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INDEX 



{Nature, A\>z'. 27, 1879 



Erica carnea Fertilisation of, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 146 



Ernst (Dr. A.), Local Colour- Variation in Lizards, 290 ; Intellect 



in Brutes, 291 ; On the Rev. J. G. Wood's Explanatory Index 



to " Waterton's Wanderings," 313 

 Erratic Blocks, B.A. Report on, 440 

 Etherspheres as a vera causa of Natural Philosophy, 446 

 Etna, and the Roman Alpine Club, 161 

 Etna, the Eruption of, 158, 198, 544 

 Ethnology in Berlin, 207 

 Euchtcena luxurians, 232 



Euclid and His Modern Rivals, C. L. Dodgson, 240, 404 

 Evans (Margaret), Intellect in Brutes. 220 

 Everett (Prof. J. D.), Underground Temperature, 571 

 Evers (Dr. Henry), Arithmetic in Theory and Practice, 313 

 Evolution of the Vertebrata, Prof. Parker, F.R.S. on, 30, 



61, 8i 

 Evolution, Old and New, Samuel Butler, 141, 169 

 Excitement, the Average Flu>h of, 121 

 Explosive, the Newest, H. Bnden Prichard, 32 

 Eyeball, on the Action of the Oblique Muscles of the, E, 



Bellamy, 362 



Faivre (Dr.), Death of, 231 

 Favre (Louis), Death of, 327 



Farming for Pleasure and Profit, Arthur Roland, 360 

 Farming, Tanner's "Jack's Education," 576 

 Farrar (Edward), his Discovery of the Principle of the Tele- 

 phone, 40 

 Fauna of the Solomon Islands, Notes on the, 125 

 Fawcus (George), New Methods of Moving Heavy Ordnance, 



337. 373 

 Fenzl (Dr. Edward), Death of, 589 

 Ferrier (Dr. D., F.R.S.), Calderwood's "Relations of Brain and 



Mind," 309 

 Fertilisation of Erica carnea. Dr. Hermann Miiller, 146 

 Fichte (Dr. I. H. von). Death of, 401 

 Field (Rogers), on Self- Acting Intermittent Syphons, 467 

 Finches, Intellect in a Pair of, 432 

 Finnish, the Prehistoric, of N.W. Russia, 484 

 Finsch (Dr. Otto), his Tour to Micronesia, 560 

 Fire- Damp in Mines, an Instrument for Detecting, 445 

 Fisher (Kev. O.), the Mechanical Theory of Earth-Heat, 2l8; 



("limatic Effects of Present Eccentricity, 577 

 Fishes, British Freshwater, by Rev. W. Houghton, 289 

 Fire, Subterraneous, in Russia, 424 

 Fiske (John), "Darivinism, and Other Essays," 575 

 Flame, Blue, from Common Salt, 5 

 Fleming (Sanfurd), Report on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 



249 

 Flint Arrow-Heads, the Making of, 483 

 Flint Implements from Valley of the Bann, 489 

 Florence, Earthquake at, 42 

 Flower (Prof. F.R.S.), Comparative Anatomy of Man, 222, 



244, 267 ; on the Osteology of the Natives of the Andaman 



Islands, 258 

 Flowers : Existence of. During the Carboniferous Epoch, 



R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 5 ; A. E. Eaton, 315 ; WilKam 



Morris, 404 ; Acid Reaction of, 303 

 Fodder Grasses, New, 232 

 Foods, Blyth's Work on the Analysis of, 4 

 Fonts in the Rocks of Brook Cour>es, Wm. Morris, 430 

 Fonvielle (W. de), on a White Rainbow, 276 

 Forbes (Capt. C. J. F. S.), "British Burma and its People," 3 

 Forbes (Henry O.), Transportation of Seeds, 456; Shark's 



Teeth, 456; Earthquakes, 481 

 Force, Sense of, and Sense of Temperature, 6 

 Forel (Dr. F. A.), Butterfly Swarms, 197 

 Forests of Central Nevada, 233 

 Fossil Remains, Di>covery of, at Charing Cross, 42 

 Fossils of South Carolma, 354 



"Fossils, Silurian," Prof. H. AUeyne Nicholson, F.R.S., 26 

 France : French Association for the Advancement of Science, 



Meeting at Montpellier, 326, 451, 499, 521 ; Anthropological 



Inquiry in, 376 ; Bone Caverns in, 376; Stammering in, 377; 



the Decrease of Population in, 378 ; Institute of, 640 

 FraYiklin (Capt. S. R.), on Capt. Cook's Accuracy, 6 

 Franklin Institute, Journal of, 22, 280, 355 

 Fra'-er Island, Exploration of, 256 

 Frequency, the Law of, Donald McAlister, 337 



Friction at High Velocities, Experiments on, Capt. Douglas 



Galton, F.R.S., 292, 316 

 Friction of Fluids on Solids, 259 



Friction of Water upon Water at Low Velocities, 445 

 Frogs and Glow-Flies, Rev. George Henslow, 220 

 Frogs, Change of Colour in, W. J. Chamberlayne, 554; Rev. 



