Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 June I, 1893 J 



Index 



XVll 



Fitzgerald, Dr. Gladstone, S. H. Burbury, Prof. Ramsay, 

 Macfarlane Gray, Prof. Herschel, 117 

 Kord (Charles), Severe Frost at Hongkong, 535 

 Ford (W. v.), Snow Rollers, 422 

 Forel (Prof. F. A.), Le Leman, Monographic Limnologique, 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 5 

 Force (M.), the Resistance of Ice, 564 

 Forest Tithes and other Studies from Nature, 580 

 Forestry, the Destruction of Trees in America, Dr. W. J. 

 Beal, 563 ; Forestry in India, the Dehra Dun Forest School, 

 Sir E. C. Buck, 613 ; Recent Researches on the Influence of 

 Forests, Dr, Schubert, 480 

 Fossil Botany, the Genus Sphenophylluo], Prof. Wm. Crawford 

 Williamson, 11 ; on a New Fern from the Coal Measures, A. 

 C. Seward, 360 

 Fossil Fauna of the Black Sea, T. J. van Beneden, 544 

 Fossil Floras and Climate, Sir William Dawson, F.R.S., 556 ; 



J. Starkie Gardner, 582 

 Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, A. C. Seward, 267 ; J. Star- 

 kie Gardner, 267, 364 ; Chas. E. De Ranee, 294, 342 

 Fossil Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstone, Some New, E. T. 



Newton, 189 

 Fossile Flora der Hiittinger Breccie, Die, R. von Wettstein, 



436 

 Fossils, A Catalogue of British Jurassic Gasteropoda, W. II. 



Hudlestone, F.R.S., and Edward Wilson, H. Woods, 363 

 Fourcroya Selloa, Flowering in Botanic Society's Conservatory 



of, 373 

 Fox (Howard), Notes on Some Coast Sections at the Lizard, 



407 ; on a Radiolarian Chert from Mull ion Island, 407 

 1 ramework of Chemistry, the, W. M, Williams, 28 

 France: the New Triangulation of, L. Bassot, 71; Dirigible 

 Balloon in Construction at Chalais-Meudon, 112 ; French 

 Academy, Science Prizes, 232 ; Statistics of Average Life in 

 France, M. Turqun, 255 ; Some Lake Basins in, Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.R.S., 341, 414; Socieie Astronomique de, 616 

 Francois (Capt. von). Dromedaries in German S. W. Africa, 38 

 Frankland (Prof. P. F., F.R.S.), Salts of Active and Inactive 

 Glyceric Acid : the Influence of Metals on the Specific Rota- 

 tory Power of Active Acids, 405 ; Van't Hoffs Stereochem- 

 istry, 510 ; the Purification of Water by Bacteriological 

 Methods, 588 

 Frankland (Mr>. Percy), Bacilli in Butter, 283 

 Friedel (C), Diamond in Meteoric Iron, 192; on the Meteoric 



Iron of the Canon Diablo, 408 

 Friend (Rev. Hilderic), ■" Hare-Lip " in Earthworms, 316; 



Luminous Earthworms, 462 

 Fritsch (Gustav), on the Origin of the Electric Nerves in the 



Torpedo, Gymnosus, Mormyrus, and Malapterurus, 271 

 Frost, Dew and, Hon, R. Russell, 210 

 Frost, severe, at Hongkong, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 



535 ; Charles Ford, 535 ; W. Doberck, 536 

 Frost Patterns, Arborescent, 213; Prof. K. Meldola, F.R.S., 

 125 ;G. J. Symons, F.R.S.,162; Rev. T. G. Bonney.F.R.S., 

 162; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 162; D. Wetterhan, 

 162 ; J. T. Richards, 162 ; J. J. Armitage, 162 

 Froude (R. E. ), the Apparatus at the Haslar Experimental 



Works, 353 

 Fruit Export Trade, Cape Colony Government Encouragement 



of, 234 

 Fujisan, John Milne, F.R.S., 178 

 Fulcher (L. W.), Stromboli in 1891, 89 



Gad (Prof.), the Respiratory Centre, 144 



Gadolin (General A.W.), Death of, 232 



Gain (E.), Influence of Moisture on Vegetation, 119 



Galileo Galilei and the Approaching Celebration at Padua, 



Prof. Antonio Favaro, 82, i8o, 207 

 Galitzine (B.), Method for Determining Density by Saturated 



Vapours and Expansion of Liquids at Higher Temperatures, 



189 

 Gallwey's (Capt. H. L.), Travels in Benin Country, 134 

 Gallon (Francis, F.R.S.), Measure of the Imagination, 319; 



Optical Continuity, 342 

 Galvanometer, A Modified Astatic, H. E. J. G. du Boisand H. 



