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Index 



\Sti/'pUment A> Nature, 

 L I^ovttttttr ag, 1894 



Europe, Eist, M. Nitikio on the Supposed later-Glacial 



Di^posiis in, 621 

 Evans (Anhur), on the Discovery of a New Hieroglyphic 



System and Pre Phoenician Script in Crete, 439 

 Evolation : Prof. Iliycraft on the Role of Sex in Evolution, 



435 ; Social Insects and Evolution, Prof. C. V. Riley, 435 ; 



Darwinianism is not Evolution, 524 ; Nature's Method in 



the Evolution of Life, Dr. Alfred K. Wallace, F. R.S., 541 ; 



Has the Case for Direct Organic Adaptation been fully 



stated? H. XI. Bernard, 546 

 Ewan (Dr.), on the Rate of O.xidation of Phosphorous Sulphur 



and Aldehyde, 409 

 Ewan (Thos.), on the -Absorption Spectra of Dilute Solutions, 



491 

 Ewing (Dr. A. R.), Tetrarsenites, 411 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A.), on an Apparatus for Measuring Small 



Sirain.s, 408 

 Ex-Meridian treated as a Problem in Dynamics, the, H. B. 



Goodwin, 76 

 Ex-Meridian Latitude, J. White, 49S 



Examinations 'hs Repurt of the Committee on -Vrmy, 125 

 Explosion, the Albion Colliery, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 429 

 Explosives, Researches on Modern, Wra. Macnab and E. 



Ristori, 236 

 Explosives, Re-earches on, Captain Sir .\. Noble, F.R.S., 309 

 Extraordinary Phenomenon, .\dmiral Sir Erasmus Onamanney, 



F.R.S.,524 



Fahre (Charle~), on the Use of Selected Ferments, 396 



Fairley (Thomas), Sodium and Uranium Peroxides, 103 



Faulds (Henry), the Identification of Habitual Criminals by 

 Finger- Prims, 548 



Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burmah, G. F. 

 Hampson, 4 



Fauna of North America, the Effect of Glaciation and of the 

 Glacial Period on ihe Present, Samuel II. Scudder, 515 



Fay (Edward .\llen). Histories of American Schools for the 

 Deaf, P. Maclcod Yearsley, 100 



Faye (H.), Geodesy and its Relations with Geology, 564 



Fayolle (.M.), the Estimation of Iodine, 191 ; Detection of 

 Traces of Chlorine, 216; DifTerenliaiion of Aldoses and 

 Ketoses, 264 



Fayrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), Ophlophagus, 172; Preservation of 

 Health in India, 616 



Fellowes (Mr.), some of the Micro-Organisms causing the 

 Diseases of Beer, 503 



Fenton (H. J. H.), the Oxidation of Tartaric Acid in Presence 

 of Iron, 335 



Ferro-carbon Alloys, Mr. T. \V. Hogg on the Influence of 

 Aluminium upon ihe Carbon in, 460 



Fertilisers and Feeding Stufis, their Properties and Uses, 

 Bernard Dyer, 569 



Festoon Cumulus or " Pocky " Cloud, H. N. Dickson, 79 



Fever, Sewer Gas and Typhoid, 19 



Fidler (Prof. T. Clax on), on the Strength and Plastic 

 Extensibility of Iron and Sieel, 438 



Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, the. Prof. E, E. Barnard, 624 ; on the 

 E.;ceniriciiy of the Orbit of Jupiter's Filth Satellite, M. F. 

 TiHerand, 6l2 



Finder-Circles for Eqnalorials, 64 ; Prof. \Vm. Harkness, 173 



Fingerprints, the I lenlification of Habitual Criminals by, 

 Henry Faulds, 548 



Fischer (Prof. Dr.), Deaih of, 153 ; Obituary Notice of, 272 



Fis,.her (Dr. B.), Bacteriology ol the Ocean, 34 



Fish : the Halc^'ery for Sea Fishes at Dunhar, Dr. T. Wemyss 

 Fulton, 18 : Prizes offered by Germ.in Fisheries Association, 

 251 ; Fishery Board for Scotland, 305 ; Proposed Fish-hatch- 

 ing Station at Horselhief S|>rings, Rocky Mountains, 306; 

 Report of the Director of the Aquarium of the U.S. Fish 

 Commission at the Chicago Exhibition, 361 ; Results of a 

 Search for a Fish hatching Station in the Gulf Sia'es U.S. 

 Fish Commistion, 432 ; on Ihe Evolution of Ihe Vertebral 

 Column of Fishes, Dr. H. Gadow, F. R.S., and Miss E. C. 

 Abbott. 516 



Fisher (Prof. W. R.). Studies in Forestry, Dr. John Nisbet, 193 



Fison (Rev. Lorimer), on the Clasjificatory System of Relation- 

 ship, 440 



Filigerald (Prof.), Herr Lenard on Ihe Magnetic Deflection of 

 Cathode Rays, 179 



Flame, the Composition of Atmospheres which extinguish, Dr. 

