VI 



INDEX 



[Nature, May I J, 1876 



Fatigue, the Law of, Dr. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 98 



Faye on the Laws of Storms, 11, 87, 187 



Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, Hermann Miiller, XIL, 



210; XIIL, 289 

 Fertilisation, Plant, 427 

 "Fifteen Young Ladies Problem," 57 

 Finsch (Dr. Otto), Birds of the Pelew Islands, 152 

 Fire-Damp, Explosions from, E. W. Binney, F.R. S., 219 

 Firework Paper, Japanese, 236 

 Fish, Exhibition of, in United States, 217 

 Fish, Rapid Growth of, Robert U. S. Mitchell, 107 

 Fish-pigment, Spectrum of, 167 

 Fisheries of Norfolk, Report on, 1 14 

 Fishes of India, Mr. F. Day's Collection, 334 

 Fishes, Prof. Van Siebold's work on Freshwater, 366 

 Flame of Common Salt, T. N. Miiller, 448 

 Flight of Birds, 324 

 Flint Skin-scrapers from New Jersey, Dr. Charles C. Abbott, 



270 

 Floods in Franc?, 197 ; in Somersetshire, 155 

 Flowtr (Prof., F.R.S.), a New Cetacean from New Zealand, 



149; the Relation of Extinct to Existing Mammalia, 296, 



307, 327. 350, 387, 409. 449, 487, 513 ; the Uintatherium, 



404 

 Flowering of Spring Plants, Alex. Buchan, 249 

 Flowers and Bees, Dr. Miiller, 10 

 Flowers, Colour of. Grown in the Dark, H. C. Sorby, F.R. S., 



465 



Flowers, Fertilisation of, by Insects, H. Miiller, XIL, 210, 

 XIIL, 289 



Flowers, Seasonal Order of Colour in, 129, 150, 326, 348, 366, 

 427 



Foehn Storms in Switzerland, 218, 440 



Food, Dr. Hassall's work on, 345, 396 



Forbes (Prof. George), Notes from Siberia, 469 



Force, M. Crova's Apparatus for Demonstrating the Transfor- 

 mation of, 434 



Forestry, C. F. Amery's Notes on, 6 



Forrest (J.), Explorations in Australia, 83 



Forster (W. E., M.P.), on Science, 456 



" Fossil Butterflies," S. H. Scudder, 222 



Fossil Flora ol North America, 95 



Fossil Horse of Buenos Ayres, Dr. Burmeister on, 53 



Fossil Skeletons of Le Pay en Velay, 207 



Foster (Prof. G. C), a New Form of Chronoscope, 139 



Fractions, Estimation of, 127 



France : Ancient Glacial Action in, 67, 404, 425 ; Floods in, 

 197 ; Geographical Society, 77, 174, 357, 473 ; Geographical 

 Society's Bulletin, 16, 297 ; Glaciers in Central, 149, 166 ; 

 Dr. J. D. Hooker on Glaciers in ; Maps at Railways, 77 ; 

 Meteorology in, 356 ; Meteorology Stations in, 336 ; Ne.v 

 Maps of, 335 ; National Library, 77 ; G. Poulett Scrope, 

 F.R.S., on Glaciers in, 149, 166; Physical Society, 280 ; 

