Dtcember 



XaturCt 

 1892 



T. 



^^Huyard Manure, C. M. Aikman, 100 



S^rana of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, W 



Blanford, F.R.S., 5 

 Faye (M.), Means of Producing Rain Artificially, 24 ; Another 



Blow to the Ascent Theory of Cyclones, 144 

 Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, 131 

 Fenyi (J.), a Remarkable Prominence, 334 

 Ferguson (J.), Coftee, Cacao and Rubber Cultivation in Ceylon, 



300 

 Fernon (Mr.), Annual Loss to U.S. Forestry Bureau through 



Thieves and Fire, 454 

 Ferran (J.), New Chemical Function of Comma Bacillus of 



Asiatic Cholera, 436 

 Ferrero (General), Scientific Measuring Instruments, 388 

 Ferrini (Rinaldo), "Recenii Progressi nelle Applicazioni 



deir Elettricita, 296 

 Fessenden (C. E.), Elements of Physic, 245 

 Fever, Bilious, of Hot Countries, Bacterian Origin of, Domingos 



Freire, 460 

 Fevers, Epidemics, Plagues and, Hon. RoUo Russell, 413 

 Fewkes (J. S.), Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos, 



421 

 I ield (E. W.), the Echinoderm Fauna of Kingston Harbour, 



Jamaica, 40 ; the Problem of Marine Biology, 623 

 Fig, Fertilization of the, and Caprification, C. V. Riley 

 Films, Specific Conductivity of Thin, Profs. Reinold and 



Rucker, 384 

 Finnish Expedition to the Kola Peninsula, 178 

 Fiorelli (Signer Guiseppe), Proposed Testimonial to, on his 



Retirement, 176 

 Fire, Great, at St. John's, the Cause of the, 295 

 Fire Extinction on Board Ship, H. C. Carver, 432 

 Fire-making, the Methods of, Walter Hough, 474 

 Fischer (Prof. Emil), on the Constitution of the Dulcitol 



Group, 16 

 Fish : United States, Pacific Coast Fisheries, 63 ; the North 



Sea Fisheries, E. W. L. Holt's Investigations, 158; Scien- 

 tific Investigation of the Scottish Fishery Board, 395 ; on the 



Destruction of Immature Fish, E. W. L. Holt, 404 ; the 



Food of Fishes, Dr. W. Ramsay Smith, 405 ; the Herring 



Fishery and the Electric Telegraph, 278 ; Pearl Fishery of 



the Gulf of California, C. H. Townsend, 333 ; a Sketch of 



the Scotch Fisheries chiefly in their Scientific Aspects during 



the Past Decade 1882-92, Prof. Mcintosh, F. R.S., 404; 



Prof. Ewart on our Sea Fisheries, 404 ; Damage by Naphtha 



to Volga Fisheries, 421 

 Fisher (Prof. Emil), Glycol Aldehyde, 596 

 Fisher (Osmond), the Hypothesis of a Liquid Con ition of the 



Earth's Interior, considered in connection with Darwin's 



Theory of the Genesis of the Moon, 166 

 litzgerald (Prof.), the Discussion on a National Physical 



Laboratory, 383 ; an Estimate of the Rate of Propagation of 



Magnetization in Iron, 385 

 Fitzgerald (R. D.), Death of, 572 

 Flame, Experiments on, Prof. Smithells, 402 

 Flames, on the Luminosity of Hydrocarbon, Prof. Lewes, 401 

 Flammarion (M. Camille), Atmospheric Depressions and their 



Analogy with the Movements of Sun-spots, 280 ; Measures of 



the Diameter of Mars, 460 

 Flechia (Prof. Giovanni), Death of, 254 

 Flegel's (Herr K.), Archaeological Discoveries in Kalymnos, 



521 

 Fletcher (L., F.R.S.), the Optical Indicatrix and the Trans- 

 mission of Light in Crystals, 581; Geikielite and Baddeleyite, 



two new Mineral Species, 620 

 lleurent (E.), Action of Potassium Cyanide on Ammoniacal 



Copper Chloride, 71 

 Flints, Pre-Palasolithic, J. Montgomerie Bell, 432 

 Flora and Fauna of Bromley, J. French, 316 

 Florida, South, the West Indian Fauna in, T, D, A. Cockerell, 



458 

 Floyer (E, A.), the Geology of the Northern Etbai or Eastern 



Desert of Egypt, 70 

 Fluorine contamed in Fossil Woods, T. L. Phipson, 580 

 Flying- Machine Work, L. Hargrave, 556 

 Foerster (W.), Luminous Night Clouds, 575; Invitation to 



Observe the Luminous Night Clouds, 589 

 F(^, London, Damage to Plants from, Prof. F. W. Oliver, 185 

 Fog Signalling, Petroleum Engines for, Dr. A. Stevenson, 430 

 Fog, Reflection on Valley, J. Edmund Clark, 514 



Index 



Fonvielle (W. de), the Discovery of Line of no Declination, 



532 

 Forbes (George) and the Cataracts Construction Company for 



the Transmission of Electrical Power from Niagara Falls, 



84; a Planet beyond Neptune, 179; Electrical Lighting of 



Edinburgh, 429 ; Disposal of Town Refuse, 429 

 Forbes (Henry O.) : Aphanapteryx and other Remains in the 



Chatham Islands, 252 ; Sub-fossil Bones of Extinct Birds of 



New Zealand and the Chatham Islands, 404 ; Discovery of 



the Bones of a Flightless Bird in the Chatham Islands, 408 ; 



