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Explosives : Gellignite, a Safety Explosive, 61 ; Calcium 

 Carbide as an Explosive in Mining Work, Marcel P. S. 

 Guidras, 240 



Eynon (L.), Method for the Direct Production of Certain 

 Aminoazo-compounds, 239 



Fabry (Ch.), New Arrangement for the Use of the Methods 



of Interferential Spectroscopy, 551 

 Fact in Sociology, 366 

 Faraday Society, 239, 381, 502, 598 

 Farmer (R. C), Aflinity Constants of Aniline and its 



Derivatives, 166 

 Farrington (Dr. O. C), Geology of Uurango (Mexico), 



Fauna of the North-west Highlands and Skye, A. J. A. 



Harvie-Brown and H. A. MacPherson, 202 

 Faure (Jacques), Voyage in a Balloon from London to 



Paris, 372 

 Fayet (G.), Elliptical Character of the New Borrelly Comet 



(1904 c), 335 ; Orbit of Comet 1904 e (Borrelly), 353 ; 



Revised Elements for Borrelly's Comet (1904 e), 400 

 Fecundation in Plants, David M. Mottier, 218 

 Fenton (H. J. H., F.R.S.), Soluble Forms of Metallic 



Dihydroxytartrates, 479 

 Ferguson (Niargaret C), Contributions to the Knowledge 



of the Life-history of Pinus, with Special Reference to 



Sporogenesis, the Development of the Gametophytes, 



and Fertilisation, 218 

 Fernbach (A.), the Diastatic Coagulation of Starch, 240 

 Ferrar (H. T.), the Old Moraines of South Victoria Land, 



550 



Fertilisation of Jnsmiiiiim midifloriiiu. Prof. John G. 

 McKendrick, F.R.S., 319 



F^ry (Ch.), Isochronism of the Pendulum in the Astro- 

 nomical Clock, 288 ; Electrical Pendulum with Free 

 Escapement, 333 



Fielde (Miss A. M.), Curious Traits Displayed by Ants, 

 1 12 



Fiji, Tales from Old, Lorimer Fison, 490 



Films, how to Photograph with Roll and Cut, John A. 

 Hodges, 460 



Filon (Dr. L. N. G.), the Projection of Two Triangles on 

 to the same Triangle, 478 



" Find " of Royal Statues at Thebes, G. Legrain, 126 



Findlay (A.), Influence of the Hydroxyl and .'\lkoxyl 

 Groups on the Velocity of Saponification, 599 



Finlayson (D.), the Ashe-Finlayson " Comparascope," 47S 



Finn (F.), the Birds of Calcutta, 438 



Fire and Explosion Risks, Dr. von Schwartz, 122 



Fireballs, January, Mr. Denning, 4C19 



Fireside Astronomv, D. W. Horner, 292 



Fisher (Rev. Osmond), on the Occurrence of Elephas 

 meridionalis at Dewlish, Dorset, 118; Propagation of 

 Earthquake Waves, 583 



Fisheries : Fish-passes and Fish-ponds, Howietoun Fishery 

 Co., 9 ; the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales, 

 Messrs. Archer and Fryer and Dr. Masterman, Frank 

 Balfour Browne, 18 ; the New Whale Fisheries, 84 ; the 

 Sea-fishing Industry of England and Wales, F. G. 

 Aflalo, 153 ; the Fisheries of Scotland, Frank Balfour 

 Browne. 213; W'haling for 1904, Mr. Southwell, 351; 

 Decrease in Flat Fish in Cambois Bay, Northumber- 

 land, 567 ; Report to the Government of Ceylon on the 

 Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, W. A. 

 Herdman, F.R.S., 395 



Fishes : a Large Indian Sea-perch, Major .\. .Mcock, 

 F.R.S.. 415; "the Nest of the Fighting Fish, E. H. 

 Waite, 450 



Fishing at Night, S. W., 201 ; F. G. .Xfialo. 221 



Fison (Lorimer), Tales from Old Fiji, 490 



Flamand (G. B. M.), Existence of .Schists with Grapto- 

 liths at Haci-el-Khenig, Central Sahara, 576 



Flames, Study of lonisation in, Pierre Massoulier, 479 



Fleming (Mrs.), Stars having Peculiar Spectra, 306; Dis- 

 tribution of Stellar Spectra, 115 



Fletcher (C. R. L.), an Introductory History of England, 

 385 



Fleurent (E.), the Rational Estimation of Gluten in 

 Wheaten Flour, 28S 



Flint (Robert), Philosophy as .Scientia Scientiarum, and a 

 History of Classifications of the Sciences, 505 



Flints: Blue-stained, Dr. F. J. Allen, 83; Thomas L. D. 



