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Clifton College Scientific Society, 51; Conversazione at, 148 ; 
its School of Science, 329; View of the Museum, 330 
Climate of Nicaragua, 206 
~ Clock Tower, Westminster, Magneto-Electric Light for, 107 
- Cloud Scenery, 4 ; New Form of, 489, 505 
Coal in Bolivia, 418 ; in India, 514 ; in Panama, 309 ; (Br. A.), 
332 ; Royal Commission on, 148, 287 
Coal Plants, Exogenous Structuresin (Sve Williamson, Prof. W. C.) 
Coa], Velocity of Sound in, 487, 506 
Cobbold (Dr. T. Spencer, F.R.S.) on Entozoa, 479; on the 
Beef Tapeworm, 506 ; on Stephanurus discovered in America 
and Australia, 508 
Coleoptera of America, M. Boucard on, 50; of New South 
Wales, 436; of Palestine, 55 
Coles, Emily, Civil Service Pension to, 260 
College of Physical Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 21, 189, 
217, 284, 416, 435, 493 
College of Physicians, Scheme of Examination, 73, 168 
Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, 229 
College of Surgeons, Ireland, 129 
Collins (J. H.), “ Western Chronicle of Science,” 220, 243, 338 
Colour, the Sensation of, 27; Dr. H. M‘Leod, F.C.S., on Ked 
and Blue, 122; Hon. J. W. Strutt on, 142; “Is Blue a 
Primary Colour,” 465 ; Lecture Experiments on, 346 ; Colour 
of the Sky, 4; Optical Phenomenon of, 68 ; Colour Vision, 
J. C. Maxwell on, 13 ; Colours of the Sea, W. M ‘Master on, 
203, 305 
Comet, Futtle’s, its Ephemeris, by J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 374; 
New, discovered by Temple, 189 ; Spectrum of, 95 
Comets, Observations by J. Birmingham, 359 ; Sir W. Thomp- 
son, F.R.S., on (Br.A.), 268 
Compass, Transparent, 366 
Compound Prism for Spectrum Microscope, 511 
Comte (M.), and Anthropology, 466 
Conchology of Polynesia, 37 ; of the West Indies, 307 
Conservation of Force, 47 
Constantinople, Astronomy in, 128 
Cook (Captain), Monument to, in New South Wales, 271 
Cooke (M. C, M.A.), his “ Manual of Structural Botany,” 44 ; 
his “ Handbook of British Fungi,” 321 
Cooley (W. D.) on Elemetary Geometry, 485 
Cooper’s Hill, Indian College of Civil Engineering, 244 
Corals, 37, 38; Prof. P. M. Duncan on, 57 
Coral Fauna of the Deep Sea, 153 
Corfield (Prof.) on Sewage, 287 
Corona, Remarks on the, 42, 121, 160; its Radial Appearance, 
46; Prof. Serpierion, 99 ; A. C. Ranyard, F.R.A.S., on, 466 
Coronal Rifts, A, C. Ranyard, F.R.A.S., on, 27; A. Brothers 
on, 66, 121 
Comwall Institution, 375 
Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 169, 287 
Corrosion of Copper-plates by Nitrate of Silver (Br. A.), 353 
Cotteau and Triger (M. M.) their “Echinides du Département 
de la Sarthe,” 120, 220 
Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, 32 
Cotton-wool Respirators, 126, 164 
Coutts (Baroness Burdett) her Prize for Essay on “ The Balance 
Spring,” 229 
Coventry Institute, Science Classes at, 493 
Cyace Calvert (F., F.R.S.), on “‘ Protuplasmic Life,” 57 
Cramming for Middle Class Examinations, 202, 285 
Crinoids, Palzeozoic, Prof. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., on their 
Structure, 496 
Crocodiles at Greytown, 27 
Croll (Jas.) on the Age of the Earth 
Crookes (Wiliam, F.R.S.), his ‘‘Chemical Analysis,” 81; on 
“ Psychic Force,” 237, 278 
Crotch (G. R., F.L.S.) on Geographical Distribution of Insects, 
65 ; his Expedition to Austraha, 129 
Cryptogamia in Coal Measures, Classification of, Prot. W. C. 
