Nature, Dic. i, iSSo] 



Explo^ions, the Recent, 228, 265, 267 ; Prof. Herbert McLeod, 



290, 337 

 Explosion at Seaham Colliery, 464 



Falb (Herr Rudolf), Discoveries regarding " the Original Lan- 



gnnge of the Human Race," 66 

 Famine, Indian, Commission, 553 

 " Famous Women, Six Life Studies of," M. Betham Edwards, 



75 

 Faraday exhibiting Ghosts, 583 



Fascination, Surgeon-Major W. Curran, 318; Rev. T. R. R. 

 Stebbing, 33S, 534 ; Richard Hodgson, 383 ; Chatel, 484 



Faticrue, on the Law of, in the Work done by Men or Animals, 

 Rev. Dr. Haughton, F.R.S., 1 28 



Faulds (Dr. Henry), on the Skin- Furrows of the Hand, 605 



Faye (M.), on the Physical Forces which have produced the 

 Present Figure of the Earth, 206 



Faye's Comet, 156, 301, 466, 593 



Fayrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), Echis carinata, 124; the Recent Gas 

 Explosion, 265 



Female Education, Evolution and, S. Tolver Preston, 485 



Fermat's Asserted Prime-Form, 495 



" Fern Etchings : Illuslrating all the Species of Ferns indige- 

 nous to the North-Eastern United States and Canada," J. 

 Williamson, 168 



Fiddler Crabs, 278 



Fijian Burial Customs, Rev. Lorimer Fison, 22 



Films of Water and the Absorption of Radiant Heat, Hon. F. 

 A. Rollo Russell, 447 



Fire-Ball, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 362 



Fire-Damp, the Report of the French Commission on, 328 



Fish : Fir.-t Decade of the United States Fish Commission, its 

 Plan of Work and accomplished Results, Scientific and Eco- 

 nomical, G. Brown Goode, 597 



Fison (Rev. Lorimer), Fijian Burial Customs, 22 



Fitzgerald (R. O.), Australian Orchids, 53 



Flames, Vibrations of, Prof. Carmichael, iS 



Fletcher (Thos.), a New Audiphone, 145 ; New Gas Furnace, 

 615 



Fletcher (L.) appointed Keeper of the Mineral Department of 

 tire British Museum, 203 



Fleuss's System of Diving and Living in Irrespirable Atmo- 

 spheres, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 32 



Flies, Mosquitos, and Blight, Protection against, Wm. Chappell, 

 F.S.A., II 



Flies, Clouds of, in America, 518 



FUnts, Chipped, J. Birmingham, 319 



Floating Grass in Queensland, I to 



Flora of Turkestan, Dr. Regel on, 19 



Florida, Singular Phenomenon seen off the Coast of, 301 



Flower (Prof. W. II., F.R.S.) at the Royal Institution, 16; 

 " Comparative Anatomy of Man," 59, 78, 97 



Flowers, British Wild, F. A. Messer, 532 



Flowers, Familiar Wild, F. E. Hulme, 532 



Fluids, the Motion of, Horace Lamb, 145 



Fonvielle (W. de), New Scheme for Directing Balloons, 303 



"Force and Energy," the late Prof. Clifford, F.R.S. , J. F. 

 Moulton on, 122 



Forbes (Henry O.), Obituary Notice of Dr. Rudolf Scheffer, 12 



Forest Trees of North America, in 



Fossil men. Prof. J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 82 



Fossil Corals, 112 



Foster (Dr. M., F.R.S.), Gamgee's "Physiological Chemistry," 



Foucault's Pendulum Experiment, Permanent Record of, Chas. 

 R. Cross, 240 



Fourth State of Matter, S. Tolver Preston, 192 ; E. Douglas 

 Archibald, 218 ; Geo. E. Newton, 240 



Fox (H. Courtenay), the Succession of Temperature and Rain- 

 fall in the Climate of London, 445 



France : Statues of Men of Science in, 39 ; the Telegraphic 

 Service in, 40 ; French Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Meeting of, at Rheims, 154, 276, 372, 397; Arthur 

 Young's Travels in. Prof. S. P. Thompson, 219 ; Geology of 

 North, 348 ; Museum of National Antiquities at St. Germains, 

 441 



Frankfort-on-the-Main, Exhibitions to be held at, in 1S81, 15S 



Frankland (F. W.), on the Simplest Continuous Manifoldness 

 of Two Dimensions and of Finite Extent, 170; On a Mode 

 of Explaining Transverse Vibrations of Light, 317 



Franklin Search Expediiion, 544 



Freshwater Rhizopods of North America, J. Leidy, 165. 



Freshwater Jelly Fish, the New, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., 147, 177, 190, 241, 316; Prof. J. AUman, F.R.S., 



177, 218; G.J. Romanes, F.R.S., 177. 

