Index 



Essex, the Decay of Potash- making in, Henry Laver, io6 



Ether in Surgery, the Jubilee n{, 597 



Etheridge (R. jun. ), New Cambrian Fauna from Australia, 184 



Ethnography : Internationales Archiv, 237. See also Anthro- 

 pology 



Ethnology : C. H. Read on a Proposed British Ethnological 

 Bureau, 610 : tl. Lawrence Gomme on the Method of Deter- 

 mining the \'alue of Kolk-Lore as Ethnological Data, 610 j 

 see also Anthropology 



Eucaine, Prof. Charteris, 335 



Euphrasia, Monographic der Gattung, Dr. K. Von Wettstein, 

 W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 169 



Eunjpe : the Spas and Mineral Waters of Europe, Hermann 

 Weber, F. Parkes Weber, 195 ; Prehistoric European Sculp- 

 ture, Salomon Reinach, 482 



Evans (.\rthur J.), Opening Address in Section H of the British 

 As,sociation, 527 ; the Eastern Question in Anthropology, 

 527 ; Pillar and Tree Worship in ^IyUenll;an Greece, 61 1 



Evans (R. C. T. ), Metadiphenylbenzene, 143 



Evaporation, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 283 



Everett (.Miss), Distribution of Binary Star Orbits, 374 



Evolution : the Primary Factors of Organic Evolution, Prof. J. 

 McKeenCattell, loi ; the Evolution of Counting, Prof. Levi 

 Leonard Conant, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 145 ; the Evolution of 

 Bird-Song, Charles A. Witchell, W. Warde Fowler, 290 ; 

 Utility of Specific Character, David Wetterhan, 342 ; Prof. 



E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 365, 491 ; Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, 

 413, 546 ; Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 460 ; W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, F.R.S., 522 ; J. T. Cunningham, 522 ; Specific Charac- 

 ter among the MutillidK, Prof. T. D. A. Cockered, 461 ; 

 Human Evolution an Artificial Process, H. G. Wells, 589 ; 

 Utility of Specific Character in Crabs, Walter Garstang, 605 ; 

 Dr. C. H. Hurst, 605 ; Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 605 ; Measure- 

 ments of Crabs, J. T. Cunningham, 621 ; Paleontology and 

 Evolution, 619 



Ewing (Prof, F. R. S.). Apparatus for Measuring Permeability of 



Iron or Steel, 36 

 Exploration, Projects for Antarctic, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 29 

 Explosion, Acetylene, in Paris, 597 



Explosions, Causes of Death in Colliery, Dr. John Haldane, 207 

 Explosions, Coal-Dust, Prof. W. Galloway, 414 

 Explosions, Coal-Mine, Blown-out Shots, 576 

 Explosive Properties of Acetylene, MM. Berthelot and Vieille, 



591 

 Explosives, Nitro-, P. G. Sandford, 410 

 Eye Movements, Effect produced upon the, by the Destruction 



of the Ear, Dr. Stevenson, 635 

 Eykman (C), Respiratory Exchange of Inhabitants of Tropics, 



360 



Fabre (Charles), Estimation of Potassium, 167 



Facuh^;, Sun-Spots and, James Renton, 317 



Fairbanks (Charlotte), lodometric Method of Determining Phos- 

 phorus in Iron, 488 



Farmer (Prof. J. B. ), Nuclear Division in Spores of Fegatella 

 conic(E, 38 ; Fertilisation and Spore-Segmentation in Fucus, 

 286 



Farrar (A., jun.), Kcenig's System of Visual Aid in Oral Teach- 

 ing of Deaf Mutes, 573 



Fata Morgana, the, .\ndre Delebecque, 432 



Fear: Angelo Mosso, Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 74 



Feilden (Colonel H. W.), Glacial Geology of Arctic Europe, II., 

 263 



Fenton (H. J. H.), New Organic Acid from Oxidation of Tar- 

 taric Acid, 22 



Fenyi (J.), Explanation of Solar Phenomena, 281 



F^rnow (Prof. B. E.), Influence of Terrestrial Disturbances on 

 the Growth of Trees, 77 



Finland, North, the Solar Eclipse in, 427 



Finmark, Man and Nature in. Dr. Hans Reusch, James C. 

 Christie, 123 



Finmarken, Folk og Natur i. Dr. Hans Reusch, James C. 

 Christie, 123 



Fire-damp Detector, New, E. Hardy, 279 



Fisheries : Decline of Lobster Fishery in United States, Prof. 



F. H. Hewick, 108 



Fishes: on Dannevig's Flodevigen Salt-water Fish Hatchery, 



J. W. Woodall, 605 ; Dr. J. Hjort, 605 

 Filch (Sir J. Ll.), Fulton's .Memoirs of. Prof. F. A. B. Barnard, 



409 



Fitzgerald (Prof. G. F., F.R.S.), the Position of Science at 



Oxford, 391 

 Fitzgerald (Prof.), Rontgen Rays and allied Phenomena, 565 

 Fizeau (Hippolyte), Death of, 517; Obituary Notice of, Prof. 



