Nature, June C), 1887] 



Claim of Priority, a, V. Ventosa, 513 



Clarke {Dr. Hyile), Svastika Cross and Sun, 366 



Clarke (J. Edwards), Industrial and High Art Education in tlie 



United States, W. Odell, 97 

 Classification of the Caxilians, 280 

 Clausius's Characteristic Equation for Substances applied to 



Messrs. Ramsay and Young's Experiments on Alcohol, Prof. 



William Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 262, 346 ; Prof. 



Fitzgerald, 574 

 Clayden (A. W.), on the Internal Capacity of Thermometers, 94 

 Claypole (E. \V.), Abnormal Cats' Paws, 345 

 Cleland (Prof. John), Culminating Sauropsida, 391 

 Clerke {A. M.) : Sunspot Observations in Hungary, Carl Braun, 



227 ; Aurora Borealis, M. S. Lemstrom, 433 ; Dr. K. R. 



Koch, 433 ; Homeric Astronomy, 585, 607 

 Clifford (W. K., F.R.S.\ Lectures and Essays, 270 

 Climate of Northern Europe and the Gulf Stream, 91 

 Climatology of the Croydon District, 14 

 Clocks, Electricity and, T. Wilson, 173 ; Prof. Silvanus P. 



Thompson, 224; H. Dent Gardiner, 198, 231 ; " Horloge " 



on, 43S 

 Cloez (iVI. Ch.) and M. E. Grimaux, Erythrene, 28S 

 Cloud Knowledge, Modern Developments of, Hon. Ralph 



Abercromby, 575 

 Clouds : Aspects of, Robert James Reilly, 391 ; on the Forms 



of, A. F. Osier, F.R.S., 164 ; Iridescent, Jas. C. McConnel, 



533; G. H. Stone, 581 ; Nomenclature of, 406 

 Clyde Sea- Area, Bathy-orographical Chart of the, 334 

 Coahuila Meteorites, O. W. Huntingdon, 451 

 Coal, on the Age of, found in the Region traversed by the Rio 



Grande del Norte, 380 

 Coal-Dust Theory, W. Galloway, 222, 296, 343 

 Coal-Mines, Explosions in, W. N, and J. B. At'^in?on, Prof. 



T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., I 

 Coasts of North Africa, Study of the. Dr. Theobald Fischer, 



353 



Cobra, Death from the Bite of a, in ; Supposed Suicide of 

 the, R. D. Oldham, 560 



Cochenille at Rodriguez, 179 



Cockroach, Structure and Life History of the, L. C. Miall, 365 



Coco de Mer {Lodoicca seycJuUaritm), Gen. Gordon's Collec- 

 tion illustrative of the, presented to Kew Gardens, 494 



Cod, Curious Knife found in the Thick Flesh of a, 545 



Cod-Fisheries (Norwegian), Japanese Mission to inquire into the, 

 158 



Codices, Mexican, Z. Nuttall, 307 



Coefficient of Mutual Induction of Two Coils, Method of 

 measuring. Prof. G. Carey Foster, F. R. .S., 143, 478 



Coefficient of Self-induction, on the DeterLDination of the, 



55 1 

 Coils, Inductionless, Dr. Aron, 383 



Coils, Melhod of measuring the Mutual Induction of Two, 478 

 Colbert (Prof.), f Cassiopeia:, 59 

 Colchicine, Properties of, 408, 432 

 Coleoptera, New Zealand, David Sharp, 177 

 Coleoptera of the British Islands, Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531 

 Colin (Dr.), on the Population of Bambouk, 22 

 Collections, National Science, 252, 272 

 College of France, propjsed Enlargement of the Buildings of 



the, 517 

 College of Physicians, Edinburgh, proposed Establishment of a 



Laboratory for the Prosecution of Original Research, 399 

 Colleges, University, Prof. Jowett, 441 

 Collins (F. Ho'.'. ard) : Herbert Spencer's Definition of Life, 487 ; 



Vitality and its Definition, 5S0 

 CoUot (M. L.), on the Age of the Bauxite Formation in the 



South-East of France, 288 

 Colocasia, Disease of, in Jamaica, 478 

 Colonial Conference, Sir Henry Holland, 544 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, John R. Jackson, l6, 81, 225 

 Colonial Science and Art Schools and the Department of 



Science and Art, 442 

 Colorado, Disappearance of Bishop's Ring in, G. H. Stone, 



581 

 Colorado, Phenacitc from, Sam. L. Penfield, 45 1 

 Colour of the Blood, Influence of Extremes of Temperature on 



the, 576 

 Colour-Hearing, 613 



Colour-Mixing Apparatus, Von Kries, Dr. Konig, 336 

 Colourless Specimens of Plants to be preserved in Alcohol, 



how to make, Prof. Hugo de Vries, 149 ; Selmer Schbnland, 



173 

 Colours of Metals and Alloys, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 106 

 Colours, a Method of illustrating Combinations of, H. G. 



