Nature, ] 
Dec, 18, 1G02 
Index 
Close (Major C. F.), Plane Surveying. A Text and Reference 
Book for the use of Students in Engineering and for Engineers 
Generally, Paul C. Nugent, 243; Geodetic Survey of South 
Africa, vol ii., Report on a Rediscussion of Bailey’s and 
Fourcade’s Surveys and their Reduction to the System of the 
Geodetic Survey, Sir David Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., 457 
Clouds at Sunset, Colours between, John Baddeley, 370 
Clowes (Prof. F:), Action of Distilled Water on Lead, 662 
Coal: the Misuse of, Walter Rosenhain, 29; Prof. J. Perry, 
F.R.S., 30; W. Hibbert, 102; D. E. Hutchins, 246; the 
Anthracite Coal Industry, Peter Roberts, 50 ; Coal Cutting by 
Machinery in the United Kingdom, Sydney F. Walker, 414 ; 
Elementary Coal Mining, George L. Kerr, 369 
Coast Fog Signals, E. Price Edwards, 115 
Cockerell (Prof. T. D. A.), the Evolution of Snails in the 
Rahama Islands, 56; De Vriesian Species, 174; Material for 
Natural Selection, 607 ; the Fertilisation of Linum, 631 
Coffey (G.), Bronze Objects of the Hallstatt Culture Phase in 
Ireland, 663 
Cog-wheels, Geometry of, Prof. D. Tessari, 218 
Coke, Improving the Quality of, by Compressing the Fuel before 
Coking, J. H. Darby, 62 
Colaba Observatory, 68 
Cold Weather in South Africa, J. R. Sutton, 247 
Cole (Prof. Grenville A. J.), Sun-pillars and Parhelion, 32; 
Composite Gneisses in Boylagh, 143 ; Geology of the Country 
round Belfast, 619 
Colin (P.), Magnetic Observations made in Central Madagascar, 
192 
College Algebra, L. E. Dickson, 4 
Colleges of the University of London, the, 1o 
Collett (Oliver), Death and Obituary Notice of, 328 
Collingwood (W. G.), the Lake Counties, 271 
Collins (F. Howard), Single-handed Dividers, 378 
Colman (C. S.), Types of British Plants, 458 
Colorado Potato Beetie at Tilbury, 134 
Colour Photography : Photograph of the Spectrum of the Arc 
light, Edgar Senior, 582 
Colour Variation in the Guinea-fowl, F. Finn, 126 
Colour Variation in Pigeons, F. Finn, 157 
Coloured Sunsets, the, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 222; J. 
Edmund Clark, 223 ; see a/so Sunset. 
Colours between Clouds at Sunset, John Baddeley, 370 
Comanducei (Dr. E.), Products of Catalpa Fruit, 87 
Cometary Tails and Aurorz, Prof. Arrhenius’s Theory of, Prof. 
John Cox, 54; Dr. J. Halm, 55 
Comets : Elements of Comet 1902 a (Brooks’s), 68 ; Reduction 
of Measures of Swift’s Comet (a 1899) from Photographs with 
a Portrait Lens of 30-inch Focus and 5-inch Aperture, Mr. 
Filon, 238; Another New Comet, John Grigg, 514, 557; 
Comet 1902 6, 515, 614; the Periodical Comet of Tempel- 
Swift (1869-1880), 258 ; Ephemeris for the Search of the Comet 
Tempel-Swift, F. Bossert, 557; Observations of Perrine’s 
pom 1902 4, 558; Photograph of Comet 1902 4, Perrine, 
3 
Como, Lake, Electric Railway, 484 
Compan (P.), the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics at 
Low Temperatures, 168 
Comparative Anatomy of Animals, G, C. Bourne, 314 
Compiégne, Visit of the English Arboricultural Society to, Prof. 
W. R. Fisher, 450 
Comptes (August), Die Philosophie, L. Levy-Briihl, 369 
Conchology : the Left-handed Spiral Staircase in the Chateau 
de Blois modelled from Voluta vespertilio, Theodore Cook, 
39; the Evolution of Snails in the Bahama Islands, Prof. 
T. D. A. Cockerell, 56; Sports of Helix nemoralis, R. 
Welch, 612 
Congo, Les Poissons du Bassin du, G. A. Boulenger, 339 
Congresses : Exposition Universelle de 1900, Congres Inter- 
national de Chronométrie, 411 
Conservation of Weight and the Laws of Thermodynamics, 102 
Constable (F. C.), Mont Pelée and After-glow, 79; Earth- 
surface Vibrations, 440 
Convention of Weather Bureau Officials at Milwaukee, 543 
Conway (Prof.), Huygens’s Principle in a Uniaxial Crystal, 
215 
Cook (Theodore), the Left-handed Spiral Staircase in the 
Chateau de Blois Modelled from Voluta vespertilio, 39 
Cooke Photographic Lenses, Method by which the Focal 
Length may be Reduced, Messrs. Taylor and Co., 280 
Coomaraswamy (A. K.), the Point-de-Galle Group, 263 
Cooper (F. W.), Photographic Apparatus, Making and Repair- 
ing, 4 
Coorgs, the, and Yeruvas, an Ethnological Contrast, T. H. 
