96 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Cosmogonical speculations, Isaac Ashe 
on, 1862, 8 
^Cosmogony, theories of, and on the 
mechanical conditions of a swarm of 
meteorites, Prof. G. H. Darwin on, 1888, 
590 
*Cossham (Handel) on the geological 
formation of the district around Kings- 
wood Hill, 1864, 52 
- statistics relative to the Bristol 
Coal-field, 1864, 164 
-the northern section of the Bristol 
Coal-field, 1888, 659 
-E. Wethered and W. Saise on the 
northern end of the Bristol Coal-field, 
1875, 64 
'•’•'Cost of living, Prof. L. Levi on the 
increased, and its relation to the rates 
of wages and salaries, 1873, 196 
Cotarnine derivatives, new, Dr. C. R. A. 
Wright on, 1876, 70 
Cottagers and open wastes in the district 
of the New Forest, G. E. B. Eyre on, 
1882, 645 
Cotteswold Hills, Dr. H. Bird on the 
human bones formed in tumuli in the, 
1864, 137 
Cotton (Gen. Sir A.) on the North-west 
African Expedition, 1875, 190 
Cotton, W. Danson on Barragudo, from 
the plains of the Amazon, and on the 
flax-fibre, of North America, 1861, 140 
- -Henry Ashworth on the progress of 
science and art as developed in the 
bleaching of, at Bolton, 1861, 204 
—— trade, Thomas Bazley on the, 1861, 
206 
-upland, Alderman Neild on the price 
of, from 1812 to 1860, 1861, 229 
-gins, David Chadwick on recent 
improvements in, 1861, 256 
-famine, David Chadwick on the, 
and the substitutes for cotton, 1862, 150 
--chart, Col. C. W. Grant’s notes on a, 
showing the effect of the American 
Civil War on cotton, 1864, 166 
-fibre, E. A. Cowper on a new cotton 
gin for separating, from the seed, 1865, 
176 
- machinery, D. Morris on the past 
and present productive power of, 1865, 
155 
--mill, William Fairbairn on the 
means employed for removing and re¬ 
placing in a new position the iron 
columns of a fireproof, 1866, 141 
..- the chemical composition of, E. 
Schunck on, 1870, 63 
- -the influence of price upon the cul¬ 
tivation and consumption of, during 
the past ten years, W. B. Forwood on, 
1870, 191 
-seed, fibrous, T. Rose on the utili¬ 
sation of, 1870, 200 
*Cotton, suggestions for the increase of 
the production of, by R. T. Saunders, 
1870, 201 
-J. Galletly on the ignition of, by 
saturation with fatty oils, 1872, 73 
- trade, the : its condition and pros¬ 
pects, E. Guthrie on, 1883, 601 
- fibre, the chemistry of the, Dr. 
F. H. Bowman on, 1887, 641 
- industry, report on the regulation 
of wages in the , by means of lists , 1887, 
303 ; spinning , ib. ; weaving , 314 
--piece goods, the classification of the 
exports of, in Board of Trade returns, 
F. Hardcastle on, 1887, 847 
-trade, history of the, by W. Andrews, 
1887, 849 
*Couburn (J.) on the culture of the vine 
in the open air, 1861, 140 
Couch (Jonathan) on the marine fauna 
and flora of the south coast of Devon 
and Cornwall , 1865, 51; 1867, 275 ; 
1869,84 
County Councils, apian for, J. T. Kay on, 
1887, 837 
Covariants of a binary quantic, Prof. A. 
Cayley on the number of, 1871, 9 
Coventry Freehold Land Society, C. II. 
Bracebridge on, 1863, 151 
Co wen (Joseph) on fire-clay goods, 1863, 
40 
Cowles aluminium process, recent 
developments of the, R. E. Crompton 
on, 1888, 809 
*Cownley (A. D.) and Dr. Paul on the 
valuation of commercial crude anthra¬ 
cene, 1873, 65 
Cowper (E. A.) on a new cotton gin for 
separating cotton fibre from the seed, 
1865, 176 ; on the effect of blowing 
blast furnaces with blast of verv high 
temperatures, 177 
--on Cowper’s writing telegraph, 1879, 
520 ; on Cowper’s hot blast stove, 522 
- on the advisability and possibility 
of establishing hi other parts of the 
country observations upon the preva¬ 
lence of earth tremors similar to those 
now being made in Durham , 1888, 522 ; 
an improved seismograph, 818 
- and W. Anderson, experiments on 
the mechanical equivalent of heat on a 
large scale , 1887, 562 
Cox (S. N. F.) on Siemens’ regenerative 
gas-furnaces and producers, 1865, 177 
Crab, Robert Garner on an albino vari¬ 
ety of, 1862, 126 
Crace-Calvert (F.) on the chemical 
composition of some woods employed 
in the navy, 1861, 77 
-on a new method of extracting gold 
from auriferous ores, 1864, 25 
-on the action of acids on metals and 
alloys, 1865, 2 S 
