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A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

A treatise on colors.

, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

The department of astronomy relating to comets.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

See Conchologist, and Conchology.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

A treatise on crime or the criminal population. -- Crim`i*nol"o*gist (-j, n.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Secret or enigmatical language. Johnson.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving.

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. Sir W. Scott.