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{Nature, Noi. 15, 1877 



Church (Prof. A. H.), " Laboratory Guide," 160 



Ciamician (M.), the Spectra of Chemical Elements and their 



Compounds, 531 

 Cincinnati Observatory, Double Star Measurements at, 29 

 Cissbury, Ancient Characters at, J. Park Harrison, 8 

 City of London College, New Buildings, 236 

 Civil Engineers, Institute of, sci- Institute 

 Cleopatra's Needle, 388 

 Climate, Influence of, on Pulmonary Consumption, Dr. C. T. 



Williams, 59 ; Climate of Europe, 467 

 Clocks, Paris, 91 



Close Time for Animals, Report on, 404 

 Cloud Colours, 43 



Clouds, Heights of. Measuring the, 55S 

 Clowes' "Type-Setter," 215 

 Coagulation oi Blood, 504 



Coal, the, brought Home by the late Arctic Expedition, 377 

 Coefficient of Capillarity for Certain Liquids, 167 

 Cohn (Prof.), the contractile Filaments of Teasel (Dipsciius), 



339 ; Biology of Plants, Prof. McNab, 435 

 CoUett (Henry), Adaptation of Plant Stiucture, 266 

 Collins (J. H.), the Drift of Plymouth Hoe, 379 

 Colomlio Museum, 352 

 Colonial Museum for London, 2l6 

 Colorado, Tertiary Leaf-beds of, 148 

 Colorado Beetle, 174, 196, 334, 390, 40S, 430 

 Colour-Sense in Birds, 83, 142, 163 



Colours : Prof. O. N. Rood on, 150 ; ComplemcnUiry, 20S 

 Columbia College, U.S., School of Mining at, 411 

 Cohimbium : Minerals containing, from New Localities in the 



United States, 167 

 Combustion : Action of Light on, Charles Watson, 341 ; G. 



Savary, 441 ; Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 477 ; C. Tomlinson, F.K.S., 



Comet?, 30 ; Guillemin's "World of Comets," 5 ; Winnecke's 



Comet of 1877, II., 15 ; Cornels observed by Hevelius, 93 ; 



D'Arrest's Comet, 102, 234, 256 ; the D'Angos Comet of 



1784, 102, 124, 398; Comet of Short Periods and Minor 



Planets, 143; De Vico's Comet of Short Period, 212; the 



Third Comet of 1759, 267 ; the First Comet of 1S77, 39S ; 



a New Comet, 442, 504 ; the New Comet (1S77, IV.), 460; 



the Present Comets, 522 

 Commensals, Fish, of Medusce, Prof. Theo. Gill, 362 

 Compass Adjustment on the Clyde, 132 

 Complementary Colours, J. J. Murphy, 20S 

 Complex Inorganic Acids, 254 



Comstock (Prof. Theodore B.), his " Summer School, 92 

 Coniferx, Chlorophyll in, 71 

 Conjugation, Reproduction by, A. W. Bennett, 340 ; Rev. 



George Henslow, 397 

 Consumption, Influence of Climate on Pulmonary, by Dr. C. T. 



Williams, 59 

 Contagious Diseases : the Glandular Origin of, Dr. B. W. 



Richardson, F.R.S., 480; Origin of, 547 

 Copper ; in the Blood, 30 ; Action of Various Fatty Oils Upon, 



W. H. Watson, 377 

 Corals, Pala'ozoic, Charles Wachsmuth on, 515 

 Cornish (Thos. ), Blue and Yellow Crocuses, 227 

 Cornwall : Carboniferous Coast-Line of North, 379 ; the 



"Great Flat Lode" south of Redruth and Camborne, 3S1 ; 



Tin Mines of, 38 1 

 Costa Rica, Ornithology of, 446, 521 

 Cotopaxi, Eruption of the Volcano, 297, 335 

 Crag Fossils in the Ipswich Museum, 351 

 Crespigny (Dr. E. Ch.), " New London Flora," 338 

 Creswell Crags, the Bone-caves of, 19 

 Cretaceous Flora of America, J. S. Newberry, 264 ; J. Starkie 



Gardner, 285 

 Crocodile at the Royal College of Surgeons, 48S 

 Crocuses, Blue and Yellow, 8, 43, 84, 163, 227 

 Crompton (Dr. Samuel), the Portrait of Tycho Brahe, 501 

 Cronicon Cientifico Popular, Huelin's, 418 

 Crookes (William, F.R.S.), the Otheoscope, 12 ; Rainbow 



Reflected from Water, 329 

 Crow Blackbirds of Florida, 399 

 Crowther (Dr.), a Tasmanian Carnivorous Plant, 31 

 Crowther (Bishop), Notes on the Niger Country, 131 

 Cryptogamy; Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 428 ; " Crypto- 



gamic Flora of Silesia," 543 

 Crystalline Lens and Periicopism, 151 

 Crystallisation under Galvanic Currents, 71 



" Cultivated Plants," F. W. Burbidge, 60 



Cumberland Literary and .Scientific Association, 53 



Curious Phenomenon during a Gale, 551 



Cyclones and Sunspots in Mauritius, 375 



Cygnus the New Star in, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 413 



Daguerrc and the Discovery of Photography, 5°' 



