[Nanire,Jiinc<), 1887 



Euclid, a Sequel to the First Six Books of the Elements of, 



John Casey, 28 

 Euclid, the Elements of, H. Deighton, 269 

 Euclid Revised, R. C. J. Nixon, 269 

 Euclid, Definitions of, with Explanations, R. Webb, 340 

 Europe, Northern, Climate of, and the Gulf Stream, 91 

 European Prehistoric Races, Prof. A. H. Keane, 564 

 Evolution of a Satellite, Tidal Friction and the, James Nolan, 



75 

 Evolution, Factors of Organic, Herbert Spencer, Dr. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 362 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A.) : Seismometry in Japan, 75 ; on Seismo- 



raetry, 172 ; on Seismometers, 606 ; Magnetisation of Iron in 



Strong Fields, 622 

 Expansion of Solids by Heat, Lecture Experiments on the, H. 



G. Madan, 89 ; C. E. Stromeyer, 126 

 Experimental Chemistry, C. W. Heaton, 74 

 Experimental Science in Schools and Universities, Prof G. F. 



Fitzgerald, 284 

 Experiments on Flame, Further, Dr. Geo. J. Burch, 165 

 Explorations of the North Sea, 73 

 Explosion of Meteorites, on the, M. Hirn, 303 

 Explosions in Coal-Mines, W. N. and J. B. Atkinson, Prof. T. 



E. Thorpe, F.R.S., i 

 Extension of the Corona, Prof. S. P. Langley, 52 

 Eye, Influence of Astigmatism in the, on Astronomical Obser- 

 vations, Prof. Seeliger, 59 



Falk (Prof.), Peristaltic Movement, 264 



Farlow (Prof. W. G.), Injurious Fungi in California, 521 



Farmer's Crop, Tobacco a, Philip Meadows Taylor, Prof. John 

 Wrightson, 52 



Fauna and Flora of the Afghan Boundary, J. E. T. Aitchison, 

 381 



Faye (H.): Geodesy and Geology, 71; Movements of the 

 Atmosphere, 455 ; on the Relations that exist between 

 Cyclones and Concurrent Storms and Hurricanes, 599 



Fayrer (Sir J., F. R.S.), Scorpion Virus, 488 



Fell (M.), Death of, 306 



Feilden (Eliza Whigham), My African Home, 221 



Female Medical Students in Paris, Number of, 306 



Fere (Ch.), Sensation and Movement, 518 



Fernando Nororiha, Proposed Expedition to, by H. N. Ridley, 

 228 



Ferrier (Prof. ), Functional Topography of the Brain, 453 



Fertilisation of Cassia marilandica, 521 



Fewkes (J. Walter) : Report on the Medusje collected by the 

 U.S. Fish- Commission Steamer Albalross in the Region of 

 the Gulf Stream, 377 ; New Rhizostomatous Medusa, 451 



Fibres, on the Production, Preparation, and Properties of the 

 Finest, C. V. Boys, 575 



Ficus, on the Genus, Dr. Geo. King, 525 



Field Club, the Essex, 158 



Field Naturalist in E.astern Bengal, 388 



Fields, through the, with Linna;us, Mrs. Florence Caddy, 579 



Filtration, Intermittent Downward, Ten Years' Experienc^in 

 Works of, T. Bailey Denton, 195 



Finland, on the Upheaval of the South-West Coasts of, M. 

 Venukoff, 600 



Finlay, Comet 1SS6 c, 17, 59 ; Dr. Krueger, 85, 134 ; Dr. J. 

 Holetschek, 207 



Fir and Epicea, on the Formation of the so-called " Red Wood " 

 in the, 383 



Fire Symbol, the Svastika as both Sun and, Mrs. J. C. Munay- 

 Aynsley, 55S 



Fire-Damp, Earthquakes in Connexion with, 527 



Fireball seen at Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, December 4, 

 18S6, III, 133; W. F. Denning, 151 



Firth of Forth, Chsetopoda of the, 544 



Fischer (Dr. A.), Death of, 57 



Fischer (Dr. Philip), Death of, 350 



Fischer (Dr. Theobald), Study of the Coasts of North Africa, 

 353 



Fish : Work of the United Stales Fish Commission, 54 ; De- 

 formities among Fish, 58, 230 ; Fish-Culture, 612 ; in Scot- 

 land, 205 ; Dr. Francis Day on Fish-Culture, 282 ; National 

 Fish-Culture Association, 350 ; W. Burgess's Fish-Culture 

 Establishment, 444; an "Egg-bound" Trout, 231; Fishes 



inhabiting very Deep Waters, M. Leon Vaillant, 2S8 ; Fish- 

 destroying Insects in the United St.ates, George Dimmock, 

 327 ; Phosphorescence of Marine Fish, Dr. Otto Hermes, 377 ; 

