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INDEX. 



February minimum, 67. 

 Fedcheuko, Alexis, CS3. 

 Feldspar and saline solutions, 383. 

 Felting, treatment of hair for, 549. 

 Ferguson, Mr. James, 220. 



Prof., 1. 

 Fergusson, Sir William, 332. 

 Fermentation, alcoholic, 184. 



and silicate of soda, 184. 

 Ferments, separation of digestive, 187. 

 Ferrel, Mr.,10S. 

 Ferrier, Mr., Ixxxii. 

 Fertilization in grasses, 358. 



of yucca, 362. 

 Fertilizers with nitrogen, 410. 

 Feuchtwanger, Dr., 192. 

 Fibres, micro-chemical investigation of, 

 572. 

 silver coating of, 560. 

 Fibrine, artificial, 642. 

 Fichtelite, 180. 

 Field & Co., Messrs., 473. 

 Field-mice, extermination of, 412. 

 Filter of spun glass, 489. 

 Findlay, Mr., 226. 

 Finkener, Prof., 472. 

 Finsch,Dr.,214,45S. 

 Fire, plaster as a protection against, 469. 

 Fire-extiuguisher, steam as a, 470. 



-proof powder-chests, GIO. 

 Fischer, Mr., 553. 

 Fish, a large, 317. 



Commission, United States, xc.,xcii., 



xciii., cxiv., 338. 

 cultivation of, iu ditches and ponds, 



443. 

 curious, 342. 



inspection law of Canada, 455. 

 of the Caspian Sea, 459. 

 piclsle, utilization of old, 502. 

 Fish-eggs and fry, American, 459. 

 -guano, 387. 



-ponds, treatment of, 452. 

 -scales, shower of, 350. 

 -way at Holyoke, ex. 

 Fisheries and pisciculture, 427. 

 Fishery and game laws of Ohio, 457. 

 law of Pennsylvania, 439. 

 laws in Germany, 433. 

 models at the Scandinavian ex- 

 hibition, 429. 

 Fishes, the, cii. 



influence of pressure on, 467. 

 respiration in, 304. 

 Fizeau, Mr., 37, 128, 668. 

 Flannel, bleaching discolored. 602. 

 Fleck, Mr., 643, 647. 

 Fleming, Dr., 333. 

 Flies, do they eat pollen ? 293. 



hibernation of, 352. 

 Flint and quartz, alcohols from, 185. 

 Flora of the Island of St. Paul, 355. 



of the pliocene of Central France, 

 198. 

 Florida, mammals of, 286. 



prehistoric cannibalism in, 281. 

 Flour and sunlight, 485. 



mill, explosion in a, 609. 

 paste, improved, 550. 

 Flow of water in rivers and canals, 167. 

 Flower, Prof. William H., 315. 

 Flying, mechanical principles of, 172, 533. 

 Focke,Dr.,366. 

 Food, digestion of non-nitrogenous, 300. 



Food for diminutive trout, 447. 



on the urine of animals, effect of, 



396. 

 value of gelatine as, 509. 

 Forbes & Co., 501. 



Force derived from the sun's heat, 63. 

 Ford, Mr., xlvii. 

 Forest growth in the Wabash Valley, 



367. 

 "Forest and Stream," a new journal, 



665. 

 Forests, congressional action respecting, 

 403. 

 influence of, on ozone, 426. 

 on rain-fall, 70. 

 on the temperature 

 of the ground, 81. 

 Forster, Prof.,49,638. 

 Fossil bird, new, 288, 349. 

 carnivora, new, 285. 

 corals in the West Indies, 340. 

 duck in Belgium, 303. 

 horses of Southern Europe, 301. 

 lemur in France, 314. 

 mammal from Patagonia, 815. 

 plants, Canadian, 378. 

 plants of the Northern hemisphere, 

 210. 

 Fossils discovered by Prof. Cope, new, 

 315. 

 discovered, new, 348. 

 from the La Plata, human, 336. 

 new vertebrate, 309. 

 of Rocky Mountain, 199. 

 Foster, Gen. J. G., 516. 



Mr. J. W., 205,311,683. 

 Prof., 12. 

 Foucault, Mr., 129. 



pendulum experiment of, 95. 

 Fourier's theorem, 156. 

 Fowls, rendering, tender, 496. 

 Fraas, Prof., 313. 

 France, flora of the pliocene of, 198. 



maritime fisheries of, 453. 

 Franke,Mr.,605. 

 Franklin, Benjamin, 173. 

 Fraser, Mr. Louis, 675. 

 Frauenfeld, Dr., 453. 

 Fraunhofer lines, intensity of the, 174. 

 Frazer, Dr.,631. 

 Fremy and Pasteur, controversy between, 



184. 

 French arc of the meridian, 233. 



Association of Science, 608. 

 observatories, reorganization of, 

 14. 

 Fresh-water fisheries of India, 465. 

 Frey and Leuckart, Messrs., 297. 

 Friedel,Mr.,185. 

 Fritsch, Dr., Ixxxii., 299. 

 Fritsche, Mr.,77. 

 Fritz, Dr. H., 47. 



Frog, development of a Guadaloupe, 290. 

 Frozen herring, trade in, 432. 

 Fruit, prevention of rotting in, 399. 

 Fuchs, Prof., 518. 



Fuchsiu preventing putrefaction, 557. 

 Fulix marila, 304. 

 Fulmarus glacialis, 500. 

 Fund lx)r scientific research, 670. 

 Fungi, bread, .369. 



preservation of fleshy, 271. 

 Furnace, blow-pipe, 592. 

 Furnace-slag, utilization of, 527. 



