Nature, Dec 2, i8So] 



INDEX 



VU 



Climates, Geological, Kev. Prof. Samuel lIaiit;htL>ii, l-.K.b., 

 532 ; Dr. T. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 559 



Clocks', Synchronised, in France, 182 



Clocks, Pneumatic, 226 



Cloe's Thermoelectric Pile, Improvement of, 19 



Cloud Classification, 96 ; Kev. W. Clement Ley, 144 



Clouds, a New Form of Nefodoscope, 132 , „ 



Coal Measures, Plants of the. Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.K.S., 

 281 



Coal Mines, Explosions in, 300 



Coal Mines in Japan, 6l6 



Coal-Tar Colours, John Spiller, 448 



Coasts, Present System of Lighting our 229 



Cob^ca Penduliflora (Hook. Fil.), on ihe Fertili.^ation of, Di. 

 A. Ernst, 14S ^ , tt 1. 



Coffee Ceylon, Soils and Manures, John Hughes, 144 



Coffee' Disease in New Granada, Dr. A. Ernst. 292 



Coffee Trees and Locusts, Dr. A. Ernst, 40S 



Coleoptera, Parthenogenesis in the. Rev. J. A. Osborne, 509 



Colladon (Prof.), on Thunderstorm in Geneva, 65 



Collier (Jlr.), Crystallisable Sugar, 27S 



Colour Combinations, C. J. Woodward, 171 



Colour Phenomena in Belgium, 477 



Colour Sense of the Maoris, 494 



Colour-Blindness in the United States, 65, 373 ; proposed Com- 

 mission on, 567 



Colours, Handbook of, for Painters, W. J. Muckley, 357. 



Columbus (Christopher), proposed Memorial of, 65 , , , , 



Colvee (Don Pablo), " Eusayo sobre una nueva enfermedad del 

 Olivo," 29 



Coma, Rudimentary, In, Godetia, 595 , „„ . „ „ , 



Comets: Comet of 1106, 18; Second of iSSo, 67, 89; Great 

 Southern of iSSo, 156, 231, 399 ; Cape Observations of 

 Comet 1880(1), 374 ; Comets iSSo ^/and <■, 594; Wmneckes, 

 151- Faye's 156, 301, 466, 593; Schaberles, 467; bwilts 

 New Comet, 467; Westphal's Comet, 184; Third Comet of 

 1S22 205; the Comet of 1668, 276; Comets of Short Period, 

 347 ;' a New, 455, S42 ; Spectnim, &c., of Hartwig's Comet, 

 W. H. M. Christie, 557, 569, 593 _ , ^^ „ ,, , 



Coming of Age of the Origin of Species, Prof. T. H. Huxley, 



Comparative Anatomy of Man, I ; Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 59 

 "Comparative Embryology," Francis M. Balfour s, F.K.b., 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 601 

 " Compendium der Naturwissenschaften an der Schule zu i'ulcla 



in IX. Jahrhundert," 229 

 Compressibility of Glass, J. Y. Buchanan. 377 

 Comstock Lode, the Heat of the, J. A. Phillips, 337 

 Conies, Elementary Geometry of, C. Taylor, 603 

 Coniferje, a Chapter in the History of the, J. Starkie G.irdner, 



199 

 Constance (Lake of). Solar Halo on, 1 1 1 

 Continuous Manifoldnes-, on the Simplest, of Two Dimensions 



and of Finite Extent, F. W. Frankland, 170 

 Continuous Manifold, the Simplest, of Two Dimensions and of 



Finite Extent, C. (. Monro, 21S 

 Cook (A. J.), " Manual of the Apiary," 433 

 Copeland (Ralph), Observations of Aurora;, August 12 and 13, 



510 

 Coppinger (Dr. R. W.), "Chipped Arrow heads, 97 

 Coral Reefs and Islands, John Murray on, 23, 351 ; Prof. Joseph 



LeConte, 55S 

 Corals, Fossil, 112 

 "Coronella lavis," H. King, 220 

 Corazon, E. Whymper's Ascent of, 19 

 Corea, the Japanese Trading Station in, 596 

 Cornea, Optical Property of the, 595 

 Cornwall, Birds of, Edward Hearle Rodd, 507 

 Cotopaxi, E. Whymper's Ascent of, 19 

 Cones (Dr. Elliott), "Ornithological Bibliography," 373 

 Cows, Phosphoric Acid in the Urine of, 595 

 Crabs, Fiddler, 278 

 Crannog, a Scottish, 13, 34 

 Crayfish, Ural, W. H. Twelvetrees, 10 

 Crayfish in France, 494 

 Crickets as Housepets in Lisbon, 540 



CroU (Dr. J., F.R.S.), Aqueous Vapour in Relation to Per- 

 petual Snow, 191 

 Crookes (W., F.R.S.), Contributions to Molecular Pbyjics n: 

 High Vacuo, loi, 125 ; a Fourth State of Matter, 153. 



