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INDEX 



{Nature, June 7, 1888 



Faye (H.) : M. Colladon's Recent Note on Waterspouts and 

 Tornadoes, 120 ; on the Movement of Cirri and their Relation 

 to Cyclones, 143 ; M. Bertram's Note on Errors of Observa 

 tion, 166 ; Theory of Accidental Errors, 527 ; the Blizzard 



575 



Feeble Cu-rents, Development of, by Physical Action, Dr. C 

 R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., and C. Thompson, 213 



Feistmantel (Dr. Ottokar), Die Theekultur in Britisch-Ost 

 Indien, im funfzigsten jahre ihres Bestandes, Historisch 

 Naturwissenschaftlich, und Statistisch, 409 



Fern Allies, Hand-book of the, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., Prof. W 

 R. McNab, 4 



Fernando Noronha, Island of. Rev. T. S. Lea, 617 



Ferric Chloride, Vapour Density of, Drs. Griinewald and Victor 

 Meyer, 518 



Fewkes (J. Walter), a Troublesome Parasite of a Brittle-Star- 

 fish, 274 



Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves, the : Worthington G. 

 Smith, 7, 105, 178; Caves, G. H. Morton, 32; Dr. Henry 

 Hicks, F.R.S., 129, 202 ; A. J. Jukes Browne, 224 



Fibres and Fibrous Substances, Indian, 443 



Fiji, "Soapstone" of, Henry B. Brady, F.R.S., 142 



Finck (H. T.), Romantic Love and Personal Beauty, F. T. 

 Richards, 149 



Finland, Stations for the Observation of Drift Ice along the 

 Coast of, 399 



Finnish Archaeological Society, Return of Expedition to the 

 Upper Yenisei, 15 



Fire, the Origin of, E. Tregear, 518 



Fischer (Dr. Emil), Synthesis of Glucose, 283 



Fishes ; on some of the Affinities between Ganoidd chondrostei 

 and other. Dr. Nicholas Zograff, 70 ; Imports of Frozen Fish 

 into France, 89 ; Fish Culture, 89 ; Curious Proof of the 

 Enduring Capacity of Salmonidee Ova, 208 ; Fifth Annual 

 Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 132 ; Arctic Seal, 

 and Scottish Fishery Board, 399 ; -German Fishery Associa- 

 tion Scientific Research in the Baltic, 156 ; M. L. Vaillant on 

 the Nest of the Antennarius marmoratus, 208 ; United 

 States Fish Commission, 316 ; the Bathymetrical Range of 

 Deep-Sea Fishes, A. R. Hunt, 321 ; Transport of Fish, Sir 

 Edward Birkbeck on the, 423 ; Jousset de Bellesme, 444 ; 

 Fish Supply of Bengal, Nidhiram Mookerjee, 494 ; Report on 

 Fisheries of New South Wales, 494 ; the Teeth of the 

 Myxinoid, by Dr. J. Beard, 499 



Fitzgerald (Mrs. P. F.), a Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient 

 Reason, 30 



Flamingo, the Nest of the, E. J. Dunn, 465 



Flammarion (Camille), L' Atmosphere — Meteorologie Populaire, 

 580 



Flight (Walter, F.R.S.), a Chapter in the History of Meteorites, 

 30 



Flood, and the Mammoth, 343 ; Henry H. Howorth, 123, 200, 



295 

 Flora of the Bahamas, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., Baron 



Eggers, 565 

 Flora of Howth, H. C. Hart, 245 

 Flora of Matheran and Mahableshwar, Catalogue of the, Hon. 



H. M. Birdwood, 126 

 Flora of Nova Zembla, Herr Holm's Report of the, 173 

 Florence, Earthquake at, 88 

 Flour Manufacture, F. Kick, 316 

 Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.), the Akkas, a Pygmy Race from 



Central Africa, 395 

 Fluids, on the Expansion of Compressed, E. H. Amagat, 167 

 Fluorescences, New, with well-defined Spectral Rays, 47 

 Fluorhydric Acid, the Influence on Tuberculosis of, 187 

 Fluorides of Potassium, New, discovered by M. Moissan, 422 

 Fluorine, Isolation of, A. E. Tutton, 179 

 Fluorine, the Physical Nature of, Drs. Wallach and Heusler, 



301 

 Fly, the Hessian, 23 ; Prof. Lindeman on the, 157 ; Charles 



Whitehead, 212 

 Fog : Observation of, M. Renon, 282 ; Extraordinary Fog in 



January 1888 at Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow, E. J. Lowe, 



F.R.S., 294 

 Fog-Bow : James C. McConnel, 487 : and Ulloa's Ring, Dr. 



