'INDEX 



[Natun, Nffv. 21, 187S 



Foucault (Leon), the Papers of, 601 



Fourier's "Analytical Theory of Heat," Freeman's Translation 



of, 192 

 France : French Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 21, 48, 205, 392, 435, 465, 509, 551 ; Officers of, 236; Ex- 

 cursions, 262 ; Geography at, 55 1 ; Meteorology in France, 

 21, 96 ; the French Meteorological Service, 134 ; the Societe 

 Chimiqite de Paris, 182 ; Erratic Boulders in, 206 ; Earth- 

 quake in, 263 ; Proposed School of War, 291 ; Anthropology 

 in, 357 ; the Central Bureau of Meteorology, 372, 435, 601 ; 

 A. Cavaille-CoU on the French Diapason Normale, 381 ; the 

 Meteorological Commissions, 424 ; School Building in, 456 ; 



, Map of, 496 ; French Geographical Societies, 521 ; Bulletin 

 of, 521; Dr. Siemens, F.R.S., on Scientific Education in, 

 574; Pine Plantations on the Sand-Wastes of, Dr. 1. 

 Croumbie Brown, 666 ; Commission on Running Waters, 

 683 ; see also Paris, &c. 



Francis (George), Poisonous Australian Lake, ii 



Francis (Gerald B.), the Microphone, 383 



Frankfort-on-the-Main, Historical Museum 'at, 291 



Franklin Expedition, the Relics of the, 228 



Franklin Institute, Journal of the, 636 



Frazer (Persifor), Examination of the Phonograph Record under 

 the Microscope, loi 



Freeman (A.), Translation of Fourier's " Analytical Theory of 

 Heat," 192 



Freshwater Fleas, Decorative Colouring in, 226 



Friction, the Coefficient of, between Surfaces moving at High 

 Velocities, Douglas Galton, F.R.S., 471 



Friedel (Prof. C.) appointed Member of Paris Academy, 290 



Friederici (Karl Maria) the Figure and Size of the Earth, 556, 

 577. 602 



Frobisher (Sir Martin), Jones' Life of, li 



Frog, Dr. Burdon- Sanderson and F. J. M. Page on the Rhyth- 

 mical and Excitatory Motions of the Ventricle of the Heart of 

 the, 293 



Frogs, Tree, 271 



Friis (F. R.), Tycho Brahe's Correspondence, 306 



Fuchs (Prof. C. W. C), Volcanic Phenomena and Earthquakes 

 during 1877, 241 



Fuel, Gas as, M. M. Pattison Muir, 34 



Furfurol, some of the Derivatives of. Dr. W. Ramsay, 474 



Gabb (Prof. W. M.), Obituary Notice of, 285 

 Galilee, a Survey of, Lieut. Kitchener, 483 

 Gallium and Aluminium, Alloys of, 136 



Galton (Douglas, F.R.S.), General Results of some Recent Ex- 

 periments on the Coefficient of Friction between Surfaces 



moving at High Velocities, 471 

 Galton (Francis, F.R.S.), on the Advancement of Geographical 



Teaching, 337 ; Composite Portraits, 96 

 Galton (J. C.), Recent Observations upon the Placentation of 



Sloths, 686 

 Galvanometer, a New, for Strong Currents, Eugen Obach, 707 

 Galvanometer for Lecture Purposes, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 264 

 Gamgee (Prof., F. R.S.), his New Work on the Physiological 



Chemistry of Animal Bodies, 653 

 Gardner (J. S.), Lesquereux's Tertiary Flora of North America, 



189 

 Gas as Fuel, M. M. Pattison Muir, 34 

 Gas, Coal, the Best Means of Developing^ Light from, 468 

 Gas Shares, the Electric Arc among the, 609 

 Gases, Heat and the Transpiration of, 163 

 Gases, Electric Discharges in, Drs. Warren De la Rue, F. R. S., 



and Hugo W. Miiller, F.R.S., 525, 547 

 Gaudry (Albert), "Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans 



les Temps Geologiques, Mammiferes, Tertiares," Prof. Boyd 



Dawkins, F.R.S., 537 

 Gauss Monument, the, 435 

 Geikie (Prof. A., F.R. S.), American Geological Surveys, 315, 



516 ; Hull's Geology and Geography of Ireland, 354 ; Ame- 

 rican Exploration, 694 

 Geikie (Dr. James, F.R.S.), the Glacial Phenomena of the Long 



Island or Outer Hebrides, 187 

 Gelatin as a Food-Preserver, Prof. A. H. Church, 546 

 Genesis of Cyclones, H. F. Blanford, 328 

 Genesis of Limbs, St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 282, 309, 331; 