A. Gray, F.R.S., 523 

 Flammarion (M.), New Divisions of Saturn's Rings, 17 ; Effect 



of Coloured Light on Vegetable Growth, 184 

 Flax Scutching and Hackling Machinery, John Horner, 328 

 Fletcher (J. J.), Eucalypts and Loranths, 592 

 Flies, Wasps and, 595 ; Prof. Meldola, 576 

 Flight : the Aeronautical Annual, 1896, 25 ; Zur Mechanik des 



Vogelfluges, Dr. Fr. Ahlborn, 25 ; Experiments in Mechanical 



Flight, Prof. S. P. Langley, Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, 



80 ; Sailing Flight, S. E. Peal, 317 ; Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 

 436. See also Aeronautics 

 Flintofr(R. J.), Peculiarity in Perch, 492 

 Flora der Ostfriesischen Inseln, Prof. Dr. F. Buchenau, W. B. 



Hemsley, F.R.S., 341 

 Florida, Archteology of South Western, Prof. F. N. Gushing, 230 

 Flower (Sir William), Local Museums, 134 ; the Destruction of 



Egrets, 204 

 Fluid Friction, the Theory of, Dr. A. Umani, 204 

 Fluorescence, G. C. Schmidt, 189 ; Mr. J. Burke on Change of 



Absorption accompanying Fluorescence, 567 

 Flying Engines, Hon. Chas. A. Parsons, 148 

 Folgheraiter (Dr.), Record of Earth's Magnetism afforded by 



Ancient Terra-cotta Objects, 485 

 Folk-Lore : the Mandrake, Kumagusu Minakata, 343 ; Bousset's 



Antichrist Legend, 491 ; on the Method of Determining the 



Value of Folk-Lore as Ethnological Data, G. Lawrence 



Gomme, F.S..\., 610 

 Fomm (Dr. L. ), Wave-length of Rontgen Rays, 355 

 Food Adulteration, Rontgen Rays as Detectors of, W. Arnold 



356 

 Food : Digestibility of Cocoa-Butter and ordinary Butter, MM. 



Bourot and F. Jean, 639 

 Food-\'alue of Bread from Screened Flours, A. Girard, 167, 



192 

 Food of Chameleons, E. L. J. Ridsdale, 24S 

 Forbes (Dr. Henry O.), Tufted Hair, 151 

 Forestry: Annual Loss by Fire to United States Forests, 155 ; 



Forestry in Germany, G. A. Daubeny, 353 

 Forster (M. O.), New Base from Camphoroxime, 40S 

 Fortnightly Review, Science in, 41, 331, 454, 589 

 Fossils : the Morphology of Triarthriis, C. E. Beecher, 45 ; New, 



from Carboniferous Limestone, Dr. G. Hinde, 70 ; Mammalian 



Remains in Old Derwent River-gravel near Derby, II. H. 



Arnold-Bemrose and R. M. Deeley, 70; Fossil Bacteria, B. 



Renault, 120; Sir W. Dawson on pre-Cambrian Fossils, 



585 ; Dr. G. F. Mathews on the Larval Characters of Entro- 



mostraca, Brachiopods, and Trilobites in those Faunas which 



preceded that of Paradoxides, 585. See also Pateontology 



and Geology 

 Foster (C. Le Neve, F.R.S.), First Annual General Report 



upon the Mineral Industry of the United Kingdom of Great 



Britain and Ireland for the year 1894, 99 

 Foster (F. W.), Siemens' Smokeless Grate, 462 

 Foster (G. C, F.R.S ), Elementary Treatise on Electricity 



and Magnetism founded on Joubert's Traite Elementaire 



d'Electricite, Prof. A. Gray, 97 

 Foster (Prof. M.), Recent Advances in Science and their 



Bearing on Medicine and Surgery, 580, 600 

 Fournier's Portrait of Pasteur, 61 

 Fournier (J.), Ratio of Specific Heats of Air, Carbon Dioxide, 



and Hydrogen, 336 

 Fowl-Disease, Roman, Bacteriology of, Dr. S. Santori, 229 

 Fowler (W. Warde), the Evolution of Bird-Song, Charles A. 



Witchell, 290 

 Fox (Sir Douglas), Opening Address in Section G of the British 



Association, 510; on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rails, 



608 

 Fraipont (Julien), Les Cavernes et leurs Habitants, Prof. W. 



B. Dawkins, F.R.S., 339 

 Fram^ the Ice-Voyage of the. Captain Sverdrup, 430 

 France: the French Universities, 64; English Weeds as 



Pasture-grass in, 423; French Societe d' Encouragement, 



Prize Awards, 252. 331 

 Franchimont (Prof.), Action of Nitric Acid on Methyl and 



Dimethyl Amides, 48 : Action of Alkalis on Nitramines, 48 ; 



Isomers of Neutral Nitramines, 240 



