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INDEX 
Caves, Exploration of, at Leith, by W. B. Dawkins, 628 
Cayley, Professor, Report of his Paper on determining the Place 
of a Body revolving round the Sun, 222 
Cayley (Prof.) on Abstract Geometry (Royal Society), 294. 
Cedar, Resinous Vapours from, 200 
Census, a Scientific, by Prof. Leone Levi, 99 
Channel Islands, Prehistoric Archeology of, 198 
Channel Railways, The Projected, 160, 303, 631 
Charcoal, Absorption of Mixed Vapours by, 345 
Chemical Nomenclatur Q w7Z 2 Notation, Basis of, by Prof. 
Odling, 600 ; Society of London, 173, 345, 391, 444, 491, 518, 
592, 16, 639, 662 
Child (Gilbert W.), Evidence concerning Heterogeny, 626 
China, Mr. Gardner’s Paper on, at the Ethnological Society, 
90; Mr. Elias at the Geographical, 117; Prof. Owen on 
Fossils of, 662 
Chinese Astronomy, 221 
Chloral, Manufacture of, 446 
Chlorinated transformed into Iodinated Compounds, 269 
Chlorine (Dry), its Action upon Dry Nitrate of Silver, 321 
Chlorophyll, Movements of, 465 
Chlorophyll, Prof. Lawson on (Ashmolean Society), 172 
Cholera, Pettenkofer on, 28 ; in India, Report concerning, 338 
Chromium Oxychlor ide, a New, 119 
Cinchona: its Culture in St. Helena, 268; Hybridisation 
among Cinchonas, 491 
Civil Engineers. (See Zjestitution.) 
Cloaca Maxima, Letters on, 193, 243 
Clock, Turret, at Melbourne, 338 
Cockle (Sir J.), Report of Paper on Convertent Functions, 468 
Coffee Fungus, New, 142. 
Coffee Plant in India, 540 
Colour and Music, 286, 430, 557, 558, 651. (See Correlation.) 
Comet discovered at Marseilles, 226; Kirkwood on the Origin 
of, 115; Prizes for the Discovery of, 269 
Commensalism in the Animal Kingdom, 641 
Copenhagen, Scientific Society of, 347 
Corema Conradii, 121 
Corfield (Prof.) on Science and the Public Health, 155 
Cornell University, 658 
Corona, Letter on the, by J. M. Wilson, 139 
Correlation of Colour and Music, by W. F. Barrett, 286 ; Letters 
on, by Mr. W. R. Grove, 314, 335 ; by De Chaumont, 315; 
by Mr. Monro, 362 
Crania, Comparative Measurements of, 318 
Crombie’s British Lichens, 380 
Crookes’ (W.) Letter on the American Eclipse, 170 
Crossness Well-boring, The, 333 
Croullebois (M.) on Refraction of Water, 664 
Cuckows’ Eggs, by Prof. Alfred Newton, F.L.S., 74 ; Letters on, 
139, 218, “266, 336, 508 ; Colouring of, 242 
Cupric Salts reduced by Tannin, 143 
Cyclone, A, in England, 219, 289 
Dallas (W. S.) on Newman’s British Moths, 15 
Dana’s Mineralogy, by Prof. Maskelyne, 161, 186 
Darien Canal, 562 
Darwin (Chas.) on the Fertilisation of Winter Flowering Plants, 
85; his Hypothesis of Pangenesis, 664. 
Darwinism, 316; and National Life, 183 
Darwin’s Theory, A Deduction from, by Prof. Jevons, 231 
Davidson’s Our Bodies, 54. 
