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INDEX 
Xill 
Evolution of the Phanerogams, MM. Marion and Saporta, 
J. Starkie Gardner, 289; Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 
364 
Evolution of Vegetation, J. Clayton, 223 
Ewald (Prof.), Lactic Acid in the Gastric Juice, 24 
Exact Sciences, Clifford’s Common Sense of the, Prof. P. G. 
Tait, 124, 196 
Excursions et Reconnaissances de Saigon, 88 
Exhibition of Labour at Paris, 401 
Experimental Farming, 224; on a Field at Rothamsted, Prof. 
J. Wrightson, 58 
Explorations, Recent, of the Pamir, 59 
Explosion, the Hell-Gate, 575; and Rackarock, Dr. H. 
Sprengel, F.R.S., 625 
Eyes, Insects’, Mr. Lowne on the Morphology of, Dr. E. A. 
Schafer, F.R.S., 3 
Fairlie (Robert F.), Death of, 328 
Farming, British Dairy, James Long, Prof. John Wrightson, 
571 
Farming, Experimental, 224 
Faroe Islands: Disappearance of a well-known Landmark, 
“The Monk,” 404. 
Fascine Dwellings in Europe, 588 
Fat, Formation in the Animal Body, Dr. J. Munk, 335 
Fauna, Freshwater, Silesian, Dr. P. Zacharias, 160 
Fauna of Russian Central Asia, Rev. Dr. Henry Lansdell, 56 
Fauna of the Seashore, Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 212, 
417; Arthur R. Hunt, 243, 390; W. R. Hughes, 294 
Fauna of Shallow Seas, Influence of Wave-Currents on the, 
Arthur R. Hunt, 547 
Fauna of Trans-Alay, 335 
Faye (M.), 61; the Stadia of the Earth’s History, 132; ‘*Sur 
VOrigine du Monde,” 132; Typhoons, 408 ; Hirn on Cre- 
puscular Lights, 432 ; on the Cyclonic Character of the Solar 
Spots, 495 
Féa (M. Leonardo), Expedition to Burmah, 87 
Feilberg’s (Col.), Exploration of Pilcomayo River, 64 
Ferghana, Earthquakes in, 515 
Fernando Noronha (Islands), Prof. A. Renard, on some Rock 
Specimens from the, 556 
Ferran’s (Dr.), Experiments on Inoculation for Cholera, 62 ; 
Conclusions of the Commission on, 608; Dr. E. Klein, 
F.R.S., on, 617 
Fertilisation, the Role of Wind in, M. Alluard, 134 
Fibre, Structure of the Wool, in its Relation to the Use of Wool 
for Technical Purposes, Dr. F. H. Bowman, 265 
Fidget, the Measure of, 174 
Field Club, Bath Natural History and Antiquarian, 12 
Field Club, the Essex, 34 
Field Experiments at Rothamsted, Prof. J. Wrightson, 58 
Fifeshire, Discovery of a Cemetery of the Stone Age in, 401 
Films, Liquid, Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 210 
Filter Paper, Spreading of Various Saline Solutions on, J. U. 
Lloyd, 87 
Finite and Real, a New Example of the Use of the Infinite and 
Imaginary in the Service of the, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 
103 
Finmarken, Norwegian Expedition to, 114 
Finsbury Technical College, Conversazione at, 278; Student- 
ships at, 354 
Finscte(Dr.), Return of, 252 
Fireball, W. F. Denning, 466 
Firth of Forth, Temperature of Water in, H. R. Mill, 70; 
Monograph of the Algze of the, George William Traill, 101 
Fischer (Dr.), Morphology of the Mediterranean Coasts, 163 
Fish, Flying, Alfred Carpenter, 147; in United States, 
Acclimatisation of Flat Fish, 514; Fish in the Colonial 
Exhibition, 515; Do Fish Sleep?, W. A. Carter, 580; 
Value of a Marine Laboratory to the Development and 
Regulation of Sea Fisheries, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 
65; Reports of the United States Commission of Fish and 
Fisheries for 1881-1882, J. T. Cunningham, 79 ; Norwegian 
Fisheries, 114 ; Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scot- 
land for 1884, 281 ; Foreign Fishes at Wansford, Capt. Vipan’s 
Aquarium of, 541; Fish Culture, 134; National Fish 
Culture Association, 85, 299, 580, 609; Fish Culture at the 
Inventions Exhibition, 36, 63 ; Importation into England of 
German Carp, 553 ; Incubation of Salmon Ova by the N. F. C. 
