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Comets: Daniel's Comet 1907^, Pio Emanuelli, 18; H. H. 

 Kritzinger, 8S ; the Return of Encke's Comet, Mr. 

 Woodgate, iii; Encke's Comet 19086, M. Kamensky, 

 158; Mr. Woodgate, 158; Observations of, Mr. Wood- 

 gate, 351 ; the Eccentricities of Comet Orbits, Prof. 

 Leuschner, 136; Computed Magnitudes for Halley's 

 Comet before Perihehon, Prof. J. Holetschek, 207; the 

 -Approaching Return of Halley's Comet, Prof. H. C. 

 Wilson, 281 ; Halley's Comet, Prof. Turner, 612 ; Defini- 

 tive Elements for the Orbit of Comet 1886 V, Gosta 

 Bucht, 330 ; Definitive Orbit of Comet 182G V, A. Hnatek, 

 402 ; Search-Ephemerides for Comet Tempelj-Swift, E. 

 Alaubant, 402, 550; Comet Tempelj-Swift igoSd, M. 

 Javelle, 580, 644 ; M. Giacobini, 644 ; Ephemeris for Comet 

 Tempelj-Swift iqo8rf, M. Maubant, 6~ : M. Bossert, 

 678; Discovery of a Comet iqoSc, Prof. Morehouse, 470; 

 Prof. Thiele, 470; Comet Morehouse igoSc, H. Kobold, 

 486; M. Giacobini, 486; Prof. Palisa, 517; Prof. Wirtz, 

 517; Prof. Abetti, 517, 579; M. Sternberg, 517, 612; 

 M. Borrelly, 517; Prof. Morehouse, 517; Messrs. 

 Einarsson and Meyer, 1549 ; M. Chofardet, "579 ; Herr 

 Ebell, 579, 644; Prof. H. Thiele, 580, 677; Prof. Dale. 

 580, 612 ; Prof. Millosevich and Dr. Zappa, 612 ; Dr. 

 Kostinsky, 612 ; M. Bigourdan, 612 ; Prof. Hartwig, 

 677 ; Messrs. Metcalf and Morehouse, 677 ; Prof. Kobold, 

 677 ; Photographs of Comet c 1908 at the Royal Observa- 

 tory, Greenwich, Sir W. H. M. Christie, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., <;^9 ; Recent Change in the ."Aspect of the Comet 

 1908c (Morehouse-Borrelly), G. Bigourdan, 626; Meteors 

 and the Comet, W. F. Denning, 509 



Conchology : Deposits of Unbroken Marine Shells at High 

 Levels on the Curraun Penins jla, co. Mayo, T. E. Gordon 

 and Prof. A. F. Dixon, 287 



Confessio Medici, 54 



Congo, Contribution h. la Faune du, vol. i., Okapia, 

 Julien Fraipcnt, 66 



Congress, Third International, for the History of Religions, 



55.2 

 Conic, the Elements of the Geometry of the. Prof. G. H. 



Bryan, F.R.S., and R. H. Pinkerton, 52 



Connolly (T. F.), a Brilliant Meteor, 65 



Constipation, Study of, by Means of the X-rays, Dr. A. F. 

 Hertz, 206 



Conway (Prof. R. S.), \'enetic Inscriptions, 303 



Cooke (W. E.), Barisal Guns in Western Australia, 390 



Cooke (W. T.), the Interaction of Copper and Nitric Acid 

 in presence of Metallic Nitrates, 190 



Cookery, Elements of the Theory and Practice of, Mary E. 

 Williams and Katharine R. Fisher, 220 



Cookson (Bryan), Photographic Determination of the 

 Elements of Jupiter's Satellites, 190 



Coolidge (Prof. J. L.), the " Equilong " Transformations 

 of Space, 578 



Cooper (Miss), Clear Speaking and Reading Aloud, 620 



Copaux (H.), Titanous Oxide, 263 



Copeland (P. W.), a Brilliant Meteor, 65 



Copeman (Dr.), the Determination of Sex, 647 



Copper Tubes, &c., the Direct Production of, by Electro- 

 lysis, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 330 



Corals : Rate of Growth of Reef-building Corals, F. Wood 

 Jones, 433 ; a Monograph of the .Silurian and Devonian 

 Corals of New South Wales, R. Etheridge, 569 



Corbino (O. M.), Arrangement for Producing almost Con- 

 stant Direct Currents of High Potential, 206 



Corcoran (Rev. T.), the Value of Geographical Study 

 applied in a Special Connection, 617 ; Correlation of 

 Primary, Secondary, and University Education in Ireland, 

 6iq ; Note-taking and Reports of Work, 620 



Coronal Streamers, Prof. J. A. Miller, 158 



Coronal Structure, Prominences and, Albert .Alfred Buss, 

 151; Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 174; Philip Fox, 318 



Correlation of Stellar Characters, Miss Gibson and Prof. 