Holland, 91 
Corals: Guide to the Coral Gallery in the British Museum 
(Natural History), R. Kirkpatrick and F. J. Bell, 322; Aggre- 
gated Colonies in Madreporiform Corals, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 
257 
Cornish (C. J.), the Naturalist on the Thames, 632 
Cornish (Dr. Vaughan), Snow-waves and Snow-drifts, 453 
Cornu (Prof. Alfred), Obituary Notice of, Prof. Silvanus P. 
Thompson, F.R.S., 12 
Cornwall: a Tentative List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns 
for the County of Cornwall, including the Scilly Isles, 
F. H. Davey, 547 ; Cornish Dust-fall of January, 1902, Dr. 
H. R. Mill, 119 
Cornwall (H. B.), Greenockite on Calcite from Joplin, Missouri, 
310 
Coronation Honours to Men of Science, 228 
Cortie (Father), Visual and Spectroscopic Observations of the 
Sunspot Group of May and June, 1901, 94; Sunspots and 
Magnetic Storms, 619 
Cosmogony : Der Untergang der Erde und die kosmichen Kata- 
strophen, Dr. M. W. Meyer, 601 
Coventry (W. B.), the Vibration of the Violin, 150 
Cox (Prof. John), Prof. Arrhenius’ Theory of Cometary Tails 
and Aurorze, 54 
Crab, the Cocoanut, Dr. Horst, 308 
Craniology : the Morphological Importance of Length or Short- 
ness in the Skulls of Mammals, Prof. Osborn, 399 
Crémieu (V.), an Electrostatic Relay, 556 
Crete: Further Discoveries in, the Older Civilisation of Greece, 
390 ; corr., 424 
Crew (H.), a Laboratory Manual of Physics, 4 
Criterion of Scientific Truth, the, G. Shann, 221 
Croft (W. B.), Photography of Diffraction and Polarisation 
Effects, 354 
Crompton Potentiometer, the, 636 
Crossland (C.), Coral reefs of Zanzibar, 166 
Crumlin, County Antrim, Fall of a Meteoric Stone near, 
September 13, W. H. Milligan, 577; Dr. L. Fletcher, 
BORIS 577 
Crump (Rev. J. A.), Trephining in the South Seas, 136 
Crustacean Fauna of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, a New 
Form of Blind Shrimp, W. P. Hay, 556 
Crystallography: Three-circle Goniometer, G. F. Herbert 
Smith, 83; Crystallographic characters of liveingite, R. H. 
Solly, 215; Crystallographic Study of the 1:3-dichloro-, 
chlorobromo-, and dibromo-benzene, 5-sulphonic chlorides 
and bromides, Dr. Jee, 663 
Cubic and Submerged Cubes, a, Prof. Thos. Alexander, 127 
Cubical Expansion of Ice, Hydrated Salts, Solid Carbonic 
Acid, and other Substances at Low Temperatures, Coefficients 
of the, Prof. James Dewar, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 88 
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the Story of the Men of the Red 
Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory, 489 
Cuckoo, the Early Life of the Young, W. P. Westell, 574 
Cuckoo’s Egg thrown out of Bunting’s Nest, 151 
Culicidze, a Monograph of the, of the World, F. W. Theobald, 
123 ; 
Cunningham (Prof. D. J., F.R.S.), Right-handedness and 
Left-brainedness, 659 
Cunningham (Lieut.-Colonel), Investigations on Repetition of 
the Sum-factor Operation, 215 
Cunnington (W. and W. A.), Paleolithic Implements from 
Knowle, Wiltshire, 663 
Curie (Jaques), the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics at 
Low Temperatures, 168 
Curie (Mme.), Atomic Weight of Radium, 336 
Curious Optical Effect, E. Moor, 127 
Curved Surfaces, General Investigations of, of 1827 and 1825, 
Karl Friedrich Gauss, 316 
Cushman (C. R.), Rectifier for Alternating Currents, 328 
Cuthbertson (Clive), Refractivities of the Inert Gases, 507 
Cyanin, the Effect of Light on, P. G. Nutting, 416 
Cyclones: the Hurricanes of the Far East, Prof. Dr. Paul 
Bergholz, 51; Cyclone on the Eastern Sicilian Coast on 
September 26, 553 
x2 Cygni, Observations of the Variable Star, during 1899, 282 
