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INDEX 



XV 



Folk-Love of the Ainos, 87 



Fonvielle (W. de), on Lightning Conductors, 547 



Food, Self- reproducing, for Young Fish, 631 



Foote (Bruce), on Neolithic and Palaeolithic Finds in Southern 



India, 87 

 Foraminifera, Recent and Fossil, from 1565 to 1888, a Biblio- 

 graphy of the, C. Davies Sherborn, 562 

 Forbes (Henry O.), Director of the Canterbury Museum, New 



Zealand, 348 

 Forbes's Attempt to reach the Owen Stanley Peak, 424 

 Foreign Travel, Reminiscences of, R. Crawford, 126 

 Forestry: Forest-Culture in Hesse, 17 ; Proposed Forest School 



at Kandy, 41 ; Practical Forestry, C. E. Curtis, 171 ; Report 



of the Conservator of Forests in Ceylon, 373 ; Forestry School 



in Spain, 461 ; Forest Conservancy in Ceylon, Colonel Clarke, 



606 

 Formations, Coral, Robert Irvine, 54 

 Formosa, the People of, 89 



Forms of Animal Life, George Rolleston, F.R.S., 25 

 Formulae of Bernoulli and Haecker for the Lifting Power of 



Magnets, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190 

 Fortescue (J. W.), Deer in New Zealand, 328 

 Forth Bridge, the, 39 

 Forticula (Earwigs), Plague of, 277 

 Forts, Underground, Colonel Hennebert, 502 

 Fossil Fish Remains from New Zealand, 137 

 Fossil Mammals, on the Gigantic Dimensions of some, M. 



Albert Gaudry, 384 

 Fossils of the Caspian Sea, M. Netchayeff, 160 

 Foster (C. Le Neve), a Treatise on Mine- Surveying, Bennett H. 



Brough, 317 

 Foster (Cooper), his Collections of Filmy Ferns, 86 

 Foster (Prof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), Density and Specific Gravity, 6 

 Foster (Prof. Michael, F.R.S.), a Text-book of Physiology, 



new edition, 564 ; Chemical Problems presented by Living 



Bodies, 596 

 Foundations of Coral Reefs, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, 



F.R.S., 568 

 Fourcroya cubensis, Haw., a Remarkable Case of Fasciation in, 



Dr. A. Ernst, 131 

 Fourier's Law of Diffusion, Five Applications of, illustrated by 



a Diagram of Curves with Absolute Numerical Values, Sir 



William Thomson, F.R.S., 571 

 Fowls, the Gape-wcrm of {Syngamus trachealis), Lord Walsing- 



ham, F.R.S., 324 

 Fraipont (Prof. Julien), the Tibia in the Neanderthal Race, 



212 

 France : Meteorology in, 42 ; P'rench Meteorological Society, 



42, 256 ; French Meteorological Office, 599 ; French Scientific 



Missions, 255 ; Centenarians in, Emile Levasseur, 288, 501 ; 



M. Renduel's Report on Sprat Fisheries, 349 ; War Aerostation 



in, 552 ; Projected French Special Mission to map the Coasts 



of Madagascar, 577 

 Frankfort-on-the-Main, Third International Congress of Inland 



Navigation, 395 

 Frankfort-on-Oder, Discovery of Funereal Urns near, 486 

 Frankland (Dr. Percy F. ), the Micro-organisms of Air and 



Water, 232 

 Freaks of Nature, Major D. Erskine, 104 ; C. H. Erskine, 



104 

 Fream (William), the Rothamsted Experiments on the Growth 



of Wheat, Barley, and the Mixed Herbage of Grass Land, 



465 

 Freeman (John). Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life, 29 

 Friction of Fluids, on a New Apparatus for studying the, M. M. 



Couette, 408 

 Friedel (M. C.) and M. J. M. Crafts : on the Density of Chlorine, 



and on the Vapour-Density of Ferric Chloride, 384 ; on the 



Vapour-Density of the Perchloride of Gallium, 384 

 Fries (Prof.), Eulogy on Linnaeus, 116 

 Frohlich Trust, Grants from, 230 

 Fruit Production in the Colonies, Kew Bulletin, 349 

 Fuel-testing Station for London, Bryan Donkin, Jun., 172 

 Functionless Organs, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 364; 



J. T. Hurst, 364; Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 341, 4" ; p rof. J. 



Burdon-Sanderson, F.R.S., Samuel F. Wilson, 387 ; Joseph 



John Murphy, 411 ; William White, 412 

 Furnace, Fletcher's Compressed Oxygen, 606 

 Furneaux (William S.), Elementary Chemistry, 76 



Gad (Prof.) : on Prof. Pick's Scheme of Blood-Pressure in the 

 Capillaries, 120; on Schistostega osmumiacea, 144 



Gadow (Hans), Modifications of First and Second Visceral 

 Arches, 47 



Gairdner (Prof), the Physician as Naturalist, 347 



Galapagos, Recent Visit of Naturalists to the, Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, F. R. S., Leslie A. Lee, 569 



