VI 



[Xa/ure, MayT], 1880 



Claudius's Mechanical Theory of Heat, 367 



Clay, London, Diatoms in, W. H. Shrubsole, 132, 444, 538 ; 

 W. H. Penning 494 



Climate of England, Alexander Taylir, 131 



Climate of Eastern Asia, Dr. H. Fritsche, 175 



Clock, a Standard, at the Observatory, Strassburg, 20 



Clockmaker's Compiny, Prizes of the, 524 



Cloud*: Classifica'ion of, 265; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 207; 

 Eliot Howard, 444 



Coal, Discovery of, in Western Australia, 264 



Cochin-China, Remedy for Leprosy, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 35 



Cocos or Keeling Islands, H. O. Forbes on, 118 



Coffee-Leaf Disease, Dr. Moorison, 51 



Cogel's and Ertborn's " Melanges Geologiques," 425 



Coins and Coinage, 574 



Coire, Severe Earthquake at, 263 



Cold Weather, Renarkable Prediction of, B. G. Jenkins, 81 



Cold, the Artificial Production of, Pictet on, 524 



Colenso (Francis K.), Intellect in Brutes, 251 



Colladon (Prof.), Rhode's Audiphone, 426 



Collodion and the Electrophorus, 474 



Colloids, the Influence of, upon Crystalline Form and Cohesion, 

 Dr. W. M. Ord, 586 



Colours : living's Theory of the Vision of Sight and, Dr. W 

 Pole, F.R.S., 14 ; Scale of, L. Blomefield (tale Jenyn-) 

 201 • Sexual, of Certain Butterflies, Chas. Darwin, F.K.S. 

 237 



Colour- Blindness, John Tennant, 132; Homer's, 262; Regula- 

 tions for, in Connecticut, 596 



Colour-Vision and Colour-blindness, Prof. J. D. Everett, 

 F.R.S.,62 



Comets: the Biela Comet Meteors, 71, 240; Comet of 1652, 

 164; Winnecke's, 264; Faye's, 331; a Great, Dr. Gould, 

 359 ; Comet of 1577, 383 ; the Southern Comet, 384, 425, 

 453. 475i 5 02 > 5 2 5> 575' 59?' °^ ' Comet observed from 

 H.M.S. Triumph, 515; Comet 1861 I., Prof. George 

 Forbes, 562 ; a New Comet, 598 ; the Great Comet of 1843, 

 618 ; the Comet 1880 * (Schaberle, April 6), 619 

 " Comstock Lode," John A. Church, 511 

 Confucius, Temp'e of, Walters's Guide to the Tablets in, 424 

 "Congerian" Deposits of South-Eastern Europe, the Asiatic 



Alliances of the Fauna of the, Th. Fuchs, 528 

 Conifers, Movement in the Leaves of, 241 

 Consolidated Beach in Ceylon, No'e on a, Rev. R. Abbay, 184 

 Constance, Lake, Tidal Phenomenon in, 397 ; Dr. F. A. Forel, 



443 

 Constantine, Fossil Horses of, 309 



Conway (Moncure D.) " Deoionology and Devil- Lore," 29 

 Cook (Captain), Deithof, Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 275 

 Cooke (E. W., R.A., F.K.S. ), Obituary Notice of, 26r 

 Copeland (Ralph), Phosphorescence, 33 ; Solar Phenomenon, 



225 

 Copenhagen, the Carlsberg Laboratory at, 306 

 Copper, Diffusion of, in the Animal Kingdom, Dr. T. II. 



Norton, 305 ; Prof. Leon Fredericq, 370 

 Copper-Tin Alloys, W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 272 

 Copper in Queensland, 474 

 Coppock (Chas.), Sunshine, 445 

 Copying Process, on a New, R. H. Ridout, 155 

 Coral, an Enormous Piece of, Dredged up near Tosa, 285 

 Corals, Tabulate, Prof. Nicholson's work on, 490 

 Corinth, Isthmus of, Proposed Canal through, 288 

 Corrigan (Sir Dominic), Death of, 329 

 Cos, the Island of, Ntumayr on, 192 

 Cosmos, 51, 169, 530 



Cotta (Bernard von), Proposed Monument to, 45 1 

 Cotton Goods, Sizing and Mildew in, G. E. Davis, C. Dreyfus, 



and P. Holland, 298 

 Cotton-Worm, the, Dr. C. V. Riley, 466 

 " Countries of the World," Dr. Robert Brown, 346 

 Courland, Ancient Race Living at, 386 

 Cow's Milk, Translation of a Chinese Placard regarding tie 



Consumption of, 187 

 Cox (Mr. Serjeam), Death of, 89 



Cranial Measurements, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 249 

 Crater, Appearance o' a Small, near Paterno, 382 

 Crayfish, the, Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 353 ; the " Ga,tric 