Cross (Chas. R.), Permanent Record of Foucault's Pendulum 



Experiment, 240 , „ , c o 



Cryptofamic Society of Scotland, Annnal Conference of, 39s 

 Cryptogams, the Classification of, A. W. Barrett, 451 

 Crystal Ice, 54, 130, 145 

 Crystallisable Sugar, Mr. Collier on, 27S 

 Cuckoo, Notes of the, John Birmingham, 76 

 Culture and Science, Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 545 

 Cummin^' (L.), Effects of Lightning on Trees, 220 

 Cup-Stones, Cup-Marked Stones, or Cups and Rings, 221 ; 

 Morton Middleton, jun., 77 ; Romilly Allen, 97 ; James Linn, 



Curran (Surgeon-Major W.), Fascination in Man, 318 ; Strange 

 Method of Crossing a Torrent, 339 ; Intellect in Brutes, 339 



Currents produced by Friction between Conducting Substances, 

 James Blyth, 330 . „ c- t 



Curves, Comparative, in Terrestrial Magnetisx, Rev. S. J. 

 Perry, F.R.S., 120; J. Capello, 220 



Cuttlefish, Large, 113 



Dancer (J. B.), Quassia and Mosquitos, 338 

 Danzig, Meeting of German Association at, 29S, 493, 527, S30 

 Dara Nur and its Inhabitants, 479 



Darwin (G. H., F.R.S.), Preston on Vortex Atoms, 95 

 Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Coral Reefs and lilands, 351 

 Darwinian Essays, Two, Alfred R. Wallace, 141 

 Darwinism, Degeneration, a Chapter in. Prof. E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, F.R.S., 14: 

 Daubree (JL), on Descartes, 183 

 " Davis Lectures for 1 8S0," 130 _ 



Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F.R.S.), "Early Man in Britain, 82 

 Dawson (Principal J. W., F.R.S.), Fossil Men, 82; Eozoic or 



Paleozoic, 3S2 

 Death by Hanging, 595 

 Decaisne and Baillon, 12 

 Dechevrens (Pere Marc), on Typhoons, 183 

 Deep-Sea Animals, Organs of, M. O. Griram on, 27S 

 Deep-Sea Exploration, a French Expedition, 134, 345. 372 ; of 



the Bay of Biscay, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 468 

 Deep-Sea Sounding and Dredging, 50S 



Deer, Domestication of, 278 ., „ r t:- t^ t 



" DeCTener,ition, a Chapter in Darwinism, Prof. E. Kay Lan- 

 kester, F.R.S., 141 „ ,. ., 

 De La Rue (Warren, F.R.S.), the Aurora Borealis, 33 ; the 

 Inevitable Test for Aurora, 96 ; Aurora Borealis and its 

 Colours, 169; Experimental Researches in Electricity, 149. 

 174, 196; on some Points connected with Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism, 169 . 

 Ddtocyaihus italicHs Ed. and H., P. Martin Duncan, 534 

 Denning (W. F.), the Shower of August Perseids, 1880, 470 

 Densities of Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine at High Tempera- 

 tures, 278 ^^. , , 

 Depraved Tastes in Animals, 329, 339 ; Arthur Nichols, 339 ; 



F. R. Greenwood, 364 . . 



Deprez's (M. Marcel), Apparatus for Transmittmg a Movement 

 of Rotation by Electricity, 19; Galvanometer lor Strong 

 Currents, 246 ; New Electric Motor, 301 

 Descartes, M. Daubre on, 1S3 . 



" Descent, Studies on the Theory of," Dr. Aug Weismann, 141 

 Desmarets (M. Paul), Success of his Balloon Photographs, 204 

 Determinants, the Theory of, R. F. Scott, 458 

 Diamonds, Artificial, R. Mallet, F.R.S., 192; J. B. Hannay, 



D-amoifd^Aand the Carbon Compounds, the Refraction Equiva- 

 lent of, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 449 

 Diatoms in the' London Clay, W. H. Shrubsole, 221 

 Dibranchiate Cephalopods, Evolution of. Dr. J. brock on, .77 

 Dickins(Fredk. V.), Luminous Painting, 121 ; Chmshmgura ; 



a (apanese Romance, 2S8 



Dicotvlodenons Plants, Sieve-Tubes of, F. Orpen Bower, 602 

 Diffei^ntial Calculus, Rice and Jonnsnn 3 Treatise on, 509 ; 



Elements of, W. E. Byerly, 509 

 Digestion in Plants, 521 

 Dilation of the Iris, 220 

 Diluvial Bones, Discovery of, at Weltend, 6b 

 Dimorphism in N.^TURE on June 17, Prof. L. Ray Lankestei, 



F.R.S., 361 

 Dinosaurs, Sternum in, 113 . .• t? t„ 



Distant (W. L.), Stone Arrow Heads, 11; Argentine Ento- 

 mology, 23S 



