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INDEX 

Burder (Dr. G. F.), on Aurora by daylight, 126 
Burstead (Dr. H. E.), on Assaying Silver in the Indian Mint, 
279 
Butler (A. G., M.A.), on Mimicry, 165 
Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 179, 499 
Californian Oaks, 327 
Callorhinus ursinus, or Northern Fur Seals (.See Seals) 
Cambridge: J. Hopkinson, Sen., and J. W. L. Glaisher, 
Second Wrangler, 274, 293 
Cambridge University, Natural Science at, 13, 53, 73, 209, 212, 
231, 264, 268, 287, 307, 471, 510, 511 
Cambridge Philosophical Society, 340, 398, 439 
Cambridge, Proposed College for Women, 493 
Camphor Tree of Sumatra, 275 
Capron (J. R.), on the Aurora Borealis, 28 
Captain, Loss of H.M.S., 45 
Carey (Jno.) on the Frost of 1870-71, 208 
Carpenter (Dr. William B., F.R.S.), on Eozoon Canadense, 
185, 386; on the Influence of Barometric Pressure on Ocean 
Currents, 232, 488 ; on Deep Sea Researches, 334, 415, 454 
Carvalho (S, N., Jun.), on Natural Selection, 65, 85 
Cassell’s Book of Birds, 402 
Cast Iron (.Sze Iron and Steel) 
Catania, From London to, 67 
Cattle Food, 313 
Cave Exploration, 327, 491 
Cave-paintings by Bushmen, South Africa, 107 
Cefn Reptile, 7 
Ceratodus Forsteri, from Australia, 107, 166 
Cetacea, Fossil, 392 
Chalk Formation, Prof. Wyville Thomson on its Continuity, 
225, 286, 308 
Cheadle (Dr. W. B.), on St. Mary’s Hospital, 248 
Cheltenham College, Natural History Society, 333 
Chemical Change, Heat, and Force, 344 
Chemical Philosophy, First Principles of, by Josiah P. Cooke, 
Jun., 143 
Chemical Research in England, 445 
Chemical Science at British Association, 18, 37 
Chemical Society, 39, 59, 77, 139, 197, 278, 299, 339, 378, 439, 
451, 478, 497, 519 
Chile, Quicksilver and Silver Mines in, 36, 134 
China Grass Fibre, 214 
Chip Hats, 36, 47 
Cholera, T. R. Lewis, M.B. on its Supposed Fungoid Origin, 
Or 
feathers, The, 67 
Chromosphere, Light from the Red Hydrogen-Stratum, 487 
Chromosphere Lines, 266 
Church’s Laboratory Guide, 25 
Cinchona Bark, Imported from Colombia, 14 
Cinchona Cultivation in Java, 114; in India, 194; in the West 
Indies, 473 
Civil Engineering in India, 232, 372, 413 
Civil Engineers, Institution of, 255, 519 
Civil Engineers, their Education, 301 
Claims of Science, 61 
Clarke (Dr. Hyde), Exploration of the Perene (Amazon) River, 
209 
“ Class Book of Inorganic Chemistry,” by D. Morris, B.A., 345 
Climbing (.Sze Mountain Climbing) 
Clouds, 28, 405 
Coal-mine Proprietors in France, Association of, 484 
Coal in India, 115, 394, 494 
Cobbold, (Dr.), Succession in Relation to Continuity (Br. A.), 38 
Cockroach, the, 27, 108, 148 : 
Cohn (Dr. Ferdinand), his Contributions to the Biology of Plants, 
242 
Cold, its influence on Steel and Iron, 256 
Cold, extreme, at Mount Washington, in Scinde, and at Paris, 
314, 353, 487 
College of Surgeons, 294, 452 
Colonial Institute, 451 
Colour of Butterflies’ Wings, 48, 127 
Colour, Experiments on, 234; C. J. Monro, on Yellow; F. T. 
