Nature, Dec. 10, 1885] 
INDEX 1X 
Canada: the Ancient Sacrificial Stone of North-Western 
Territory of, Jean L’Heureux, 46; Canadian Entomology, 
James Fletcher, 111 ; Mesozoic Fioras of the Rocky Moun- 
tain Region of, Sir W. Dawson, F.R.S., 164; Geological 
and Natural History Survey of, Alfred R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S., 
242; Catalogue of Canadian Plants, John Macoun, 242; 
- Royal Society of Canada, 258; Flora of, Alfred W. Bennett, 
294; the British Association Visit to, 438 ; Tidal Observa- 
tions in, 503; North-Western Tribes of, 531 
Cape Town, Earthquike in, 110 
Capello (Capt.) and Commander Ivens, African Explorations 
of, 429 
Carbon Bisulphide in Prisms, on the Use of, Experiments by 
Dr. Henry Draper, 272 
Carbon, Combustion of, in Oxygen, H. B. Baker, 87 
Carbon Compounds, Researches on the Relation between the 
Molecular Structure and Absorption Spectra of, by Prof. W. 
N. Hartley, F.R.S., 93 
Carbon, aiheratosBlediic Position of, J. Buchanan, 263 
Carbonic Acid, the, Absorption on Smooth Glass Surfaces of, 
Dr. Kayser, 72 
Carbonic Acid, Decomposition by Electric Spark of, H. B. 
Dixon and H. F. Lowe, 287 
Carcinoma in Lungs, Dr. Friedlander, 191 
Carey (Albert), Principles of Hygiene, 221 
Carles’ Journeys in Corea, 403 
Carnelley (T.), Melting and Boiling-Point Data, 364 
Carniola, the Fossil Flora of, Baron von Ettingshausen, 311 
Caroline Islands, the, 464 
Carp, German, Importation into England of, 553 
Carp-Culture in China, Dr. Macgowan, 514 
Carpenter (Alfred), Flying-Fish, 147 
Carpenter (P. Herbert), an Encysting Myzostoma in Milford 
Haven, 391 
Carter (W. A.), Do Fish Sleep ?, 580 
Cashmere, the Earthquake in, I10, 133, 161, 207, 254, 375 
Casman (M.), Death of, 376 
Cassell’s ‘‘ Encyclopzedic Dictionary,” 355 
Catalogue of 1000 Southern Stars, 636 
Catfish, Acclimatisation of, 254, 375 
Caucasus, Earthquake in, 161 
Cell, Daniell, a Form of Standard, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 263 
Cells, Sulphur, Experiments with, Shelford Bidwell, 263 
Cemetery, Prehistoric, 518 
Cemetery of the Stone Age, Discovery of a, 401 
Centenarians : Entry of Prof. Chevreul on his Hundredth Year, 
425 
Central Alps, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., Preliminary Note 
on some Traverses of the Crystalline District of the Central 
Alps, 557 , 
Central Asia, Earthquakes in, 375 
Central Solar Eclipses in New Zealand, 86 
Centres, Motor, of the Brain and the Mechanism of the Will, 
Victor Horsley, 377 
Century of Science in Bengal, 638 
Cereals, Origin of the, 116 ; Growth of, 234 
Cerebotani (Dr. L.), a New Intrument for Distance-Measure- 
ment, 494 
Cerebral Lobes, on the Weight of the, Dr. Philippe Rey, 615 
Cerebrum, a Vasomotor Centre in the Cortex of, Dr. Kaudnitz, 
119 
Cerura vinula, Larve of, Cyril B. Holman Hunt, 574 
Cervical Vertebrz of the Greenland Right Whale, Prof. Struthers, 
560 
Cevallos (Ordojiez de), Life and Travels of, 88 
Ceylon, Dr. Trimen’s Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of, 354 
Chadwick (Herbert C.), ‘‘ Foul Water,” 245 
Chaffanjon’s Mission on the Orinoco, 184 
Chain Cables and Chains, Thos. W. Trail, 572 
Challenger, Voyage of the, Reports on the Scientific Results 
of the, 203, 249 
Chameleon, Systematic Position of the, and its Affinities with 
the Dinosauria, D’Arcy W. ‘Thompson, 562 
Chambers (G. F.), Obituary Notice of the, Rev. T. W. Webb, 
126 
Champs (Breton des), Death of, 513 
Charbon Fever, Inoculation against, A, Chauyeau, 264 
Chareyre (J.), Cystoliths, 407 
Chatham, W. Whitaker on Deep Borings at, 555 
Chauveau (A), Inoculation against Charbon Fever, 264 
Chemistry : A Treatise on Practical and Qualitative Chemistry, 
and Inorganic Analysis, Frank Clowes, 3; Original 
Researches in Chemistry and Mineralogy, J. Lawrence Smith, 
3; Chemical Notes, 87; Chemical Reactions, Influence of 
Dilution and Excess on, Urech, 87 ; Chemical Society, 93, 
143, 168; Organic Chemistry, Prof. Ira Remsen, M. M. 
