INDEX. 
investigation of the biology of oceanic 
islands, 487. 
—— on the compilation of an index 
generum et specierum animalium, 489. 
-——on zoological bibliography and pub- 
lication, 490. 
Fluorescence and the absorption of rays, 
John Burke on, 731. 
*FLUx (A. W.), Comparison of the age- 
distribution of town and country popu- 
lation in different lands by, 880. 
FOKKER (Prof. A. P.) on the basis of the 
bacteriological theory founded upon | 
observations upon the fermentation of 
milk, 986. 
Folklore as ethnological data, the method 
of determining the value of, G. Lau- 
rence Gomme on, 626. 
in Galloway, Rev. Dr. W. Gregor on, 
612. 
Food and bacteria, Dr. A. A. Kanthack 
on, 985. 
Foorp (A, H.) on life zones in the British 
Carboniferous rocks, 415. 
FoRBES (G.) on practical electrical | 
standards, 150. 
— (H. 0.) on the structure of a coral 
reef, 377. 
on the marine zoology, botany, and 
geology of the Irish Sea, 417. 
—— on Post Office regulations regarding 
the carriage of Natural History 
specimens to foreign countries, 477. 
—— on the necessity for the immediate 
investigation of the biology of oceanic 
islands, 487. 
Ford, on the west of Bidston Hill, a 
boring in the Red Marl at, G. H. 
Morton on, 780. 
Forsytu (Prof. A. R.) on the calculation 
of the G (x, v)-integrals, 70. 
Foster (A. de Neve) on the B.A. scren- 
gauge, 527, 536. 
— (Dr. C. Le Neve) on the structure 
of a coral reef, 377. 
—— (Prof. G. C.) on the establishment of 
a National Physical Laboratory, 82. 
—— on practical electrical standards, 
150. 
—— (Prof. M.) on the occupation of a 
table atthe Zoological Station at Naples, | 
478. 
on investigations made at the Marine 
Biological Association laboratory at | 
Plymouth, 485. 
FOWLER (William) on the standard of 
value and price, 884. 
Fox (Sir Douglas), Address to the 
Section of Mechanical Science by, 886. | 
Fracture of railway rails, W. W. Beau- 
mont on the cause of, 896. 
*Francis (Dr. F. E.) on abnormalities in 
the behaviour of ortho-derivatives of 
o-amido-and nitro-benzylamine, 756, 
1035 
| FRANKLAND (Prof. Percy) on the elec- 
trolytic methods of 
analysis, 244. 
FRASER (James) on the character of the 
high-level shell-bearing deposits at Kin- 
tyre, 378. 
Fresh-water biological station, the neces- 
sity for a, D. J. Scourfield on, 831. 
Fungi associated with Corallorhiza 
innata, R.Br., A. Vaughan Jennings on, 
1011. 
‘Futures,’ mercantile markets for, E. 
Helm on, 880. 
—— grain, their effects and tendencies, 
H. R. Rathbone on, 881. 
_— cotton, what they are, and how they 
operate in practice, C. Stewart on, 881. 
—_—— the influence of business in, on trade 
and agriculture, J. Silverberg on, 882. 
quantitative 
Galloway, Rev. Dr. W. Gregor on folk- 
lore in, 612. 
*GALT (Alex.) Lord KELVIN and Dr. 
MAGNUS MACLEAN on the commu- 
nication of electricity from electrified 
steam to air, 721. 
GALTON (Sir Douglas), on the work of 
the Corresponding Societies Committee, 
31. 
on the establishment of a National 
Physical Laboratory, 82. 
on the physical and mental defects 
of children in schools, 592. 
(Francis) on the work of the 
Corresponding Societies Committee, 31. 
on the establishment of a National 
Physical Laboratory, 82. 
on an ethnographical survey of the 
United Kingdom, 607. 
GARDINER (W.) on the preservation of 
plants for exhibition, 684. 
GARSON (Dr. J. G.) on the work of the 
Corresponding Societies Committee, 31. 
—— onthe physical and mental defects 
of children tn schools, 592. 
on an ethnographical survey of the 
United Kingdom, 607. 
on the proportions of the human 
body, 927. 
GARSTANG (Walter) on the function of 
certain diagnostic characters of De- 
capod Crustacea, 828. 
GaArwoop (E. J.) on the collection of 
photographs of geological interest in 
the United Kingdom, 357. 
on life-zones in the British Carbo- 
niferous rocks, 415. 
Gases, the kinetic theory of, some diffi- 
culties connected with, G. H. Bryan 
on, 721. 
GASKELL (Dr. W. H.) Address to the 
Section of Physiology by, 942. 
Gauge for small screws, the British 
Association. See‘ Serem Gauge.’ 
