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INDEX

Caves, Exploration of, at Leith, by W. B. Dawkins, 628

Cayley, Professor, Report of his Paper on determining the Place of a Body revolving round the Sun, 222

Cayley (Prof.) on Abstract Geometry (Royal Society), 294

Cedar, Resinous Vapours from, 200

Census, a Scientific, by Prof. Leone Levi, 99

Channel Islands, Prehistoric Archaeology of, 198

Channel Railways, The Projected, 160, 303, 631

Charcoal, Absorption of Mixed Vapours by, 345

Chemical Nomenclature, 173; Notation, Basis of, by Prof. Odling, 600; Society of London, 173, 345, 391, 444, 491, 518, 592, 16, 639, 662

Child (Gilbert W.), Evidence concerning Heterogeny, 626

China, Mr. Gardner's Paper on, at the Ethnological Society, 90; Mr. Elias at the Geographical, 117; Prof. Owen on Fossils of, 662

Chinese Astronomy, 221

Chloral, Manufacture of, 446

Chlorinated transformed into Iodinated Compounds, 269

Chlorine (Dry), its Action upon Dry Nitrate of Silver, 321

Chlorophyll, Movements of, 465

Chlorophyll, Prof. Lawson on (Ashmolean Society), 172

Cholera, Pettenkofer on, 28; in India, Report concerning, 338

Chromium Oxychloride, a New, 119

Cinchona: its Culture in St Helena, 268; Hybridisation among Cinchonas, 491

Civil Engineers. (See Institution.)

Cloaca Maxima, Letters on, 193, 243

Clock, Turret, at Melbourne, 338

Cockle (Sir J.), Report of Paper on Convertent Functions, 468

Coffee Fungus, New, 142.

Coffee Plant in India, 540

Colour and Music, 286, 430, 557, 558, 651. (See Correlation.)

Comet discovered at Marseilles, 226; Kirkwood on the Origin of, 115; Prizes for the Discovery of, 269

Commensalism in the Animal Kingdom, 641

Copenhagen, Scientific Society of, 347

Corema Conradii, 121

Corfield (Prof.) on Science and the Public Health, 155

Cornell University, 658

Corona, Letter on the, by J. M. Wilson, 139

Correlation of Colour and Music, by W. F. Barrett, 286; Letters on, by Mr. W. R. Grove, 314, 335; by De Chaumont, 315; by Mr. Monro, 362

Crania, Comparative Measurements of, 318

Crombie's British Lichens, 380

Crookes' (W.) Letter on the American Eclipse, 170

Crossness Well-boring, The, 333

Croullebois (M.) on Refraction of Water, 664

Cuckows' Eggs, by Prof. Alfred Newton, F.L.S., 74; Letters on, 139, 218, 266, 336, 508; Colouring of, 242

Cupric Salts reduced by Tannin, 143

Cyclone, A, in England, 219, 289

Dallas (W. S.) on Newman's British Moths, 15

Dana's Mineralogy, by Prof. Maskelyne, 161, 186

Darien Canal, 562

Darwin (Chas.) on the Fertilisation of Winter Flowering Plants, 85; his Hypothesis of Pangenesis, 664

Darwinism, 316; and National Life, 183

Darwin's Theory, A Deduction from, by Prof. Jevons, 231

Davidson's Our Bodies, 54

Davies, Rev. W. G., Letter on Sensation and Perception, 407

Davison (W.) on the Dinornis, 604

Davy (M.) on the Calorific effects of the Moon's Rays, 29

Dawkins (W. B.) on the Geological Calculus, 505

Dawson (Principal) on Gaspé Fossils, 93; on Sigillaria, 271; on Animal Remains from Canada, 271

Day (Dr. Francis) on Indian River Fisheries, 220

Deas (Francis) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384

De Chaumont (Dr.) on Correlation of Colour and Music, 314

Deep-sea Corals, 267; Madreporaria, by Dr. Duncan, 612

Deep-sea Dredging Expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine, I.—Natural History, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 135, 166

Deep-sea Dredgings from China and Japan, by Prof. Rymer Jones, 198

Deep-sea Soundings and Geology, by Prof. Huxley, 657

Delaunay (M.) on the Falls of Aerolites, 120; award of the Royal Society's Gold Medal to, 219