 Fribourg, Earthquake at, 519 



Friction, Experiments on the, of Air and Water, 207 

 Frogs, "Experimental Researches on the True Relations of the 



Excitatory Process in," J. Burdon Sanderson, M.D., and F. 



J. M. Page, 137 

 Fuego, Volcano of, 346 ; Eruption of, 441, 544 

 Fungus, Inoculation for Insects, J. P. Leslie, 31 ; Goethe on, 64 



Galapagos Islands, 480 



Gallon (Francis, F.R.S.), The Opportunities of Science Mas- 

 ters at Schools, 9 ; ^Pocket Registrator for Anthropological 

 Purposes, 478 



Galvanic Current, Theory of, HerrHoorweg on, 90 



Galvanic Battery, Aluminium, 375 



Galvanometer for Strong Currents, Marcel Deprez's, 246 



Gamgee (Prof. A., F.R.S.), "Text Book of Physiological 

 Chemistry," 398 ; Dr. M. Foster, F.R.S., on, 555 



Gamwell (S.C.) "Handbook to Swansea and District," 431 



Gardner (J. Starkie) A Chapter in the History of the Coniferje, 

 199 ; Arctic Fossil Floras and Temperature, 341. 



Garnett (W.) " A Treatise on Elementary Dynamics for the Use 

 of Colleges and Schools," 265 



"Garrod Memorial Fund," 1S2, 251 



Gases, W. Ramsay on the Critical state of , 46 



Gas, Explosion of, in London, 228 ; S. Tolver Preston, 265 ; 

 Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 265 ; Prof. Herbert McLeod, 290, 337 



Gas-burners, Report on, 442 



Gas Furnace, Fletcher's New, 615 



Gases, Magneto-Optic properties of, M. Henri Becquerel, 2S0 



Gangain, Jean-JIolhee, Death of, 181 ; Obituary Notice of, 198 



Gauss, Unveiling of the Statue to, 181 



"Gazetta Chimica Italiana," 161 . 



Geikie (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Rock-weathering as Illustrated in 

 Churchyards, 104; Old Norway, 117; North American 

 Geolo<'y— Idaho and Wyoming, 268 ; Captain C. E. Dutton 

 on the°High Plateau of Utah, 324 ; A Fragment of Primeval 

 Europe, 400 



Geikie (Dr. James, F.R.S.) elected President of the Perthshire 

 Society of Natural History, 66 



Geneva, Thunderstorm in. Prof. CoUadon, 65 ; Geology of, 34S 



Geoc'raphy: Geographical Note?, 19, 41, 9°. I '4. 134. 157. 

 1S4, 205, 231, 254, 2S0, 303, 351, 376, 455. 467. 544. 569. 

 596, 61S; "Geography for Little Children,' by Mrs. Zim- 

 raern, 20 ; Historical, Political, Physical, and Descriptive, by 

 Keith Johnston, 95 ; in China, 114; "A Short Geography of 

 the British Islands," John Richard Green and Alice S. Green, 

 119 ; BunbiU7's "History of Ancient Geography," 333 ; In- 

 ternational Congress of, 39S ; Royal .Geographical Society, 

 see Royal 



Geology : " Geological Antiquity of Insects," Herbert Goss, 9 ; 

 Geologists' Association Excursion to Oxford, 16; Proposed 

 Excursions, 204; Geological Society, 21, 71, 91, 163, 187, 

 259; "Geological Record," 28, 445; Dr. Woodward ap- 

 pointed Keeper of Geological Department of the British 

 Museum, 228; Stratigraphical Geology, 264; "Geology of 

 the Henry Mountains," Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 266; North 

 American Geology— Idaho and Wyoming, Prof. Archibald 

 Geikie, F.R.S., 268 ; Geology of Central Asia, 34S ; Geology 

 of Geneva, 348 ; Geological Notes, 348 ; Geological Survey 

 of Alabama, 34S ; On the Recurrence of certain Phenomena in 

 Geological Time, Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S., 3S3 ; Inter- 

 national, Geological Congress, 431; Whitaker's "Guide to 

 the Geology of London," 481 ; Geological Climates, Rev. Prof i 

 Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 532 ; Dr. P. Martin Duncan, 

 F.R.S., 558 ; Geology of the Lybian Desert, 587 

 Geometrical Society (German), General Meeting of, at Cassel, 16 

 Geometrical Figures, Optical Illusion in looking at, 207 

 Geometry, Text-book of. Professor Petersen, 360 ; Treatise on 

 Solid Elementary, W. Steadman Aldis, 531 ; Angel's Practi- 

 cal Plane Geometry, 557 ; C. Taylor's Geometry of Comes, 



Germany : German African Society, 1 14 ; List of Scientific 

 Expeditions sent out by, 41 ; Mitthciliingen of, S44 ; German 

 Anthropological Society, General Meeting of the, 64 ; Con- 