Mott on the Primary Colours, 246, 264, 307, 327 
Comets (See Tails of Comets) 
Conchology, Misadventures in, 289 
Contraction of the Earth, 315 


Cooke (Josiah P., jun.), his “ First Principles of Chemical Philo- 
sophy,” 143 
Corfield (Prof. W. TI.), his Ascent of Mount Etna, 90; On the 
Utilisation of Sewage, 204, 246 7 
Corona, The, its Polarisation and Spectrum, 25, 
247, 332, 468, 509 _ 
Cotton Cultivation in India, 153, 154 
Crabs, Gigantic, from Japan, 333 
Crady (J. M.), on Cyclones, 28 
Croll (James, F.G.S.), on Ocean Currents, 246 
Crookes (W., F.R.S.), on Beet-Root Sugar, 4 
Cubitt (J.}, on Aurora Borealis by Daylight, 104 
Cumming (L.), on the Eclipse Expedition, 184 
Cunningham (R. O., M.D.), onthe Natural History of Magellan 
and Patagonia, 484 
Currey (F., F.R.S.), on Cohn’s Biology of Plants, 242 
Cyclones, 28 
82, 207, 228, 
Daniell’s Battery, Prof. Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S., on, 350 
Darlingtonia Californica, its Cultivation in England, 159, 167 
Darwin (Charles, M.A., F.R.S.), his ‘* Descent of Man,” 442, 
463; the Zimes Review of it, 488 ; on Pangenesis, 502 
Darwinism, 38, 48, 102, 122, 127, 154, 165, 166, 270, 386 
Darwinism, Essays on, by Thos. R. K. Stebbing, 444 
Dawkins (W. Boyd, F.R.S.), on the Cefn Reptile, 7; on the 
*¢ Paleontology of Man,” 143 
Dawson (G. M ), on the Aurora Borealis, 7 
Dawson (Principal J. W., F.G.S.) (Montreal), on the Eozeon 
Canadense, 267, 287 
Deep-Sea Mud, 16 
Deep-sea Researches in H. M.S. Porcupine ; Report by Dr. Car- 
penter, F.R.S., and J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 334, 415, 454 
Deep-sea Telegraphs, India-rubber for, 35 
Deer, Geological Distribution of, 94 
Defects in General Education, 103 
De Fonvielle (W.), on War Balloons in Paris, 115, 132, 134, 175, 
192, 274, 312, 370; on a Lunar Halo, 366; on Forms of 
Clouds, 405 
Demerara, Kaieteur Waterfall, 108 
De Morgan (Prof. Augustus), Obituary Notice of, 409 
Denny (H.), Curator of Leeds Philosophical Society, Obituary 
notice of, 413 
De Notaris (Prof.), his Work on Mosses, 349 
“Descent of Man,” by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., 442, 463 
De Rance (C. E., F.G.S.), on the Earthquake of March 17, 405 
Deschanel (Prof. A. Privat), his ‘‘Treatise on Natural Philo- 
sophy,” edited by Prof. Everett, 145, 187, 227 
Deville (M. H. Sainte-Claire), Science in France, 501 
Diamond Fields of South Africa, 2, 255 ’ 
Diatomaceze, Dr. Donkin’s Natural History of the, 348 
Dickson (Prof.), The Embryo of the Date Palm (Br. A.), 38 
“ Dictionary of Science,” by G. F. Rodwell, F.R.A.S., 325 
Dioptrics of Vision, 124, 387 
“Dogs and their Doings,” by the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A., 344 
eee (A. S., M.D.), on ‘British Diatomacex,” 210, 348, 
397 
Doob-grass of India, 513 
Draper’s Experiment simplified, 447 
Dublin ; Natural History Society, 399; Trinity College, Obser- 
vatory and Astronomical Observations, 74, 300, 332, 390, 
445; Scienceat, 361, 387 ; Royal Dublin Society, 399, 439 ; 
Royal Geographical Society, 239, 340; Royal Geological 
Society, 399, 487; Royal Historical and Archeological 
Association, 498; Royal Irish Academy, 100, 359; Zoolo- 
gical Society, 232, 399 
Dudgeon (R. E., M.D.), on the Dioptrics of Vision, 124; on 
Lenses for Vision below Water, 387 
Duncan (John), on Fertilisation of Hazel, 509 
Duncan (P. M., F.R.S.), on the Metamorphoses of Insects, 329 
D’ Urban (W. S. M.), Zrichiurus lepturus taken at Seaton, 107 
Durie (James), on the Cockroach, 27 
Duthie (J. F.), on a Meteor seen at Leyton, 426 
et Seals and their Habits, by J. A. Allen and Capt. Bryant, 
14 
Earth, nature of its Interior, by D. Forbes, F.R.S., 296 
Earth, its Contraction, 315 
Earth Currents, 15, 245, 492 
Earthquake of October 20, 1870, 52; in Natal, 15 ; in South 
America, 36; in the Hawaian Archipelago, 92; in Scinde, 

