XVI 



Index 



L Supplement to Nature, 

 November 26, 1891 



Finkelnburg (Dr.), on the Influence of Soil on Consumption, 



370 



Fire-Prevention : the Society of Arts Fothergill Gold Medal for, 

 135 ; 1000 Lire Gold Medal offered by Bologna Academy for 

 Memoir on best Means of, 303 



Firs and Pines of Japan, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 339 



Fischer (H.), Development of Liver of Nudibranchiates, 144 



Fish : some Remarkable Catches of, 19 ; the Destruction of, by 

 Frost, F. F. Payne, 31 ; Fossil Fish of the Scandinavian 

 Chalk, 117 ; Faune des Vertebras de la Suisse, Victor Fatio, 

 Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., 269; J. T. Cunningham on the 

 Reproduction of the Pilchard, 481 ; J. T. Cunningham on the 

 Rate and Growth of Age of Sexual Maturity in Fish, 482 ; 

 Prof. Howes on the Classification of Fishes by their Repro- 

 ductive Organs, 483 ; Prof. Howes on the Gills of Fishes, 

 483 ; United States Fish Commission Reports, 562 ; Oyster 

 Fisheries, Mr. Fryer, 233 ; Fish caught in the Cruise of the 

 Fingal, 1890, off West Coast of Ireland, E. W. L. Holt, 

 282 ; Calderwood on Sea Fisheries, 481 ; the Baltimore 

 Fishing School and Irish Fisheries, 549 



Fisher (Prof. W. R.), Forestry in North America, 60 



Fizeau (M.") : Influence that Aberration of Light may Exercise 

 on Spectroscopic Observations of Solar Prominences, 488 ; 

 Influence of Aberration upon Observations of Sjlar Pro- 

 minences, 530 



Flame, Optical Proof of Existence of Suspended Matter in. 

 Prof. Stokes, F.R.S., 263 



Flammarion (C.), Apparent Total Disappearance of Jupiter's 

 Satellite;, 311 



Flesh, Organic Bases in the Juice of, G. S. Johnson, 117 



Fletcher (Thomas), Rain Gauges, 371 



Flight, Experimental Researches on Mechanical, Prof. S. P. 

 Langiey, 277 



Flora, Alpine, T. D. A. Cockerel], 6 ; J. Innes Rogers, 6 



Flora of European Russia, Geo-botanical Notes on, D. I. 

 Litvinoff, 359 



Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, Materials for a, Geo. King, 

 F.R.S,, 492 



Florida, Rain Making in, in the Fifties, 521 



Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.) : an "International Society," 7 ; 

 and Richard Lydekker, Mammals Living and Extinct, Prof. 

 E. Ray Lankester, F. K.S., 121 ; Oxford University Museum, 

 619 



Flowers, our Country's, W. J. Gordon, 247 



Fluorine, Action of, on Phosphorus Triflaoride, M. Moissan, 

 186, 333, 622 ; A. E. Tutton, 333 



Fluorine, Further Researches upon the Element, A. E. Tutton, 

 622 



Foerster (Dr.), Volatile Carbonyl Compounds of Platinum, 530 



Fog, a Method of Counting Water-Particles in, John Aitken, 

 119 



Folk-lore Congress, International, the, 527 



Folk-lore of the Hungarian Gypsies, Dr. H. von Wlislocki, 630 



Folk-lore, the Melanesians, Studies in their Anthropology and. 

 Dr. R. H. Codrington, 613 



Food, Copepoda as an Article of. Prof. W. A. Herdman, 273 



Food Physiology, William Durham, 540 



Forbes (Prof. G.), on Electric Motors, 510 



Force and Determinism : Evan McLennan, 198 ; Prof. Oliver 

 J. Lodge, F.R.S., 198, 272; Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 249, 

 319 ; Edward T. Dixon, 249, 319 ; Rev. T. Travers Sherlock, 

 320; D. Wetterhan, 320 



Force and Motion, the Laws of, John Harris, 443 



Forestry in India, 436 



Forestry in North America, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 6b 



Forestry, the Teaching of, William Schlich, Sir D. Brandis, 

 F.R.S., 265 



Forestry, on Government Timber Tests, B. E. Fermor, 471 



Forests and Air- Temperature, 68 



Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, Rev. J. C. Atkinson, 122 



Fossil Fish of the Scandinavian Chalk, 117 



Fossil Insects of North America, with Notes on some European 



Species, Samuel H. Scudder, R. Lydekker, i 

 Fossils, Protopirata centrodon, H. Trautschold, 359 

 Foster (Prof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), the Proposed Albert Univer- 

 sity, 223 

 Fourteenth Century Weather Record, 538 

 Fox (Dr. L. W.), Rarity of Colour-Blindness in Savage Races, 



477 

 Fox's Head for Country, the, J. Harting, 452 

 France : Endowment of Research in, MM. Cahours and Janssen, 



17; French Accent, Dr. Pringsheim, 67 ; French Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 112; New Natural History Stations in 

 France, 135 ; French Academy's 20,000 franc Prize voted to 

 Elisee Reclus, 161 ; the Propo-ed Law on Universities, 185 ; 

 French Association for the Advancement of Science, 280, 

 499. 598 ; Lighting in France, the Increase in the Consump- 

 tion of Gas, Electricity, and Petroleum, during the Last 

 Decade, 282 ; the Protection of Prehistoric Monuments in, 

 232 ; the Destruction of Small Birds in, 390 

 Frank (Dr. J.), a Case of Periodical Skin-shedding, 477 

 Frankfort, Acclimatization of Japanese Lacquer-tree at. Prof. 