Dallinger (Rev. W. II., F.R.S.), Spontaneous Generation, 24 ; 



and Dr. J. Drysdale, the Development of the Ovum, 17S, 



203 ; on the Life History of the Simplest Organisms, 40S 

 D'All.ertis (Signor), Exploration of New Guinea, 296 

 D'Angos' Comet of 17S4, 102, 124, 398 

 Daphniada;, the, 504 

 Darbishire (R. D. ) Japanese Mirrors, 142 

 Darby (A. M.), Purple Verbenas, 163 

 D'Arrest's Comet, 102, 234, 256 



Darwin (Charles, F. R.S.), Contractile Filaments of Teasel, 339 

 Darwin (Francis), Nectar-Sccrcting Glands, 100 

 Davyum, the New Metal, 236, 255 

 Uawkins (Prof. Boyd, F. R.S.), Museum Reform, 78 ; the Value 



of Natural History Museums, 98 ; the Organisation of Natural 



History Museums, 137 

 Dawson (J. W. ), Fossil Floras and Glacial Periods, 67 

 Decennial Period of Magnetic Variations, and of ,Sun-sp )t 



Frequency, Dr. J. Allan Broun, F. R.S., 62 

 De Cosson (E. A.), the Cradle of the Blue Nile, 226 

 Deep-Sea Dredging, Prof. Agassiz on, 149 

 Deep-Sea Expedition, the Norwegian, no 

 Deep Well Borings, 53 



De la Rue (Dr. Warren, F.R.S.), " Centigrade Tables," 93 

 Delille (M.), the Professor of Legerdemain, his Death, 217 

 Denning (W. F.), New Meteor Radiant, 102 ; the July Shootini; 



Stars, 2S6 ; Radiant Centre of the Perseids, 362 ; Meteors, 550 

 Deutsche geologische Gesellschatt, Annual Meeting at Vienna, 



529 

 De Vico's Comet of Short Period, 212 

 Dewalque (Prof. G. ), the Devonian Sj'Stem in England and 



Belgium, 379 

 Devonian System in England and Belgium, Prof. G. Dewalque, 



379 

 Deyrolle (M.), New Process in Photography, 353 

 Diapason Normal, the French, and Kimig's Tuning Forks, 



Alex. J. Ellis, 85 

 Dictionary, Latham's English, 3 

 " Differentials of Functions," Rice and Johnson, 21 

 "Differential and Integral Calculus," Buckingham's, 21 

 Digala, Excavations near, 92 

 Dipsaciis, the Contractile !• ilaments of, Prof. Cohn and Chirles 



Darwin, F.R.S., 339 

 Disease : Prof. Tyndall on tlie Spread ot, 9 ; the Glandular Origin 



of Contagious, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S, 4S0 

 "Dismal Swamp," the, 556 

 Dixon's Geology of Sussex, New Edition of, 91 

 Dohrn's (Dr.), Zoological .Station at Naples, 91 

 Dombosk (Mathieu de), Statue to, at Nancy, 197 

 Domestic Economy, Congress on, at Birmingham, 151, 216, 236 

 Donisthorpe (Wordsworth), Atmospheric Currents, S3 

 Dorpat, Report of the University of, '133 

 Double Stars : M. Klammarion's Investigation of, 15 ; Double 



.Star Measurements at Cincinnati, 29 ; Revolving, 70 ; 72 



Ophiuchi, 194 

 Dove (P. A.), Weisbach's "Mechanics of Engineering," Si 

 Downes (Dr. Arthur) and T. P. Blunt, the Influence of Light 



upon the Development of Bacteria, 21S 

 Draper (Prof Henry, M. D.), Discovery of Oxygen in the Sun 



by Photography, and a New Theory of the Solar Spectrum 



(With a riwtosraph), 364 

 Dream Phenomenon, Strange, 329, 397 

 Dredging, Deep-sea, Prof. Agassiz on, 149 

 Dredging Excursion to Arran, 466 

 Dresden Naturalists' Society, "Isis," 514 

 Dresser's " Birds of Europe," 297 



Dreyer (J. L.), Early Observations of the Solar Corona, 549 

 Drops, A. M. Worthington, 165 

 Drosera: A. Batalin on, 359; Wright Wilson, 361 

 Droughts and Famines in .Southern India, 14 

 Drysdale (Dr. J.) and Rev. W. H. Dallinger, the Development 



of the Ovum, 17S, 203 

 Dublin Royal Society, 135 



Duhring (Dr.), Expulsion from the University of Berlin, 259 

 Durham (Jas. ), Hog- Wallows aijd Prairie Mounds, 24 