 Fish-hatching at the Buokland Museum, 400 ; Proposed In- 

 vestigation of Fish-bearing Properties of Kiu Sawo, 444 ; 

 Marine and Fresh-water Fishes, W. A. Carter, 472 ; Value of 

 Fish landed on the Coasts of Scotland, 473 ; Proposed Esta- 

 blishment of an Inslitution for Technical Education with 

 regard to Fish and F'isheries, at Grimsby, 494 ; Fishes in 

 Ecuador, 502 ; Tasmanian Fisheries, 233 ; Fourth Annual 

 Report of the Fishery Foard for Scotland, 128; Fi.-hery 

 Board of Scotland .and Beam-trawling, 257 ; Hawaiian 

 Methods of Fishing, Mrs. E. M. Beckley, 327 



Fitzgerald (Prof G. F.) : Experimental Science in Schools and 

 Universities, 2S4 ; on the Thermodynamic Properties of 

 Substances whose Intrinsic Equation is a Linear Function of 

 the Pressure and Temperature, 358 ; Clausius's Characteristic 

 Equation for Substances applied to Messrs. Ramsay and 

 Young's Experiments on Alcohol, 574 



Flame, Further Experiments on. Dr. Geo. J. Burch, 165 



Flat-fish, Acclimati;^ation of, in American Waters, 473 



Fletcher (J. J.), Australian Earthworms, 95 



Flood.s in Southern California. 376 



Flora, Hand-book of the British, Geo. Bentham, F.R. S., 341 



Flora of Leicestershire, including the Cryptogams, J. G. Baker, 

 411 



Flora, Alpine, surviving in the Paris District, 431 



Flora of Shetland, W. H. Beeby, 474 



Florida : Angelo Heilprin on the Geology of, 230 ; Attempt to 

 sink an Artesian Well at St. Augustine to obtain Hot Water, 

 376 



Flowering, Autumnal, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 11 



Fluid Mass, Equilibrium of a, 479 



Fluid and Electric Agencies, on a Means of increasing the 

 Power of, 120 



Fluids, Dielectric Constants of, Prof. G. Quincke, 334 



Fluor, Moissan's Researches on Isolation of, 71 



Fluorescence, Red, of Alumina, 455 



Fluviatile Swamps of New England, 524 



Fog, Map showing the Distribution of, on Various Parts of the 

 Earth, 423 



Folk-Lore Society established in the Philippines, 134 



Folk-Lore of China, J. H. Stewart Lockhart, 281 



Folkestone Gault, C. E. De Ranee, 296 



Fontannes (C. F. ), Death of, 254, 263 



Fonvielle (W. de). La Mesure du Metre, 388 



Food-Grains of India, A. H. Church, Prof. John Wrightson, 52 



Force, Units of Weight, Mass, and. Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 

 534 ; Prof. Alf Lodge, 557 ; Archd. C. Elliott, 605 



Forel (Dr. F. A.) : Earthquakes, 8 ; Earthquake in Switzerland, 

 442 



Forcrand (M. de), Glycerinate of Potassa, 288 



Forms of Clouds, on the, A. F. Osier, F. R. S., 164 



Forsyth (Sir Douglas), Death of, 179 



Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Catalogue of, Richd. 

 Lydekker, 532 



Fossil Meteorite found in Coal, a, Dr. Guret, 36 



Fossil Remains of a Chelonian Reptile, Ceratochelys sthemtrus, 

 from Lord Howe's Island, Australia, Preliminary Note on the. 

 Prof. Thos. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 615 



Foster (Prof. G. Carey, F.R.S.), on a Method of measuring the 

 Coefficient of Mutual Induction of Two Coils, 143 



Fowler (Rev. W. W.), Coleoptera of the British Islands, 531 



France en Indo-Chine, La, A. Bouinais and A. Paulus, 221 



France : Result of New Census of, 281 ; Madagascar and, 306 ; 

 the Depopulation of, 357 ; French Translation of Preyer's 

 Physiology of the Embryo, 376 ; Number of Foreigners in 

 France, 400 ; Inauguration of Railways in, 407 ; Proposal to 

 sell the Crown Diamonds of, 424; Meeting of the French 

 Congrcs de Chirurgie in Paris, 444 ; Oyster-Culture in, 495 ; 

 Enlargement of the Buildings of the College of France, 517 



Frankland (G. C, and Dr. Percy), some New Micro-organisms 

 obtained from Air, 477 



Frankland (Dr. P. F.), a New Method for the Quantitative 

 Estimation of Micro-organisms in Atmosphere, 188 



Franklin Institute, State Weather- Service for Pennyslv.ania to 

 be formed at Philadelphia by the, 281 



Fraser (Lieut. -Colonel A. T.), Red Sunsets and New Zealand 

 Eruptions, 224 



Fraunhofer (Joseph), Collecting Treatises by, 496 



