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INDEX. 



Foster (rrof. G. C.) on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 29 ; on the 

 present state of our knowledge of 

 spectrum analysis, 295. 



Foster (Prof. M.) on the occupation of a 

 table at the zoological station at Naples, 

 252 ; on the influence of bodily exer- 

 cise on the elimination of nitrogen, 

 265. 



Francis (J. B.) on the temperature of the 

 interior of a block of melting ice, 057. 



Frankland (Prof.) on chemical nomen- 

 clature, 39 ; on the chemical aspect of 

 the storage of power, 673 ; chemical 

 changes in their relations to micro- 

 organisms, 681. 



Fraser (Dr. YV.) on natural co-ordination, 

 as evinced in organic evolution, 772. 



Frasil ice, the formation of, G. H. Hen- 

 shaw on, 644. 



Fream (Prof. W.), the position and pro- 

 spects of British agriculture, 847. 



*Friction of journals, Prof. O. Reynolds 

 on the, 895. 



Friendly societies, notes on, by Rev. G.C. 

 White, with special reference to lapses 

 and malingering, 869. 



Galton (Capt. D.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 96 ; on patent 

 legislation, 293. 



Galton (F.) on the expenses of complet- 

 ing the preparation of the final report 

 of the Anthropometric Committee, 

 279 ; on the facial characteristics of 

 the races and principal crosses in the 

 British Isles, 2!>4. 



Galvanometer with twenty wires, Prof. 

 Lord Rayleigh on a, 633. 



Gamgee (Prof.) on the preparation of a 

 bibliography of certain groups of in- 

 vertebrata, 270. 



Gardner (J. S.) on the relative ages of 

 the American and the English cretace- 

 ous and eocene series, 739. 



Garnett (Prof. W.) on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 29. 



Garson (Dr.) on the facial characteristics 

 of the races and principal crosses in 

 the British Isles, 294. 



Gas, permanent, the production of, from 

 paraffin oils, Dr. S. Macadam on, C80. 



Gases, the incomplete combustion of, 

 H. B. Dixon on, 671. 



, the velocity of explosions in, by 



H. B. Dixon, 688. 



Geographical Section, Address by Gen. Sir 

 J. H. Lefroy to the, 787. 



Geography, object lessons in, by E. G. 

 Ravenstein, 806. 



Geological age of the Acadian fauna, the, 

 by G. F. Matthew, 742. 



Geological map of Monte Somma and 



Vesuvius, notice of a, by Dr. H. J. 

 Johnston- Lavis, 730. 



ideological maps, detailed, the value of, 

 in relation to water-supply and other 

 practical questions, by YV. Whitaker, 

 731. 



Geological Section, Address by YV. T. 

 Blanford to the, 691. 



Geological surveys of Europe, the na- 

 tional, report on, by W. Topley, 221. 



Geology, North American, plan for the 

 subject - bibliography of, by G. K. 

 Gilbert, 732. 



Geolog}' of Halifax harbour, Nova Scotia, 

 Rev. D. Honeyrnan on the, 714. 



Geology of Palestine, the, by Prof. E. 

 Hull, 272. 



Geology of South Africa, Prof. T. R. Jones 

 on the, 736. 



*Geornetrical theorem, a, in connection 

 with the three-cuspcd hypocycloid, by 

 R. F. Davis, 649. 



Gibbs (Prof. W.) on wave-length tables 

 of the spectra of the elements, 351 ; on 

 complex inorganic acids, 669. 



Gilbert (G. K.), plan for the subject- 

 bibliography of North American geo- 

 logy, 732. 



Gilbert (Dr. J. H.) and Sir J. B. Lawes 

 on some points in the composition of 

 soils, with results illustrating the 

 sources of fertility in Manitoba prairie 

 soils, 686. 



Gilpin (E., jun.), results of past ex- 

 perience in gold mining- in Nova Scotia, 

 711 ; a comparison of the distinctive 

 features of Nova Scotian coalfields, 

 712. 



Girdwood (Prof. G. P.) and J. Bpmrose, 

 preliminary notes on a blue-colouring 

 matter found in certain wood under- 

 going decomposition in the forest, 689. 



Glacial beds, Acadian and Scottish, points 

 of dissimilarity and resemblance be- 

 tween, R. Richardson on, 722. 



< ilacial origin of lake basins, Dr. A. R. C. 



Selwyn on the, 721. 



Glacial periods, former, in the northern 

 hemisphere, the improbability that they 

 were due to eccentricity of the earth's 

 orbit, and to its winter perihelion in 

 the north, YV. F. Stanley on, 723. 



Gladstone (Dr. J. H.) on meteoric dust, 

 38; on the teaching of science in ele- 

 mentary schools, 283 ; on the present 

 state of our knowledge of refraction 

 equivalents, 674. 



< rlaisher (J.) on the circulation of under- 



ground waters, 96 ; on the survey of 

 Eastern Palestine, 272. 



Glazebrook (R T.) on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 29. 



Glow lamps, the law regulating the con- 

 nection between current and intensity 



