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INDEX 



\Nature, Nov. 28, l{ 



Eucalyptus Kinos, J. H. Maiden, 635 



Euclid, the Harpur, E. M. Langley and W. S. Phillips, 365 



Everett (Prof, J, D., F.R.S.) : on the Relation between Brachis- 



tochrones and Ray-paths, 584 ; Report to the British Associa- 

 • tion on Underground Temperature, 551 

 Evolution, Prof. Burdon Sanderson, F. R.S., on, 521 

 Evolution Ethics, 1 69 

 Ewart (Prof.), a Flat-fish Nursery, 13 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S. ), on the Magnetic Viscosity of 



Iron, 584 ; on Hysteresis in the Relation of Strain to Stress, 



584 



Examination of Water for Sanitary and Technical Purposes, 

 Henry Leffmann, 293 



Examinations for Woolwich arid Sandhurst, 43 



" Example," the Force of, in Animals, 461 



Excursion to the Volcanoes of Italy, the. Dr. H. J. Johnston- 

 Lavis, 294 



Excursions et Reconnaissances, 628 



Exhibition in Edinburgh, proposed Inventions, 653 



Exhibition of 1851 : the Estate of, 25 ; Proposals of the Com- 

 missioners for the, 265 



Exhibition, Paris, Opening of the, 44 



Exhibition, South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society, 653 



Experirriental Physics : Portable Cavendish Apparatus for de- 

 monstrating the Attraction of Gravitation, C. V. Boys, 

 F.R.S., 65; on making Flames non-luminous, Prof. Rosen- 

 thal, 72 ; Experiment with Water-Hammer, Dr. Reichel, 

 72 ; Determination of Specific Volume of Saturated Aqueous 

 Vapour at 0° C, Dr. Dieterici, 168 



Explosives, Dictionary of, Major J. P, Cundill, 341 



Extinct Starling of Reunion {Fregihiptis varius), R. Boydler 



. Sharpe, 177 '.'':4 



Eye, Coronse round a Light produced by a Peculiar Structure in 

 the, James C. McConnel, 342 



Fabre (Charles), Traite Encyclopedique de Photographic, 244 

 Fabriano, School of Practical Agriculture at, 164 ^ 



Fallot (M.), Cephalic Index of Proven9al Population, 285 

 Falsan (A.), La Periode Glaciare : 6tudiee principalement en 



France et en Suisse, 317 

 Far-Sight, Defective, among the Seamen of the Mercantile 



Marine, Colour-Blindness and, 438 

 Farm Crops, a New Pest of, Allen Harker, li 

 Fauna, Vertebrate, of the Outer Hebrides, J. A. Harvie-Brown 



and T. E. Buckley, loi 

 Favenc's (Ernest) West Australian Explorations, 353 

 Fawcett (W.), Botany of the Cayman Islands, 15 

 Faye (Dr.), Colour of Eyes and Hair in Norway, 285 

 Faye (H.) : Cyclonic Storms in various Regions, 23; Excep- 

 tional Development of some Tropical Cyclones, 191 ; the 

 ' Glacial Epoch, 432 

 Fenyi (Le Pere Jules), Solar Eruptions in September 1888, 48, 



64 

 Ferand (Dr. ), Pagan Practices among Modern Provencals, 562 

 Ferment, a New, Bacillus ethaceticus, Prof. P. F. Frankland, 



588 

 Fernow (B. E.), Foest Conservation, 558 

 Ferns, the Meristems of, as a Study in Phylogeny, Pfdfi F. O. 



Bower, 610 

 Ferns, the Probable Cause of Froridal Bifurcations of, Dom B. 



Rimelin, 563 

 Ferrel (Prof. Wm.) : the Law of Thermal Relation, 310 ; De- 

 ■ crease of Temperature with Increase of Altitude, 446 

 Fettes College, Edinburgh, Physical Laboratory fitted up at, 



627 

 Feverland, Glimpses of, or a Cruise in West African Waters, 



Arthur P. Crouch, 53 

 Fibres, Quartz, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 247 

 Fibrous Plant, /%<?;-;«?«;« /^wffx as a, 390 

 Findlay (Geo.), the Working and Management of an English 



Railway, 219 

 Fire, Dogs and. Prof. Marcus M. Hartog, 299 

 Fireball of May 29, 1889, W. F. Denning, 174 

 Firedamp Meter, Pitkin and Niblett's, 66 

 Fish (W. C), the Thomson Electric Welding Process, 561 

 Fish : a Flat-fish Nursery, Prof. Ewart, 13 ; Scotch Fisheries 



Board, 106 ; the Life-History of a Marine Food- Fish, Prof. 



