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INDEX 



[Nature, May 27, 18S0 



Fautrier (Signor), on Forms produced by the Italian Alphabet in 

 the Phonograph, 21 



Favre (Prof. Pierre Antoine), Obituary Notice of, 417 



Faye's Cornet, 331 



Fayrer (Sir Joseph, F.R.S.), Epidemic-, 229 



Felyx-Denys-Kapontayabo, his Letter to the Anthropological 

 Society of Paris, 19 



Fermentation, Pasteur's Studies on, 274 



Fertilisers of Alpine Flowers, Dr. Hermann Muller, 275 



Fertility of Hybrids from the Common and Chinese Goose, 

 Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 207; Lewis Wright, 302 



Fievez (M.), on Spectroscopy, 18S ; Experiments on the Spectra 

 Nebula;, 576 



Figuier (Madame Louis), Death of, 140 



Filaments and Ice-Crystals, Rev. O. Fisher, 302, 396 ; Prof. D. 

 Wetterhan, 396 



Finnic Ethnology, A. H. Keane, 179 



Fire produced by the Friction of Wood, 423 



Fire-Flies and Weaver Birds, E. L. Layard, 201 



Fishes: Voice in, S. E. Peal, 55; Platysomid, R. H. Traquair, 

 55 ; the Animal Heat of, 156 ; Strange Incubation in. Dr. R. 

 F. Hutchin-on, 226; Fossil, of Scotland, Dr. K. H. Traquair, 

 428; Fish Culture Association of America, 500; Fish Exhi- 

 bition in Berlin, 596 



Fisher (Rev. C), Ice-Crystals and Filaments, 302, 396 



" Flame," Blowpipe, Electricity of the, Col. W. A. Ross, 275 ; 



Flax, West Australian, Large Demand for, 141 



Fletcher (Thomas), his Scientific Meetings, 163 ; the Audiphone, 



5'5 



Fleuss's Process of Diving and remaining under Water, Dr. B. 

 W. Richardson, F.R.S., 62 



Flies, Kolumbacs, and Hungarian Earthquakes, Julius Petho, 

 202 



Flora of Plymouth, Publication of a, 262 



Flora, Cryptogamic, of Silesia, W. R. McNab, 391 



Florida Burial Mounds, "Finds" in the, 596 



How of Viscous Materials, R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 202 



Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.), "Osteology of Man," 222; 

 Cranial Measurements, 249 



Flower's History of the Tin Trade, 345 



Flowers, Alpine, Fertilisers of, Dr. Hermann Muller, 275 



Fluorescent Spectrum, the Study of the, 267 . 



Fogs, 355 



Fonvielle's (M. W. de) New Novel " Neridah," 232; Gas and 

 Electricity in Paris, 2S2 ; Disencumbering the Loire of Ice, 

 35S ; and Lontin's Magnetic Gyroscope, 573, 593 



Foibes (Prof. George), the Comet 1861 I., 562 



Forbes (H. O.), Cocos or Keeling Island, 11S 



F"orce and Momentum, 10S 



l'orce, Lines of, due to a Small Magnet, John Buchanan, 370 



Forel (Dr. F. A.), on the Lake of Geneva being Frozen, 306; 

 Tidal Phenomenon in Lake Constance, 443 



Fore-ts of Tasmania, Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods, 573 



Forrest (Mr. Alex.), his Expedition in Western Australia, 165 



Fortune (Robert), Death of, 599 



F'os-ils, Silurian, in the Curlew Mountains, Prof, E. Hull, 

 F.R.S., 32 ; G. H. Kinahan, 55 



Fo-sil Lover-, 161 



Fossil Treasures at Vale College, Prof. Marsh, 2S7 



Fossil Hordes of Constantine, 309 



F'ossil Fishes of Scotland, Dr. R. II. Traquair, 428 



France: Education in, 115, 361, 617; Upper Devonian Rocks 

 of the North of, 164; the New French Cable for America, 

 307 ; French Expedition for Exploring Sahara, 310 ; Arrange- 

 ments for the Reception of Prof. Nordenskjbld in, 409 ; 

 Observatories in, 451 ; Societe Savantes, 547 ; French Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, Gilt to, 573 ; Sewage 

 Farming in, 617 : see also Paris 



Frankland (Sophie), Intellect in Brutes, 82 



Franklin Institute, see Journal 



Frazer (W. ), Bone-sucking, a Habit of Cattle, 12 



Fredericq (Prof. Leon), Diffusion of Copper in the Animal 

 Kingdom, 370 



Freezing of Water, Directions for the Artificial, 243 



Freezing of Large Surfaces of Water, Notes on, 424 



Freiburg, Fata Morgana seen at, 2S6 



Friction of Wood, Fire produced by, 423 



Frictional Electricity, Novel Source of, Prof, W. F. Barrett, 417 



Fritsch (Dr. Ant.), " Fauna der Gaskohleundder Kalksteine der 

 Permformation Bohmens," 31 



Fritsche (Dr. H.), the Climate of Eastern Asia, 175 



Frog, the Coloured Blood Corpuscles of the. 453 



Frost of December, 1879, W. Marriott, 435 



Frost, Damage by, in the Paris Parks, 501 



Fuchs (Th.), Imperfection of the Geological Record, 476 



Fuller (J. B.), the Science of Agriculture, 200 



Galileo and the Application of Mathematics to Physics, Prof. 

