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CURGYM

CURRYING, in leather manufacture, xiv.

386.

CURSE-OATH, xvn. 698. CURSING, Laws against, in. 807. CURSIVE WRITING, xvni. 149; xxin.

682; Latin, xvin. 154. CURTIS, Mrs, wife of George Washington,

xxiv. 388. CURTIUS, Mettus, Eoman legendary

hero, vi. 716. , RUFUS, Quintus, biographer of

Alexander the Great, vi. 716. CURUBAS, fruit of passion-flower, xvin.

343-

CURVATURE, in geometry, xin. 26; in conic sections, vi. 283; of spherical surfaces, xv. 659.

CURVE, CURVES, vi. 716; x. 395, 419; xv. 630; xxiv. 86; in integral cal culus, xin. 50; in relation to surface, xxii. 668; Pliicker on intersections of, his six equations, XIX. 229; Des- cartes s application of algebra to, xin. 6; tidal, xxm. 366, 370.

CURVILINEAR COORDINATES, xxn. 671.

CURWEN, John, promoter of the tonic sol-fa musical notation, xvn. 100.

CURZOLA, town, Austrian Dalmatia, vi. 728; battle of (1298), xix. 406.

CUSA, Nicolas de (Cusanus), cardinal and Reformer, vi. 728; XX. 323.

Cuscus, genus of marsupial mammals, xvm. 728.

CUSCUTA, genus of plants, vn. 320.

CUSCUTACE^E, parasitic plants, xvin. 264.

CUSH, of Scripture, vi. 729; xvn. 511.

CUSHAT, ring-dove, vn. 379.

CUSHITES, of Scripture, xxiv. 738; xvn. 511.

CUSP, in architecture, II. 463.

, of a curve, xxn. 669.

CUSSO, or Kousso, drug, XIV. 145.

CUSTARD APPLE, vi. 729.

CUSTOM, in law, xiv. 362; xix. 705.

HOUSES, vi. 729.

CUSTOMS DUTIES, vi. 729.

CUSTOMS OF THE SEA, book of mari time ordinances, VI. 318.

GUSTOS ROTULORUM, keeper of records, vi. 730.

CUSTRIN, town, Prussia, xiv. 162.

CUSUMANO, Vito, Italian economist, xix. 395.

CUTCH, state, India, vi. 730; Ran, Runn, or Lake of, iv. 22; vi. 730. , or Catechu, vegetable extract, V. 220; Xiv. 382.

, Goldbeater s, x. 753.

GUNDAVA, district, Baluchistan,

vi. 732.

CUTHBERT, St, bishop of Lindisfarne, England, VI. 732 ; xvn. 570 ; his labours in Lothian, XV. 10 ; xxi. 475; his tomb at Durham, vn. 562.

CUTICLE, or Epidermis, Anatomy of

the, I. 897. CUTLERY, vi. 733; English, xxi. 787;

Indian, XII. 762. CUTTACK, district and town, India, v.

242; xvn. 845. CUTTER, boat, xxi. 825. CUTTHROAT, bird, xxiv. 463. CUTTINGS, Railway, xx. 232. CUTTLE-BONE, for polishing, XXI.

666.

CUTTLE-FISH, VI. 735; XVI. 670.

CUTWA (Katwa), town, Bengal, India, xiv. 15.

CUT -WATER, bird, xxn. 120.

CuviER, Georges (Baron Cuvier), French naturalist, vi. 740; on birds, xvin. 7; on Buffon s theories of the iiniverse, IV. 445; on classification and morpho logy, XVI. 838 ; his classification of animals, XXIV. 806; of reptiles, XX. 435 ; on evolution, vin. 749 ; on ichthyology, XII. 633.

CUXHAVEN, town, Germany, VI. 742 ; xi. 404.

CUYABA, town, Brazil, vi. 742.

CUY-COCHA, lake, Ecuador, vn. 646.

CUYP, Albert, Dutch painter, vi. 742; his connexion with Van der Neer, xvn. 314.

, Jacob Gerritsz, Dutch painter, vi.

742.

CUYUNI, river, British Guiana, XI. 250.

CUZA, Alexander John, prince of Roumania, xxi. 21.

