Frankland (P. F.), the Removal of Micro-Organisms from 
Water, 262 
Fream (Prof. W.), Chemical Composition of American Grasses, 
Clifford Richardson, 525 ; Agricultural Grasses of the United 
States, Dr. Geo. Vasey, 525 
Freshwater Fauna, Silesian, Dr. O. Zacharias, 160 
Friedlander (Dr.), Carcinoma in Lungs, 191 
Fritsch (Prof.), the Functions of the Sebaceous Glands, 544 
Frog, the Eye of the, Dr. HI. Virchow, 519 
Frost, Hoar, Mrs. Caroline W. 1D. Rich, 30 
Fuchs (Dr. Ernst), the Causes and the Prevention of Blindness, 
623 
Fuel, Petroleum Gas used for, 463 
Fumeriacee, British, the Cauletaxis of, Thomas Hick, 614 
**Furculum” or ‘‘ Furcula,” Dr. P. L. Sclater, 466 
Furnace, an Experimental Cupola, J. Riley, 430 
Gadiculus argenteus and Lumpenus lampetrifarmis off Aber- 
deen, on the Occurrence of, Francis Day, 223 
Gaisberg, Proposed Air-Balloon Railway on the, 254 
Galloway (W.), Experiments with Coal-Dust at Neunkirchen, in 
‘Germany, 55 ; Watering the Coal-Dust in Mines, 171; Shot- 
Firing in Mines, 596 
Calton (Francis, F.R.S.), on Family Records, 507: Opening 
Address in Section H (Anthropology) at the British Associa- 
tion, 507 
Galvanometer, Prof. Anthony's Tangent, 634 
Games: J. W. Crombie on a Game with a History, 587 
Gamgee (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), ‘* Text-Book of Pharmacology, 
Therapeutics, and Materia Medica,” by Dr. T. Lauder Brun- | 
ton, F.R.S., 337 
Garbett (E. L.), Recession of Niagara Falls in 133 Years, 244 | 
Gardner (Henry Dent), International Inventions Exhibition, 
296 
Gardner (J. Starkie), ‘*L’Evolution de Régne Végetal—Les 
Phanerogames,” MM. Marion and Sapotta, 289 
Gardner's Report on Manchuria, 428 
Guirefowl, the Great Auk or, its History, Archzeolozy, and | 
Remains, Symington Grieve, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 
545 
Garson (Dr. J. G.), the Lapps, 168; on Abnormal and 
Arrested Development as an Induction of Evolutionary 
History, 589 
Gas Fuel, Natural, 40 
Gas Lamp, Frederick Siemens’s, 247 
ve Petroleum, Used in Ironworks, &c., at Pittsburg for Fuel, 
493 
Gases, Dr. Agamemnone’s Experiments on Density of, 48; the 
Condensation of, Herr Kayser, 160; Kinetic Theory of, 
Prof. Crum Brown, 352, 533 
Gasco (D. Antonio Suarez y D. Luis G.), ‘Lecciones de Co- 
ordinatoria con las Determinantes y sus principales aplica- 
ciones,” 411 
Gascony, the Sand-hills of, M. Cambrelent, 375 
Gastric Juice, Lactic Acid in the, Prof. Ewald, 24 
Gayal and Gaur, the, Zoology of Dr. Riebeck’s ‘* Chittagong 
_ Hill Tribes,” W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 243 
Gazetta Chimica Italiana, 359 
Gee (W. W. Haldane) and Prof. Balfour Stewart’s ‘ Elementary 
Prac.ical Physics,” 339 
Gegenbaur’s Morpholozisches Jahrbuch, 91 
Gei, ie (Arch., F.R.S.), ‘‘Deinocerata, a Monograph of an 
Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals,” Prof. O. C. Marsh, 
97 ; Geological Survey of Belgium, 597 
Generalisations, Two, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 597 
Geneva, Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at, 278 
Geodetic Survey, United States Coast and, 572 
Geography : Notes on, 13, 63, 87, 209, 232, 281, 302, 356, 
376, 403, 428, 464, 553, 581, 609, 611 ; Geographical Educa- 
tion in Sweden, 15 ; British Mission from India to Cashmere, 
87; Geographical Society of Antwerp, 114 ; Projected New 
African Expedition by the Geographical Society, 184; Geo- 
graphical Society of Australasia, 302 ; Geographical Society 
of Hamburg, 429; Geographische Blatter of the Bremen 
Geographical Society, 233; a New Series of Geographical 
Text-Books, 353 ; Geographical Nomenclature, 356; Ex- 
ploration of the Surinam River, 356 ; Exploration of the 
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[NWature, Dee. 10, 1€85 
Orinoco, 356; Royal Geographical Society of Belgium, 356; 
Australian Expedition to New Guinea, 356; Geographical 
Neology and Neography, 356; What has been done for the 
Geography of Scot and, and what remains to be done, H. A. 