on the Contemporaneity of the Maori and the Moa, 433 

 Forcrand (M. de). Thermal Value of Replacement of Hydrogen 



in Phenolic Hydroxyl, 48 ; Sodium Trimethylcarbinol, 71 

 Forel (Prof.) : Theory of Cause of St. Gervais Disaster, 299 ; 



Table showing Behaviour of Small Lake at Great St. 



Bernard with regard to Cold, 371 ; the Periodic variations of 



Alpine Glaciers, 386 

 Forest, Submerged, 128 

 Forest Map of North Germany during Middle Ages, Dr. E. 



H. L. Krause, 620 

 Forestry in United States ; the Annual Loss to Government 



through Thieves and Fire, M. Fernow, 454 

 Formosa, S juthern. Remarkable Accounts of Interior of, D. J. 



Macgowan, 228 

 Formosa, Effects of Rainfall in, John Thomson, 406 

 Foster (Prof. T.), Action of Heat on Tuberculous Matter, 263 ; 



Development of Bacteria in a Temperature of Melting Ice, 



264 

 Fossil Botany, a New Genus of Permio-Carboniferous Stems 



G. retinodendron, Rigolloti), B. Renault, 412 

 Fossil Entomology of Nova Scotia, Sir J, W. Dawson, F,R.S., 



236 

 Fossil Remains, Discovery of Australian-like Mammals in 



South America, R. Lydekker, 1 1 

 Fossils, Triassic, Brachiopoden der Alpinen Trias, A. Bittner, 



F. A. Bather, 25 

 Fossils, Vertebrate, Prof. Marsh's, 595 



Fossils, Vertebrate, the Washington Collection of, R. Lydek- 

 ker, 295 

 Fossil Wood containing Fluorine, T. L. Phipson, 580 

 Fowl Enteritis, the Etiology and Pathology of Grouse Disease, 



Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 289 

 Fowler (A.), the Lightning Spectrum, 268 

 Fowler (kev. Canon), Protective Resemblance, 24 

 F'oxes in Australia, the Spread of, 15 

 Frampton (Cyril), Origin of Idea that Snakes Sting, 418 

 France : Botanical Society of France, 107 ; the Acceleration 



of Mortality in France, M. Delauney, 168 ; Geography in 



France, 258 ; the Subterranean Geography of, E. A. Martel, 



258 ; the Industrial Preparation of Carbjnic Acid in France, 



399 

 Frank (Dr. A. B.), Lehrbuch der Botanik nach dem gegen- 



wartigen Stand der Wissenschaft, 610 

 Frankland (Prof. Percy F., F. K.S.), Micro-organisms in their 



Relation to Chemical Change, 135 ; the Niiric Organisms, 



200 ; Fermentation of Arabinose by Bacillus cthaceticus, 31 1 

 Frankland (Mrs. Percy), Bacteriologisches Practicum zur 



Einfiihrung in die practischwichligen bacleriologischen Unter- 



suchungsmethoden fur Aerzte, Apotheker, Siudirende, Dr. 



W. Migula, 198 ; Contributions to the Study of Disinfection, 



Prof. J. Maschek, 613 

 Freeman (the late Prof.), and his Services to Geography, 135 

 Freeman (Rev. A.), Saturn's Rings, 150 ; Nova Aurigie, 453 

 Freire (Domingos), Bacterian Origin of Bilious Fever of Hot 



Countries, 460 

 French (J.), Flora and Fauna of Bromley, 316 

 Freshwater Nemertine in England, Note on the Occurrence of 



a, W. Blaxland Benham, 611 

 Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction, L. Fletcher, 581 

 Friend (Rev. Hilderic)^ New British Earthworms, 621 

 Fritsch (Prof. G.), on the Origin of the Electric Nerves in the 



Torpedo, Gymnotus, Mormyrus, and Malapterurus, 404 

 Frog Heart Apparatus, Williams's, Prof. R. Kobert, 177 

 Froram's (Lieut.) Explorations in Southern German East Africa, 



525 

 Frost (E, B.), Thermal Absorption in the Solar Atmosphere, 



400, 455 

 Fruit Culture in Australia, 494 

 Fuegian Languages, Dr. Brinton, 278 

 Fuels and their Use, Dr. J. Emerson ReynoMs, F.R.S., 527 