 Karl Pearson, 65 



Corrosion of Iron and Steel, the, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 

 31 ; W. F. Macfadyen, JS 



Cotton (.A.), Electric and iVIagnetic Double Refraction of 

 Nitrobenzene, Variation with the Wave-length, 311 



Cotton : Heredity in Cotton, Lawrence Balls. 68 ; Egvptian 

 Cotton-bug, Mr. Willcocks, 68; British Cotton Cultiva- 

 tion, Reports on the Quality of Cottons grown in British 

 Possessions, Prof. Wyndham Dunstan, F.R.S., 154; the 



Structure of the Cotton Fibre in its Relation to Technical 

 .Application, Dr. F. H. Bowman, Prof. Walter M. 

 Gardner, 196 

 Coulter (Prof. J. G.), Opportunities for American Young 



Men in Science, 182 

 Coulter (Prof. J. M.), Chicago Symposium on the Species- 

 Question, 133 ; the Interpretation of Irregular Nuclear 

 and Cell Divisions occurring at Certain Stages in the 

 Life-history of Phanerogams, 610 ; Embryology of 

 Gnctum ^ncmon, 643 

 Cousin (H.), the Preparation of Dehydroeugenol, 240; 



Dehydro-diisoeugenol, 336 

 Coventry (B. O.), Alternation of Forest Crops, 253 

 Cowan (T. W.), Wax Craft : All about Beeswax, 630 

 Coward (H. F.), Thermal Decomposition of Hydrocarbons, 



Cowell (P. H.), the Orbit of Jupiter's Eighth Satellite, 166 

 Cowper-Coles (S.), Pure Electrolytic Iron, 60; Low Tem- 

 perature Galvanising, 159 ; the Direct Production of 

 Copper Tubes, &c., by Electrolysis, 330; Electrolytic 

 Process for making Iron Tubes, Sheets, and Wire, 581 

 Cracknell (A. G.), Geometry, Theoretical and Practical, 52 

 Craig (J. T.), the Delimitation of the Turco-Egyptian 

 Boundary, 16 ; the Determination of Time in Subtropical 

 Latitudes, 517 

 Craniology : Report on the Hythe Crania, F. G. Parsons, 

 93 ; Craniology of the Aborigines of Tasmania, Sir 

 William Turner, K.C.B., 335 

 Crawford (C. M.), Practical Physics : a Laboratory Manual 



for Colleges and Technical Schools, 290 

 Crawford (Mr.), Elements of the Orbit of Jupiter's Eighth 

 Satellite, 401 ; Ephemeris for Jupiter's Eighth Satellite, 

 678 

 Crawshay (L. R.), Submarine Stratigraphy of the English 



Channel, 253 

 Crew (Prof. H.), Opportunities for American Young Men 



in Science, 182 

 Crichton-Browne (Sir James), Parsimony in Nutrition, 308 

 Criticism, Indiscriminate, Earl of Berkeley, F.R.S., 412 

 Cromlechs in North Wales, Some, Sir Norman Lockyer, 



K.C.B., F.R.S., 633 

 Crommelin (.A. C. D.), the Orbit of Jupiter's Eighth 



Satellite, 166 

 Crook (A. H.), Measurements of the Chinese, 607 

 Croolie (Mr.), Rajputs and Mahrattas, 681 

 Crookes (Sir William, F.R.S.), Scandium, 60, 92 

 Crop Rotation and .Soil Exhaustion, F. Fletcher, 402 

 Crossley (W.), Figures obtained as the Result of Experi- 

 ments on the Utilisation of Peat with a Peat containing 

 2-2 per cent, of N., 651 

 Cruls (Dr. Luiz), Death of, 202 ; Obituary Notice of, 230 

 Crustacea : the -Anaspidiidje and other Fresh-water Crus- 

 tacea from Tasmania, Geoffrey Smith, 624 ; Sperm Recep- 

 tacles Common to all Representatives of Canibarus, 

 E. A. Andrews, 675 

 Crystallisation of Over-cooled Water, the. Prof. Boris 



Weinberg, 390 

 Crystallography ■. Relation between the Crystalline Form 

 and the Chemical Constitution of the Picryl Derivatives, 

 G. Jerusalem and Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S., 213; 

 Schwartzembergite and the Drawing of Light-figures, 

 G. F. Herbert .Smith, 287; Grundriss der Kristallographie 

 fiir Studierendo und zum Selbstunterricht, Gottlob Linck, 

 341 ; One of the Causes modifying the Dominant Forms 

 in Crystals, Paul Gaubert, 656 

 Culverwell (Prof.), Acquirement in Education, 620 

 Cunningham (Lieut. -Colonel A.), Mersenne's Numbers, 23 

 Cunningham (J. T.), Heredity of Secondary Sexual Charac- 

 ters in Relation to Hormones, 18 

 Cunnington (Dr. W. A.), Account of the Recent Expedition 



to Lake Qurun, 647 

 Curie (Mm_e.), Action of the Radium Emanation on Solu- 

 tions of 'Copper Salts, 372; Formation of Fogs in Pre- 

 sence of the Radium Emanation, 408 

 Currelly (C. T.) a Sequence of Egyptian Stone Implements, 



683 . ' 



Curtiss (Dr.), the Orbit of Algol, 281 



Cuthbertson (C), Dispersion of Gaseous Mercury, Sulphur, 

 Phosphorus, and Helium, 4:; ; Refractive Indices of 

 Gaseous Nitric Oxide, Sulphur Dioxide, and Sulphur 

 Trioxide, 71 



