828 
iNDEX, 
[December, 
Ching-men-Chow, attempt to work 
the coal-mines of, 772 
Chlorophyll, function of, 263 
Chromospheric substance of Young, 
note on the unknown, 377 
Church, A. H., chemical study of ve- 
getable albumen, 812 
— J. A., heat of the Comstock Mines, 
218, 796 
“ Cincinnati Society of Natural His- 
tory ” (review), 492 
Civil Engineers, Institution of, 378, 
813 
“ Clair’s Synoptica Hymenomycetum 
Europaeorum ” (review), 130 
Clamond, M., new battery for the 
eledtric light, 774 
Clements, H., “ Manual of Organic 
Chemistry ” (review), 489 
Clock dials, self-luminous, 267 
Close, M. H., the sea-serpent, 375 
“ Coal ” (review), 190 
Coal, formation of, 677 
— mines of Ching-men-Chow, at- 
tempt to work, 772 
— produdtion of, 771 
Cobalt, galvanic deposits of, 708 
Coccus, species known as new, 453 
Cochineal insedl living in the elm, 452 
Cockroach, enlarged model of the 
brain of a, 392 
Coffin, Dr., Trouve polyscope, 450 
Cohn, F., “ Rose of Jericho,” 203 
Colloids, fradture of, 447 
Collot, L., the true Phylloxera vasta- 
trix, 454 
“ Colorado Valley, Birds of the ” (re- 
view), 369 
Colour and its recognition, 395 
“ Colour-blindness ” (review), 756 
Colour-blindness, use of coloured 
glasses in cases of, 513 
Colour-sense, evolution of, 512 
Colouring-matter, preparation of, 707 
Colours, alleged poisonous, concern- 
ing the use of, 391 
— classification of, 268 
Comatulae of the Challenger Expedi- 
tion, Report on the, 320 
Comstock Mines, heat of the, 218, 796 
Conroy, J., distribution of heat in the 
spedtrum, 582 
— experiments on metallic reflexion, 
198 
Cooke, M. C., and L. Quelet, “ Clair’s 
Synoptica Hymenomycetum Eu- 
ropseorum ” (review), 130 
Cornu, M., Crassulaceae of cortical 
woody bodies agglomerated to- 
gether, 388 
■ — new malady attacking plants, 451 
Costes, V. D., ant6, 203 
Cotton-dyeing, tartar emetic in, 515 
Coues, E., “ Birds of the Colorado 
Valley” (review), 369 
Coursserrant, M., use of coloured 
glasses in cases of colour-blind- 
ness, 513 
Couty, M., non-excitability of the 
grey cortical substance of the 
brain, 388 
— physiological adtion of mate, 262 
— and M. De Lacerda, poison of 
Brazilian serpent, 764 
Cows and ducks poisoned by cater- 
pillars, 765 
Crassulaceae of cortical woody bodies 
agglomerated together, 388 
Crayfish, contradtion of the muscles 
of the, 453 
— effedfc of heat on the fundlions of 
nerve-centres of the, 512 
Creak, E. W., results of the magnet- 
ical observations made by the 
Officers of the Ardtic Expedition, 
445 
Creosote as a preservative of timber 
against the Teredo, 330 
Criminal laws of the future, 591 
Croll, J., thickness of the Antardlic 
ice, and its relations to that of 
the Glacial epoch, 1 
Crookes, W., eledtrical insulation in 
high vacua, 240 
— gravitation as a fadlor in the or- 
ganic world, 34 
— molecular physics in high vacua, 
4 11 
Crops and soil by waste waters, 
damage to, 768 
Crossley, E., “ A Handbook of Double 
Stars ” (review), 810 
— new form of microphone, 816 
Crystal growing, large, 328 
Currents, eledtric, measuring and re- 
gulating, 255 
Cyclones, inclination of the axes of, 
385 
J~^AHLL, T., Norwegium, 589 
Dale, R. S., and C. Schorlemmer, on 
aurin, 200 
Daltonganj and Aurunga coal-fields, 
712 
Dareste, M., certain granules in the 
yolk of an egg, 388 
- — embryo chicken, 203 
— experiments on eggs, 704 
Darwinism and articulate speech, 
804 
