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INDEX 
1X 
Chapman (J., M.D.), Cholera Curable, E, Klein, 27 
Charleston, Earthquakes at, 460, 488, 501, 530 
Charlois and Perrotin (MM.), Winnecke’s Comet, 540 
Chatelier (H. Le), Principle of Equivalence in the Phemonena 
of Chemical Equilibria, 188 
Chatin (M.), Parisian Flora, 636 
Chemistry : Fresenius’s Quantitative Analysis, 2; Dr. Benedikt’s 
Chemistry of the Coal-Tar Colours, F. R. Japp, 25; Dr. 
Sprengel on Panclastite, 32; Dissociation ‘Temperatures, F. 
Siemens, 64; Chemical Equilibria, H. Le Chatelier, 188 ; 
Silicates of Alumina, Potassa, and Soda, 96; A. Arnaud, 
on the Composition of Carotine, 96; Chemical Society, 115, 
186 ; Election of Fellows, 306; Ammonia in the Ground, 
Berthelot and André, 211; on some Double Phosphates of 
Thorium and Potassium, or of Zirconium and Potassium, 
Troost and Ouvrard, 211 ; on the Discovery of Austrium, L. 
de Boisbaudran, 211; on the Presence of a new Element in 
Samarskite, W. Crookes, 212; Chemistry for the Gold- 
Fields, James G. Black, 238; Science and Art Department 
Examination in Chemistry, 294; on the Connection between 
Ch_mical Constitution and Physiological Action, Dr. T. Lauder 
Brunton, F.R.S., 375; Progress of Chemistry and Mine- 
ralogy, 400; Chemical Composition of Herderite and Beryl, 
with Note on the Precipitation of Aluminium and Separation 
of Beryllium and Aluminium, S. L. Penfield and D. N. 
Warper, 402; Elements of Chemical Physics, J. P. Cooke, 
Jun., Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.K.S., 405; C. M. von De- 
venter and T, H. van’t Hoff, on Chemical Decomposition, 
464; Strontium Dihydrate, C. Scheibler, 492; Action of 
Nitric Acid on Myristic Acid, H. Noerdlinger, 492; Diazo- 
amidobenzene, R. J. Friswell and A. G. Greene, 492; Re- 
moval of Arsenic from Hydrochloric Acid, R. Otto, 492 ; Iso- 
glucosamine, E. Fischer, 492; 
Amines, J. Tafel, 492; Chemical Society of Berlin, 492 ; 
Certain Physical Constants of Solutions, 506; Vapour- 
Pressures and Refractive Indices of Salt-Solutions, 506 ; 
Chemistry of Wheat, Flour, and Bread, W. Jago, J. 
Wrightson, 520; Cooke’s Chemical Physics, Sir H. E. 
Roscoe, F.R.S. 545; Indexing Chemical Literature, H. C. 
Bolton, 560; Papers in Inorganic Chemistry, G. E, R. Ellis, 
569 ; Connection between Chemical Constitution and Physio- 
logical Action, J. Blake, 594; Dr. T. Lauder Brunton, 
F.R.S., 616. Sve also British Association, Section B, Chem- 
ical Science 
Chepstow, Proposed Meteorological Observatory near, 506 
Cheshire (F. R:), on a Device for the Better Examination of 
Bacteria in Culture-Tubes, 235 
Chevreul (Michel-Eugéne): Presentation to, 59 ; Centenary of, 
224, 463 ; Medal inhis Honour, 245 ; Banquet to, to Celebrate 
Centenary of, 322; Féte in Honour of the Centenary of, 346 ; 
Discourses at Centenary of, 488; Address from Berlin Academy 
of Sciences, 489 ; Centenary of, 432; Visit of Chinese Man- 
darin to, 433; Biographical Sketch of, 433; Centenary 
Volume by the Paris Academy, 491 
Chili, Flora of, Dr. R. A. Philippi, 628 
China: Earthquakes in, Note on, Dr. D. J. Macgowan, 17; 
Collection of Hairs after Earthquakes in, W 
Dyer, 56; Dr. Edkins on Origin of Arts, Sciences, &c., 0 ; 
Chinese Northern Barbarians, Dr. Martin on, 154; China 
Review, 156, 602 ; China Grass, or Ramie, Cultivation of, at 
Lausanne, Prof. Schnetzler, 530; Chinese Geometry, Dr. 