 Wm. Jack, LL.D., 40, 58 



Galls, Oak, 445 



Galton (Francis, F.R.S.), Visualised Numerals, 252, 323, 494 



Galtqn (J. G), Further Notes upon the Papuans of Maclay Coast, 

 New Guinea, 204, 226 



Galvani, Monument to, in Bologna, 19, 47 



Galvanic Battery, New, with Circulating Liquid, 360 



Galvanic Elements, Inconstant, 288 



Galvanometer, a New Form of, 576 



Gamgee (Arthur, F. R.S.), " A Note on Protagon," 387 



Gardner (J. Starkie), on the Eocene Flora of Bournemouth, 

 181 ; on the Alum Bay Flora, 5SS 



Garnett (W.), Obituary Notice of Prof. Clerk Maxwell, 43 



Gas-lighting in Paris, some Statistics of, 140 



Gas and Electricity in Paris, W. de Fonvielle, 2S2 



Gases : on the Solubility of Solids in, by J. B. Hannav and 

 James Hogarth, S2 ; on the Nature of the Absorption of, Dr. 

 S. Wroblewski, 190 ; Molecular Velocity of, 201 ; L. HajnH, 

 302 ; Refraction of Liquefied, 243 ; the Solubility of, in 

 Solids, Hannay and Hogarth, 499 



Gaseous Nebula, Discovery of a, Rev. T. W. Webb, in 



"Gastric Mill" of the Crayfish, W. E. Roth, 395 



Gaule (J.), on the Coloured Blood-corpuscles of the Frog, 453 



Gauss (C. F.), R. Tucker, 467 



Gautier (Adolphe), the St. Gothard Tunnel, 5S1 



Gazetta Chimica Italians, 27, 146, 218, 433 



Geese, Chinese, 207, 302 



Gegenkuir's Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 169, 530 



Geikie (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Geology of the Far West, 67; 

 Geological Survey of the United States, 612 



Geissler Tubes, Re-earches with, 72 



Geneva : Jade Scraper discovered at, Prof. Max Muller on, 

 187; Society of Physics and Natural History, 315; Inter- 

 national Exhibition of Clocks and Watches at, 330 



Geodesy : Col. A. B. Clarke's Treatise on, Major J. Herschel, 

 605 



Geography: Geographical Notes, 22,49, 73, 92, 118, 142, 165, 

 189, 216, 241, 265, 2SS, 310, 331, 360, 385, 409, 455, 476, 

 526, 549, 577, 59S, 619 ; Geographical Society of Russia, 22, 

 1 iS, 522, 620 ; Works recently Published by, 23 ; Isvestia of, 

 311; Medals of the, 428 ; Royal Geographical Society, 49, 

 265, 455, 619; Journal, 22, 427; Reception of Prof. 

 Nordenskjbld, 504 ; Medals, 598, 619 ; Col Gordon elected 

 an Honorary Corresponding Member of, 360; Proceedings, 

 550 ; Geographical Congresses in France, 266 



Geology : Prof. Geikie on the Geology of the Far West, 67 ; 

 "Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel," Prof. New- 

 berry's, 141 ; Geological Survey of the United States, 197, 

 332, 476; Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 612 ; Geological 

 Society, 75, 171, 194, 219, 291, 38S, 459, 506, 57S ; Anni- 

 versary Meeting of, 406 ; Geological Madrigal, Bret Harte's, 

 161 ; Geological Notes, 164, 241, 287, 332, 425, 475, 576 ; 

 Geology of the Henry Mountains, 177; of the Lower Aim- 

 z ins, Orville A. Derby, 188 ; of Greece, 192 ; of Belgium, 425; 

 of Herzegovina and Bosnia, 426 ; Geological Survey of Sax- 

 ony, 475 ; Geological Survey of India, 475 ; Geological 

 Record, Imperfection of the, Th. Fuchs, 476 ; Geologists' 

 Association on the Hampshire Coast, 590 



Geometrical Figures, Change in Apparent Position of, Wm. 

 Ackroyd, 108 



Geometry, Fundamental Definitions and Propositions of, with 

 especial Reference to the Syllabus of the Association for the 

 Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, Prof. Simon New- 

 c-nnh, 293 



Gerland (Dr.), his Discovery of Original Letters by Leibnitz and 

 Papin, 19 



German Anthropological Congress at Berlin, 2S5 



German African Society, 360, 451 



Gibson (Alex. S.), Electric Lighting, 132 



Giglioli (Prof. Henry Hillyer), on Ha'oporfhyrus lepid'un, 201 ; 

 en the "Habitat" of Lophiomys, 201 