Williamson, F.R°S., on (Br. A.), 173, 357, 408, 426, 450, 504 
Crystal Palace Aquarium, 469 
Cundurango Tree, 514 
Cunningham (Major.-Gen, A., R.E.) “ The Ancient Geography 
of India,” 381 
Cycloid, the, Note by R. A. Proctor, F.R.A.S., 465, 487 
Cyclone in the West Indies, 417, 454, 464 
Cyclones, Converging of Wind in, 254; Low Barometer in, 
226; J J. Murphy on their Origin, 305 
Czermak (Prof.) his Electric Double Lever, 5 
Dallas (W. S., F.L.S.) on “ Newman’s British Butterflies,” 219 | 

Dall (W. H.) on Striated Muscular Fibre in Gasteropoda, 114 ; 
his “ Brachiopoda of the United States Coast Survey,” 238 ; 
his Explorations in Alaska, 455 
Dana (Jas. D.) on the supposed Legs of Asaphus platye phalus, 
152, 254 
Danger and Storm Signal Light, inextinguishable, 49 
Darwin (Charles, F.R.S.) on a New View of Darwinism, 180 
Darwinism, Notes on, 5, 46, 117; 2 New View of, by Henry 
H. Howorth, 161, 180, 200, 221, 240 
Dase’s Tables of Prime Numbers, 6 
Davidson (Thomas) Memoir of, in Geological Magazine, 36 
Davies (Lieut. A. M., R. N.) on Saturn’s Rings, 203 
Davis (A. S.) on the Aurora, 385 
Davis (Barrett) his Tables of Prime Numbers, 6 
Davis (Henry) on Eclipse Photography, 445 
Davy (Sir Humphrey) Statue to, at Penzance, 307 
Dawkins (W. Boyd, F.R.S.) on the Interment in the Aurignac 
Cave, 208 ; Mammalia of the Glacial Period (Br. A.), 355 ; 
Origin of Domestic Animals (Br. A.), 357; Classification of 
the Paleolithic Age (Br. A.), 358; Discoveries of Platycnemic 
Men in Denbighshire, 388 
Dawson (Principal, F.R.S.) on Hydrous Silicate in Fossils, 162 ; 
on the Higher Education of Women, 515 
Day (St. John V,, C E.) “ Papers on the Great Pyramid,” 303 
Debus (Dr., F.R.S.) on Ozone, 134 
Deep Sea Explorations, 73, 87, 167, 290; in America, 233 ; in 
the Baltic, 417 ; in Indian waters, 307 ; Dredging in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence, 210; Deep-Sea Temperature, 97 ; Resolu- 
tion of the Br. A., 313; (See Carpenter, Dr. W. B. ; Ocean 
Currents) 
De Fonvielle (W.) on Aerostation, 3 
Delaunay (M.) on the Thickness of the Earth’s Crust, 28, 45, 
65, 141 
Denbighshire, Discoveries of Platcyenemic Men in, 388 
Denmark, Biology of, 150 
De Notaris (Dr. G.), “Epilogo della Briologia Italiana,” 383, 
446 ; D. Moore, F.L.S., on, 487 
Derry, Natural History Society of, 51 
Deschanel (A. Privat), ‘‘ Elementary Treatise on Natural Philo- 
sophy,” 343, 405, 425 
Desert of the Tih, Report by C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake on, 33, 52 
Devonshire Assoc. of Literature, Science, and Art, 169, 374 
Dewar on Thermal Equivalents of Oxides of Chlorine (Br. A.), 291 
Diamond Fields of Natal, 190, 418 
Dickson (Alex., M.D.) ‘‘ Suggestions on Fruit Classification” 
(Br. A.), 347, 475 
Diving Bell, Photographic Apparatus for use in the, 477 
Dobell (Dr.) his Reports on Practical Medicine, 140 
“Domestic Botany,” by John Smith, A.L.S., 304 
Donegal, Geology of, 234 
Doubleday (Thomas), ‘‘ Matter for Materialists,” 321 
Drake (C. F. TY.) his Report on the Nesert of the Tih, 33, 52 
Dredging Expedition off Spain and Portugal, its Zoological Re- 
sults (Br. A.), 456 : 
Dredging of the Gulf Stream, 87 
Dresden Natural History Society, 133 
Drought caused by Drainage, 386 
Dublin: Geological Society, 135 ; Natural History Society, 36, 
135; Queen’s University, 189; Royal Society, 96; Royal 
Irish Academy, 19, 77, 136, 196, 379. 440; Tnnity College, 
129 ; University Diploma on State Medicine, 137, 148 
Duncan (Prof. P. M., F.R.S.), on Corals, 37, 57, 773 on the 
Coral Fauna of the Deep Sea, 153 
Durham University and College of Science at Newcastle, 21, 
189, 217 
Dust and Smoke, Prof. Tyndall on, 124 
Dyer (Prof. W. T. T.), his Lectures on Botany, 107 ; on Mimicry 
in Plants (Br. A.), 3553 on Fossil Cryptogams, 444, 504 ; 
on Geometry at Oxford, 485; on Homoplastic Agreements 
in Plants, 507 
Dymond (W. P.), on the Irish Fern in Cornwall, 8 
Dynameter, New, Rev. T. W. Webb, F.R.A.S., on, 427, 446 
Dynamics, Abstract, Cayley’s Report on (Br. A.), 264 
Dynamics, Stokes’s Theory, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on 
(Br. A.), 267 
Dynamite, Dr. Guyot on, 156 
Far, the. Dr. Arthur Boettcher on its Structure, 64 
Earth, the, its Age as determined by Tidal Retardaticn, 323 ; 
its Internal Structure, H. Hennessy, F.R.S., on, 182; its 
Temperature, 133; Thickness of its Crut, 28, 45, 65, 141, 
344, 366, 383 
