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INDEX. 



[Oftober, 



Carter, H. J., fossil sponge, 275 

 Charpie, microscopic examination of, 



113 

 Chemical change, heat, and force, 



relations between, 77 

 Chemistry and mineralogy, relation 



between, 286 

 Chili, climate of, 282 

 Chloral, spontaneous decomposition 



of, 552 

 Chloroform, test for, 127 

 Chronograph, electro-magnetic, 563 

 Church, A. H., ingenious application 



of spectroscope, 272 



— spectrum of aurora, 112 



— on the jacinth or hyacinth, 287 



" Civil Engineers' and Contractors' 

 Estimate and Price Book" (re- 

 view) 258 



Clark, L., and R. Sabine, " Electrical 

 Tables and Formulas " (review), 



37 6 



" Classical" and Pre-historic Influ- 

 ences upon British History " 

 (review), 369 



Cleland's steam jet gas exhauster, 



395 

 Climates of Straits of Magellan, Bear 



Island, &c, 124 

 Coal, consumption of, 136 



— cutting machinery, 137, 288 



— exhaustion of in England, 538 

 Cockburn-Muir, J., iron permanent 



way for railways, 293 

 Caeruleolactine, mineral, 542 

 Coffee as food, 401 

 Cohesion figures, projection of on a 



screen, 560 

 Cold, action of on iron and steel, 422 



— effect of on iron and steel, 288 

 Colloid silica, microscopic crystals 



in, 275 

 Colours on metals, 411 

 Combustion, reciprocal, 555 



— spontaneous, 115, 423 



" Complete Course of Problems in 

 Practical Plane Geometry" (re- 

 view), 533 



Condensation of humid air, 421 



Condenser, secondary, 559 



Coniine, artificial, 401 



Cooke, M. C, " Handbook of British 

 Fungi " (review), 537 



Copper, coating brass with, 411 



— new precipitant for, 551 



— plates, action of nitrate of silver 



on, 551 



— pyrites, treating, 290 



Cornish miners, health and longevity 



of, 539 

 Cornwall, Miners' Association of, 390 



Corona, solar, 227 

 Comber, T., mining schools, 136 

 Cox, Serjeant, on a new force, 347 

 Credner, H., crystalline form of 



carbonate of lime, 132 

 Cretaceous epoch, duration of, 294 

 Crookes, W., experimental investi- 

 gation of a new force, 339 



— researches on psychic force, 471 



— " Select Methods in Chemical 



Analysis (chiefly Inorganic) " 



(review), 381 

 Cross fertilisation, 296 

 Crystals, fluid cavities in, 285 

 Culley, R. S., " A Handbook of 



Practical Telegraphy" (review), 



533 



Cunningham, R. O., " Notes on the 

 Natural History of the Strait of 

 Magellan " (review), 255 



Czernowitz bridge, 395 



DANIELL'S battery, improved, 

 122 

 Danvers, F. C, on the theory of irri- 

 gation, 35 



— pneumatic transmission, 305 

 Darwin's " Descent of Man " (re- 

 view), 248 



Davies, A. M., " The Meteoric Theory 

 of Saturn's Rings" (review), 380 



Day, St. John V., " Papers on the 

 Great Pyramid " (review), 372 



Dawn of light printing, 297 ' 



Dawson, Principal, on the oldest 

 known tree, 295 



Definition, microscopic, high power, 



"3 



" Descent of Man " (review), 248 

 Deschanel, A. P., " Elementary 



Treatise on Natural Philosophy" 



(review), 259, 534 

 Diaphorite, mineral, 541 

 Diamagnetism, new experiments in, 



120 

 Diamond, discovery of in situ, 541 

 Diamonds from Bohemia, 131 

 — ■ in New South Wales, 287 

 South Africa and New South 



Wales, 130 

 Diatoms, mounting, 276 

 " Dictionary of Science " (review), 257 

 Dines, Mr., on evaporation gauges, 



281 

 " Disorders of the Nervous System in 



Childhood " (review), 377 

 Dock, balance floating, 393 

 Decks at Malta, 393 

 Donaldson, W, " Switches and 



crossings " (review), 534 

 Dynamite, 549 