W. Clement Ley, 580 ; H. J. Carter, 580 

 Frosts, Comparison of EfTects of Various, 488 

 Froude (William, F.R.S. ), Death of, 109 ; Obituary Notice of, 



148, 169 

 Fruits and Seeds, Sir John I,ubbock, F.R.S., 472 

 Fuel, Hollway's New Application of Rapid Oxidation by which 



Sulphides are Utilised as, 278 

 Fuller (Prof. Geo,), Spiral Slide Rule, 36 

 Funke (Dr. Otto), Death of, 434 



Galileo, Recent Publications on his Trial before the Inquisition, 



Sedley Taylor, 261 

 Galls Buds, Insect : A. Stephen Wilson, 55 ; W. Ainslie Hollis, 



95 



Galton (Capt. Douglas, F.R.S.), Experiments on Friction at 

 High Velocities, made in Order to ascertain the Effect of 

 Brakes on Railway Trains, 292, .316 



Galton (Douglas), on Sanitation, 642 % 



GameBirds, Diseases of, 561 



Gardening, Buckton's Town and Country, 354 



Gardner ( K. Dent), Electrical Clocks and Clockwork, 345 



Gardner (J. Starkie), Are there no Eocene Floras in the Arctic 

 Regions ? 10 



Garnett (K.), Subject- Indexes to Transactions of Learned 

 Societies, 554 



Garrod (Alfred Henry, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 613 



Giitke (H.), Migration of Birds, 97 



Gault, Lectures on the, by F. G. H. Price, 217 



Gazetta Chimica Italiana, 356 



Gebler (Carl von), Galileo Galilei, 261 



Geneva Society of Physics and Natural History, 356 



Genesis and Migration of Plants, Prof. Dawson, 2S7 



Geodetic Association, the International, 433, 508, 535 



Geography: Geographical Notes, I5, 37, 86, 9b, 130, 157, 

 181, 205, 226, 248, 271, 295, 325, 344, 364, 425, 433, 459, 

 508, 535, 560, 581, 604, 629; Congress of Commercial, 15, 

 64, 296 ; Discovery of the Remains of the Prouts, 15 ; Bulletin 

 of Paris Geographical Society, 87 



Geology : the l5irectorship of the U.S. Geological Survey, 40 ; 

 Geological Society, 7I, 137, 163, 211, 282; International 

 Congress, 1881, 207 ; Geologists Association, 256 ; the price 

 of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, 289; Geological 

 Society ol Metz, 327; Geological Episodes, J. F. Blake, 470; 

 "Geological Record," B. A. Report on, 440; Dauhree's 

 Experimental Geology, 501 ; Geological Time and Chemical 

 Denudation, J. Mellard Reade, 526 ; " Geological Glossary for 

 the Use of Students," Dr. OUiham, 601 ; Geological and 

 Chemical Essay, Stcrry Hunt, F.R.S., 621 ; in Relation to 

 Sanitary Science, 643 



Geometry, de Tilly's Essay on, 336 



Geometry, Elementary, J. M. Wilson, M.A., 240 



German Anthropological Society, 434 



German Astronomic.il Society, 460, 513 



German Physijlogical Chemistry, Dr. William Ramsay, 323 



Germ Theoiy and Organisms in the Blood, Dr. H. Charlton 

 Bastian, F.R.S., 50 



Ghosts in DifTractixn Spectra, 99 



Giffard Balloon, 135, 255 ; Bursting of the, 401 



Giglioli, (Dr. H. H.), Distribution of the Black Rat In Italy, 

 242 



Gillman (F.), Suicide of Scorpions, 629 



Giornale di Scienze, Natural! et Economiche, 186 



Glaciers : the P'ormer Existence of, in Saxony, 424 ; the Measure- 

 ment of, 484 



Glass, Secular Changes in Specific Inductive Capacity of, 48 



Globus, 267 



Glow-Flies and Frogs, Rev. George Henslow, 220 



Glow-Worms, 267 



Glow-Worms and Snails: R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 197, 243; 

 R. Mc! achlan, F.R.S., R. Greenwood Penny, 219 



Goat-Suckers, Rev. Henry H. Higgins, 7 



Godwin-Ausicn, (K. A. C, F.R.S.), Pala;Ozoic Rocks in South- 

 East of England, 547 



