INDEX II. 



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Employment of women, E. Lydia Becker 

 on some maxims of political economy 

 as applied to the, and the education of 

 . girls, 201. 



Endemic disease, Dr. Moffat on geolo- 

 gical systems and, 107. 



Energy, Prof. Everett on units of force 



. and, 29. 



.England, J. W. Flower on the relative 

 ages of the flint- and stone-implement 

 periods in, 150. 



Erhphomm alptnum, Linn., A. G. More 

 on, as a British plant, 129. 



Erratic blocks, Sir R. Griffith on the 

 boulder-drift and Esker IliUs of Ire- 

 land, and the position of, in the country, 

 98. 



Essential oil of orange-peel. Dr. Wrio;ht 

 and C. H. Piesse on the oxidation 

 products of, 83. 



Everett, Prof. J. D. on imits of force and 

 energy, 29 ; on the general circulation 

 and distribution of the atmosphere, 

 54; on wet- and dry -bulb formulae, 

 64. 



Extinction of fires, William Ladd on a 

 respirator for use in, 44. 



Fairlie (H. F.) on the gauge for railways, 

 234. 



Fallen women, W. M'Bean on the 

 Edinburgh Industrial Home for, 212. 



Fat woman exhibiting in London, Sir 

 D. Gibb on a, 152. 



*Fauna of the North Atlantic, Prof 

 Wyville Thomson on the palseonto- 

 logical relations of the, 134. 



Fellowes (F. P.) on a proposed Dooms- 

 day Book, giving the value of govern- 

 ment property as a basis for a sound 

 system of national finance and accounts, 

 21L 



Felstones and conglomerates of the 

 Pentland HiUs, .Tohn Henderson on 

 the age of the, 101. 



Fen-ier (Dr.) and Dr. B. Sanderson on 

 the origin and distribution of Micro- 

 zymes (Bacteria) in water, and the 

 circumstances which detennine their 

 existence in the tissues and liquids of 

 the living body, 125. 



Fibiin, Dr. Goodman on, 72. 



Fifeshire, W. Carruthers on the vege- 

 table contents of masses of limestone 

 occurring in trappean rocks in, 94. 



Fin-whale, Prof. Struthers on some ru- 

 dimentaiy sti-uctm-es recently met 

 with in the dissection of a large, 142. 



Fires, W. Ladd on a respirator for use 

 in extinction of, 44. 



*Fish, freshwater, of Algeria, Colonel 

 Playfair on the hydrographical sys- 

 tem of the, 134. 



Fish-spine, the Rev. W.S. Symonds on a 

 new, from the Lower Old Red Sand- 

 stone of Hay, Breconshire, 110. 



Fixed stars, H. Fox Talbot on a me- 

 thod of estimating the distances of 

 some of the, 34. 



Fletcher (A. E.) on the rhysimeter, an 

 instrument for measuring the speed 

 of floating water or of ships, 234. 



Fletcher (Lavington E.) on steam- 

 boiler legislation, 234. 



Flint- and stone-implement periods in 

 England, J. W. Flower on the rela- 

 tive ages of the, 150. 



* implements, the Abbe Richard 



on the discovery of, in Egj-pt, at 

 Mount Sinai, at Galgala, and in 

 Joshua's tomb, 160. 



Flints found in the caves at Mentone 

 and the adjacent railway-cutting, M. 

 Moggridge on the boues and, 155. 



found in a cave at Oban, Prof. 



Turner on human and animal bones 

 and, 160. 



Flora of Greenland, Dr. R. Brown on 

 the, 128. 



Floras of North-west America, Dr. R. 

 Brown on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of the, 128. 



Flower (J. W.) on the relative ages of 

 the flint- and stone-implement periods 

 in England, 150. 



Flower (Prof. W. H.) on the composition 

 of the carpus of a dog, 138. 



Food, the Rev. H. Highton on a me- 

 thod of preserving, by mmiatic acid, 



Force and energj^. Prof. Everett on 

 units of, 29. 



Fossil plants of the coal-measures. Prof. 

 W. C. Williamson on tlie classifica- 

 tion of the vascular Cryptogamia, as 

 aftected by recent discoveries amongst 

 the, 131. 



* wood, the Rev. T. Brown en 



specimens of, from the base of the 

 lower carboniferous rocks at Laugton, 

 Berwickshire, 128. 



Fossiliferous strata. Dr. Grieve on the, 

 at Lochend, near Edinburgh, 98. 



*Fossils, Dr. Bryce on certain, from the 

 Dm-iue limestone, N.W. Sutherland, 

 94. _ 



Fraction, continued, J. W. L. Glaisher 

 on the calculation of e (the base of 

 the Napierian logarithms) from a, 16. 



Frost, Prof. J. Thomson's observations 



