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GENERAL INDEX 
Caird (A. M‘Neel) on a common mea¬ 
sure of valv.e in direct taxation , 1878, 
220 
* -(James K.) on an iron camb for 
power-looms, 1867, 153 
Cairns, religious, of the Himalayan re¬ 
gion, R. B. Shaw on the, 1872, 194 
Caisson gate, Admiral Sir E. Belcher on 
an improved, 1863, 170 
Caithness, the flora of, J. F. Grant on, 
1885, 1063 
-- C. W. Peach on the fossils of the 
Boulder-clay in, 1862, 83 ; 1864, 59 ; 
1866, 64 
--C. W. Peach on fossil fishes of the 
Old Red Sandstone of, 1867, 72 
-- Central, rocks of, J. Gunn on, 1885, 
1030 
* -- J. Anderson on recent explora¬ 
tions in chambered cairns in, 1866, 94 
Caithness (the Earl of), report on 
steamship performance, 1861, 190 ; 1862, 
282 ; 1863, 339 
--- on agricultural machinery , 1869, 404 
*Calabar bean, T. Nunneley on the, 1863, 
192 
--- Old, Prof. Thomson’s description of 
the fruit of Clerodendron Thomsons, 
Balf., from, 1863, 95 
Calabria and Sicily, newer Tertiary fossils 
in, T. Gwyn Jeffreys on, 1870, 76 
Calamine deposits of Sardinia, Gordon 
Davis on the, 1867, 58 
Calamiteas, W. Carruthers on, and fossil 
Equisetaceas, 1867, 58 
Calamites, the stems of, W. C. William- 
son on the organisation of, 1870, 89 
* Calamus, flagella of, Professor F. O. 
Bower on, 1887, 743 
Calcareous organisms, the mineralogical 
constitution of, Y. Cornish and P. F. 
Kendall on, 1887, 700 
Calcedoine enhydrique, la, de Salto Orien¬ 
tal (Uruguay), et son veritable gise- 
ment, par Prof. Vilanova, 1887, 699 
Calcescence, Dr. C. K. Akin’s account of 
preliminary experiments on, 1863, 11 
*Calcining-kilns, J. Eckersley on J. R. 
Swan’s improved, 1867, 153 
^Calcium, bisulphite of, W. L. Scott on 
the preservation of animal substances 
by, 1867, 40 
- oxide and magnesium oxide, the 
formation of crystals of, in the oxy- 
hydrogen flame, J. Joly on, 1888, 634 
■- sulphide and sulphocarbonate, Y. 
H. Yeley on, 1884, 677 
^Calculating-machine, Dr. W. Farr on 
life-tables made by means of the 
Swedish, 1864, 165 
* -Major-Gen. H nyngton on the 
French, 1864, 167 
Calculations, a method f checking, W. 
H. Walenn on, 1879, 271 
Calculi, renal, Dr. G. Harley on the mode 
of formation of, 1873, 130 
- uric acid, Dr. Roberts on the sol¬ 
vent power of strong and weak solu¬ 
tions of the alkaline carbonates on, 
1861, 90 
Calculus, uric acid, the Rev. W. Y. Har- 
court on the solvent treatment of, 1869, 
122 
-of chemical operations, Dr. A. Crum 
Brown on the, 1867, 31 
-the most commodious and compre¬ 
hensive, Dr. E. Schroder on, 1883, 411 
-of variations, E. P. Culverwell on 
the discriminating condition of maxi¬ 
ma and minima in the, 1884, 649 
- of variations, E. P. Culverwell on 
the criteria for discriminating between 
maxima and minima solutions in the, 
1887, 598 
Calcutta, Sir Walter Elliott on a proposed 
Ethnological congress at, 1866, 109 
--P. M. Tait on the population and 
mortality of, 1867, 145 
Calderwood (W. L.) on the occupation 
of the table at the zoological station at 
Naples, 1889, 101 
*Caldwell automatic microtome, remarks 
on the, 1884, 777 
Caldwell (W. H.) *on the foetal mem¬ 
branes of the Marsupials, 1884, 768 ; 
*on the progress of his investigations 
in Australia, ib. 
*—— on some points in the development 
of Monotremes, 1886, 686 
Calico printing and the tinctorial arts, 
the extent to which they have been 
affected by the introduction of modem 
colours, by C. O’Neill, 1887, 640 
Callaway (Dr. C.), notes on the Crystal- 
line Schists of Ireland, 1886, 661 
-notes on the origin of the older 
Archjean rocks of Malvern and Angle¬ 
sey, 1887, 706 
--further notes on the origin of the 
Crystalline Schists of Malvern and 
Anglesey, 1888, 653 ; sketch of the 
geology of the Crystalline axis of the 
Malvern Hills, 654 
Callionymus lyra, L. (the skulpin), the 
ova of, Prof. McIntosh on, 1885, 1073 
Callus-plates in the sieve-tubes of: certain 
gigantic Laminarias, F. W. Oliver on 
the presence of, 1887, 761 
^Calorific power of alimentary substan¬ 
ces, a direct method for determining* 
the, J. A. Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper 
on, 1878, 605 
Calorimeter, a modification of Bunsen’s 
ice, Prof. Balfour Stewart on, 1883, 432 
- a new, for lecture purposes, J. T. 
Baker on, 1886, 525 
-a new and simple form of, Prof. W. 
F. Barrett on, 1885, 938 
