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INDEX. 



Ewart (Prof. J. C.) on the occupation of 

 a table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 344 ; *on an abnormal horse's 

 foot, 756 ; *on sea fisheries, 763 ; *on 

 cranial ganglia, 786. 



Ewing (Prof. J. A.) on the advisability 

 and possibility of establishing obser- 

 vations upon the prevalence of earth 

 tremors, 343 ; a magnetic curve tracer, 

 653. 



•Exact vfeighing, Dr. J. Gibson on, 690. 



External ear, a use of the. Prof. A. Crum 

 Brown on, 754. 



Extinction of fires in ships' holds, H. C. 

 Carver on the, 883. 



♦Facial characters of the ancient Egyp- 

 tians, Prof. A. Macalister on some, 912. 



Farmer (Prof. J. B.) report to the Com- 

 mittee for taking steps to establish a 

 botanical laboratory at Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, 364. 



•Fern seedling, an aposporous, C. T. 

 Druery on, 747. 



Ferro-manganese, alloys of aluminium 

 with, T. W. Hogg on, 671. 



Fires in ships' holds, the extinction of, 

 H. C. Carver on, 883. 



Firth of Forth, physical geography of 

 the, by Dr. H. R. Mill, 813. 



Fish, the food of, by W. R. Smith, 772. 



. — , immature, on the destruction of, 

 and on remedial measures : Part I. 

 Introductory statement, by W. L. 

 Calderwood, 763; Part II. On the 

 relation of size to sexual maturity: (i) 

 North Sea grounds, by E. W. L. Holt, 

 765 ; (ii) Plymouth district, by W. L. 

 Calderwood, 767; Part III. The pro- 

 tection of immature fish, by J. T. 

 Cunningham, ib. ; Part IV. (i) On the 

 destruction of immature fish in the 

 North Sea, 768 ; (ii) On remedial 

 measures, by E. W. L. Holt, 771. 



Fitzgerald (Prof. G. F.) on electrolysis 

 in its physical and chemical bearings, 

 72 ; on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 132; *an estimate of 

 the rate of propagation of magnetisa- 

 tion on iron, 660. 



Flame, experiments on, by Prof. A. 

 Smithells, 674. 



Flame spectra, experiments on, b}' Prof. 

 A. Smithells, 645. 



Fleming (Dr. J. A.) on electrolysis in its 

 physical and chemical bearings, 72 ; 

 on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 132. 



•Fleming (Dr. S.) on the advantage of 

 making astronomical time agree with 

 civil time, 636. 



Flexible metallic tubing, by G. R. Red- 

 grave, 870. 



Flower (Sir W. H.) on editing a new 



edition of ' Anthropological Notes and 

 Queries,' 537 ; on the natives of India, 

 616; on the work of the anthropometric 

 laboratory, 618. 



Fog signals, motors used for, in the 

 northern lighthouse service, by D. A. 

 Stevenson, 879. 



•Forbes (Prof. G.), the application of 

 destructors, especially to the electric 

 lighting of Edinburgh, 860. 



Forbes (H. O.) *on a series of extinct 

 birds of New Zealand, recently dis- 

 covered, 760; "a recent visit to the 

 Chatham Islands, and some points in 

 connection with geographical distri- 

 bution, 819 ; *on the contemporaneity 

 of man and the moa, 910. 



Formosa, rainfall in, and some of the 

 efl^ects on the island and mainland of 

 China, by J. Thomson, 811. 



Forth and Clyde ship canal, proposed, by 

 D. A. Stevenson, 863. 



Fossil arctic plants found near Edinburgh, 

 by C. Reid, 716. 



Fossil phyllopoda of the palasozoic rocks, 

 ninth report on the, 298. 



Foster (Dr. C. Le Neve) on underground 

 temperature, 129. 



Foster (Prof. G. C.) on electrolj'sis in its 

 physical and chemical bearings, 72 ; 

 on the phenomena accompanying the 

 discharge of electricity from points, 

 ib. ; on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 132. 



Foster (Prof. M.) on the occupation of 

 a table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 344 ; on the occupation of a 

 table at the laboratory of the Marine 

 Biological Association at Plymouth, 

 356 ; on the steps taken to establish a 

 botanical laboratory at Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, 363. 



Fowle (Rev. T. W.), the poor law : can it 

 be maintained? 839. 



Frankland (Prof. E.) on electrolysis in its 

 physical and chemical bearings, 72. 



Fremantle (Sir C. W.), Address to the 

 Economic Science and Statistics Sec- 

 tion by, 822. 



Friend (Rev. H.), the earthworms of 

 Great Britain, 790. 



Friendly Islands, or Tonga, the past and 

 present condition of the natives of the, 

 by R. B. Leefe, 903. 



Friendly societies and old-age pensions, 

 by Rev. J. F. Wilkinson, 839. 



Fritsch (Prof. G.) on the origin of the 

 electric nerves in the torpedo gym- 

 notus, mormyrus, and malopterurus, 

 757. 



Fronto-limbic formation of the human 

 cerebrum. Dr. L. Manouvrier on a, 897. 



Fullers' Earth Mining Co., the, at Woburn 

 Sands, by A. C. G. Cameron, 711. 



