Conde, notice of a heavy shower of shooting stars, Oct., 902, 119.
Coraboeuf and Delcrois, geodetic operations, 304.
Cordilleras, scenery of, 26, 29, 33; vegetation, 34, 35; intensity of the zodiacal light, 137.
Cosmography, physical, its object and ultimate aims, 57-60; materials, 60.
Cosmos, the author's object, 38, 78; primitive signification and precise definition of the word, 69; how employed by Greek and Roman writers, 69, 60; derivation, 70.
Craters. See Volcanoes.
Curtius, Professor, his notes on the temperature of various springs in
Greece, 222, 223.
Cuvier, one of the founders of the archaeology of organic life, 273; discovery of fossil crocodiles in the tertiary formations, 274. Dainachos on the phenomena attending the fall of the stone of Aegos Potamos, 133, 134.
Dalman on the existence of Chionaea araneoides in polar snow, 344.
Dalton, observed the southern lights in England, 198.