742 INDEX. 



Paga, 



Fossil birds in Chatham Islands _ 299 



plants, Lacoe collection of 25 



Fossils, origin of oldest, Professor Brooks on 359 



Foster, Michael, work of 464 



Foucanlt, velocity of light measured by 104 



Fowke, Gerard 47 



Fowle, F. E., jr 39,73 



France, exchange agency 64 



transmissions to 66, 67 



Institute of, Loewy on 697 



Franck, M. Frangois, on action of digitalin 393, 394 



Frankland, Percy, on action of light on micro-organisms 455 



Franklin. Jonathan, cited 411 



Franklin's electrical experiments 165 



Franks, Sir A. Wollaston, on Neo-Celtic art 604 



Franz Josef Land, exploi'ation of. 325 



Frederick William III and Berlin University 691 



Freiburg University, publications from 79 



Fremont, M. , investigations by _ . _ 402 



Fremy, Edouard, death of 703 



Freshfield, Douglas, of Royal Geographical Society 340 



Fresnel, Augustin, French optician. 156 



Fresnel, the ether of 132 



Friction, laws of fluid 678 



skin, of fishes 077 



Friedrich-Wilhelm University, growth of 653, 681 



Fritsche, Dr., cited 187,188 



Frost, John, on Indian rain making 251 



Froude, Mr., cited 677 



Fuel, gas, etc., expenditures for xvi 



Fuchs and De Launy , cited 233 



Fuller, Melville W., member of Smithsonian Institution ix 



Regent of Smithsonian Institution x, xi 



Fundi, Edye & Co. , courtesies from 65 



a. 



Gaels, origin of 601 



Galapagos Islands, origin of giant tortoises of 315 



Galileo, discovery of phases of Mars bj^ 114 



quoted 388 



telescope first used by 96 



Gallway , Captain, African survey by 339 



Galton, Francis, on evolution 414, 425 



Galvani, experiments by 145 



Galvanism, history of 165 



origin of 145 



Gambler, Capt. J. W. , on the Guanches 541 



Gartner, ergostat of 474 



Gascoigne, William, micrometer invented by 96 



Gaseous theory of solution 85 



Gases and liquids. Professor Ramsey on 85 



Gaskell, W. H., cited. 382 



Gatham, Louis, on rain making 263, 269 



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