Nature, yiiiit 3, 



Explorations in Pahang, Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, 31 

 Explosion, Velocity of the Wave of, Prof. IVIach, 375 

 Explosions in Coal-Mines, Sir Frederick A. Abel, F.R.S., 108, 



138 ; at the Mardy Mine, 20S ; Coal-Dust and Explosions, 



Sir Fredk. A. Abel, F.R.S., 417 

 Eyes, Colour of the, of Italians, 348 



Fabry's Comet, 161, 184, 236, 256, 426, 466, 518; T. W. 

 Backhouse, 366 ; Fabry and Barnard Comets, 376 



Family Names in Sweden, 349 



Farm, Animal Life on the. Prof. G. T. Brown, 292 



Farming, Systematic Small, Robert Scott Burn, 266 



Farr's (TOr.), Papers on Statistics, 89 



Faune profonde des Lacs Suisses, Dr. F. A. Forel, G. PL 

 Wollaston, 195 



Fawcett (the late Prof. H.), on Darwin, 208 



Faxon on Cr.ayfish, 519 



Faye on the Constitution of the Earth's Crust, 527 



Fenton (H. J. H.), on the Limited Hydration of Ammonium 

 Carbamate, 262 



Fergiisson (James, F.R.S.), Death of, 254 



Ferocity of Animals : Unus, 560 ; F. H. Collins, 583 ; Dr. 

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Field's Chromatography, J. Scott Taylor, 530 



Filiform Silver, the Growth of, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 

 526 



Finch's (Dr. Otto) New Guinea Collection, 327 



Finland, Carnivora in, 1S4 



Fire-Bail observed in the District of Aas, 375 



Fischer (Dr. Theodor), on the Development of Coasts, 64 



Fischer (Dr. Heinrich), Death of, 374 



Fish : Arrival of Chinese and Japanese, 41 ; Ravages of Sea- 

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 Effect of Certain Influences on Marine Fishes, 41 ; the Hatch- 

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 Tasmania, 137 ; Fish-Culture at Delaford Park, 1S2 ; in 

 Canada, 302, 303 ; National Fish-Culture Association, 327 ; 

 Fish-Culture, 537 ; Instance of Vital Resistance in Fishes, 

 208 ; Fish Fauna of Lake Balkhash, Nikolsky, 327 ; Fish- 

 Breeding in the Lake of Como, 396 ; Star- Fishes from South 

 Georgia, 399 ; the Pelagic Stages of Young Fishes, Agassiz 

 and Whitman, 467 ; Torture of the Fish-Hawk, 520 



Fisheries, Colonial, at Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 61 



Fishery Board for England, 505 ; Scotland, 558 



Fissures (Hill), near Dornsdorf, 464 



Fitzgerald (Prof. Geo. Eras.), Admiralty Manual on Terrestrial 

 Magnetism, 246 



Fletcher (Thos.), Ventilation, 153, 199 



Flight (Walter, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 85 



Flint-knapping in Albania, 527 



Flood Rock Explosion, Attempts to obtain Records of Earth 

 Tremors from. Prof. Mendenhall and Paul, 39 



Flora of the Peruvian Andes, John Ball, 70 



Flora, Nival, of Switzerland, 206 



Flora, Fossil, of Basalt Rocks of Mull, J. S. Gardner, 285, 



334 

 Flora of the Alps, Tourist's Guide to the. Prof. K. W. v. 



Dalla-Torre, 557 

 Floras, Cretaceous, of Canada, Sir William Dawson, F. R. S., 



31 ; Cretaceous and Tertiary, of the United States, Leo 



Lesquereux, J. .Slarkie Gardner, 196 

 Flower (Prof. \V. H., F. R. S.), an Introduction to the Osteology 



of the Mammalia, 364 

 Flowering Plants, Symbiosis between Fungi and the Roots of, 



Alf. W. Bennett, 212 

 Flowers, Mahwa, Prof. A. H. Church, 343 

 Flowers, Fruits, and Leaves, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Maxwell 



T. Masters, 601 

 Foetus, Apncea of the. Prof. Zuntz, 143 

 Fog-Penetrating Power of Double Quadriform Burner, Prof. 



W. F. Barrett, 335 

 Folic (M.), Secular Nutation of the Earth's Axis, 376 

 Folk-Lore Journal, 278 

 Folk-Lore ; Religious Beliefs of the Chersonese People, M. 



