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FOX LAND 



Sir John Fowler, 

 British engineer 



Fire, 1902 ; Place and Power, 1903; 

 In Subjection, 1906 ; and The 

 Wisdom of Folly, 1910. They re- 

 fleet mainly life in and around a 

 midland town of England, and 

 among Methodist surroundings. 



Fowler, SIR JOHN (1817-98). 

 British engineer. Born July 15, 

 1817. he became a civil engineer 

 and was large- 

 ly employed in 

 the many rail- 

 way schemes 

 which accom- 

 panied the 

 boom of 1846. 

 T h e Pimlico 

 Bridge was 

 built accord- 

 ing to his de- 

 signs in I860. 

 The same year he was engaged in 

 the construction of the Metropoli- 

 tan Rly., which was opened Jan. 9, 

 1863. In 1869 he was consulted by 

 Ismail Pasha with regard to en- 

 gineering schemes in Egypt. In 

 1883, in partnership with Benjamin 

 Baker, he designed the Forth 

 Bridge, which was opened in 1890. 

 For this Fowler, who had been 

 knighted in 1881, was made a 

 baronet. He died at Bournemouth, 

 Nov. 20, 1898. 



Fowler- Dixon, JOHN EDWIN (b. 

 1850). Athlete and writer on ath- 

 letics. Born Sept. 3, 1850, he de- 

 voted himself to 

 athletics, and 

 in 1877 won the 

 50 miles and the 

 100 miles ama- 

 teur walking re- 

 cords. In 1884 

 and 1885 he 

 created 50 

 in i 1 e s running 

 records of 6 

 hrs. 20 mins. 



47 sees, and 6 hrs. 18 mins. 26 sees, 

 respectively. In the former year 

 he also made the 40 miles running 

 record of 4 hrs. 46 mins. 54 sees., 

 which in 1920 had not been 

 beaten. He was principal pro- 

 prietor of The Athletic News. He 



J. E. Fowler-Dixon, 

 British athlete 



helped to found the Amateur 

 Athletic Association, and wrote 

 Athletes and the War. 



Fowler's Solution. Popular 

 name for liquor arsenicalis. It is a 

 1 p.c. solution of arsenious acid 

 in water with small amounts of 

 potassium carbonate and com- 

 pound tincture of lavender. It is 

 used occasionally in medicine, 

 chiefly in morbid conditions of 

 the blood. 



Fox. Animal belonging to the 

 genus Vulpes, probably consist- 

 ing of only one species including 

 several local races. It differs from 

 other dogs in the shape of its skull, 

 and in the fact that the pupil of 

 the eye is elliptical instead of cir- 

 cular. It is of slim build, with long 

 bushy tail and rather long ears. 



Foxes feed upon small mammals 

 and birds, but also eat insects and 

 fruit, feeding by night and spending 

 the day in burrows, hollow trees, 

 and clefts in rocks. They are found 

 nearly everywhere throughout the 

 northern hemisphere ; and the 

 common fox (Vulpes canis) is a 

 well-known inhabitant of Great 

 Britain. It is reddish-brown in 

 colour, with white beneath ; but 

 the hue varies considerably in local 

 races, as in the so-called grey- 

 hound fox of the Lake District. It 



sometimes makes its own burrow, 

 though it usually adapts that of 

 the badger or rabbit. In the 

 summer it often sleeps in a dry 

 ditch, and has been known to 

 make its abode in a straw rick. The 

 young, usually four or five in 

 number, are born about April. 



The fox is valued for its fur, 

 especially that of the black and 

 silver varieties. It is a favourite 

 animal for hunting, while on the 

 other hand it often works havoc 

 in the game preserve and the 

 poultry yard. It would have 

 become extinct in Britain long 

 ago but for its preservation by 

 the " hunts." See Fur. 



Fox OR NEENAH. River of Wis- 

 consin, U.S.A. Rising in the S. part 

 of the state, it flows S.W., N., and 

 N.E. to Lake Winnibago. Emerg- 

 ing from the N. end of that lake, it 

 follows a N. W. course to Green Bay, 

 a branch of Lake Michigan. In its 

 upper reaches, near Portage, it is 

 connected by a canal with Wis- 

 consin river. It is 250 m. long, and 

 navigable for the greater part of its 

 course. 



Fox OR PISHTAKA. River of the 

 U.S.A. Rising in Wisconsin, it 

 flows 225 m. generally S. and S.W., 

 and passes through Illinois to unite 

 with the Illinois river at Ottawa. 



Fox. Channel of N. America. 

 It lies to the N. of Hudson Bay, 

 separating Baffin Island on the 

 E. from Melville Peninsula and 

 Southampton Island on the W. It 

 communicates by Hudson Strait 

 with the Atlantic, and by Fury 

 and Hecla Strait with the Arctic. 

 Luke Fox, English navigator, ex- 

 plored it in 1631. 



Fox Islands. Variant name 

 given to the Aleutian Islands (q.v.). 

 It is more specifically confined to 

 the extreme E. group, consisting of 

 Unalaska, Unimak, Umnak, and a 

 number of smaller islands. 



Fox Land. Desolate region in 

 the S.W. of Baffin Island, British 

 N. America. It lies between Fox 

 Channel on the N.W. and Hudson 

 Strait on the S.E. 



Fox. 1. Fox emerging from its earth. 2. Common fox, Vulpes canis. 3. Arctic fox in winter coat 



