Nature, May 30, 1878] 



INDEX 



Vll 



" Fifth Continent and the Adjacent Islands," C. II. Eden, 121 

 I'Mguier's " Les Six Parties du Monde," 17 

 Fiji Islands, the Climatology of the, 248 



Films, Experiments on Fluid, 44, 6l 

 "Fire-Ball," Fall of a, 10 



Fire-damp, Commission on Explosions from, 252 



Fires, Telegraphic Warnings of, in Paris, 91 



P'isheries, of the Rhine, 212; the American Inland, 382 



Fishes the Distribution of Freshwater, 128 ; Prof, E. Perceval 

 Wright on Fishes' Tails, 286 ; Glacial and Post-glacial Fishes 

 of Norway, 509 



Fittig's "Organic Chemistry," French Translation of, 233 



Fitzgerald (Geo. Fras.), the Radiometer and its Lessons, 199 



Flame, Vibrations of a. Experiments on, 54 



Flame Spectra, Observing the Coloured Lines of, 273 



Flames, Temperature of, 269 



Flammarion (M.) on Stellar Systems, 82 



Floating Magnets, Alfred M. Mayer, 487 



Flora, British, the Future of Our, A. Craig-Christie, 62 



"Flora of Tropical Africa," Prof. D. Oliver, F.R.S., 319 



Floras and Faunas, the Comparative Richness of. Tested 

 Numerically, Alfred R. Wallace, loo 



Flower (James), Death of, 37 



Flower (Prof., F.R.S.), Ilunterian Lectures, 350 



Flowers, Darwin's Different F'orms of, 445 



Flowers and Bees, John B. Bridgman, 102 



Flowers and Insects, 1 1 ; Fritz Midler on, 78 



Fog-Signals, Dr. Tyndall, F.R.S., 456 



Forbes (Henry O.), Selective Discrimination of Insects, 62 



Forbes (Prof. Geo.), the Telephone as an Instrument of 

 Precision, 343 



Forel (Dr. F. A.), Seiches and Earthquakes, 281 



Forests, the Air of, 515 



Forficulida; (Earwigs), 128 



Fossils: Discovery of Fossil Plants in Grinnell Land, 115; 

 Fossil Fungus, 127 ; the Brain of a Fossil Mammal, 222, 340 ; 

 Preparing Fossils, 369 ; Fossil Hunting at Bournemouth, 

 J. S. Gardner, 369 ; London Clay Fossils, 487 ; Fossil 

 Insects, 508 



Foster (Prof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), the Radiometer and its 

 Lessons, 5, 43, 80, 142 



Foucault's Pendulum Experiments, 108 



Fownes' " Manual of Chemistry," 24, 46 



Fox (Gen. A. Lane, F.R.S.), the Arrangement of Museums, 

 484 



France : French Geographical Society, 1 7 ; Association Poly- 

 technique, 54 ; Statistics of Suicides in, 54 ; Bequest to the 

 French Institute, 70 ; Universities in, 1 14 ; French Acclima- 

 tisation Society, 132; Education in, 193, 214; the Scientific 

 Association of, 232, 271 ; French Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, 251, 350 ; French Academy of Sciences, 

 273; Distribution of Prizes, 271 ; Proposed Exploring Expe- 

 ditions, 329 ; Agricultural Weather Warnings, 371 ; Statistics 

 of Wine Production, 372 ; Preservation of Boulders in, 391 ; 

 Drought in the South of, 475 ; Societes Savantes, 490. See 

 also Paris, &c. 



Frankland's Researches in Chemistry, Prof. J. Emerson 

 Reynolds, 218, 318 



Freiburg, University Statistics, 334 



French Guayana, 508 



French Popular Science, 120 



Freshwater Fishes, the Distribution of, 128 



Fries (EHas Magnus), Death of, 329 ; Obituary Notice of, 343 



Fruit, Fungoid Disease of, 91 



Fruits, the Action of Certain Antiseptic Vapours on the Ripen- 

 ing of, 150 



Fungoid Disease of Fruit, 91 



Fungus, a Fossil, 127 



Gabb (W. M.), Sense in Insects — Drowned by a Devil Fish, 282 



Gabriel (M. Delafosse), Illness of, 370 



Galileo, was. Tortured ? Sedley Taylor, 299 



Galloway (W.), Explosions in Mines, 21 



Gannister Beds of Northumberland, Marine Fossils in the, Prof. 