H. Mohn, 391 

 Fog Signal, Proposed Establishment of a, near Halland's 



Wadero Lighthouse, 231 



Fog and Smoke in London, Increase of, Sir Douglas Gallon, 



208 

 Fogs and Clouds, Constitution of, Prof. F. Palagi, 404 

 Folk-Lore : the Folk-Lore Journal, 64, 351 ; Rev. J. Batchelor 



on the Gods of the Ainos, 329 ; Jeremiah Curtin on the 



Folk-Loke of Ireland, 473 

 Food Adulteration and its Detection, J. P. Battershall, 411 

 Food of the Japanese, Dr. Kellner and M. Moci, 445 

 Footprints, Ancient, in Nicaragua, Dr. R. G. Brinton, 474 

 Foote (Dr. A. E.), Gems and Ornamental Stones of the United 



States, 68 

 Foraminifer, a New, J. Kunstler, 504 

 Foraminifera, an "Instructive" Bibliography of the, Chas. 



Davies Sherborn, 583 

 Forbes (H. O.) : Letters from, in ; and Exploration of New 



Guinea, 421 

 Forbes- Watson Commercial Products Collection, the, 379 

 Forcrand (M. de) and M. Villard, on the Hydrate of Sulphur- 

 ated Hydrogen, 528 

 Force : the Definition of Force, and Newton's Third Law, 511 ; 



Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 558 

 Fordham (H. George), the Supposed Earthquake in England, 



151 



Forel (Prof. F, A.) : Experiments on Penetration of Light into 

 Water, 88 ; Photographic Experiments on Penetration of 

 Light in Lake of Geneva, 575 



Forestry : Forest Meteorological Observations of Germany, 

 113; Destruction of Forests in Norway, 352; Forests of 

 Austria, 543 ; Management of Crown Forests at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, J. Croumbie Brown, 198 ; Forestry School for 

 England, 327 ; at Cooper's Hill, 529 ; Forestry in the Cape 

 Colony, 598 



Forms of Clouds, the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 129 



Forster (W. G.), Seismology, 523 



Forsyth (A. R., F.R.S.) : Invariants, Covariants, and Quotient 

 Derivatives associated with Linear Differential Equations, 

 309 ; a Class of Functional Invariants, 550 



Forth, Firth of, as a Nursery for Fish, 133 



Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Catalogue of, Richard 

 Lydekker, 461 



Fossil Pterodactyl Skull found in the Yorkshire Lias, 598 



Fossil Turtle, Discovery of a, by Dr. Donnezan, 215 



Foster (Prof. M., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Rev. Coutts 

 Trotter, 153 



Foundations of Knowledge, on some Unapparent Contradictions 

 at the, F. Howard Collins, 294 



Fowler (G. Herbert), Prof. A. Weismann's Theory of Polar 

 Bodies, 134 



Fowler (Dr. G. H.), the Anatomy of the Madreporia, 572 



Fowler (W. Warde), Migration of Swallows along the Southern 

 Coast, 6 



Fox (Howard), Gneissic Rocks off the Lizard, 526 



France : Rewards for killing Wolves in, 65 ; Astronomical 

 Society of, 66 ; Imports of Frozen Fish into, 89 ; Increase of 

 Oyster Cultivation in, 139 ; a New Magnetic Survey of, 275 ; 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R. S. , 247 ; Technical Education in, 

 329 ; French Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 378 ; Meeting at Oran, 542 ; French Meteorological Society, 

 568 ; Missions approved by French Ministry of Public In- 

 struction, 614 ; Exact Superficial Area of France calculated by 

 the Planimetric Method, 624 



Franke (Dr. B. ), on the Preparation and Constitution of the 

 Hydrates of Manganic Oxide and Peroxide, 209 



Fresnel's Wave Surface, on the most General Equations 

 Double Refraction Compatible with, Maurice Levy, 143 



Friedel and Crafts, and New Naphthalene Derivatives, 156 



Fries Dr. Robert), on the Fungus-Flora of Sweden, 445 



Fritsch (Prof. Dr. Anton) : and Jos. Kafka, Die Crastaceen 

 der Bohmischen Kreideformation, 51 ; Fauna der Gaskohle 

 und der Kalksteine der Permformation Bohmens, 244 



Frogs, Weasel {Mustela vulgaris) seen destroying Frogs, 208 ; 

 M. S. Pembrey, 321 



Frost, Experiments on the Resistance of Materials to, Hei 

 Bliimcke, 209 



Froude (the late William), on the Soaring of Birds, 527 



Fruit, Capabilities of our Colonies to grow and export, F. 

 Mott, 35 ; Fruits, Foreign, available for Acclimatization 

 England, 257 



Fry (Right Hon. Lord Justice Edward, F.R.S.), 463 



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