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Index 



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Francois (Maurice), Dissociation of Potassium and Ammonium 

 lodomercurates by Water, 167 ; Action of Strong Ammonia 

 Solution on Iodide of Mercurdiammonium, 384 ; Monomer- 

 curammonium Iodide, 604 



Frankenfield (H. C), Kite Observations of 1898, 371 



Franklin (W. S.), the Elements of Alternating Currents, 587 



Fraps (Dr.), no Isomerism in Sodium Potassium Sulphite, 547 



Fraser (D. H.)> Supernumerary Teeth, 482 



Freeman (W. G.), on the ^wa^a^wa-containing Roots of some 

 Cycads, 66 



French (C. H.), Elementary Algebra, 200 



French (William), Practical Chemistry, 514 



Frenkel(H.), Concerning Physiological Alternation of Kidneys, 

 483 



Friderich (Louis), Surface Tension of some Organic Liquids, 383 



Frillat (A.), Transformation of Negative Photographic Image 

 into Lamellar State, and Colour Phenomena resulting there- 

 from, 335 



Frobenius (L.), Primitive Mathematics, 259 



Froggart (W. W.), the Locust Plague in New South Wales, 

 620 



Frost (Prof. E. B.), Spectroscopic Binary Stars, o Ursse Minoris, 

 114 



Functions, the, of the Engineer, Sir W^illiam Henry Preece, 

 K.C.B.,F.R.S.,374 



Fungi : the North American Slime Moulds, Prof. T. H. Mac- 

 Bride, 173 



Furnace, New Gas, Armand Gautier, 478 



Gage (G. A.), Magnetic Qualities of Building Brick, 421 



Gahan (Mr.), Stridulating Beetles, 406 



Gallard (F. ), Absorption of Iodides by Human Skin, 556 



Galloway (Prof. W.).), Mine Drainage, Stephen Michell, 606 



Gait (Dr. A.), Heat of Combination of Metals in Alloy-for- 

 mation, 579 



Galton (Dr. Francis, F.R.S.), a Geometric Determination of 

 the Median Value of a System of Normal Variants, from two 

 of its Centiles, 102 



Gamble (F. W.), the Colour- physiology of Hippolyte varians, 

 552 



Game: the Protection of Wild Animals in Africa, 616; in 

 America, Prof. S. P. Langley, 617 



Ganglion-cells and Nerves, the Development of, N. Gorono- 

 vitsch, 158 



Gannon (William), Substitute for Gas in Laboratories, 128 



Garbett (E. L.), the Smell emitted by Quartz when Rubbed, 

 491 



Gardens, School, G. B. Smith, 455 



Gardiner (Linda), Sylvia in Flowerland, 102 



Gardner (J. A.), Bromo-derivatives of Campho-pyric Acid, 434 



Gamier (E.), La Ceramique Ancienne et Moderne, 466 



Garriott (Prof. E. B.), the West Indian Hurricane of August, 

 7-14, 1899, 112 



Garstang (Mr.), Water Temperature of Mouth of English 

 Channel, 450 



Gas Furnace, New, Armand Gautier, 478 



Gas in Laboratories, Substitute for, William Gannon, 128 



Gas and Oil Engines, the Steam Engine and. Prof. John Perry, 

 F.R.S., 100 



Gases : the Rise and Development of the Liquefaction of Gases, 

 Willett L. Hardin, 98 ; La Liquefaction des Gaz et ses Ap- 

 plications, Prof. Julian Lefevre, 98 ; the Kinetic Theory of 

 , Gases, Dr. Oskar Emil Meyer, 289 ; Prof. G. H. Bryan, 

 F.R.S., 289 ; a Treatise on, S. H. Burbury, 289 ; Prof. G. 

 H. Bryan, F.R.S., 289; Escape of Gases from Planetary 

 Atmospheres, S. R. Cook, 501 ; Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 F.R.S.,5IS 



Gatty (R. A.), Pigmy Flints in Yorkshire, 282 



Gaud (Fernand), Spectrophotometry of Electric Light, 95 



Gauss, the Correspondence of Olbers and, Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer, 



486 

 Gautier (Armand), Glycogen, 71 ; Normal Arsenic, in Animals, 



166-7 ; Arsenic in Animals, 383 ; New Gas Furnace, 478 

 Gautier (H.), Atomic Weight of Boron, 48 

 Gearsley(Dr. Macleod), Marriages of the Deaf in America, 97 

 Geelmuyden (M.), Reducing Action of Calcium Carbide, 604 



.Geinitz (Dr. H. B.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 450 

 Geitel (H.), the Macfarlane-Moore Vacuum Tube, 93 ; Influ- 

 ence of Becquerel Rays on Electric Sparks, 190; Atmospheric 

 Electricity, 422 



Gelation, Mechanism of, and Stability of Hydrosols, W. B. 

