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INDEX 
[Nature, Dec. 2, 1886 
Floods of May 1886, F. Gaster, 
Marriott, F.R.Met.Soc., 187 
Flora of Chili, Dr. R. A. Philippi, 628 
Flora of South Africa, C. Piazzi Smyth, 99 
Vlora of Stonyhurst, 201 
Flour, Wheat, and Bread, Chemistry of, W. Jago, J. Wrightson, 
520 
Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.), Wings of Birds, 204 
Fluids, the Resistance of, M. de Saint-Venant, 307 
Fluorescence of Compounds of Mauganese, M. Lecoq de Bois- 
baudran, 491 
I'luorescence, Phenomena of, Fr. Stenger, 355 
Vly, Hessian, Miss Ormerod on the, 458 
Fodder-Grasses, Indigenous, of North-Western 
Duthie, W. Fream, 494 
Folk-Lore Journal, 577 
Folk-Lore of North-Western India, Capt. R. C. 
Folk-Lore Society, 38 
Folk-Lore and its Terminology, Capt. Temple on, 38 
fontana (Colonel), Exploration of Chubut, 156; Patagonian 
Andes, 372 
Fontannes (M.), Geological Constitution of District of Croix- 
Rousse, Lyons, 588 
Yood-Fishes and Invertebrates, Researches on, at St. Andrews 
Marine Laboratory, 483 
Food-Grains, Indian, Sunspots and Prices of, F. Chambers, 100 
Forbes’s (H. O.) Expedition to New Guinea, Prof. R. Bowdler 
Sharpe, 340; his Work in New Guinea, 398 
ord: W.), a New Genus of Lower Silurian Brachiopoda, 
20: 
Foreign Fishery Boards, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 28 
Forel (Prof. F. A.): Lake Leman, 399; Discovery of Natural 
Gallery in Arolla Glacier, 457; Earthquake of September 5, 
469 
Forest, Philippine, Department, 275 
Forestry, Colonial, Prof. Fream, 276 
Forests of Sweden, the Crown, 202 
Form of Mole-Hills thrown up under Snow, Prof. Thos. 
McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., 3 
Formosa, Aborigines of, G. Taylor, 156, 602 
Fortescue’s Catalogue of Modern Books in the British Museum, 
1880-85, 15 
Forty-three-Ton Gun Explosion, 37, 107, 117 
Fossil Alge, Supposed Canadian Examples of, 514 
Fossil Dicotyledonous Leaves, Lester F. Ward, 158 
Fossil Flora of Aix in Provence, on the Real Position to be 
assigned to the, M. G. de Saporta, 250 
Fossil Phyllopoda of the Paleozoic Rocks, Prof. T. R. Jones, 
80 
India, J. F. 
Temple,’ 577 
4 
Fossil Plants of Tertiary and Secondary Beds, J. S. Gardner, 
479 
Fossil Pseudo-Alge, Our, Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 369 
Fossils, Lower Silurian, J. D. Dana, 68 
Fossils, Seaweeds, and Shells, P. Gray, A.B.S., and B. B. 
Woodward, 28 
Foster (C. Le Neve), on Manganese-Mining in Merionethshire, 
521 
Foster (Prof. G. C., F.R.S.), Tangent Galvanometer, 546 
Foussereau (M. G.), on the Slow Decomposition of the Chlorides 
and their Extended Dissolutions, 331 
Fractionation of Yttria, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 512, 584 
France: Comité International des Poids et Mesures, 79; Mag- 
netic Maps of, T. Moureaux, 188 ; Women admitted to the 
French Academy of Sciences, 224 ; Sedimentary Groups in the 
North-West of, M. Hébert, 355, 380 ; Collections from French 
West Africa, in Jardin des Plants, M. Hamy, 556; Wheat 
Culture in North-West of, MM. Porion and Deherain, 588 ; 
African Mammals at the French National Museum, 626 
Frankland (Percy F.), Duration of Germ-Life in Water, 289 ; 
Multiplication and Vitality of Certain Micro-Organisms, 539 
Fraunhofer Rays, Origin of, Ch. Fievez, 562 
Fream (Prof. W.), Indigenous Fodder-Grasses of North- Western 
India, J. F. Duthie, 494; Colonial Forestry, 276 - 
Free Library College, Watford, 555 
Free Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 555 
Fresenius’s Quantitative Analysis, 2 
Freshwater Fishes of Europe, H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 569 
Freund (E.), Occurrence of Cellulose in Tuberculosis, 581 
Friction, Tidal, and the Evolution of a Satellite, Tames Nolan, 
286: Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 287 
Frictional Electricity, T. P. Treglohan, 142 
F.R.Met.Soc., and W. | 
Frisch (Dr. von), on Preventive Inoculations for Hydrophobia, 
346 
Friswell (R. J.), and A. G. Green, Diazoamidobenzene, 492 
Fritsch (Herr), Gaps in Pith of Conifera, 563 
Frog: Enemies of the, T. Martyr, 217 ; H. Ling Roth, 194 ; W. 