Davies, Rev. W. G., Letter on Sensation and Perception, 407 
Davison (W.) on the Dinornis, 604 
Davy (M.) on the Calorific effects of the Moon’s Rays, 29 
Dawkins (W. B.) on the Geological Calculus, 505 
Dawson (Principal) on Gaspé Fossils, 93; on Sigillaria, 271; 
on Animal Remains from Canada, 271 
Day (Dr. Francis) on Indian River Fisheries, 220 
Deas (Francis) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384 
De Chaumont (Dr.) on Correlation of Colour and Music, 314 
Deep-sea Corals, 267; Madreporaria, by Dr. Duncan, 612 
Deep-sea Dredging Expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine, 
Natural History, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 135, 166 
Deep-sea Dredgings from China and Japan, by Prof. Rymer 
Jones, 198 
Deep-sea Soundings and Geology, by Prof. Huxley, 657 
Delaunay (M.) on the Falls of Aerolites, 120; award of the 
Royal Society’s Gold Medal to, 219 
Derry, Natural History Society of, 639 
Desains (M.) and E. Branly, their Paper on Solar Radiation 
(Paris Academy), 177 
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Deville (Prof.) on Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63; his 
Paper at the Paris Academy on the Gases of Central Italy, 63 ; 
on a Siderostat, 225 ; on Meteorology in France, 273 
Diatoms, Spectroscopic Examination of, 115 | 
Dichlorinated Aldehyde, 27 | 
Dieudonné (M.) cn Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63 
Diffraction Spectrum, Mr. Stuart’s Letter, 506 
Diffusion of Plants, 246 ( 
Dingle Bay, Inhabitants of Rockpools, &c., 296 
Dinornis, Mr. Davison’s letter on, 604 
Dinosauria, Report of Prof. Cope’s Paper on, 121 J 
Drainage, the Metropolitan Main, 558 =| 
Dresser’s (Dr. H. E.) Letter on Cuckows’ Eggs, 218 
Drink, Our National, by Dr. B. H. Paul, 594 ) 
Dublin: Geological Society, 175, 200, 346, 415 ; Natural History 
Society, 176, 296, 393, 521; Royal Society, 119, 346, 521 ; 
Royal Irish Academy, 119, 175, 225, 321, 415, 493, 568; 
Statistical Society, 147; Zoological Society, 346° 
Dufour Map, the, 291 
Duncan (P. Martin) on Deep-sea Corals, 267; on the Feod o 
Oceanic Animals, 315; on the Madreporaria dredged up in 
the Porcupine Expedition, 612 
Dunkelberg on Agricultural Engineering, 189 
Dupré (Dr.) on the Elimination of Alcohol, 86 
Dust and Disease, 327, 361 
Dutch or Deutsch, Mr. Freeman’s Letter on, 532 
Earthquake at Manilla, 604 ; at Marseilles, 364 
Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, by R. A. Proctor, 54 
Ecker’s Conyolutions of the Brain, 18 
Eclipse, the Recent Total in America, by J. Norman Lockyer, 
ERS. 14; see also, 170; 203, 336, 532; Indian) 536; 
Total, of December 1870, 599 ; Improved Camera, 313 
Edinburgh: Botanical Society, 545; Geological Society, 63, 174 | 
Naturalists’ Field Club, 200 ; 
664. 
Egypt, Stone Age in, by J. Evans, F.R.S., 631 
Encke, the Astronomer, by R. A. Proctor, 479 
Energy, by Dr. Balfour Stewart, 666 
Lingrais Complet, 482 
Entomological Society, 119, 
Entomology in America, 379 
Kophyton, Structure of, 173 
Ether, Action of, on Plants, 343 } 
Etheridge (R.) on the Geological Position, &e,, of the Reptilian } 
Conglomerate of the Bristol Area, 344 My 
Ethnological Society, 90, 118, 198, 247, 320, 307, 414, 467, 519, | 
592, 639 | 
Ethnology, 318 | 
Eton, New Telescope at, 263 ; Chemical Laboratory at, 487 
Evans (John) on Prehistoric “Archeology, 77; on the Stone 
Age in Egypt, 631 : 
Explosives, Science of, 656 
Royal Society, 247, 521, 040, 
295, 414, 467, 519, 593 
Falb (Rudolf) on the Earthquake at Manilla, 604 
Faraday, by Dr. Gladstone, 401 ; an Oversight by, 384 
Farrar (Rey. F. W.) on Philology and Darwinism, 527 
Favre (M.) on the Electric Explorer, 225 
Faye (M.), Photographic Observation of the Transits of Venus, | 
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Female Education at the University of Dublin, 114 
Female Physician Question at Edinburgh, 25, 587, 53m 
Fenzl (Prof.) on the Genus Lupinus, 293 
Ferns, M. Trécul on, 493, 522 
Fick on the Transformation of Force, by Dr. M. Foster, 53 
Fireplaces, our Domestic, 624. 
Fisher (O.), A Word in Defence of Physicists, 654 
Floating Matter and Beams of Light, by Professor dyndialh, 
EE ce 490. (See 477.) 
Mower "Observatory at, 59 
Fluoride of Silver, 319 MM 
Food, The, of Oceanic Animals, by J. Gwyn Jefireys, 92; Mr. 
Wallich’s Letter on, 241 ; Mr. Jeffreys on, 315 ; Dr. Wyville| 
Thomson on, 316; Dr. Duncan on, 315 | 
Forbes (David), Depths of the Sea, 100 ; Sermonsin Stones, 130) 
Forefathers of the English People, by Prof, Huxley, 514 
Form, A New, for Schools, 56 
Fossils of Natal, 642 
Foster (G. C.) on Heat Units, 654 
Foster (Dr. M.) on Fick on the Transformation of Force, 53 
France, Agricuitural Map of, $6 { 