 Society of Aerial Navigation, 113 ; see also Paris 



Francis (George), Spectrum of Fish-pigment, 167 



Frankland (Dr. E., F.R.S.), Coloured Solar Halos, 404; how 

 Typhoid Fever is Spread, 447 ; Organic Impurities of Drinking 

 Water, 330 ; Water Supply of the Metropolis, 392 



French Experimental Physiology, 44, 182 



Freshwater Fishes of England, Prof. Van Siebold's Work on, 

 366 



Friction between Water and Air, Dr. Ritter von Lang on, 533 



"From Vineyard to Decanter," 217 



Frost (Percival) " Treatise on Curve Tracing," 483 



Froude (Wm., F.R. S.), "Stream Lines " in Relation to the 

 Resistance of Ships, 50, 89, i^*, 130, 169 



Fungus and House-fly, 168 



Fusinieri, the Discoveries of, G. Nardi, in 



Gabb (Dr. W. M.), Exploration of Costa Rica, 257 



Galabin (Dr. A. L.), Modified Cardiograph, 471 



Gallium, on some Properties of, 136 



Galton (F., F.R.S.), Heredity, 59 



Galton (J. C), a New Palmistry, 8, 47, 68, 87 ; Protective Re- 

 semblance in the .Sloths, 187 



Galvanic Currents, the, 452 



Galvanometer, a New, 379 



Garaond (M. Thome de), death of, 335 



Garrod (Prof. A. H. ), " Encyclopcedia Britannica," vol. iii., 

 221 ; the Article " Birds " in " Encyclopn^dia Britannica," 226 



Gautier (Col. ), Meteorology in Labrador, 60 



"Gegenschein " of the Zodiacal Light, 129 



Geikie (Prof. A., F.R. S.), American Surveys, i ; Old Red Sand 



stone, 389 

 Geissler Tubes and Aurora Borealis, 237 ; the Spectrum of 



Nitrogen and that of Alkaline Metals in, 314 

 Geneva : International Medical Congress at, 77 ; Phy.sic^l find 



Natural History Society, 60, 120, 280, 400 

 Geographical Magazine, 114, 297, 376 

 Geographical Society, 52, 93, 134, 256, 315, 357, 397, 473 

 Geographical Society of France, 155, 174, 357; Bulletin, 297 

 Geographical Society of Italy, 136 

 Geographical Zoology, P. L. Sclater, P\R.S., 482 

 Geological Map of Australia, 352 

 Geological Record for 1874; W. Whilaker, 322 

 Geological Sketches ; L. Agassiz, 383 

 Geological Society, 57, 99, 139, 198, 238, 278, 339, 358, 379, 



439f 479> 534 5 Anniversary Address, 354, 376 ; Mtdal cf, 



295 ; New Museum of, 227 

 Geological Society, Vienna, 220, 319 

 Geological Survey of the Unite! vStaies, 156, 314 

 Geological Time, Prof. McKenny Hughes on, 435 

 " Geoiogie der Kohlenlager," Dr. H. Mietzsch, 166 

 Geologists' Association, 159, 258, 318, 459 

 Geology, Abyssinian, 137 ; American Geological Surveys h 



Prof. A. Geikie, i ; Survey of United States, 356 ; U. S 



Survey Publications, 385 

 " Geology for Students," Prof. A. II. Green's, 505 

 Geometry, Burchett's Practical Plane, 223 ; French Works on, 



509 ; the New, 102 

 Germany : Association of Natural Philosophers, &c., 32 ; Ger- 

 man Chemical Society, 80, 119, 178, 289, 319, 360 ; Commis 



sion on Arctic Exploration, 34, 73 ; Germany and the Loai 



Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 470 ; German North Se; 



Commission, 125 ; Science in, 10, 30, 75, 112, 250, 452, 521 



Scientific and Medical Association, 56 

 Germs, Prof. Tyndall on, 252, 26S, 324, 347 ; Dr.H.Charlto 



Bastian, F.R.S., 284, 285" 

 Gerst (R.), Physical Science in Schools, 430 

 Glacial Action in Central France, VV. S. Symond>-, 67 

 Glacial Coal-beds of vSwitzerland, Traces ot Man in, 130 

 Glacial Period, Physical Geography of East Anglia during the 



198 

 Glaciers, in California, iSo ; Evidence of, in Central Franc* 



31, 149, 166, 404, 425 

 Gladstone (Mr.), at Gnenwich, 41 

 Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S. ), on the Replacement of Electro 



positive by Electro-negative Metals in a Voltaic Cell, 1 18 

 Glands of the Cherry Laurel, G. S. Boulger, 107 

 Glover (J. P.), Australian Implement, 27 

 Glow-worm in Scotland, 188, 208 

 Godwin-Austen (H. H.), Dr. Stoliczka's Collection of Mammals 



106, 109 

 Gold Coast, M. Bonnat's Exploration of, 94 

 Goodenough (Commodore), Memoir of, C. K. Markham, 185 

 Gore (G., F. R.S. ), Bar Magnets and Conducting Wires, 176 

 " Gorilla Land and the Congo," R. F. Burton, 123 

 Gorilla, the Dresden, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 106 " 



Gould's "Birds cf New Guinea," 15 



Gould (John, F. R.S.), "A Monograph of the Trogonida?," 166 

 Granitic Rocks of the Lake District, 139 

 Gratz, German Association at, 32 

 Gray (Dr. Asa), Collomia, 85 

 "Great Divide, the," Earl of Dunraven, 264 

 Green (Prof. A. H.), "Geology for Students and General 



Readers," 505 

 Greenland, Dr. Rink on, 103 

 "Greenstones " of Cornwall, 379 

 Gresham College, 273 



Grieve (G. J. P.), further Linkage Work, 69 

 Grimm (Oscar), Fauna of the Casjiian Sea, 74 

 Grohman (W. A. B.), Tyrol and the Tyrolese, 206 

 Guillemin's " Le Citl," 494 

 Gum Arabic, 117 

 Guthrie (Prof), Stationary Liquid Waves, 99; " Magnetism and 



Electricity," 261 



Hadden (A.), a New Galvanometer, 379 



Haeckel (Prof.), "History of Creation," 121 ; on Universities, 

 135 