Webster, 565 ; Proposed Russian Expedition to the Amour, 
495 ; Geography of the Caroline Islanls, 464 ; Geography 
of the Pellew Islands, 464 ; Austrian Geographical Survey 
of Albanian Coast, 403; Address by Gen. J. T. Walker, 
F.R.S., at the British Association, 481 ; Major F. Bailey, on 
the Indian Forest School, 564; A. Hosie, on Journeyings in 
South-Western China, 564 ; Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, 
F.R S., Antarctic Discovery, 565; Cope Whitehouse, on 
Projected Restoration of the Reian Mceris, and the Province, 
Lake, and Canals ascribed to the Patriarch Joseph, 565 ; E. G. 
Ravenstein, on Batho-Hypsographical Maps, with Special 
Reference to a Combination of the Ordnance and Admiralty 
Surveys, 565; H. A. Webster, What has been done for the 
Geography of Scotland, and what remains to be done, 565 ; 
John Rae, F.R.S., a Word or Two on the Best and Safest 
Route by which to Attain a High Northern Latitude, 566 
Geology : Geological Society, 22, 118, 189, 238, 310; Geolo- 
gists’ Associaion, 46, 190; the Continental Excursion of, 
230, 298 ; Geological Magazine, 84, 252 ; the Relations between 
the Stages of the Terrestial Cosmogony and the Geological 
Epochs, M. Faye, 132 ; Proposed Geological Survey of Mexico, 
112; Geological Survey of Belgium, 154, 199 ; Dr. A. Geikie, 
F.R.S., 597; Geology of the lransvaal Gold Fields, W. H. 
Penning, 199; Herbert Goss on Fossil Insects from Carboni- 
ferous and Silurian Rocks, 190; Geological and Natural His- 
tory Survey of Canada, Alfred R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S, 242 ; 
Geology of Prince Edward Island, Francis Bain, 259; Inter- 
national Geological Congress at Berlin, 278 ; Geological Con- 
gress at Berlin, 551 ; Geology of the Philippines, 302; Geo- 
lozy of the Breidden Hills, W. W. Watts, 310; Notes on 
Deep Boring at Richmond, Surrey, Prof. Judd, F.R.S., and 
C. Homersham, 310; Correlations of the ‘‘ Curiosity-Shop ” 
Beds, New Zealand, Capt. Hutton, 311 ; Geology in America, 
374; ‘‘ Annuaire Géologique Universel et Guide du Geology 
autour de la Terre,” Dr. Dagincourt, 436; Address by Prof, 
J. W. Judd, F.R.S., at the British Association on, 453, 4723 
Geology of Antigua, Purves, 553; W. Whitaker, on Deep 
Borings at Chatham, a Contribution to the Deep-Seated 
Geology of the London Basin, 555 ; Hugh Miller, on some 
Results of a Detailed Survey of the Old Coast-Lines near 
Trondhjem, Norway, 555 ; Dr. J. C. Howden, on the Glacial 
Deposits of Montrose, 555 ; G. H. Kinahan, on [rish Meta- 
morphic Rocks, 5553; Prof. Frank Clowes, on Barium 
Sulphate as a Cementing Material in Sandstone, 555; Sir 
Richard Owen, F.R.S., on American Evidences of Eocene 
Mammals of the ‘‘ Plastic Clay”’ Period, 556; Dr. Max 
Schuster, on some Results of the Crystallographic Study of 
Danburite, 556; Edward Hull, F.R.S., Notice of an Outline 
Geological Map of Lower Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and Pales- 
tine, 556; Dr. R. EH. Traquair, F.R.S., a Preliminary Note 
on a New Fossil Reptile recently discovered at New Spynie, 
near Elgin, 556; Rev. E. Hill, on the Average Density of 
Meteorites compared with that of the Earth, 556; Prof. 
Edward Hull, F.R.S., on the Occurrence of Lower Old Red 
Conglomerate in the Promontory of the Fanad, Noith 
Donegal, 556; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., on Bastite- 
Serpentine and Troktolite in Aberdeenshire, with a Note on 
the Rock of the Black Dog, 555; Lieut.-Col. Playfair, on 
the Re-discovery of Lost Numidian Marbles in Algeria and 
Tunis, 556; Prof. A. Renard, on some Rock-Specimens from 
the Islands of the Fernando Noronha Group, 556; Prof. T. 
G, Bonney, F.R.S., on some Traverses of the Crystalline 
District of the Central Alps, 557; Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, 
on the Direction of Glaciation as ascertained by the Form of 
the Striz, 557; B. N. Peach and J. tElorne, on the Geoloyy 
cf Durness and Eriboll, with Special Reference to the High- 
land Controversy, 558 ; Chas. Lapworth, on the Highland 
Controversy in British Geology—its Causes, Course, and Con- 
sequences, 558; W. Ivison Macadam, on Certain Diatoma- 
ceous Deposits (Diatomite) from the Peat of Aberdeenshire, 
559; Prof. G. A. Lebour, on some Re-ent Earthquakes on 
the Downbam Coast, and their Probable Causes, 559 ; Prof. H. 
Carvill Lewis, on some Examples of Pressure-Fluxion in Penn- 
sylvania, 559; Geology of the Nerich Peninsula, Andrusoff on, 
580; Application of Thermo-Chemistry to Explanation of 