A. Carter, 109 ; Tortoises and, 155 
Fruits, Tropical, D. Morris, 316 F 
Fuel and Organic Compounds, Apparatus for determining 
Calorimetric Value of, W. Thomson, F.R.S.E., 512 
Fungi, British, 97 
Gabriel (S.) Isoquinoline, 464 
Gad (Dr.), Hamorrhagic Dyspnea, 23 
Gadolinite and Samarskite, New Elements in, W. Crookes 
M.A., 160 
Gales in October, W. F. Denning, 596 
Galileo and the Velocity of Light, 29; Hostility of Jesuits to, 
M. Govi, 491 
Galita, Volcanic Eruption in, 457 
Galloway (W.), on Laying the Dust in Mines, 278 
Gallwey (Sir Ralph Payne), the Book of Duck Decoys, 309 
Galton (Francis, F,R.S.): Permanent Colour-Types in Mosaic, 
70; Family Likeness in Eye-Colour, 137 ; Origin of Varieties, 
39 
Galveni’s Discovery, Centenary of, 457 
Galvanometer, Tangent, Prof. Foster, F.R.S., 546; Tangent 
Scale ina, J. Rennie, 594 
Gambetta, Morphological Description of the Brain of, MM, 
Chudzinski and Mathias Duval, 379 
Gambey’s Mural Circle, Errors in, M. Périgaud, 588 
Games of North American Indians, A. McF. Davis, 531 
Gardner (J. S.), Fossil Plants of Tertiary and Secondary Beds, 
479 ; History and Progress of Palzeobotany, 597 
Garson (Dr. J. G.), Crania and other Bones found in Bowls’ 
Barrow, 609 
Gas, Heating and Cooking by, 266 
Gas, Use of, in Lighthouses, Sir J. N. Douglass, 502 
Gases: Liquefied Densities of, MM. L. Cailletet and Mathias, 
139; M. Hirn’s Objections to the Kinetic Theory of, M. R. 
Clausius, 159; Influence of, on the Rays of the Spectrum, M. 
Janssen’s Researches on the, 299; Preservation of, over 
Mercury, H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., 511 ; Unequal Flow of, H. 
de la Goupilliere, 635 ; Electrical Conductibility of Gases 
and Vapours, J. Luvini, 516 ; Insularity of Gases and Vapours, 
J. Luvini, 578; Dissociable Gaseous Combinations, Caloric 
Capacity of, F. Duhem, 435; onthe Pressure that exists in 
the Contracted Sections of a Gaseous Current, M. Hugoniot, 
I, 380 
Ga iF, F.R.Met.Soc.), and W. Marriott, F.R.Met.Soc., 
Floods of May 1886, 187 
Gasteropods, Nervous System of the, H. de Lacaze-Duthiers, 
88 
Gaudry (Albert), Reindeer’s Antler embellished with Carvings, 
307 ; Reptile of the Permian Formation (Haftodus baylei), 
6 
Gaus (F.), Casting Chains in Solid Steel, 576; Silicon in 
Foundry Iron, 576 
Gazetteer of Russia, M. P. Semenoff, 93 
Gehring (G.), Monochloracetate of Butyl, 188 
Geikie (Dr. Arch., F.R.S.), Pliocene Deposits of North- 
We tern Europe, 341; the Recent Volcanic Eruption in 
New Zealand, 320 
Geodesy to Geology, on the Relations of, M. H. Faye, 355 
Geodetic Conference, International, at Berlin, 529 
Geoghegan (Rev. Edward), a Quadruped Duck, 314 
Geography : Stejneger’s Explorations in Behring’s Straits, 15 ; 
Geographical Notes, 41, 61, 85, III, 156, 226, 247, 371, 398, 
556, 628; Herr Radde in the Trans-Caspian Region, 41 ; 
M. Goudatti in Siberia, 41; Mr. Carles on the Corea, 41 ; 
Baron Mikluho-Maclay in New Guinea, 41 ; Indian Expedi- 
tion to Tibet, 41; Mr. Tripp on South Africa, 41 ; Geo- 
graphical Society of Tokio, 61; Kermadec Islands, 61 ; 
Marquis of Lorne on Geographical Education, 85 ; Semen- 
off’s Gazetteer of Russia, 93; Exploration of British North 
Borneo, 111; Exploration of the Red River, 111; Prof. 
Hull on the Palestine Expedition, 115; Exploration of 
Chubut, Colonel Fontana, 156 ; Physical Geography of Brazil, 
J. W. Wells, 226; Council of the Royal Geographical 
Society on the Improvement of Geographical Education, 372 ; 
Longman’s School Geography, 466; Sir F. J. Goldsmid on 
Popularising Geography, 474; Sir F. J. Goldsmid on 
