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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



874 ; the votes canvassed by order of the Court, 875 ; the 

 Supreme Court asserts its jurisdiction in the matter, and 

 decides on alleged irregularities in returns, 875 ; a county 

 return must not be thrown out because the vote of a 

 single poll has not been received or included, 875; a 

 mandamus to compel the Governor to issue a certificate 

 of election, having already granted it to another candi- 

 date, 875; his official acts not subject to the control of the 

 Court, 876; the law on requisitions for fugitives from 

 justice, 876 ; the juror's test-oath decided to be void and 

 unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, 

 876 ; another decision to the effect that the oath can be 

 required only by the district attorney, 377 ; detailed crop 

 returns of 1877, 377 ; the State Prison, 377; a ship-canal 

 scheme, 377, 378; Indians, 378; education, 378. 



FLOYD, 8 ALLY BUCHANAN. Biographical sketch, 879. 



FOLEY, Bishop THOMAS. Life and clerical services, 379. 



Formation of Mountains. Problems connected with moun- 

 tain upheavals, 879 ; experiments on the compression of 

 a plastic material, 380 ; various conditions of the earth's 

 contraction reproduced, 881. 



FOSTER, CHABLBS. Representative from Ohio, 193 ; on the 

 army appropriation bill, 231, 282. 



France. Members of the Government, 881 ; movement of 

 population, 881 ; marriage statistics, 381 ; area, popula- 

 tion in 1872 and 1876, and vital statistics by departments, 

 838 ; vital statistics for a series of years, 884 ; revenue 

 and expenditure, 384 ; the army under the new army^ law, 

 834 ; strength of the army in peace and on a war footing, 

 884; the navy, 834; commerce fora succession of years, 

 885; commerce by countries, 885 ; the classes of com- 

 modities for two years, 385 ; shipping, 885 ; railroads and 

 telegraphs, 885 ; savings-banks, 385 ; area and population of 

 colonies, 386 ; the new Cabinet, 886 ; biographical sketches 

 of members, 886 ; elections for the Senate, 887 ; sessions 

 of the Chambers, 387 ; official changes and the appoint- 

 ment of Republicans demanded, 387; MacMahon signs 

 the dismissals in the departments, but refuses to remove 

 army generals, 387 ; he resigns, 883 ; his letter of resig- 

 nation, 388 ; Gr6vy elected President of the Republic by 

 the Chambers, 883 ; the new President's message, 888 ; 

 Gambetta's speech as President of the Chamber, 888 ; 

 text of the amnesty bill, 839; passage of the same, 889 ; 

 Marcere resigns the portfolio of the Interior, 389 ; debate 

 on the impeachment of the De Broglie Ministry, 889 ; a 

 vote of condemnation instead, 3DO ; Ferry's bill on higher 

 education, 390 ; the bill reorganizing the Supreme Coun- 

 cil, 890 ; number of Jesuit colleges, 890 ; the question of 

 Blanqui's pardon, 891 ; the Cassagnac episode, 391 ; the 

 return of the Chambers to Paris debated and voted, 391 ; 

 the Ferry bill passed, 392 ; increase of the Jesuits and the 

 schools of unauthorized religious bodies, 392 ; the first 

 meeting of the Chambers in Paris, 892 ; Gambetta's open- 

 Ing speech, 392 ; radicals charge the Government with 

 slowness in amnestying the Communards, 893 ; the num- 

 ber of pardons and commutations granted and the num- 

 ber of political offenderg still under sentence, 893 ; the 

 "Waddington Ministers resign, and Freycinet forms a 

 Cabinet, 894 ; the question of the Napoleonic succession, 

 894 ; Legitimist banquets, 394. 



FBEYOINET, CHAKLES Louis DE SAUXCES DE. French states- 

 man, 894 ; life and career, 394. 



FRIEDBEKCJ, Dr. HEINBICII. Prussian Minister of Justice, 

 biographical notice, 740. 



Friends. A missionary society established, 895 ; the Eng- 

 lish Yearly Meeting, 895 ; English First-day schools, 

 895; missions, 396 ; Irish Friends, 396. 



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GAMBETTA. Elected President of the French Chamber, 888. 



GABFIELD, JAMES A. Representative from Ohio, 198, 251 ; 

 on the army appropriation bill, 282, 233. 