Pattison Muir, 99; Contributions to the Chemistry of 
Chlorophyll, Edward Schunck, F.R.S., 117; Opening of 
Laboratory at Reading School, 328 ; Address at the British 
Association on, by Prof. H. E. Armstrong, Ph. D., F.R.S., 
449, 467 ; Nucleine, Dr. Kossel, 520 ; Chemical Composition 
of American Grasses, Clifford Richardson, Prof. W. Fream, 
525; Prof. Ramsay, on the Non-Existence of Gaseous Nitro- 
gen Trioxide, 538; Prof. Ramsay, on some Actions of a 
Grove’s Gas Battery, 538; Sir H. E. Roscoe, on the Spon- 
taneous Polymerisation of Volatile Hydrocarbons at the 
Ordinary Atmospheric Temperatures, 538; J. T. Brierley, 
on New Vanadium Compounds, 538; T. Jamieson, on the 
Essential Food of Plants, 538 ; Prof. Odling, a Plea for the 
Empiric Naming of Organic Compounds, 538; Prof. T. 
Carnelley, on the Periodic Law, as illustrated by certain 
Physical Properties of Organic Compounds, 539; Prof. T. 
Carnelley, on the Cause of the Periodic Law, and the 
Nature of the Chemical Elements, 539; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 
on the Value of the Refraction Goniometer in Chemical 
Work, 539; G. Gladstone, on the Refraction of Fluorine, 
539; Prof. Gilbert, on the Conditions of the Development 
and of the Activity of Chlorophyll, 539; Prof. Pardie, on 
the Action of Sodium Alcoholates on Fumaric and Maleic 
Ethers, 539; on Sulphine Salts derived from Ethylene 
Sulphide, Dr. Orme Masson, 539; on an apparently New 
Hydrocarbon from Distilled Japanese Petroleum, by Dr. 
Divers and T. Nakamura, 539; the Composition of Water 
by Volume, Dr. A. Scott, 539; Prof. Dewar, on Solutions 
of Ozone and the Chemical Action of Liquid Oxygen, 540; 
F. Maxwell Lyte, on the Use of Sodium or other Soluble 
Aluminates for Softening and Purifying Hard and Impure 
Water, and Deodorising and Precipitating Sewage, Waste 
Water from Factories, &c., 540; J. Spiller, on Some New 
Crystallised Combinations of Copper, Zinc, and Iron Sul- 
phates, 540; Prof. Clowes, on Barium Sulphate as a 
Cementing Material for Sandstone, 540 ; Chemical Nomen- 
clature, 529 ; Cholesterin, Dr. Weyl, 544 
Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, the, 400 
Chevreul (M. E.), Celebration of the Hundredth Birthday of, 
278, 425, 462 
Childhood, the Three First Years of, Bernard Perez, W. Odell, 
412 
Chili, the Reported Discovery of a Glacier in, 184 
Chilian Andes, Botanical Exploration of the, 601 
Chimpanzee: Prof. D. J. Cuningham on Certain Points of 
Comparison between the Chimpanzee and Man, 588 
China: Chinese Insect Wax, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 6; A. 
Hosie, 562; School Books in Chinese, 35 ; Earthquakes in 
China, 37, 231; Meteorology of the China Seas, 84 ; the 
Jesuit Meteorological Establishments near Shanghai, 579 ; 
Potanin’s Last Voyage to, 135; Chinese Translation of 
Gray’s Anatomy and Holder's Osteology, Dr. Dudgeon’s, 
514; Carp-Culture in China, Dr. Macgowan, 514; the Red 
River Route to, 554; Journeyings in South-Western China, 
by A. Hosie, 564 
Chittagong Hill Tribes, Dr. Emil Riebeck, 169; Zoology of, 
Dr. Riebeck’s—the Gayal and Gaur, W. T. Blanford, 
F.R:S., 243 
Chlorate of Potash, Iridescent Crystals of, Prof. G. G. Stokes, 224 
Chlorophyll, Contributions to the Chemistry of, Edward 
Schunck, F.R.S., 17 
Chlorophyll, Colourless, C. Timiniazeff, 342 
Cholera : Inoculation for, Dr. Ferran’s Experiments, 62, 85, 159 
288 ; the Nature of Cholera, Dr. Cornish, 160 ; the Report on 
the Germ Theory of Cholera, 353; Jackdaws and the 
Cholera, 400; on an Alkaloid Extracted from Liquid used 
in Cultivation of Koch’s Cholera Microbe, A. G. Pouchet, 
432 ; Case of Asiatic Cholera at Cardiff, 460 ; Bochefontaine’s 
Experiment on the Origin of Cholera, Trécul, 496 ; on the 
Development of Cholera in India, Gustave Le Bon, 543 3 
Conclusions of the Commission on, 608 
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