Galileo, Proposed Complete Edition of the Works of, 277 



Gallatly (W.), the Elements of Logarithms, 172 



Galton (Francis, F.R.S.): Head Growth in Students at the 

 University of Cambridge, 14 ; Personal Identification and 

 Description, 173, 201 



Gamaleia (Dr.), Cure of Cholera by Inoculation, 395 



Ganjam Hills, Saoros of, Fawcett on the, 453 



Gape-worm, the, of Fowls {Syngamus trachealis), Lord 

 Walsingham, F.R.S., 324 



Gases of the Blood, the, Prof. John Gray McKendrick, F. R.S., 

 376, 399 



Gases from Homogeneous Liquids, Conditions of Evolution, 

 V. H. Veley, 310 



Gases, Ignition of Platinum in Different, Dr. W. R. Hodgkinson, 

 6 



Gaskell (Dr. W. H., F.R. S.), on the Comparison of the Cranial 

 with the Spinal Nerves, 19 



Gaudry (Prof. Albert) : Les Ancetres de nos Animaux dans les 

 Temps Geologiques, 4 ; on the Gigantic Dimensions of some 

 Fossil Mammals, 384 



Gee (W. W. Haldane) and II. Holden, Experiments on 

 Electrolysis, 190 



Gehnchten (Dr. van der), Minute Structure of Striated Vessels 

 in Vertebrata and Arthropoda, 264 



Geikie(Dr. A., F.R.S.)-: Geology of the North- West Highlands, 

 70 ; on the Geological Structure of Scandinavia and the 

 Scottish Highlands, 127 



Genealogy of Man, the Latest Stages of the, M. Topinard, 357 



Geoghegan (Rev. Edward) : Work and Energy, 77 ; the Problem 

 by Vincentio Viviani, 78 ; a Shadow and a Halo, 619 



Geography : Lieut, van Gele's Exploration of the River Mobangi, 

 18 ; Percy Smith's Visit to the Kermadec Islands, 18 ; Dr. Hans 

 Meyer's Exploration of Kilimanjaro, 19 ; Exploration of the 

 Meikong River, 19 ; Geographical Notes, 18, 65, 89, 115, 136, 

 161, 186, 207, 259, 280, 305, 375, 398,423.455»529» 555, 577, 

 601 ; Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society, 90 ; Dr. 

 Dawson's Exploration of British Columbia, 115 ; the Survey 

 of Upper Burmah, 115 ; Col. Strahan's Survey of the Nicobar 

 Islands, 115 ; Major Hobday on Operations in Upper Burmah, 

 136 ; Cameroons, MM. Valdau and Knutson's Explorations, 

 136; Hudson's Bay and Hudson's Strait, Commander 

 Markham, 161 ; Prof. P. Durazzo's Map of the Massawa 

 District, 161 ; Lieutenants Kund and Tappenbeck's Expedition 

 into Cameroons, 186 ; a Century of African Exploration, Dr. 

 Supan, 186 ; Proposed International Geographical Congress, 

 259 ; Dr. Meyer's Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 259 ; Jules 

 Borelli's African Explorations, 259 ; New Measurements of the 

 Austrian Alps, 280 ; Teaching of Geography in Russian Uni- 

 versities, 280 ; \V. J. Archer's Journey in Siam, 280 ; Position 

 of Timbuktu, Caron, 288 ; Early European Cartography, 375 ; 

 M. Coudreau's Explorations in Guiana, 398 ; Mr. Joseph _ 

 Thomson's lExplorations in Morocco, 398 ; Mr. Mackinder's 

 Report to the University of Oxford, 423 ; North-West 

 African Sea-board, Herr August Fitzau, 424 ; Mikluho- 

 Maclay, Dr. O. Finsch, 424 ; Tenasserim, Leonardo Fea's 

 Explorations in, 424 ; Indo-China Explorations, M. Pavie, 

 424 ; Owen Stanley Peak, Mr. Forbes's Report, 424 ; Lukoma, 

 Lake Nyassa, E. G. Ravenstein, 424 ; Deutsche Geographische 

 Blatter, 424 ; Geography of the Dutch East Indies, Herr Metz- 

 ger, 424 ; Bourne's Report on his Journey to South- West 

 China, 455 ; Brazilian Government Expeditions for Explora- 

 tion of the Interior, 455 ; Bollettino of the Italian Geo- 

 graphical Society, 424 ; Congo and West Africa, Baron Dr. 

 H. von Schwerin, 424 ; Proceedings of the Royal Geographi- 

 cal Society, 423 ; Scottish Geographical Magazine, 424 ; the 

 Nicobar Archipelago, Dr. Svoboda, 501 ; Joseph Thomson's 

 Atlas Mountain Expedition, 555 ; Nossilofs Exploration of 

 Novaya Zemlya, 555 ; Geography of British New Guinea, 555 ; 

 Projected French Special Mission to map Coasts of Madagas- 

 car, 577 ; 1 Census of Illiterates in various Countries of the 

 World, 601 ; Eclectic Physical Geography, Russell Hinman, 

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