Rein, 500 

 Frankfort International Electrical Exhibition, 494, 521, 542 ; 



some Notes on the, 615 

 Frankland (Percy Faraday) : proposed Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, 15 ; Manuel Pratique d'Analyse Bacteriologique des 

 Eaux, Dr. Miquel, 513 

 Fream (Dr. W. ), Technical Education in Agriculture, 137 

 Freeman (Dr. J. P. Williams), Importance of more actively 



enforcing Ventilation, 487 

 French (C), the Insectivorous Birds of Victoria, 162 

 Friend (Rev. Hilderic), Identification of Templeton's British 



Earthworms, 273 

 Froggatt (Mr.), a New South Wales Beetle (fam. Curculionidse) 



as an Example of Protective Coloration, 576 

 Frost Phenomenon, Unusual, A. H. White, 519 

 Fryer (Mr.), Oyster Disease and its Remedies, 233 

 Fiirstlich Jablonowsky Gesellschaft, 325 ; Astronomical Prize 



offered by, 325 

 Fusing and Boiling Points of Compounds, Dr. Gustavus Hin- 

 richs, 174 



Gallon (Sir Douglas, F.R.S.), Address at the Congress of 



Hygiene, 362 

 Galton (Francis, F.R.S.) : Method of Indexing Finger-marks, 

 141 ; Finger-prints as a Means of Identification, 187 ; 

 Meteorological Phenomenon, 294 

 Gardiner (Walter, F.R.S.), Water taken up by Plants, Pheno- 

 mena associated with the Absorption and Flow of, 188 

 Gamier (Jules), Transport of Metallic Iron and Nickel by Car- 

 bon Monoxide, 336 

 Garson (Dr.), on Human Remains found in Yorkshire, 511 

 Gas Jets under Pressure, Combustion of, R. W. Wood, 189 

 Gas Mixtures, the Slow Combustion of Explosive, Krause and 



Meyer, 354 

 Gases in various Geological Phenomena, Probable Rdle of, M. 



Daubree, 360 

 Gases, on Double Lines in the Spectra of. Dr. Johnstone 



Stoney, F.R.S., 454 

 Gases, the Foundation of the Kinetic Theory of, V., Prof. 



Chrystal, 310 

 Gases, Liquids and. Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S., 274 

 Gautier (Henry), Action of Nitric Acid upon Iron, 216 

 Geikie (Sir Archibald, F. R. S.) : on the Discovery of the Olenel- 

 lus Zone in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, 479 ; on 

 the Recent Work of the Geological Survey in the Archaean 

 Gneiss of the North-West Highlands of Scotland, 480 

 Geitel (Herr), the Observation of Atmospheric Electricity, 281 

 Geitel and Elster's (Herren) Electric Observations on Sonn- 



blick, 452 

 Gem Thief, Capture at Vienna of a supposed, 598 

 Genoa, projected International Botanical Congress at, 598 

 Geo-botanical Notes on Flora of European Russia, D. I. 



Litvinoff, 359 

 Geography: Geographical Society, 5^<? Royal ; Major Claude M. 

 Macdonald on the Benue and the Kibbe, 46 ; the Miranzai 

 Expedition, 65 ; Alexander McPhee on the Exploration of 

 Central Australia, 67 ; Physical Geography and Geology of 

 North Syria, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 99 ; Mr. J. Graham- 

 Kerr's Pilcomayo Expedition, 135 ; Major Hobday's Ex- 

 plorations on the Upper Irrawaddy, 137 ; Across East African 

 Glaciers, an Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 

 Dr. Hans Meyer, 149 ; Contemplated Geographical Society 

 at Liverpool, 161 ; Physical Geography of the Clyde Sea 

 Area, Dr. H. R. Mill, 167 ; Dr. John Murray, 232 ; the 

 Karwendel Alps, A. Rothpletz, 221 ; the History of Com- 

 merce in England, H, de B. Gibbins, 222 ; the Northern 

 Limits of the Black-Earth Steppe Region of East Russia, 

 Korzchinsky, 326 ; Record of a Journey in Northern Corea, 

 Mr. Campbell, 233 ; the Business of Travel, W. Eraser Rae, 