Mill" of the, W. E. Roth, 395; Crayfish Epidemic in the 



Alsatian Waters, 408; M. Malakoff on the Ural, 454 

 ( Tenure (C. F.), Intellect in Brutes, 132 



Cremation at Gotha, 239 



Cresswell Cave Exploration, 1876, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, 



F.R.S., 106 

 Crevaux (Dr.), his Ascent of the lea, 73 

 Croll (James, F.R.S.), why the Air at the Equatorisnot Hotterin 



January than in July, 129; the temperature of Space and its 



Bearing on Terrestrial Physic , 521 

 Crookes (Wm., F.R.S.), Radiant Matter Experiments in Paris, 



285 

 Croydon, Exhibition at, in Connection with the Congress of the 



Sanitary Instiute, 18 

 Crustacea, Notes on, Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, 240 ; in the Old Red 



Sandstone, 241 

 Cryptogamic Flora of Silesia, W. R. McNab, 391 

 Crystallisation of Bodies, Lagrange on, 310 

 Crystallogenesis, Marangoni's Theory of, 504 

 Crystallography of Calcite, on the, J. R. McD. Irby, 200 

 Ctenophora, the Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the, 93 

 Cumberland, Repirted Shock of Earthquake, 19 

 Curlew Mountains, Silurian Fossils in the, Prof. E. Hull, 



F.R.S., 32 ; G. H. Kinahan, 55 

 Curran (W.), Perforated Stones in River Beds, 348 ; Suicide of 



the Scorpion, 325 

 Currents, Electro-Dynamometer for Measuring Large, W. N. 



Hill, 327 

 Cycles, Sunshine, E. Douglas Archibald, 393 

 Cyclone in New Caledonia and the Society Islands, 574 

 Cylinders, the Transverse Vibrations of, 2t 

 Cyprus : Cedar of Lebanon in, 93 ; Experiments in Indian Seed 



Cultivation at, 286 



Dallas (W. S.), the Society for the Encouragement of Literature 



and Science, 107 

 Dark Cavities which are Inaccessible to Direct Light, Descrip- 

 tion of an Instrument for Exploring, Thomas Stevenson, 14 

 Darwin (Charles, F.R.S.), Fertility of Hybrids from the 

 Common and Chinese Goose, 207 ; on the Sexual Colours of 

 Certain Butterflies, 237 ; the Omori Shell-Maunds, 561 

 Darwin (Erasmus), Ernst Krause, 245 



Darwin (G. H., F.R.S.), on the Secular Changes in the Elements 



of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving about a Planet Distorted 



by Tides, 235 ; Erritum in Paper on Tidal Friction, 276 



Davies (D. C), Treatise on Metalliferous Mines and Mining, 129 



Davis, Dreyfus and Holland's Sizing and Mildew in Cotton 



Good-", 298 

 Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd, F.R.S.), the Cresswell Cave Explora- 

 tion, 1876, 106 

 Diylight, Ordinary, the Spectrum of, 426 

 Debaize (Abbe), Death of, 332 



Decomposition and Heat, Favre and Thomas Woods, 493 

 Deep-Sea Dredging and Life in the Deep Sea, II. N. Moseley, 



F.R.S., 543, 569, 591 

 De La Rue (Dr. Warren, F.R.S.), the Word " Telegraph," 226 

 •' Demonology and Devil-Lore," Moncure D. Conway, 29 

 Denning (W. F.), the Meteor Showers of January 2, 527; 



Meteors, 537 

 Deschmann (Ch.), on Prehistoric Staions in Carniola, 192 

 "Devil-Lore and Demonology," Moncure D. Conway, 29 

 Deville (Sainte-Claire), Resignation of, 381 

 Devonian Rocks, Upper, of the North of France, 164 

 Devonian Rocks of Belgium, Prof. Malaise, 576 

 Dewar (Prof. J., F.R.S.), on the Spectra of Sodium and Potas- 

 sium, 170 ; on the Reversal of the Lines of Metallic Vapours, 



'93 



Diamonds : Artificial, 260, 404 ; Asserted Artificial Production 

 of, Prof. Nevil Story-Maskelyne, F.R.S., 203 ; W. Maltieu 

 Williams on, 224; Hannay's Artificial, 421, 426; Dr. R. 

 Sydney Marsden, 445 



Diaphote or TUcphote, 576 



liiastase and Pt)alme, 240 



Diathermanous Power of Films of Soapy Water, 620 



Liatoms in London Clay, W. II. Shrubsole, 132, 444, 53S ; 

 W. H. Penning, 494 . 



Dickins (Fred. V.), Prehistoric Man in Japan, 350; Omori Shell- 

 Heaps, 610 . 



Differentiated Energy, on the Potential Dimensions of, A. V. 



Dinosaur,' the New Wealde", J. Whitaker Hulke, F.R.S., 135 

 Ldoptrics of the Eye, 94 