W. C. Mcintosh, F.R.S., 130, 156 ; Pearl Fishery, Tuticorin, 



Edgar Thurston, 174 ; Poison in Cured Fish, Prize offered by 

 Russian Academy of Sciences for Inquiry into, 178 ; Proposed 

 Intelligence Department of Fisheries at Halifax, N.S., 179; 

 the Hatchery of the Sun-fish, Prof. William L. Stone, 202 ; 

 the Fertilization of the Ova of the Lemon Sole with the Milt 

 of the Turbot, 253 ; Whales and the Cod Fisheries on the 

 Coast of Finland, 254 ; the Natural History of the River-Eel, 

 Emile Blanchard, 383 ; the Oceanic Sardine, 384 ; Habits of 

 Sea-Trout, 384 ; Experiments in Storing Live Fish, Captain 

 R, von Muhlenfels, 402 ; the Protection of Fishermen against 

 Porpoises, Prof. E. Perrier, 402 ; the Destruction of Small 

 Fish by Shrimp Trawls, 422 ; Sewage and Fish, Willis Bund, 

 548 



Fitzgerald (Prof. Geo. Eras., F.R.S.), on an Electro-magnetic 

 Interpretation of Turbulent Liquid Motion, 32 



Flame, the Radiating Power of. Dr. R. von Helmholtz, 240 



Flat-fish Nursery, Prof. Ewart, 13 



Fleitmann (Dr.), the Alleged New Element, Gnomium, 208 



Fleming (Prof. J. A.), the Edison Effect, 211 



Flight, Sailing, of Large Birds over Land, Dr. R. Courtenay, 



573 



Flint (Dr. Austin), a Text-book of Human Physiology, 74 



Floating Island in Derwentwater, the, 290 



Flora of Australia, Contributions to the Tertiary, C. Von 

 Ettingshausen, J. Starkie Gardner, 517 



Flora, the Forest, of New Zealand, T. Kirk, W. Botting 

 Hemsley, F.R.S., 388 



Flora Orientalis, by Edmond Boissier, Supplement by R. 

 Buser, W. B. Hemsley, 98 



Flora of Sweden, on the Geological History of the Prehistoric, 

 Dr. A. G. Nathorst, 453 



Flower (Prof. W. H., C.B., F.R.S.), Inaugural Address to 

 the British Association at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 463 



Fly, the Hessian, in England, Chas. Whitehead, 446 



Fog-Signals, Beacon Lights and. Sir James Douglass, F.R.S., 

 87, no 



Fog-Signals, Priestman's Oil-Engines for Blowing, 351 



Folk, Sylvan, John Watson, 221 



Folk-Lore, the Alleged Avenging Habits of the Cobra in Indian 

 and Chinese, Dr. Macgowan, 423 



Folk-Lore Journal, 62 



Folk-Lore, Maori, William Colenso, 596 



Food Moulds the Race, Nellie S. Kedzie, 558 



Foot, Inclusion of the, in the Abdominal Cavity of a Duckling, 

 E. Waymouth Reid, 54 



Forbes (Prof G., F.R.S.), on Electric Launches on the Thames, 

 630 



Forbes (Prof. G. F.R.S.) and W. H. Preece, F.R.S., on a 

 New Thermometric Scale, 587 



Forest Conservation, B. E. Fernow, 558 



Forest Flora of New Zealand, T. Kirk, W. Botting Hemsley, 

 F.R.S., 388 



Forestry, Californian, 176 



Forests of North-East Italy, 537 



Form of Hailstones, on the Remarkable, J. Shearson Hyland, 544 



Formaldehyde, Synthesization of. Prof. Jahn, 85 



Formation of Marine Boiler Incrustations, on the, Prof. Vivian 

 B. Lewes, 19 



Foster (M.), Influence of Common Salt on Bacteria, 216 



Fortuitous Variation, Lester F. Ward, 310 



Foster (Prof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), the Method of Quarter- 

 Squares, 593 



Foulger (E.), Upper Wind Currents over the Equator in the 

 Atlantic Ocean, 224 



Fouque (Prof.), Egyptian Blue Artificially Prepared by, 67 



Fowler (A.), Stellar Evolution and its Relation to Geological 

 Time, James Croll, F.R.S., 199 



Fox (Dr. Webster), the Eyes of Young Children, 305 



Framjee Dinshaw Petii; Laboratory, Laying foundation Stone 

 of, 133 



France : French Coast by Swallows, Desertion of, 85 ; the 

 Birth-rate in, 92 ; French Accent, Researches with Phon- 

 autographon. Dr. Pringsheim, 168 ; French Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 252, 394 ; Sociology of Rural Com- 

 munes in France, M. Dumont, 402 ; Treatment of Vine 

 Diseases in, G. W. Roosevelt, 446 ; French Government 

 Scientific Missions, 479 ; on the Instruments used in the 

 lecent Magnetic Survey of. Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 

 584 ; Chart of Colour of Eyes and Hair in, Topinard, 659 

 {sec also Paris) 



