INDEX II. 



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Wallace on the earth's eccentricity 

 and the, illustrating; their relation to 

 geological climate and the rate of 

 organic change, 89. 



*Europe, Prof. Duncan on the geologi- 

 cal changes which have occurred since 

 the first traces of man in, 149. 



P^verett (Prof. J. D.) on a scale for com- 

 puting humidity, 31. 



Fabrics, J. Spiller on the discrimination 



of fibres in mixed, 64. 

 Fairley (Thomas) on cyanogen, 54; on 



the distillation of sidphuric acid, 55. 

 Fairlie (R. F.) on the gauge of the rail- 

 ways of the future, 215. 

 I'^xnners, J. W. Ellis on the decline of 



small,in Yorkshire andLancashire, 190. 

 Farms, W. Botly on the economy of 



large and small, 188. 

 Fauna of Magellan and Western Pata- 

 gonia, 11. O. Cunningham on the 



terrestrial and marine, 114. 

 Faure's battery, C. Becker on, 24. 

 Fedchenko (A.), topogi-aphical sketch of 



the Zerafshan valley, 109. 

 Fell (J. B.) on the application of the 



centre-rail system to a railwav in 



Brazil and to other mountain lines; 



also on the advantages of narrow- 

 gauge railways, 216. 

 Fellowes (Franlc P.), our navy, 190. 

 Fens of Cambridgeshire, F. W. Harmer 



on some thermal springs in the, 74. 

 Ferment, C. R. C. Tichbome on dust as 



a, 65. 

 Ferns, J. E, Lowe on abnormal forms of, 



120. 

 , T. M. Hall on the abnormal growth 



of, 117. 

 Fibres in mixed fabrics, J. Spiller on 



the discrimination of, 64. 

 Fibrin, Dr. Goodman on albumen and 



its transformation into, by the agency 



of water, 1.39. 

 Fins of fish, Prof. Humphry on the ho- 



mological relation to one another of 



the, 141. 

 Firing, mechanical, G. F. Deacon on the 



efficiency of furnaces ajid, 211. 

 *Fish, Colonel Sir J. Alexander on the 



effects of the pollution of rivers on the 



supply of, 109. 

 Fletcher (Alfred E.) on the purification 



of Sankey Brook, 55. 

 • , on air-pollution fi'om chemical 



works, 56. 

 Flint-flake core, John Plant on a, found 



in the upper vallev-gravel at Salford, 



156. 

 1870. 



Flintshire, G. H. Morton on the moun- 

 tain limestone of, 82. 



Floating forts, S. J. Mackie on the de- 

 fence of Liverpool by, 219. 



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

 of the hyoid arch with the cranium, 

 136; on the correspondence between 

 the anterior and posterior extremity, 

 and the modifications of the positions 

 of the limbs in the higher vertebrata, 

 137. 



Foraminifera, H. B. Brady on brackish- 

 water, 113. 



Forbes (David) on the utilization of 

 sewage, with special reference to the 

 phosphate process, 56. 



*Forging, Lieut.-Colonel Clay on appli- 

 ances for the production of heavv. 

 21L 



Forsyth (T. D.) on eastern Turkestan, 

 169. 



Forwood (William B.) on the influence 

 of price upon the cultivation and con- 

 sumption of cotton during the past 

 ten years, 191. 



Fossils from the railway section at 

 Huyton, remarks by W. Carruthers 

 on the, 71. 



*Freeholds, Dr; De Meschin on the 

 compulsory conversion of substantial 

 leaseholds in towns into, 196. 



*Frictional screw motions, G. Lauder 

 on, 219. 



Furnaces, G. F. Deacon on the efficiency 

 of, and mechanical firing, 211. 



Galton (Francis) on barometric predic- 

 tions of the weather, 31. 

 Galvanic battery, H. Highton on the 



maximum amount of magnetic power 



which can be developed bv a given, 



25. 

 Garner (R.), comparison of the thoracic 



and pelvic limbs in mammalia, 137. 

 Gases, G. J. Stouey on the cause of the 



interrupted spectra of, 41. 

 *Gasteropoda, British fossil, J. L. Lobley 



on the stratigraphical distribution of 



the, 78. 

 Generation, spontaneous, J. Samuelson 



on the controversy on, 133. 

 *Genius, W. C. Dendy on the shadows 



of, 149. 

 Geographical Section, Address by Sir 



R. I. Murchison, Bart., to the, 158. 

 'Geological changes,Prof.Duucan on the, 



which have occurred since the first 



traces of man in Europe, 149. 



systems and endemic diseases, Dr. 



Thomas Moffat on, 80. 



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