 Frank Clowes, 283 



Flammariin (M.), on the Rotation of Solar Spots, 564 



Flannery (J. F.), the Ventilation of S eamships, with special 

 reference to the removal of Explosive and Foul Gases from 

 Bulk Oil Steamers, 329 



Fie oing (Mrs.), Stars having Peculiar Spectra. 37 



Fletcher (L., F.R.S.), Opening AdJress in Section C of the 

 British .-Vssociation, 353 



Flight of the Albatross, A. Kingsmill, 572 



Flight of Birds, Rate of the, F. W. Headley, 269 



Flo id and Ice Age Question, the, Richard Herring, 178 



Flora of Ceylon, Handbook to the, Henry Trimen, F. R.S., 

 James Britten, 316 



Florida, Prehistoric Remains in. Dr. DeW. Webb, i6 



Flower (Sir W. IL, F. R.S.), Opening Address in Section H of 

 the British Association, 3S7 



Fluid .Motion, on the Doctrine of Discontinuity of, in connection 

 with the Resistance against a Solid moving through a Fluid, 

 Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 524, 549, 573, 597 



Fluid Motion, Study of, by means of Coloured Bands, Prof. 

 Osborne Reynolds, F. R.S., 161 



Fluorine, a Chemical Method of isolating, A. E. Tut'on, 1S3 



Fluorspar, F. Paschen on the Infra-Red Dispersion of, 635 



Flying Machine, Device used by Mr. Maxim in making the 

 Boiler of his, 329 



Flying Machines, Progress in, O. Chanute, 569 



Fog, .\urora and, H. C. Russell, 428 



Folk-lore : Old German Legend concerning the Weather, Die 

 Siebenschlafer, 455 



Folk-lore : Songs of the Russian People, Th. M. Istomin and 

 G. O. Diitsch, 594 



Fomm (L.), on the .Motion of Dielectric Bodies in the Homo- 

 geneous Electrostatic Field, 515 



Fonvielle (W. de), Steam and Aerial Navigation foreshadowed 

 by Roger Bacon, 4S1 : Manual Pratique de I'Atronaute, 

 569 



Foraminifera, Contributions to the Life-history of the, J. J. 

 Lister, 237 



Forcrand (M. de). Sodium Derivative of Ethyl Acetoacetate, 

 23 ; El hylic Acetoacetate, 94 



Forestry : the Epping Forest Controversy, 12; the Settlement 

 of the Epping Forest Question, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 

 225; Studies in Forestry, Dr. John Nisbet, Prof. W. R. 

 F'lsher, 193 ; Faults in the Treatment of Woods in Great 

 Britain, 419 ; the Great Forest Fires in Minnesota and Wis- 

 consin, 454 



Fiirster (Prof. -W.), on the Displacements of Ihe Rotational 

 Axis of the Earth, 409, 4S8 



Fortnightly, Science in Ihe, 66, 234, 489 



Fossils: Tertiary Tipulidx, S. H. Scudder, III; the Recent 

 Discovery of Fossil Remains at Lake Calabonna, South 

 Australia Dr. E. C. Stirling, F.R.S., 184, 206 ; iheGIosso- 

 p'cris Plant, R. Etheridge, jun., and Prof. T. W. E. David, 

 2S8 ; on Coprolitic Bacteria of the Permian Age, MM. 

 Renault and Berlrand, 396 ; on certain Principles of Pro- 

 gressively Adaptive Variations observed in Fossil Series, Prof. 

 Osborn, 435 



Foster (C. Le Neve), a Text-book of Ore and Stone Mining, 

 Bennett H. Brougb, 543 



Foster (I'rof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), Platinum Resistance Ther- 

 mometers, 399 



Fox ( 1 loward), some Fossils from the Coast Sections in Parishes 

 of Padstow and St. Mervyn, 203 



Fraenkel (E. ), Treatment of Typhoid Fever by Injection of 

 Culture of Bacilli, 35 



Fiance : French Associ.ation for the Advancement of .Science, 

 M. Mascarl's Presidential Address, 429 ; Ihe Anthropology 

 of I'' ranee. Dr. R. Collignon, 441 ; Marine Biological 

 Laboratory established on Tatihou Island, 503 ; on some 

 Temperature Variations in France and Greenland, 571 



Francotio (P.), Experiments in Experimental Pathological 

 Emhrydogy, 165 



Frankland (P.), Observations on the influence of Temperature 

 on Ihe Optical Activity of Organic Liquids, 335 



Fr.mkland (Prof. Percy) and Mrs. Percy Frankland, Micro- 

 Organisms in Water, Dr. E. Klein, F'.R..S., 469 



Frankland (Mrs. Percy), Les Femmes dans la Science, A. 

 Rebiire, 279; Sunshine and Water-Microbes, 452 



Fredericq (Prof.), on a New .\erolonometer and Gas Pipette for 



