Index 



X Supplement to Nature, 

 L June 2, 1892 



Fabre (M.), Orthochromatic Plates for Astronomical Photo- 

 graphy, 280 

 Falconry, a Bibliography of, J. E. Harting, 67 

 Famine in Russia, Causes of the, Dr. A. Woeikof, 378 

 Farm Crops, J. Wrightson, 247 

 Farrington (O. C). Composition of lolite, 510 

 rauconnier(M.), New Liquid Compounds of Carbon, Oxygen, 



and Chlorine, 306 

 Fauna, Freshwater, of Sumatra, Java, &c.. Prof. Max Weber, 



408 

 Faye (M.), on the Variation in Latitude, 570 ; Photographs of 



a part of Cygnus, 624 

 Fayrer (Sir Joseph, F.K.S.), elected Corresponding Member of 



the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, 585 

 Featherwork, Surviving Specimens of Ancient Mexican, 66 

 Fens, the Gradual Extinction of many Species of Lepidoptera 



in the. Dr. Wheeler, 567 

 Ferrel's View of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere, 



Prof. W. M. Davis, 357 

 Ferric Oxychloride, a New Crystalline, 24 

 Fertilization of the Casuarinacese, 548 

 Fery (C), a new Spectrometer, 239 

 Fewkes (J. W.), the Ceremonial Circuit of the Cardinal Points 



among the Tusayan Indians, 546 

 Fibres, Chinese, 278 

 Field Geology, Outlines of, , Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 



Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S.,97 

 Field (Eleanor), Chromic Acid, 525 

 Finland, Meteorology of, 87 

 Finlay (George), the Working and Management of an English 



Railway, 116 

 Finnish Archaeology, the late Dr. Reinholm, 496 

 Finn (Frank), a Tortoise inclosed in Ice, 320 

 Fish and other Animals, a Medium for Preserving the Colours 



of, 212 

 Fish : Destructon of Immature Sea-Fish, Alfred O. Walker, 



176; Ernest W, L. Holt, 249 ; on the Habits of Ceratodus, 



the Lung Fish of Queensland, Prof. Spencer, 425 ; Pilchards, 



Matthias Dunn, 511 

 Fisher (Prof. W. R.), Forestry in America, 611 

 Fisheries of the Great American Lakes, 259 ; Fishing through 



the Ice, 280 

 Fisheries, Scotch, 49 



Fison (Rev. Lorimer), on Anthropological Study, 426 

 Fitch (Walter Hood), Obituary Notice of, 302 

 Fitzgerald (C), Squirrels in Winter, 136 



Fitzgerald (Prof. G. F., F.R.S.), the Driving of Electro- 

 magnetic Vibrations by Electro-magnetic and Electrostatic 



Engines, 358 ; Value of Useless Studies, 392 ; the Functions 



of Universities, 513 ; M. Poincare and Maxwell, 532 

 Fitzgerald (Prof. M.), the Flexure of Long Pillars under their 



own Weight, 479 

 Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Results of Experiments at Rotham- 



sted on the Question of the, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 32 

 Fizeau (M.), Measurement of Solar Prominences, 422 

 Flame Coloration, Origin of Prof. Smithell's, 306 

 Flames, on an Optical Proof of the Existence of Suspended 



Matter in. Sir G. Stokes, F.R.S., 133 

 Flammarion (Camille), Copernic et la Decouverte du Systeme 



du Monde, 77 

 Flett (John S.), the Darwinian Society, 104 

 Florence, the Sanitary State of, 19 



Florida, Opening of a Burial Mound in, C. B. Moore, 567 

 Flower (William Henry, F.R.S.), the Horse, a Study in Natural 



History, 436 

 Flowers, Travels of a Painter of, 602 

 Foerste (A. S.), Relationship of Autumn- to Spring-Blossoming 



Plants, 478 

 Foerster (Dr.), New Compounds of Carbonyl Platinum 



Chloride and Bromide with Ammonia Derivatives, 236 

 Fog in London, 1871-90, the Prevalence of, F. J. Brodie, 215 

 Fogs, Effect of, on Plants grown in the Houses at Kew, W. 