Association for the Severn Fishery Board, 609 ; Fish Culture 
in Tasmania, Saville Kent, 634; Fisheries in America, 
Germany, Belgium, and Holland, Diminution of, 553; 
Origin of the Fishes of the Sea of Galilee, Prof. Hull, 563 
Fishermen, Superstitions of the Straits, 541 
Fitzgerald (Prof. Geo. Fras.), Sir Wm. Thomson and Maxwell’s 
Electro-Magnetic Theory of Light, 4 
Five Mathematical Rarities, 30 
Fjords, How the North-Norway, were made, Karl Pettersen, 
177 
Fleming (Dr. J. A.), a Form of Standard Daniell Cell, 263 
Flers-en-Escrebieux, Earthquake at, 207 
Fletcher (James), Canadian Entomology, III 
Fletcher (L.), Guide to the Universal Gallery of the British 
Museum (Natural History), 364 
Fletcher (Thos.), ‘Smokeless Houses and Manufactories,” 
134 
Flint-Knappers: A. J, Evans, F.S.A., on the Flint-Knappers’ Art 
in Albania, 588 
Floating Dome, the Nice, 297 
Flora of Bank-Notes, 8 
Flora of Canada, Alfred W. Bennett, 294 
“Flora of the English Lake District,” J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 75 
Flora of Tropical America, Mr. Lehmann’s Researches into the, 
514 
Floras, Mesozoic, of the Rocky Mountain Region of Canada, 
Sir William Dawson, F.R.S., 164 
Flying Fish, Alfred Carpenter, 147 
Flying Machines, L. Hargrave, 432 
Fcetus, Transmission of Pathogenetic Microbes by Mother to, 
Koubassoff, 432 
Fog, Preventing Collisions with Icebergs in a, Prof. Alex. 
Graham Bell, 273 
Fol et Sarasin (MM.), on the Depth to which the Sun’s 
Light will penetrate into the Sea, 132 
Fol (Dr. Herman), ‘‘ Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden Mikroskopis- 
chen Anatomie,” Dr. E. Klein, 293 
Folk-Lore, the Ceylon ‘‘ Orientalist,’” 208; J. Theodore Bent 
on Greek Insular Customs, 587 
Fontainebleau, Meteor seen at, E. P. Mounier, 496 
Foot of the Horse, on the Development of the, Prof. Struthers, 
60 
mashes (Henry O.), ‘‘ Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern 
Archipelago,” Alfred R. Wallace, 218; Expedition to New 
Guinea, 552 
Forbes (William Alexander), ‘In Memoriam,” 387 
Forbes Memorial Volume, 387 
Forecasting by Means of Weather Charts, 392 
Forecasting of Barometric Variations, A. N. Pearson, 574 
Forel (Dr. F. A.), Sky-Glows, 173; Recent Earthquake in 
Switzerland, 295; Tremble-terre du 26 Septembre, 1885, 
574 ; Sub-Lacustrine Ravines of Glacial Streams, 640 
Forest Cultivation from Seeds in Sweden, 230 
Forestry, School of, Sir John Lubbock’s Proposal for a, 62 
Forests, Influence of, on Climate, 115 
Formosan Ethnology, 346 
Forster Herbarium, W. Botting Hemsley, 501 
Forth Bridge, Benjamin Baker, 430 
Fossil Flora of Carniola, the, Baron von Ettingshausen, 311 
Fossil Forests in Sweden, 402 
Fossil Insects, Dr. H. A. Hagen, 53 
Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Catalogue of, Part I., 
Richard Lydekker, 53; the Reviewer, 78 : 
Fossil Plants of the Tertiary and Secondary Beds of the United 
Kingdom, 504 : 
Foucault’s Apparatus for the Measurement of the Velocity of 
Light, M. Wolf's Modification of, Albert A. Michelson, 6 
Fouque’s Electrical Apparatus for Registering Propagation of 
Earthquakes, 254 
Foul Water, W. H. Shrubsole, 223 ; 
245; Isaac C. Thompson, 271 
Fowler, John, C. E., 426 
Fox (Dr. Courteney), on the Sequence of Mean Temperature 
and Rainfall in the Climate of London, 536 ; 
France: Geographical Society, 281 ; Nineteenth Anniversary 
of the Institut, 578; Annual Meeting, 633; French Asso- 
ciation, 252, 381; M. Giffard’s Bequest for the Benefit of 
Science to the French Government, 541. See a/so Paris. 
Herbert C. Chadwick, 
