INDEX II. 



157 



Felkin (AV.) ou the lace aud hosiery 

 trades of Nottingham, 128. 



Fell (J. B.) on locomotiTe engines and 

 carriages on the central rail system 

 for making steep gradients aud sharp 

 cm'ves, as emploj^ed on the Mont Cenis, 

 143. 



•Fellows (F. P.) on certain eiTors in the 

 received equivalent of the meti-e, &c. , 2. 



Fish, Dr. Stevenson Macadam on the 

 poisonous nature of crude paraffin oil, 

 and the products of its rectification 

 upon, 41. 



Fishes, Dr. "\V. H. Ransom on the con- 

 ditions of the protoplasmic movements 

 on the e^g of osseous, 92. 



*Flame, N. P. Burgh on the actioaand 

 effect of, in marine boilers, 140. 



*Flint flakes of Devon and Cornwall, 

 C. Spence Bate ou an attempt to ap- 

 proximate the date of the, of Devon 

 aud Cornwall, 50. 



Flint implements in the gi-avel of the 

 Little Ouse YaUey, Henry Brigg,jun., 

 on the occurrence of, 50. 



Flora of North Greenland, Prof. Oswald 

 Heer on tlie miocene, 53. 



*Flora, North European, in the west of 

 Ireland, II. Ilennessy on the probable 

 cause of the existence of a, 74. 



*Flower(J. W.) on a Kjokkenmodding 

 in the island of Heron, 00. 



Fluid, Prof John H. Jellett on a, pos- 

 sessing opposite rotatory powers for 

 rays at opposite ends of the spectrum, 

 12. 



Fluorine, Walter Weldon ou a proposed 

 use of, in the manufacture of soda, 45. 



Fossils, Henry .Vlleyne Nicholson on 

 some, from the graptolitic shales of 

 Derbyshire, G3. 



Foster (Dr. B. W.) on an addition to the 

 sphygmogi-aph, 91 ; on a peculiar 

 change of colour in a mulatto, 91. 



Foster (Dr. C. Le Neve) on a curious 

 lode or mineral vein at New Rose- 

 warne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall, 52. 



Foster (Dr. F. M.) on the discovery of 

 ancient trees below the surface of the 

 land at the western dock now under 

 constiTiction at Hidl, 52. 



Friction, Prof. W. J. M. Rankine on the 

 theory of the influence of, iipon the 

 mechanical efficiency of steam, 147. 



Gainsford (W. D.) on an invention for 

 the purpose of attaining greater adhe- 

 sion between the driving-wheel and 

 the rail, 143 ; on a newly invented 

 system of ordnance, 144. 



*GaIloway (G. Bell) on inventors and 

 inventions, 131. 



Galton (Capt. Douglas) on the Chalmers 

 target, 145. 



Galton (Francis) on an error in the usual 

 method of obtaining meteorological 

 statistics, 10 ; on the conversion of 

 wind-charts into passage-charts, 17. 



Gamgee (Dr. A.) on the action of car- 

 bonic oxide on the blood, 91. 



Garner (R.) on the power which some 

 rotifers have of attaching themselves 

 by means of a thread, 73. 



Gasterosteus Leiurus, Dr. W. IT. Ran- 

 som on the stnicture and gi-o-vvth of 

 the ovarian ovimi in the, 77. 



Gestation, Prof. W. Turner on a remark- 

 able mode of, in an undescribed species 

 of Arius, 79. 



Gibb (Dr. George Dimcan) on the gi-eat 

 arterial blood-vessels, 73. 



Gilbert (Dr. J. H.) on the accumulation 

 of the nitrogen of manure in the soil, 

 40 ; on the sources of the fat of the 

 animal body, 41. 



Gladstone ( Dr. J. H.) on disper.sion-equi- 

 valents, 10; on the refraction- and dis- 

 persion-equivalents of clilorine, bro- 

 mine, and iodine, 37. 



Glaisher (James), experiments ofl^ Vent- 

 nor with Mr. Johnson's deep-sea 

 pressure-gauge, 24. 



Godwin-Austen (Capt. H. H.) on the 

 district of Lake Pangong, in Tibet, 

 100. 



Goldsmid (Col. F. J.) in Eastern Persia 

 and Western Beeloochistan, 110. 



Greenland, Prof. Oswald Heer on the 

 miocene flora of North, 53. 



Greensand, lower, of Bedfordshire, J. F. 

 Walker on the, 67. 



*Groom-Napier (0.) on the food and 

 economical value of British butter- 

 flies and moths, 76 ; on the variation 

 in the eggs of British birds, 77. 



Grove (G)., report of the Palestine Ex- 

 ploration Fu:id, 110. 



Gunn (Rev. G.) on the Anglo-Belgian 

 basin of the forest-bed of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, and the union of England 

 with the Continent during the glacial 

 period, 52. 



Gwinear, Cornwall, Dr .C. LeNeve Foster 

 on a curious lode or mineral vein at 

 New Rosewarne Mine, 52. 



Harley (The Rev. Prof. R.) on difterential 

 resolvents, 2 ; on Tschirnhausen's me- 

 thod of transformation of algebraic 

 equations, and some of its modern 