Cuzco, town, Peru, vi. 744; xvin. 675; ancient fortresses at, II. 452; pilgrim age to temple at, xix. 92.

CwM-HiR, abbey, Wales, xx. 217.

CYANATES, in chemistry, xx. 25 ; of ammonia, XXIV. n.

CYANECULA, genus of birds, xx. 318.

CYANIC ACID, xx. 25 ; Wohler s dis covery of, xxiv. 626.

CYANIDE OF HYDROGEN (Prussic Acid), v. 554; xx. 23.

CYANIDES, Analysis of, xx. 24; metallic, v. 554; methyl, xvi. 197.

CYANITE, mineral, xvi. 408.

CYANOGEN, in chemistry, v. 554; xx. 22 ; Gay-Lussac s experiments on, x. 123.

CYANOMETER, Saussure s invention of the, XXI. 324.

CYANOSIS, facial deformity, xvi. 765.

CYANOSPIZA, genus of birds, xvn. 534.

CYANURUS, genus of birds, xin. 611.

CYATHEA, genus of tree-ferns, xxin.

534 CYAXARES, Median king, xvin. 563;

xxi. 577. CYBELE, in Greek mythology, vi. 744;

xv. 99, 294; xvin. 853; worship of,

xvin. 691 ; statue of, at Rome, xx.

821. CYBO, Innocent, Florentine cardinal, xv.

789.

CYBULSKI, Prof., Polish writer, xix.

305-

CYCADACE^E, order of plants, xxiv. 131. CYCLADES, group of islands, Greece, vi.

744; coins of the, xvn. 644. CYCLAMEN, greenhouse plant, xii. 263. CYCLAS, genus of Mollusca, xvi. 695. CYCLE, Metonic, in astronomy, n. 747;

iv. 668; other cycles, iv. 669, 670. CYCLIC POEMS, Greek, xi. 137. CYCLING, velocipede riding, in. 665;

xxin. 559. CYCLOID, Quadrature of the, Pascal s,

xvni. 338. CYCLOMYARIA, suborder of Tunicata,

xxin. 615. CYCLONES, areas of low atmospheric

pressure, in. 33; vi. 7; xvi. 129, 154;

at sea, xvn. 276; of Asia, n. 690;

xv. 189; in Polynesia, xix. 421; in

the West Indies, XXIV. 511. CYCLOPEDIA, or Encyclopaedia (<i.v.),

vin. 190.

, American, vin. 204; XX. 568.

, Chainbers s (1728), vin. 196.

, English, vin. 204.

, Penny, vin. 204; xiv. 856.

CYCLOPEAN MASONRY, in archaeology,

II. 346, 401 ; remains of, in Ithaca,

xin. 517. CYCLOPES, in Greek mythology, vi. 744;

11. 346. CYCLOPS, Euripides s satyric drama,

vin. 678.

, monster, xvi. 764.

CYCLOPTERUS, genus of fishes, xv. 65. CYCLORHAPHA, group of insects, vn.

256. CYCLOSTOMA, suborder of Polyzoa, xix.

437-

, genus of snails, xxn. 187.

CYCLOSTOMATA, subclass of fishes, xn. 694.

CYCLOTURUS, genus of edentate mam mals, xv. 386.

CYCNUS, of Greek legend, xix. 559.

CYDNUS, river, Asia Minor, n. 709; v.

777-

CYDONIA, genus of trees, xx. 182. CYDONIUM EOSASTER, species of

sponges, XXII. 414.

CYGNET, young of the swan, xxn. 731. CYGNUS, genus of birds, xxii. 731. CYLINDER, in geometry, x. 417 ;

mensuration of, XVI. 25; Archimedes

on, n. 380; Serenus on, xxi. 675. , of steam-engine, behaviour of

steam in, xxn. 487; strength of, xxn.

606.

PRINTING PRESSES, xxin. 706.

CYLIX, ancient Greek vase, xix. 614. CYLON, Athenian insurgent, in. 2; xi.

96. CYMBALUM MUNDI, of Bonaventure

des Periers, IX. 654. CYMBULIA, genus of Mollusca, xvi. 665,