Childrey first described the zodical light in his Britannia Baconica, 138.
Chinese accounts of comets, 99, 100, 101; shooting stars, 128: "fire springs," 158; knowledge of the magnetic needle, 180; electro-magnetism, 188, 189.
Chladni on meteoric stones, etc., 118, 135; on the selenic origin of aerolites, 121; on the supposed phenomenon of ascending shooting stars, 122; on the obscuration of the Sun's disk, 133; sound-figures, 135; pulsations in the tails of comets, 143.
Choiseul, his chart of Lemnos, 246.
Chromatic polarization. See Polarization.
Cirro-cumulus cloud. See Clouds.
Cirrous Strata. See Clouds.
Clark, his experiments on the variations of atmospheric electricity, 335, 336.
Clarke, J. G., of Maine, U.S., on the comet of 1843, 100.
Climatic distribution of heat, 313, 317-328; of humidity, 328, 333, 334.