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SECTIONS. INDEX OP SUBJECTS. 



J^sh, Dr. Knox on Thibert's method of mo- 

 delling and colouring after nature all 

 kinds of, 1846, 80. 



Fish-rain at Aberdare, Eev. W. S. Symonds 

 on the, 1859, 158. 



Fishes, fossil, M. Agassiz on, 1835, 61. 



, fossil, of N. Brazil, 1840, 118. 



, fossil, from the North Staffordshire 

 coal-fields, W. Molyneux on the, 1860, 

 88. 



, remains of, in the triassic drift in the 



neighbourhood of Frome, C. Moore on the, 

 1860, 87. 



, remains of, in the coal strata of 



North Staffordshire, R. Garner on the, 

 1859, 105. 



, Rev. D. Williams on the discovery 



of the remains of, at the base of the 

 mountain limestone near Bristol, 1842, 60. 



• , fossil, of Dura Den, Rev. Dr. Ander- 

 son on the, 1850, 70. 



, fossil, of Orkney, Dr. Traill on the, 



1834, 646. 



, fossil, of Scotland, Prof. Agassiz on the, 



1834, 646. 



of the old red sandstone. Sir R. I. 



Murchison on the, 1834, 652 ; 1840, 99. 



, fossil, of the lower old red sandstone 



. of Scotland, Hugh Miller on the, 1850, 

 91. 



, fossil, Prof. M'Coy on the structure 



of the, found in the old red sandstone of 

 the north of Scotland, 1852, 55. 



, fossil, found at Peterhead, on some, 



1852, 78. _ 



found in the old red sandstone depo- 

 sits of Famell, Forfarshire, Sir P. de M. Gt. 



. Egerton on the, 1860, 77, 89. 



of the London clay, Prof. Agassiz on 



the, 1846, 52. 



of the Ludlow rocks, Sir R. I. Mur- 

 chison on the, 1837, 91. 



, fossil scales of, A. Connell's analysis 



of, 1835, 41. 



, sauroid. Sir D. Brewster on the fossil 



teeth of, 1838, 90. 



Fisher's Venetian screw propeller, 1854, 151. 



Fisheries, British, Prof. R. Jones on the, 

 1839, 93. 



, Irish Sea, R. Yalpy on the resources 



of the, 1847, no. 



of the coasts of Ireland, W. Andrews 



on the, 1857, loi. 



, herring, on the fluctuations in the, by 

 J. Cleghom, 1854, 134, 176. 



— — , herring, J. M. Mitchell on the im- 

 portance of the, 1860, 191. 



— ^, whale and seal, of Greenland and 

 Davis Straits, carried on by vessels from 

 Peterhead, 1859, 216. 



.Fishing in the west of Guiana, Sir R, 

 Schomburgk on the modes employed by 

 the Indians in, 1840, 135. 



FitzRoy's (Capt.) views of the tides, Rev. 



..Dr. Whewell's observations on, 1839, 



Fizeau's process of etching Daguerreotype 

 plates, A. Goadby on, 1845, 76. 



Flagstones, Yorkshire, and their fossils, W. 

 Baines on the, 18.58, 78. 



Flame from coal-gas, R. Mallet on the phe- 

 nomena of, 1835, 49. 



of a candle, E. R. J. Knowles on an 



extraordiaary appearance in the, 1846, 

 49. 



, oxyhydrogen, C. J. Jordan on increas- 

 ing the intensity of the, 1844, 33. 



Flames, Sir D. Brewster on luminous lines 

 in, corresponding to the defective lines in 

 the sun's light, 1842, iji 



, Sir D. Brewster on the luminous 



bands in the spectra of various, 1842, 15. 



Flamsteed's ' Historia Coelestis,' F. Baily's 

 account of some MS. letters relative to, 

 1833, 462. 



Flax and cotton fibres, Prof. F. C. Calvert 

 on the action of citric, tartaric, and oxalic 

 acids on, 1854, 65. 



, New Zealand, M. Whytlaw on a new 



method of scutching, 1852, 132. 



spinning in England, especially as de- 

 veloped in Leeds, sketch of the history of, 

 by J. G. Marshall, 1858, 184. 



steeps, warm-water, Prof. AUman on 



the development of ferment-cells in the, 

 1852, 64. 



Flint, vertical lines of. Sir C. Lyell on, 1838, 

 87. 



gravel of the neighbourhood of Cam- 

 bridge, Rev. Prof. Sedgwick on the, 1845, 



44-. . . 



implements of Amiens and Abbeville, 



Sir C. Lyell on the, 1859, 94. 



instruments, &c. of Kent's Cavern, E. 



Vivian on the, 1856, 1 19. 



Flints of Aberdeenshire, notice of the, 1834, 

 651. 



, chalk, from the boulder-clay in Caith- 

 ness, Hugh Miller on, 1851, 93. 



Floating bodies, M. Davidow on the theory 

 of equilibrium of, 1847, i. 



bodies, R. Rawson on the oscillations 



of, 1849, 5. 



bodies, J. S. Russell on the motion of, 



1835, 16. 



Floatwater, buoyant, Capt. Sleigh's, 1843, 

 102. 



Flora of Aberdeenshire, Prof. Dickie on the, 

 1859, 134. 



, Arctic, J. Taylor on the, 1859, 140. 



of Britain, Miss Twining on the com- 

 parison of the, with that of other countries, 



1847, 87. 



, British, additions to the, 1839, 92 ; 



1848, 84. 



of the British Isles, Prof. Balfour on 



the, 1855, ICO. 



of Devon and Cornwall, Rev. W. S. 



Hore on the, 1841, 75. 



of Guernsey and tfersey, 1837, 103. 



of India, Prof. Royle on the geogra- 

 phical distribution of the, 1846, 74. 