 Hardy, 599 



Gell^ (E.), Movements of Expired Air during Formation of 

 Speech Sounds, 384 



Genvresse ( P. ), a New Terpenic Alcohol and its Derivatives, 

 580 



Geodesy : Elements of Precise Surveying and. Prof. Mansfield 

 Merriman; Sir C. W. Wilson, K.C.B., F.R.S., 77 



Geography : on the Sand Dunes bordering the Delta of the 

 Nile, Vaughan Cornish, 20, 403 ; a Wooden Ball of Unknown 

 Origin, Prof. H. Mohn, 31 ; the International Geography, 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 50; the Naval Pioneers of 

 Australia, Louis Becke, Walter Jefifery, 53 ; Seconda Spedi- 

 zione Bottego. L'Omo. Viaggio d'Esplorazione nell' Africa, 

 Oiientale L. Vannutelli and C. Citerni, 75 ; Studien zur 

 Geographie, Dr. W. Kobelt, 99 ; the Teaching of Geography 

 in Switzerland and North Italy, Joan Berenice Reynolds, 

 126 ; the Possibilities of Antarctic Exploration, F. A. Cook, 

 136 ; Geographical Results of Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 

 Dr. F. A. Cook, 258 ; Meteorology at the Berlin Geographi- 

 cal Congress, A Lawrence Rotch, 177 ; the Writer of the 

 Report, 177 ; the Yangtze Valley and Beyond, Mrs. J. F. 

 Bishop, 252 ; Physical Geography, Prof. W. M. Davis, 

 assisted by W. H. Snyder, 266 ; the Evolution of Geography: 

 a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Geographical Know- 

 ledge from the Earliest Times to the First Circumnavigation 

 of the Globe, John Keane, 317 ; Death of Gen. Alexis de 

 Tillo, 326 ; Obituary Notice of, 396 ; Geography of South 

 West Sussex, Dr. H. R. Mill, 353 ; the Geography of Europe, 

 Geo. G. Chisholm, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 368 ; Russian 

 Geographical Society's Prize Awards, 397 ; Innermost Asia, 

 Ralph P. Cobbold, 495 ; Return of Borchgrevink's Antarctic 

 Expedition, 544 ; Grundzuge der geographisch-morpholo- 

 gischen Methode der Pflanzensystematik, Dr. R. von. 

 Wettstein, 563 

 Geology : the Silurian Rocks of Britain. Vol I. , Scotland, B. 

 N. Peach, F.R.S., and J. Home, 25 ; Death of Dr Edward 

 Orton, 38 ; Obituary Notice of, 59 ; Fundamental Structure- 

 lines of Eastern Alps, Dr. C. Diener, 40 ; Geological 

 Society, 142, 191, 285, 311, 382, 506, 530, 578, 603; 

 Conglomerates of East Bokhara, W. R. Rickmers, 59 ; 

 the Old Red Sandstone of Shetland, 80; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., 80; Death of Dr. Henry Hicks. F.R.S., 

 84 ; Obituary Notice of, 109 ; the Colour of Flints, W. H. 

 Wheeler, 106 ; Geology of Country Round Dorchester, 

 Clement Reid, 113; Alaska and the Klondike, Angelo 

 Heilprin, 122 ; the Cause of the Darjeeling Landslips, T. H. 

 Holland, 127 ; a Canadian Lake of Subterranean Inflow, 

 Andrew T. Drummond, 128; Geschichte der Geologie und 

 Palaontologie bis Ende des 19 Jahrhunderts, Karl Alfred v. 

 Zittel, 145 ; Calcine Sponges from Victoria Eocene, Dr. G. J. 

 Hinde, F.R.S., 142; the Silurian Sequence of Rhayader, 

 Herbert Lapworth, 143 ; Glaciated Pebbles in Lochinvar, 

 (N.S.W.) Permo-Carboniferous Coalfield, 167; Geological 

 Survey of the United Kingdom, 181 ; the Dwyka (South 

 Africa) Boulder-beds, Dr. Blanford, 191 ; Geoiogy of 

 Somaliland, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 191 ; Drift Gravels at 

 West Wickham, George Clinch, 191 ; Palaeoineilo in British 

 Carboniferous Rocks, Dr. W. Hind, 191 ; Advance and 

 Retreat of Alpine Glaciers during Ice Age, 207 ; Results 

 of Recent Soundings in the Pacific, Prof, Alexander 

 Agassiz, 211 ; Die hochgebirge der Erde, Robert von 

 Lendenfeld, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 219; the Geology 



{ and Physical Geography of Jamaica, Robert T. Hill, 237 ; 

 the Orange River Ground Moraine near Prieska, Messrs. 

 Rogers and Schwarz, 240 ; Evidence of Upheaval in Vanua 

 Levu, Fiji, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 248 ; Geology of Western 

 Australia, A. G. Maitland and T. Blatchford, 259 ; Floating 

 Stones, Dr. Erland Nordenskiold, 278 ; Cecil Carus-Wilson, 

 318 ; R. C. T. Evans, 318 ; Prof. A. W. Brightmore, 346 ; 

 Effect of Earth Movement on Carboniferous Volcanic Rocks 

 of Isle of Man, G. W. Lamplugh, 285 ; Diabasic Intrusion 

 in Tasmanian Permo-Carboniferous Rocks, T. Stephens, 286 ; 

 Bkchnoxylon, R. Etheridge, jun. , 303 ; on Thelodus Paget 

 from the Old Sandstone of Forfarshire and Report on the 

 Fossil Fishes Collected by the Geological Survey of Scot- 

 land in the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland, R. H. 

 Traquair, F.R.S., 307 ; Glaciation of Central Idaho, G. H. 

 Stone, 310 ; a Particular Form of Surface the Result of 



