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Index 



Fishes, fall of, discussed, 119; 

 living in hot springs, 214 ; in 

 deep underground waters, id. ; 

 illustrations of those from great 

 depths, 231. 



Flame, instrument to illustrate 

 effects of sounds on a, 194 ; M. 

 Topler's experiments on a singing, 

 222. 



Flint implements, with rhinoceros 

 and hyaena bones in Devon 

 caves, 142 ; discovered at Herne 

 Bay, 154 ; near Whitstable, id. 



Flour, invention of apparatus for 

 separating the starch and gluten 

 from, 185. 



Flower, W. H., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 60 ; com- 

 munications from, 1 80, 184, 198, 

 232, 240 ; placed on honorary 

 supernumerary list, 87. 



Flowers on an Alpine peak, in 

 depth of winter, 220. 



Fluid, viscous, effect of strains in, 

 on polarized light, 193. 



Fluorescence, in living tissues of 

 the body, 173. 



Fog signals at sea, effect of the 

 atmosphere upon, 193. 



Footprints, reptilian, near Phila- 

 delphia, 122. 



Forbes, E., biography of, 10 ; com- 

 munications from, 107, 109, 115 ; 

 death of, 41. 



Forbes, George, and Young, James, 

 new experiments on the velocity 

 of light, 215. 



Fortune, Mr., sends tea plants to 

 India, 114. 



Foster, Prof. M., communications 

 from, 222, 227. 



Frankland, E., election of, 50 ; 

 biographical note on, 51 ; com- 

 munications from, 146, 150, 157, 

 165, 166, 170, 175, 185, 195, 204, 



2O8, 212, 217, 228, 229, 240, 246, 



250 ; death of, 93. 



Franklin, B., letters from, and note 

 on, 99. 



Franklin, Sir J., reference to expedi- 

 tion of, no. 



Frogs, physiological experiments 

 with, 132. 



Funafuti, survey and boring of coral 



reef at, 253, 255. 

 Fusus contrarius, dredged up in 



Bay of Vigo, 107. 



Gaboon, explored by M. du Chaillu, 

 172. 



Gadinolite from Texas, 242. 



Gale on Oct. 2nd, 1860, 152. 



Galloway, T., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 29 ; communi- 

 cation from, 113 ; death of, 34. 



Galton, F., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 66 ; com- 

 munications from, 195, 206, 210, 

 213, 217, 219, 221, 225, 236, 243, 

 244 ; placed on supernumerary 

 list, 92. 



Galvanic battery, a greatly enlarged 

 form described, 170; length of its 

 spark, 171; effects of a shock, id. 



Ganges Canal, difficulties overcome 

 in constructing the, 125. 



Garial, geographical distribution of 

 the, 256. 



Gas-mantles of thoria and ceria, 254. 



Gases, decomposition of, by Ruhm- 

 korff coil, 147 ; liquefied by 

 Professor Dewar, 248. 



Gassiot, J. P., biography of, n ; 

 remarks on a passage in Minutes, 

 63 ; communications from, 116, 

 127, 132, 139, 155, 160, 162, 167, 

 170, 171, 182, 186, 187, 195 ; 

 death of, 71. 



Geikie, A., election of, 78 ; bio- 

 graphical note on, 79 ; com- 

 munications from, 251, 257. 



Geneva, barometric observations at, 

 117. 



Genoa, maritime history of, 146. 



Geological Society, 27, 30, 39. 



Germanium, discovery of, 229 ; 

 specimen exhibited, 230. 



Gibraltar, examination of ossiferous 

 cave on Windmill Hill, 168 ; 

 investigation into water supply 

 of, 202 ; geology of district, 203 ; 

 apes on the rock, id. 



Glacial epoch in the moon's history, 

 1 66. 



Glaciers and moraines in New 

 Zealand, 167. 