Mateer, Dr. Martin, 577 ; Chinese Recorder, 577 
Chitral Mission, Return of Colonel Lockhart, 247 
Chlamydomxya in the Engadine, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 
F.R.S., 408 
Chloride of Iron, .Electro-Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of 
Polarisation in, W. Stscheglajeff, 355 
Chlorides, on the Slow Decomposition of the, in their Extended 
Dissolutions, M. G. Foussereau, 331 
Chlorophyll, C. Timiriazeff, 52 
Cholera: Curable, John Chapman, M.D., E. Klein, 27 ; its 
Relation to Schyzomycete Organisms, D. D. Cunningham, 
75; in its Relation to Water-Supply, G. Higgin, 149 
Cholesterine in the Carrot, A. Arnaud, 163 
Cholic Acids, Dr. Kassel on the, 47 
Christiani (Prof.), Seeing-Power of Rabbits after Excision of 
Sphere of Vision, 164 
Christiania, Zoological Garden at, 15 
Christie (W. H. M., F.K.S.), Aurora, 336 
Christy (T.), New Commercial Plants and Drugs, 335 
Chronology of Elasticians, Prof. Karl Pearson, 194 
Preparation of Primary | 
T. Thiselton | 
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Chronometer with Magnetic Coupling, A. d’Arsonval, 163 
Chronometry: the Astronomical Day, 125 ; Time Reform in 
Japan, D. Kikuchi, 469 
Chrysalises, Artificial Production of a Gilded Appearance in, 
E. B. Poulton, 538 
Chrystal (Prof. G.), Algebra, 614 
Chubut, Exploration of, Colonel Fontana, 156 
Ciply, on the Origin of the Phosphate of Lime in the Brown 
Chalk Phosphatic Beds of, F. L. Cornet, 379 
City and Guilds of London Institute, Report of the Technolo- 
gical Examinations of the Present Year, 347 
Clarke (F. W.) and J. S. Diller, Turquoise from New Mexico, 
539 
Clarke (Dr. Hyde), Deafness and Signs, 265 
Claspers of Callorhynchus, T. J. Parker, 635 
Clausius (M. R.), M. Hirn’s Objections to the Kinetic Theory 
of the Gases, 159 
Clayden (A. W., M.A.), After-Glows of 1883-84, 95 
Claypole (E. W.), American Vines, 571 
Clerke (Miss A. M.), Prof. Newcomb’s Determination of the 
Velocity of Light, 170, 193; Ungedruckte wissenschaftliche 
Correspondenz zwischen Johann Kepler und Herwart von 
Hohenburg, 189 ; Physical Hypotheses, 357 
Climate, Variations of the, in the Course of Time, Prof. A. 
Blytt, 220, 239 
Climatology : Modification of Plants by Climate, Mr. Crozier, 
530; Climate of North Borneo, Dr. Walker, 347 : Inter- 
national Congress on Climatology at Biarritz, 129 
Clinometer, New Form of, J. Hopkinson, 514 
Clouds : Iridescent, J. G. Grenfell, 3; Luminous, T. W. Back- 
house, 239; Robt. C. Leslie, 264; D. J. Rowan, 264; 
the Silver-Blue Cloudlets again, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, 
311 ; Clouds, the Bright, T. W. Backhouse, 312; Clouds, 
Bright, and the Aurora, T. W. Backhouse, 386 ; Cloud Effect, 
E. Brown, 387 
Clyde, Firth of, Temperature of Water in, 461; J. T. Morison, 
509 
Coagulation, New Element in the Blood and its Relation to, G. 
T. Kemp, 132 
Coal in the Punjab, 224 
Coal raised in British Empire, 
Meade, 514 
Coal-Dust, Relation of, to Explosions in Coal-Mines, A. Watts, 
Statistics and Value of, R. 
595 
Coal-Field, the Cascade Anthracite, of the Kocky Mountains, 
Canada, W. Hamilton Merritt, 259 
Coal-Mining, Lateral, Surface Subsidence caused by, W. Benton, 
514 
Coal-Tar Colour Industry, Scientific Development of the, Prof. 
R. Meldola, F.R.S., 324 
Coal-Tar Colours, Chemistry of the, Dr. Benedikt, F. R. Japp, 
2 
Coa Tar Industry, Recent Progress of, Prof. Sir H. E. Roscoe, 
F.R.S., 111, 133 
Coast, North-West, of Pembrokeshire, Capt. T. Griffiths and 
H. N. Williams, 482 
Coasts of England and Wales, Erosion of, C. E. De Rance and 
W. Topley, 481 
Cochin China, Odoriferous Woods of, Dr. Tirant on, 245 
Cochin (Denys), L’Evolution et la Vie, 383 
Coco-Nut Palm, Power of the, to conduct Lightning, 300 
Codfish, Vegetable Parasites of, 17 
Ccelenterates, Australian, Dr. von Lendenfeld, 538 
Cohn (E.) and L. Arons, Conductivity and Dielectric Constants, 
402 
Cohn (Prof. Ferd.), Vital Questions, 695 
Coleoptera of Australia, A. S. Olliff, 611 
Collection of Hairs after Earthquakes in China, W. T. Thiselton 
Dyer, 56 
Colley (R.), New Methods for observing Electric Oscillations, 
354 h 
Colliding Spheres, Effect of External Forces on a System of, 
Prof. ‘Vait, 307 
| Colliery Explosion, Woodend, 365 
Colliery Explosions, Meteorology and, Hy. Harries, 361 
Collocalia nidifica, Composition of Nest of, J. R. Green, 81 
Colloquial Faculty for Languages, Walter Hayle Walshe, 216 
Colonial Forestry, Prof. Fream, 276 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 12; Indian Castings at, 92; 
Indian Commercial Products, 174; Conference, 108, 174 ; 
Arrangements for Working-Class Visits, 129 ; Conferences on 