Porter, 12b; Blue Flints at Bournemouth, J. W. Sharpe, 



17b 

 Floating Ice, the Melting of, Heat, 366 

 Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed, 



H. C. Frankenfeld, 10 

 Floods of 1902 and 1903, the Passaic, 11 

 Floods in the United States in 1903, Destructive, E. C. 



Murphy, 308 

 Flora of the County Dublin, Nathaniel Colgan, 412 

 F'lora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, Frederick 



Townsend, 245 

 Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, the, T. Cooke, 124 

 Floral Morphology, 436 



Flowers, Attractions Offered to Bees by. Miss J. Wery, 492 

 Flowers, Children's Wild, Mrs. J. M. Maxwell, 510 

 Flowers, the Pollination of Exotic, Ella M. Bryant, 249 

 Fluid, Theory of Rapid Motion in a Compressible, 19b 

 Fog Inquirv, 1901-3, London, 259 

 Folic (F. j'. P.), Death of, 371 

 Folklore : the Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, R. 



Campbell Thompson, 249 ; Folk-tales of Plains Indians, 



Drs. G. A. Dorsey and \. L. Kroeber, 417 ; P. E. 



Goddard, 418 ; Fijian Folk-tales, Lorimer Fison, 490 

 Food : Food Inspection and Analysis, Albert E. Leach, C. 



Simmonds, 50 ; the Nutritive Value of Sterilised Cows' 



Milk, G. Variot, 167 

 Food of the Gods, the, H. G. Wells, 193 

 Fbppl (Prof. A.), .Apparatus for Measuring the Wlocity of 



the Earth's Rotation, 39 

 Forbes (A. C), English Estate Forestry, 580 

 Forbes (Prof. Geo., F.R.S.), Exterior Ballistics, 3S0 

 Forcrand (M. de), on the Possibility of Chemical Reactions, 



143 ; on the Prediction of Chemical Reactions, 143 ; 



Valency of the Atom of Hydrogen, 527 

 Forel (Dr. .August), .Ants and some other Insects, an 



Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these Animals, 29 

 Forel (Prof. D. H.), " Fungus-gardens " of South American 



Ants, 567 

 Forel (F". A.), Discovery at Boiron of a Tomb of the 



Bronze Age, 493 ; Occurrence of Bishop's Ring, Mar- 

 tinique, 591 

 Forestry : Forestry in the United States, 32 ; Death of 



Forstmeister Schering, 36 ; the Spread of the Mesquite 



Prosopis glandulosa, 61 ; " Bastard " Logwood, S. N. C, 



222 ; the Timbers of Commerce and their Identification, 



H. Stone, 247; Trees, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 290; the 



Strength of Structural Timber, Dr. W. K. Halt, 399 ; 



the Basket Willow, William F. Hubbard, 427 ; Forest 



Planting in Western Kansas, Royal R. Kellogg, 427 ; 



the Chestnut in Southern Maryland, Raphael Zon, 427; 



Forestry in the United States, 427; English Estate 



Forestry, A. C. Forbes, 580 

 " Forrest (James) " Lecture at the Institution of Civil 



Engineers, Unsolved Problems in Electrical Engineering, 



Colonel R. E. Crompton, 595 

 F'orster (M. O.), Configuration of uonitrosocamphor, 3S2 ; 



New Formation of Acetylcamphor, 598 

 Fortin (Ch.), Surface Tension of a Dielectric in the Electric 



Fipld, 45.S 

 Fortuna, the Planet, W. T., 4(11, 511; W. E. P., 461; 



Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 486 

 Foster (Sir M.. K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Monte Rosa and 



Col d'Olen International Laboratories. Prof. Mosso, 443 

 F^ournier (G.), the Perseids for 1904, 167 

 Fournier (\'.), the Perseids for 1904, 167 

 Fourtau (R.), the Spring at Hammam Moussa, near Tor, 



Sinai, 312 

 Fowle (F. E., jun.). Absorption by Water Vapour in the 



Infra-red Solar Spectrum, 115 

 France, the Condition of Chemical Industries in, Jean 



Jaubert, 369 

 Frank (Prof.), Production of Calcium Cyanamide and its 



Emplovment as Fertiliser, 374 

 Frankenfeld (H. C), Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the 



Mississippi Watershed, 10 

 Frankland (P. F.), Grignard Reaction Aoolied to the Esters 



of Hvdroxy-acids, 166 

 Franks (W. ' S.), Dark Nebulosities, 190 ; Photography of 



Planetarv Nebulse, 618 

 Frazier (Prof. Benjamin W.), Death of, 325 