Rubens, 455 

 Garden, the English Flower, W. Robinson, 508 

 Gardner (Edmund G.), Quasstio de Aqua et Terra, 295 | 



Gardner (J. Starkie), Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, being 



the Sedgwick Prize Essay for the year 1892, A. C. Seward, 

 267 



Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, 364 



Garstang (John), the Light of Planets, 77 



Garstang (W.), a Proposed Handbook of the British Marine 

 Fauna, 293 



Gas Power for Electric Lighting, J. Emerson Dowson, 284 



Gases, the Densities of the Principal, Lord Rayleigh, F. R.S., 

 567 



Gases in Living Plants, J. G. Arthur, 427 



Gases, the Rate of Explosion in. Prof. Harold B. Dixon, 299 



Gasteropoda, a Catalogue of British Jurassic, W. H Hudleston, 

 F.R.S., and Edward Wilson H. Woods, 363 



Gauss (Charles Frederick), Proposed Monument to, 106 



Gaye (Selina), the Great World's Farm, 198 



Gegenbaur (Carl), Die Epiglottis, 542 



Geikie (Sir Archibald, F.R.S.), Geological Map of Scotland, 

 Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., 49; Prof Wadsworth on the 

 Geology of the Iron, Gold, and Copper Districts of Michigan, 

 117; Prof. A. de Lapparent, 217; Geology of the North- 

 West Highlands, 292 



Geitel and Elster (Messrs.), Apparatus for Demonstrating 

 Difference of Potential at Poles of Galvanic Cells, 233 ; 

 Electrical Actinometer used in Measurement of Sun's Ultra- 

 violet Radiation by, 422 



Geminids, December Meteors, W. F, Denning, 226 



Geneva, the Lake of. Prof. F. A. Forel, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., 5 



Genoa, Munificent Bequest by Admiral Marquis Ricci for 

 Founding Scientific Institutions in, 613 



Genus Sphenophyllum, the, Prof. Wm. Crawford Williamson, 

 II 



Geodesy : the New Triangulation of France, L. Bassot, 71 ; 

 French Measurement of Arc of Meridian, 115 ; on the Pro- 

 gress of the Art of Surveying with the Aid of Photography 

 in Europe and America, M. A. Lauseolat, 384 ; the Triangu- 

 lation of N.W. South Australia, 519; Measurement of the 

 Parallel of 47° 30' in Russia, M. VenukofT, 576 



Geography : Le Leman : Monographic Limnologique, Prof. F. A. 

 Forel, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 5 ; Sven Hedin's Ascent 

 of Mount Demavend, 19 ; Agriculture in the Italian Red Sea 

 Colony of Eritrea, 19 ; Mr. Conway's Karakoram Range Ex- 

 pedition, 19 ; His Crossing of the Hispar Pass, 327 ; 

 Geographical Notes, 19, 64, 89, 115, 133, 159, 209, 235, 257, 

 282, 304, 327. 352, 377, 399. 426, 452, 473. 498. 519, 547, 566, 

 590, 617 ; Uganda, Capt. F. D. Lugard, 45 ; the Uganda Com- 

 mission, 210 ; the Voyage oi La Manche to Iceland, Jan Mayen 

 and Spitzbergen in 1892, M. Bienaime, 48 ; Discovery of 

 Subterranean Town on the Amu-Daria, 64 ; the Proposed 

 Transference of the Capital of Brazil, 64 ; Mr. D. J. Rankin's 

 Zambesi Journey, 1890-91, 64 ; Death of Theodore Child, 65 ; 

 Supposed Suicide of Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, 65 ; the Cause 

 of Lieut. Schwatka's Death, 89 ; Royal Geographical Society, 

 65, 115, 89, 209, 617 ; Experiments on Folding and on the 

 Genesis of Mountain Ranges, Prof. E. Reyer, 81 ; Official 

 Rule for Spelling of Place-names of German Protectorates, 

 89 ; Completion of Capt. Monteil's Mission, 89 ; Mr. Joseph 

 Thomson's Journey to Lake Bangweolo, 115; French 

 Measurement of Arc of Meridian, 115 ; Kettler's Afrikanische 

 Nachrichten, 115; Proposed Expedition of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Theodore Bent to Abyssinia, 115 ; Arrival of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Theodore Bent at Adowa, 519 ; Arrival of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Theodore Bent at Aksum, 547 ; In Savage Isles and Settled 

 Lands, B. F. S. Baden- Powell, 122 ; Dr. Karl Diener's 

 Himalaya Expedition, 133 ; Proposed Arctic Expedition of 

 Lieut. Peary, 133, 452 ; Death of F. H. von HcUwald, 133 ; 

 Capt. H. L. Gallwey's Travels in Benin Country, 134; E. 

 Wilkinson's Journey in the Kalahari Desert, 134; Geographi- 

 cal Society of California, 134 ; Progress of Congo Railway, 

 Major Thys, 159 ; Manchester Geographical Society, 159 ; 

 Liverpool Geographical Society, 159, 428 ; Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society, 159; Dr. J. Troll's Journey through Central 

 Asia, 160; Opening of Wiborg and Imatra Railway, Finland, 

 160 ; the Juba River, Commander F. G. Dundas, 186 ; M 

 Alex. Delcommune's Lomami Expedition, 209, 590 ; the 

 Death of Cardinal Lavigerie, 210 ; Proposed Exploration of 

 Africa by Telegraph, Cecil Rhodes, 210 ; the Characteristic 

 Form of the Coast Line as affecting the Physical Conditions 

 of the Waters of the English Channel, H. N. Dickson, 235 ; 

 Geographical Names, Colonel H. H. Godwin- Austen, F.R.S., 