Prof. G. M. Humphry, F.R.S., 427 

 Geneva ; Seiches of the Lake of, Dr. F. A, Forel, loo ; Society 



of Physics and Natural History, 344, 512, 536, 683 ; Dis- 

 covery of Elephant Tusk near, 683 

 Geoghegan (Edward), the Cell of the Bee, 385 

 Geography: Geogi-aphical Notes, 20, 45, b8, 95, 131, 180, 

 200, 288, 308, 337, 359, 387, 434, 496, 520, 551, 646, 680, 

 697 ; Geography on the Continent, 46 ; Geogaphical Society 

 of Paris, 131, 200, 496, 521 ; German Geographical Journal-, 

 228 ; Deutsche geographische Blatter, 308, 697 ; the Progres; 

 of Geographical Teaching, 337 ; a " Universal Geography," 

 378 ; the Congress of Commercial Geography at Pari:^, 387 ; 

 American Geographical Society's Bulletin, 434 ; Italian 

 Geographical Society, 521 ; Geographical Magazine, 521 ; 

 Geographical Society, see Royal 



Geology: Geological Society, 56, 84, 187, 243, 271, 350; Geo- 

 logists' Association, 136, 373, 424 ; the International 

 Geological Congress, 148 ; Cataclysmic Theories of Geolo- 

 gical Climate, James Croll, F.R.S., 187 ; of Greece, 206 ; 

 the Cost of the Geological Survey Publications, 235, 290, 

 476; Physical, Prof. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 266; the Geo- 

 logical Institute of Vienna, 287 ; American Geological 

 Surveys, Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S., 315, 516 : " Geologic der 

 Gegenwart," Bernhard von Cotta, 380 ; Geological Relations 

 of the Atmosphere, Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S., 475 ; the 

 Fossils of the North- West Highlands, 470 ; Geological Sur- 

 vey of Ireland, 476 ; Rev. M. A. Close on the Extent of 

 Geological Time, 477 ; " Eribollia Mack.iyi," 477 ; Dr. von 

 Cotta's " Geologic der Gegenwart," 380, 487 ; Prof. Hayden's 

 Atlas of • Colorado, 516 : American Geological Surveys, 

 Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 538; Superficial Geology of 

 South-West Lancashire, C. E. De Ranee, 561 ; Geological 

 Survey of the Yellowstone Geyser Regions, 647 ; Geological 

 Climate and Geological Time ; Prof, Joseph Le Conte, 668 ; 

 German Geological Society Meeting, 684 



Geometry : J. B. Millar's Descriptive, 277 ; Dr. G. J. Allman 

 on Greek, 291; in Modern Life, J. Scott Russell, 380; 

 Congress of "Geometres" at Paris, 237 



George's Bank and the Grand Bank, Fossiliferous Tertiary 

 Rocks from the, A. E. Verrill, 620 



Germany : the Telephone in, 23 ; Fischerei-Verein, 49 ; Prof. 

 Helmholtzon Academic Liberty in German Universities, 50, 78 ; 

 Scientific Bibliography of, 77, 134, 207, 503, 600 ; Comparative 

 Value of Fisheries, 206 ; Geographical Journals, 228 ; Plague 

 of Grasshoppers in, 291 ; German Naturalists' and Phy- 

 sicians' Meeting, 316, 435, 552 ; Addresses and Papers, 576 ; 

 German Anthropological Society, 373 ; German African 

 Society, 387; Apiculture in, 601 ; Deposits of Salt in, 601 ; 

 German Geological Society Meeting, 684 



Germ -Layers, the Primary, and the Origin of the Male and 

 Female Reproductive Elements, 386 



Gernez (M.D.), on Supersaturated Solutions of Salt'-, 318 



Geyser Regions of the Yellowstone, Survey of, 647 



Giddiness, 669 



GiHard Balloon, 132, 262, 318, 345, 371, 393, 435, 534, 577, 



705 

 Gill (Capt. W. J.), on the Border Thibet, 288 

 Glacial Period, the Distribution of Ice during the, T. F. Jamie- 



son, 187 

 Glacial Phenomena of the Long Island or Outer Hebrides, Dr. 



James Geikie, F.R.S., 187 

 Glaciers of the Western Himalayas, 263 

 Gladstone (Right Hon, W. E., M.P.) and the Homeric Expre ,- 



sions for Colours, Dr. Wiljiam Pole, P'.R.S., 676, 700 

 Glaisher (J. W. L.), Report of the B. A. Committee on Mathe- 

 matical Tables, 505 

 Glasgow, Report of Industrial Museum, 159 

 Glass, Prof. Peligot on the Composition of Ancient, 182 

 Glass, Toughened, Caution against, 653 

 " Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and Physiological For;zs," 



Thomas Dunman, 614 

 Glucinum, on some Double Salts of. Prof. E. Reynolds, 473 

 "Gold," Streeter's, 115 

 Gold Workings in French Guiana, 698 



Gonidia, the Lichen Gonidia Question, Marcus M. Hartog, 3c 2 

 Goodrich (Commander), Old Map of Africa, 617 

 Gordon (J. E. H.), a Simpler Form of the Phoneidoscope, 383 

 Gottingen : Earthquake at, 105 ; Royal Academy of Sciences, 



352, 712 ; Meeting of the German Geological Society, 684 

 Gout, Sarracoiia purpurea for, 133 

 Grand Bank and George's Bank, Fossilifercus Tertiary Roc' s 



from the, A, E. Verrill, 620 