Madan, 513 

 Colson (M. Albert), Erythrite, 2S8 

 Colton (B. P.), Practical Zoology, 458 

 Comets : Barnard's, 59 ; T. W. Backhouse, 54, 224 ; Prof. 



Cacciatore, iSi ; Dr. Wentworth Erck, 198; Prof. A. Ricco, 



296; (1886/), 17, 207; Dr. Oppenheim, 85; Dr. Aug. 



Svedstrup, 134; (1S87 c). Prof. E. Weiss, 352; Dr. H. 



Oppenheim, 424; 1887 1/ (Barnard, February 15), Prof. Boss, 



424, 446; First and Second of 1S87, 614; Second of 1887, 



John I. Plummer, 583 ; Brooks (1887 b), 352 ; Dr. R. 



Spitaler, 424, 496; Finlay's 1886 c, 17, 59; Dr. Krueger, 



85, 134 ; Dr. J. Holetschek, 207 ; Three New Comets, 307 ; 



Note on the Origin of Comets, 381 ; Discovery of a New, 



1887 ,;' (Barnard 2), 402 ; Tails of the Comets of 1S86, Prof. 



Th. Bredichin, 474 ; the Southern, 329, 438 ; Comets and 



Asteroids, Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, 474 

 Commercial Organic Analysis, Alfred H. Allen, Dr. C. R. 



Alder Wright, 293 

 Compass in Iron Ships, Deviation of the, considered practically, 



VV. H. Rosser, 473 

 Compressed Air, Transmission of Power by, 272 

 Conchology, J. C. Melvill on Conns gloria maris, 230 

 Conder (Capt.), Translation of Hittite Inscriptions, 422 

 Congo : Dr. Lenz's Exploration of, 232 ; his Map of the, 354 ; 



Rev. Geo. Grenfell's Exploration of the, 596 ; H. M. 



Stanley's, 615 

 Conies, Pencils of, 477 



Connecticut Valley, Triassic Formation of the, 141 

 Constant of Aberration, New Method of determining the, M. 



Lrewy, 263, 2S2, 407, 424, 431, 454, 479 ; M. Houzeau, 377 

 Constants of Fluids, Dielectric, Prof. G. Quincke, 334 

 Constitution of Matter, on certain Modern Developments of 



Graham's Ideas concerning the. Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 



522. 547 



Continuity of the Liquid and Gaseous States of Matter, Pre- 

 liminary Note on the, William Ramsay and Sydney Young, 

 262 



Conis gloria maris, J. C. Melvill on, 230 



Cooke's (Prof. Josiah Parsons) Chemical Physics, 100 



Coombe Rock, Clement Reid on, 502 



Copper, the Higher 0.\ides of, 141 



Coral Reefs of the Solomon Islands, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 77 



Corea, Geology of, 5'8 



Corcgonus albns, American Whitefish at Burghley Park, 546 



Corona, Extension of the, Prof. S. P. Langley, 52 



Counterpoint, Harmony and. Elements of, F. Davenport, 339 



Cranial Nerves of a Human Embryo, 336 



Crater, Sounding a, Prof. John Milne, 152; Fusion-Points, 

 Pyrometers, and Seismoaieters, Dr. H. J. Johnston- Lavis, 

 197 ; W. Worby Beaumont, 296 



Crayfish, Fresh-water, Green Gland of, 455 



Criiiison Line of Phosphorescent Alumina, on the, William 

 Crookes, F.R.S., 310 



Critical Temperatures of Nitrogen and Oxygen, 331 



Crocus, the, George Maw, 348 



Crommelin (A. C), Invisible at Greenwich, 414 



Crookes (William, F.R.S.) : on the Crimson Line of Phosphor- 

 escent Alumina, 310 ; on Radiant-Matter Spectroscopy, 

 Examination of the Residual Glow, 425, 447 



Crookshank (Dr ), Flagellated Protozoa in Animals' Blood, 191 



Crookshank (Edgar), Cambridge Cholera Fungus, 344 



Cross as a Sun Symbol, Dr. Chas. R. Dryer, 345 



Croydon District, Climatology of the, 14 



Cruise of the Marchcsa, F. H. H. Guillemard, 369 



Cruls (M.), Geographical Co-ordinates of Punta- Arenas, 3S2 



Crustacea of Singapore, 525 



Crustacea, British Stalk-eyed, and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse, 

 532 



Cryptogams, Flora of Leicestershire, including the, J. G. 

 Baker, 411 



Crystalline Elliptically-polarising Media, on Reflection at the 

 Surface of, 333 



Crystallographic Notes, 141 



Crystals, Absorption of Light in, 312 



Culminating Sauropsida, Prof. John Cleland, 391 



