavial Periods in their Relation to, Dr. 
A. Woeikof, 424 
Cloud, Rime, observed in a Balloon, W. de Fonvielle, 337, 
436, 529; Dr. Hermann Kopp, 385, 507 
Coal-Seams, Possibility of finding, workable under the Lond 1 
Area, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 311, 361 
Cobbe (Miss Frances Power), and Vivisection, H. H. Johnstn, 
459; Muffs and Vivisection, 493 
Cohn (Dr, Ferdinand), “ Die Pflanze. Vortrage aus dem Gebieic 
der Botanik,” W. Botting Hemsley, 359 
Coins, Old, Transformation of, in a Lake, 93 
Coins of the Jews, International Numismatic Orientalia, Fred. 
W. Madden; Dr. John Evans, F.R.S., 549 
Cole (Sir Henry), Death of, 590; Obituary Notice of, 611 
Collet (A.), “‘ Traité Théoretique et Pratique de la Régulation 
et de la Compensation des Compas, 382 
Collieries, Dust-Explosions in, Prof. T. E, Thorpe, F.R.S., 48S 
Colliery Explosions, Means of Saving some Lives in, D, Rhys 
Jones, 508 
Colorado River, Excavations of the Grand Cafions, 565 
Colour, Experiments on, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 64 
Colour and Sound, Karl Pearson, 339 
Colour, on the sense of, among some of the Lower Animals, Sir 
J. Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., 422 
Colours of Flowers, Seasonal Order in, Dr. J. C. Costerus, 481 
Colours of Low-growing Wood Flowers, J. Innes Rogers, 554 
Colour Perception, J. B. Hannay, F.R.S., 604 
Colour-Disks, on Combining, Char. K. Wead, 266 
Coltsfoot, T. S, Maskelyne, 290 
Comets: Comet 1881 # (Denning), 19, 126, 413; Great Comet 
of 1861, 94; Photograph of Comet B, 1881, 132, 218; 
the Great Comet of 1881, 278, 349, 519; a New Comet, 126, 
521 ; Comets of Short Period, 209 ; Comet 1882 a, 538, 593 ; 
Systematic Search for Comets, 566; the Present Comet, 616 
Comparative Embryology, Treatise on, F. M. Balfour's, F.R.S., 
Prof, E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 25 
Compass, ‘‘ Traité Théorique et Pratique de la Régulation et de 
la Compensation des Compas,” A Collet, 382 
Compressed Air upon Tramways, W. D. Scott Moncrieff, 266 
Comstock Lode, Temperatures of the Ground in, 592 
Conductivity, Thermal, Specific Heat and, H. G. Madan, 507 
Coniferze, Chapter in the History of, the Podocarpee, J. Starkie 
Gardner, 228 
Conservation of Solar Energy, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 
440, 504, 603; E. Douglas Archibald, 504; Prof. Chas. 
Morris, 601 ; Dr. J. Sterry Hunt, 602 
Constable (Samuel), Geometrical Exercises for Beginners, 457 
Constance, the Lake of, 348 
Consumption, Physiognomy of, Francis Galton, F.R.S., and 
Dr, F, A. Mahomed, 389 
Copper, on the Electrolysis of Sulphate of, G. Gore, LL.D., 
E.RS., 473 
Coral, Precious, Prof, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 510; Prof. 
Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 552 
Cordoba, Observatory of, 349 
Corfield (W. H.), Fumifugium, 151 
Corridors of Time, a Glimpse through, Prof. Robert S. Ball, 
LL.D., F.R.S., 79, 103; Dr. A. Dupré, 217; Prof. T. H. 
Huxley, F.R.S., 241 
Costa Rica, Earthquake in, 471 
Gores (Dr. J. C.), Seasonal Order in Cclours of Flowers, 
481 
Cricket’s Chirp varying with the Temperature, 229 
Cross (C. F.) and E. J. Bevan, Chemistry of Bast Fibre, 351 
Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 16, 62, 135, 275, 292 ; Lec- 
tures in Connection with, 394 ; Edison’s Electric Light at, 446 ; 
Land Telegraphy, 515; Experiments with Asbestos Paint at 
the, 276; ‘‘ Electrical Accumulators” at, 561 
Crystallography : ‘‘Rammelsberg’s Handbuch der Krystallo- 
graphisch; Physikalischen Chemie,” 287 
Cumming (G. F, Gordon), Lady’s Cruise in a French Man-of- 
War, 289 
Currents, Earth-, W. H.' Preece, F.R.S., 289; William Ellis, 
315; Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 316; G. M. Whipple, 316 ; 
J. Parnell, 316 
Current Meter of Prof. A. R, Harlacher, R. Blum, 494 
Cyanogen, Prize tor the Investigation of the Chlorides, &c., of, 
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