GABBISON, WILLIAM LLOYD. Birth and education, 896 ; his 

 antislavery agitation, 896 ; his extremism, 397 ; abolition- 

 ists mobbed, 897; the Liberty party, 897 ; end of the An- 

 tislavery Society, 898. 



Geographical Progress and Discovery. The field of ex- 

 ploration, 898 ; exploration of the Pamir, 899; the iden- 

 tity of the Sanpoo and Brahmapootra established, 899 ; 

 the outlet of Lake Abistada, 400 ; western Thibet, 400 ; 

 products and people, 400 ; the Ilunias and Bhotias, 400 ; 

 prospects of trans-Himalayan trade, 401 ; the French 

 Ogowe expedition, 401, 402; new negro tribes encoun- 

 tered, 402 ; exploring a route to Nyassa, 402 ; discoveries 

 in the Congo basin, 408 ; social and political conditions of 

 the Matabeli, 408 ; civilized Bamangwato, 408 ; the king- 

 doms of South Central Africa described, 404 ; Serpa 

 Pinto, 405 ; start of the Portuguese expedition, 405 ; the 

 plain where the great rivers rise, 405; a white negro race, 

 406; other new tribes, 406; deserted in mid- Africa, 407 i 

 the fall of the Makololos, 407 ; the banks of the Zambesi, 

 407; the question of the Cubango, 407; a great salt-basin, 

 407 ; puzzling fluvial phenomenon, 408; Pinto emerges at 

 Natal, 408 ; D'Albertis on New Guinea, 408-410; his first 

 visit, 408; his sojourn on Yule Island, 409; his voyages 

 of exploration up Fly River, 409 ; deserted and attacked 

 by savages, 410 ; the products of New Guinea, 410 ; the 

 Papuans, 411 ; Arctic explorations, 411-417 ; Norden- 

 skjold's search for the northeast passage, 411 ; the Vega's 

 whiter-quarters, 411; Arctic flora, 412; ice-locked, 412; 

 Tchuktche villages, 412; thermometric table, 412; the 

 aurora boroalis, 412 ; tidal observations, 412 ; Arctic in- 

 sects, birds, and mammals, 418; frost-proof garment*, 

 414 ; meteorological and thermometrical observations, 

 414 ; conclusions regarding the value of the discovered 

 route, 415 ; released from the icy prison, 415 ; character 

 of the coast, 415 ; scientific observations at St. Lawrence 

 Bay, 415; on the American shore, 416; on Behring Isl- 

 and, 416; arrival at Yokohama, 416; Dutch expedition 

 to Franz-Josef Land, 417 ; Captain Markham's cruise in 

 Barents Sea, 417; voyage of the Jeannette, 417 ; search 

 for the Franklin relics, 417. 



Geology, Experimental. Artificial production of quartz, 

 417; conclusions obtained from Roman coins found in 

 hot springs, 418 ; problem of the origin of limestone for- 

 mations, 418; lithium in the ocean, 419; problem of the 

 Interior of the earth, 419. 



Georgia. Reopening of the Legislature, 420 ; railroad reg- 

 ulation bill, 420 ; local option, 421 ; reorganization of tho 

 militia, 421; the crime of lobbying, 421; frauds in the 

 sale of wild lands for taxes, 421, 422 ; impeachment of 

 the Comptroller-General, 422 ; indictment of the State 

 Treasurer, 423; minority report in his favor, 424; the 

 Treasurer offers his resignation, 425; he is impeached, 

 425; his acquittal, 425; legal proceedings against him, 

 425; charges against the keeper of the penitentiary, 425 ; 

 the School Commissioner investigated, 426 ; finances of 

 the State, 426 ; opinion of the Revenue Commissioner as 

 to whether State bonds passed by banks in payment of 

 checks are taxable as bills of credit, 426; tax valuation, 

 426; the colored university, 427; law of murder altered, 

 427; the system of hiring out convicts, 427 ; sheep-rais- 

 ing, 427, 428; the turpentine industry, 428; gold -mining, 

 428 ; ice-manufacture, 429 ; commerce of Savannah, 429 ; 

 the question of State liability for the war levy, 429. 



Germany. Imperial family and ministry, 429 ; composition 

 of the Federal Council, 429 ; area, population, and repre- 

 sentation of the states, 430 ; rulers of the particular 

 states, 430; the Brunswick ducal succession, 431; emi- 

 gration from North Sea ports since 1832, 481 ; movement 