Derry, Natural History Society of, 639

Desains (M.) and E. Branly, their Paper on Solar Radiation (Paris Academy), 177

Deville (Prof.) on Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63; his Paper at the Paris Academy on the Gases of Central Italy, 63; on a Siderostat, 225; on Meteorology in France, 273

Diatoms, Spectroscopic Examination of, 115

Dichlorinated Aldehyde, 27

Dieudonné (M.) on Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63

Diffraction Spectrum, Mr. Stuart's Letter, 506

Diffusion of Plants, 246

Dingle Bay, Inhabitants of Rockpools, &c., 296

Dinornis, Mr. Davison's letter on, 604

Dinosauria, Report of Prof. Cope's Paper on, 121

Drainage, the Metropolitan Main, 558

Dresser's (Dr. H. E.) Letter on Cuckows' Eggs, 218

Drink, Our National, by Dr. B. H. Paul, 594

Dublin: Geological Society, 175, 200, 346, 415; Natural History Society, 176, 296, 393, 521; Royal Society, 119, 346, 521; Royal Irish Academy, 119, 175, 225, 321, 415, 493, 568; Statistical Society, 147; Zoological Society, 346

Dufour Map, the, 291

Duncan (P. Martin) on Deep-sea Corals, 267; on the Food o Oceanic Animals, 315; on the Madreporaria dredged up in the Porcupine Expedition, 612

Dunkelberg on Agricultural Engineering, 189

Dupré (Dr.) on the Elimination of Alcohol, 86

Dust and Disease, 327, 361

Dutch or Deutsch, Mr. Freeman's Letter on, 532

Earthquake at Manilla, 604; at Marseilles, 364

Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, by R. A. Proctor, 54

Ecker's Convolutions of the Brain, 18

Eclipse, the Recent Total in America, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 14; see also, 170, 203, 336, 532; Indian, 536; Total, of December 1870, 599; Improved Camera, 313

Edinburgh: Botanical Society, 545; Geological Society, 63, 174; Naturalists' Field Club, 200; Royal Society, 247, 521, 640, 664

Egypt, Stone Age in, by J. Evans, F.R.S., 631

Encke, the Astronomer, by R. A. Proctor, 479

Energy, by Dr. Balfour Stewart, 666

Engrais Complet, 482

Entomological Society, 119, 295, 414, 467, 519, 593

Entomology in America, 379

Eophyton, Structure of, 173

Ether, Action of, on Plants, 343

Etheridge (R.) on the Geological Position, &c., of the Reptilian Conglomerate of the Bristol Area, 344

Ethnological Society, 90, 118, 198, 247, 320, 367, 414, 467, 519, 592, 639

Ethnology, 318

Eton, New Telescope at, 263; Chemical Laboratory at, 487

Evans (John) on Prehistoric Archaeology, 77; on the Stone Age in Egypt, 631

Explosives, Science of, 656

Falb (Rudolf) on the Earthquake at Manilla, 604

Faraday, by Dr. Gladstone, 401; an Oversight by, 384

Farrar (Rev. F. W.) on Philology and Darwinism, 527

Favre (M.) on the Electric Explorer, 225

Faye (M.), Photographic Observation of the Transits of Venus, 545

Female Education at the University of Dublin, 114

Female Physician Question at Edinburgh, 25, 587, 658

Fenzl (Prof.) on the Genus Lupinus, 293

Ferns, M. Trecul on, 493, 522

Fick on the Transformation of Force, by Dr. M. Foster, 53

Fireplaces, our Domestic, 624

Fisher (O.), A Word in Defence of Physicists, 654

Floating Matter and Beams of Light, by Professor Tyndall, F.R.S., 490. (See Air.)

Florence, Observatory at, 59

Fluoride of Silver, 319

Food, The, of Oceanic Animals, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 92; Mr. Wallich's Letter on, 241; Mr. Jeffreys on, 315; Dr. Wyville Thomson on, 316; Dr. Duncan on, 315

Forbes (David), Depths of the Sea, 100; Sermons in Stones, 130

Forefathers of the English People, by Prof. Huxley, 514

Form, A New, for Schools, 56

Fossils of Natal, 642

Foster (G. C.) on Heat Units, 654

Foster (Dr. M.) on Fick on the Transformation of Force, 53

France, Agricultural Map of, 86