Stephanoff, 496; Ceylon Orientalist, 518 

 Forbes's (H. O.) Exploration in New Guinea, loS, 2S0 



Force in Modern Science, M. Hirn on, 213 

 Forecasts, Weather, Bishop of Carlisle, 79 

 Forel (Dr. F. A.), on Seiches, 184 ; La Faune profonde des 



Lacs Suisses, Dr. G. F. Wollaston, 195 

 Forestry in Norway, 88 

 Forestry, John R. Jackson, 20i 



Forests on Climate, Influence of. Dr. A. Woeikof, 190 

 Forests and Forestry in Poland, &c. , J. Croumbie Brown, 



LL.D., 27 

 Formosa, the Aborigines of, 302; G. Taylor, 612 

 Forms of Ice, Rev. Geo. Henslow, 486 

 Fossil Crocodiles, History of, 331 

 Fossil Flora of Basalt Rocks of Mull, J. Starkie Gardner, 285, 



334 

 Fossil Groups from Belgian Formations, E. Dupont, 333 

 Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Catalogue of the, 



Richard Lydekker, 365 

 Foster (Prof. M., F.R.S.), Article on Physiology in the 



Encyclopasdia Britannica, 121 

 Foucault's Revolving Mirror, Velocity of Light as Determined 



by. Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 439 ; J. Willard Gibbs, 



582 

 Fox, the Behring Straits, 136 

 France: Travelling Juries on Science, &c. , 16; Anthropology 



in, 18 ; Extension of Telephonic Communication in, 18, 106 ; 



Ballooning in, 88 ; French Photographs of the Transit of 



Venus, 89 ; French Institute, 159 ; Progress of the Study of 



Natural Science in, 255 ; Birth- Rate in, 348 ; Topographical 



Society of, 593 

 Franklin Institute, Journal of the, 309 

 Fraser (Lieut. -Col. A. T.), Tropical Dew, 583 

 Free Public Libraries, Thos. Greenwood, W. Odell, 459 

 Free Libraries, the Sheffield, 517 

 French Cochin China, Science in, 67 

 French Language in Canada, 497 

 Freund (Ernst), on the Coagulation of Blood, 395 

 Friction and Molecular Structure, Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 154 ; 



Col. C. K. Bushe, 199 

 Friction, Tidal, and the Evolution of a Satellite, Prof. G. II. 



Darwin, F.R.S., 367 

 Friederichsen (L., and Co.), Sea-Mills at Argostoli, 154 

 Fritsch (H.), Aurora, 559 

 Frog : Young, Development of Larvae of Rana escuknta, 95 ; 



on Variations of Fat in Liver-Cells of, J. N. Langley, 



F.R.S., 164; the Frog, Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, F.R.S., 



242 

 Frohlich (Dr.), Investigations into Theory of Dynamo-Electrical 



Machines, 552 

 Frost in Devonshire, Henry Cecil, 418 



Frosts, Anchor, T. Hands, 246; Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 269 

 Fruits, Flowers, and Leaves, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Maxwell 



T. Masters, 601 

 Fungi and the Roots of Flowering Plants, .Symbiosis between, 



Alf. W. Bennett, 212 

 Fungi, British, Dr. Cooke's Illustrations of, 464 

 Fungus, New Edible, 399 

 " Furcula" or " Furculum," R. W. .Shufeldt, 8 



Gabbros, Dolerites, and Basalts of the Tertiary Age, Prof. J. 



W. Judd, F.R.S., 263 

 Gadow (Dr. Hans), on the Reproduction of the Carapax in 



Tortoises, 473 ; Remarks on the Cloaca and on the Copu- 



latory Organs of the Amniota, 573 

 Gage (S. H. and S. P.), Aquatic Respiration in Soft-Shelled 



Turtles, 548 

 Galloway (W.), the Coal-Dust Question, 197, 366, 441 

 Galton (Francis, F. R.S.), Conference of Delegates of Corre- 

 sponding Societies of the British Association held at Aberdeen, 



81 ; Anthropology, 94; Hereditary Stature, 295, 317 

 Galvanometers, a New, 455 ; Maxwell's, Prof. .S. P. Thompson, 



574 ; on Calibration of, T. Mather, 166 ; the Reading of 



Small Angular Deflections, 610 

 Gamel (Mr.), Proposed New Greenland Expedition, 91 

 Garden, the Vegetable, MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux, Dr. Maxwell 



T. Masters, F.R.S., 241 

 Gardner (J. Starkie) : Permanence of Continents and Oceans, 



53 ; the Cretaceous .and Tertiary Floras of the U.S., Leo Les- 