G. A. Lebour, 320, 352 

 "Gardener Bird," the, no 

 Gardner (J. S.), the Eocene Flora of Bournemouth, 47 ; Fossil 



Hunting at Bournemouth, 369 

 Garnett (William), Leidenfrost's Phenomena, 466 

 Gas- Holder, New Form of, Prof. W. F, Barrett, 253 



Gas -Lighting by Electricity, 495 



Gases : Diffusion of, 92 ; the Liquefaction of the, 117, 265 ; the 

 Last of the, 177; Experiments on Spread of, through Bodies, 

 393 



Geikie(Prof. A., F.R.S.), Prof. Bryce's Ararat, 205 ; American 

 Geological Surveys, 431 ; the Old Red Sandstone of Western 

 Europe, 471 



Gems from Russia, 72; the Production of Artificial, 55, 136, 

 152 



Geneva, Lake of. Earthquake near, 234 



Geneva Society of Physics and Natural History, 136 



Gentiana asdepiadea and Bees, F. M. Burton, 201 



Geography : Geographical Notes, 249, 270, 290, 308, 324, 364, 

 383, 408, 434, 452, 467, 489, 508; Geography at French 

 Railway Stations, no; Geographical Magazine, 132, 293, 

 468 ; Geographical Bibliography, 324 



Geology : Geological Congress, International, 65 ; Hauer's 

 " Die Geologie," 78; Geological Society, 115, 136, 155,255, 

 294, 335. 374, 395, 518; Geological Work of the United 

 States Survey under Dr. Hayden during the Summer of 1877, 

 129 ; Geological Surveys of America — Missouri, Prof. A. 

 Geikie, F.R.S., 431 ; Geologists' Association, 475; Geologi- 

 cal Time, G. H. Darwin, 509 



Geometrical Teaching, the Association for the Improvement of, 

 89, 251 



"Geometry of Compasses," Oliver Byrne, 199 



Geometry of Three Dimensions, Theorems Relating to. Prof. S. 

 Newcomb, F.R.S., 240 



Germany: German Universities, Statistics of, 103; German 

 Chemical Society, 131, 273; Botany in, 158; German Scien- 

 tific Association, Report of the Munich Session, 350 ; Uni- 

 versity Libraries of, 374; German Polytechnic Congress, 394; 

 German Alpine Club, 468 



Ghinozzi (Dr. Carlo), Death of, 170 



Gibraltar, the Geology of, Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S., and 

 James Geikie, F.R.S., 518 



Giessen, the Ph. Degree at, 75 ; University Statistics, 478 



Gilchrist Educational Trust, 334 



Gillmore (Parker), " The Great Thirst Land," 360 



Ginez (Francisco), Carnivorous Plants, 63 



Giraud (Dr. H.), Death of, 513 



Glacial Geology of Orkney and Shetland, S. Laing, M.P., 123 ; 

 Prof. M. Forster Heddle, 182 



Glass for Reflectors, Henry Bessemer, 241 



Glass, the Engraving of, 372 ; Compressed Hard, 392 



Glassy Sponges, 222 



Glossostigma, Fertilisation of, T. F. Cheescman, 163 



Goethe, Proposed Monument to, 211 



Gold, Dendritic, 283 



Gold in Teheran, 115; in Ne«r Guinea, 408 



Goode (G. Brown), the Bermuda Lizard, 425 



Gordon (J. E. II.), the Telephone as a Means of Measuring the 

 Speed of High Brakes, 424 



Gore (G., LL.D., F.R.S.), the Thermo-Electric Properties of 

 Liquids, 479 



Gorilla, Dissection of the Berlin, 89 



Gottland, Discovery of Ancient Bronze Weights in, 351 



Gottingen, Royal Academy of Sciences, 156, 296, 480; Uni- 

 versity Statistics, 214 



Government Research Fund, 403 



Grapes, Frost-Bitten, 132 



" Gray's China," 484 



Great Pyramid, J. G. Jackson, 243 



"Great Thirst Land," Parker Gillmore's, 360 



Greek Cities and Islands of Asia Minor, W. S. W. Vaux, 119 



Greeks, the Colour Sense of the, Prof. W. Robertson Smith, 100 



Green Algte, 289 



Greenland, Danish, Dr. Henry Rink, 57 



Greifswald, University Statistics, 354 



Greyhounds, Turkoman, 434 



Grimm (Prof.), on the Fauna of the Caspian, 345 



Grinnell Land, Fossil Plants found in, 115 



Groshans (Dr. J. A.), Photography Foreshadowed, 202 



Grove's Gas Battery, 394 



Grove's Dictionary of Music, Dr. W. H. Stone, 422 



Guadaloupe Island, the Birds of, 128 



Guildhall, Public Standards at the, 454 



Guillemard (Arthur G.), Great Waterfalls, 221, 242 



Gulf Stream, the Challenger Estimates of the Volume of the, 

 T. Mellard Reade, 144 