Watson, 16 

 Fogs, Town, and their Effects, 53 ; Dr. W. J; Russell, F.R.S., 



10 

 Foot as a Prehensile Organ in Hindoos, the, F. Regnault, 192 

 Footprints, supposed Human, on ^olian Rocks at Warrnam- 



bool, 115 

 Foote (Prof. A. E.), a New Locality for Meteoric Iron, with a 

 Preliminary Notice of the Discovery of Diamonds in the Iron, 

 178 



Forbes (Prof. Henry O.): Evidence of a Wing in Dinornis, 

 257 ; New Extinct Rail, 416 ; on a Recent Discovery of the 

 Remains of Extinct Birds in New Zealand, 416 ; Aphanapteryx 

 in the New Zealand Region, 580 



Forel (Prof. F. A.), the Recent Earthquake in Japan, 199 



Forestry in America, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 611 



Forestry in India, Government, Dr. Ribbentrop, 41 



Fossil Birds in the British Museum, Catalogue of, Richard 

 Lydekker, 33 



Fossil Fauna in Central Iowa, C. R. Keyes, 208 



Fossil Lepidodendrons, on the Discovery of Two Specimens of, 

 in the Neighbourhood of Bathurst, New South Wales, W. J. 

 C. Ross, 424 



Fossil Ornithology : Aphanapteryx in the New Zealand Region, 

 Prof. Henry O. Forbes, 580 



Fossil Ungulates, Aberrant, of South America, 608 



Fossils recently discovered near Boston, Warren Upham, 622 



Foster (Michael), proposed Portrait of, 18 



Foster (W.), the Carbon deposited from Gas Flames, 525 



Fowler (A.), Telescopic Objectives, 204; the Draper Cata- 

 logue of Stellar Spectra, 426 



Foxes, California, Prof. Edward S. Holden, 8 



France : Learned Societies in, 20 ; Les Coquilles Marines des 

 Cotes de France, A. Locard, 219 ; Earthquake in, 304 



Franchimont (M.), Ethylaldoxime, 576 



Francis (Gerald B.), Double Orange, 534, 607 



Frank (Herr von), Cause of Floating of Particles of Cloud or 

 Fog, 259 



Frankfort International Electrical Exhibition, some Notes on 

 the, 54, 105 



Frankland (Prof. Percy F., F.R.S.), an Elementary Hand-book 

 on Potable Water, Floyd Davis, 25 



Frankland (P, F.), a Pure Fermentation of Mannitol and Dulci- 

 tol, 383 



Fream (Dr. W.), Elements of Agriculture, 388 



French (C), Hand-book of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, 

 246 



Freshwater and Terrestrial Fauna of Tasmania, Prof. W. Bald- 

 win Spencer, 425 



Frew (W.), a Pure Fermentation of Mannitol and Dulcitcl, 383 



Fridlander (E. D.), a Lecture Experiment in Surface Tension, 



463 

 Friend (Rev. Hilderic), a Rare British Earthworm, 365 

 Friswell (R. G.), the Action of Dilute Nitric Acid on Coal, 



383 

 Fritz (Dr. Adolf), the Fauna of Yezo, 89 

 Frog, Discovery of New Species of, in New Jersey, 208 

 Frogs, a Plague of Small, R. Haig Thomas, 8 ; Lieutenant B. 



A. Muirhead, 30 

 Fruit Culture, Practical, J. Cheal, 579 

 Fruit-growers' Conference at Sydney, 420 



Function of a University, the, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 439 

 Functions of Universities, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 



513 

 Fungi, British Edible, M. C. Cooke, 75 



Fungi, British : Phycomycetes and Ustilagineae, G. Massee, 411 

 Furniture Woods, D. Denning, 459 

 Fuzziness of some Variable Stars, Cuthbert G. Peek, 497 



Gadolinia, Molecular Weight of, 237 



Gale of November 11, the Severe, Chas. Harding, l8l 



Game, Big in India, Harold Littledale, 158 



Gamgee (John), Superheated Steam, 438 



Gases under the Electric ^^Discharge, Heat Radiation of various 



Rarefied Gases, Herr Angstrom, 306 

 Gases, Experiments on Cause of Emission of Light of, Dr. 



Pringsheim, 312 

 Gases and Vapours, on the Virial Equation for. Prof. P. G. 



Tait, 199 

 Gasparis (Prof. Annibalede), Death and Obituary Notice of, 612 

 Gauge, Proposed Standard, G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 598 

 Gautier (A.), Fixation of Nitrogen by Arable Soils, 192 

 Gautier (G.), Medical Utilization of Alternating Currents of 



High Potential, 456 

 Gautier (H.), the Direct Combination of Metals with Chlorine 



and Bromine, 47 

 Geikie (Sir Archibald, F.R.S.), Outlines of Field Geology, 



Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., 97; Volcanic Action in the 



British Isles, 398 

 Gems, Precious Stones and their History, Sources, and Charac- 

 teristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531 



