FIS 
Finch, J., geology of Pennsylvania, 
Easton, viii, 236.f 
: , Vicinity of West- 
chester, xiv, 15. 
New York, St. Law- 
rence Co., xix, 220. 
— , tertiary forma- 
tions of the borders of the Hud- 
son, X, 227. 
, sandstone, new or variegated, 
of the U. States, x, 209.f 
, U. States tertiary formations, 
vil, ol. 
, physical geography, influence 
of, on the boundaries of nations, 
xiv, 18; xvi, 99. 
Finland, comforts of traveling in, 
iii, 878. 
Fire, Chinese, on the composition 
of, J. Cutbush, vii, 118. 
, Greek, J. Cutbush on, vi, 302. 
in chimneys, extinguishment 
of, by sulphur, xix, 186. 
, on protection from, or secur- 
86 
ing houses against, xxv, 290; 
xxvi, 286. 
, whirlwinds produced by, 
xxxvl, 50. 
arms, manufacture of, by E. 
Whitney, xxi, 237. 
Firebricks, made at Bennington, 
Vt., for the iron furnace, xxxii, 
195; xxxiil, 202. 
Fire damp, chemical examination 
of, E. Turner, xxxvii, 201. 
Firemen, preservation of, against 
fire by asbestus, xviil, 177; xx,96.f 
Firestones, used in glass manufac- 
tories, notice of, x, 19. 
, localities of, in the U. States, 
x, 20. 
: , in Rhode Island, viii, 
232; x, 20; xl, 184. 
Fish, double, S. Churchill, 
116.£ 
of Hudson river, xx, 150. 
, Chinese method of hatching, 
vill, 381. 
» preserved by sugar, vili, 391. 
» fall of, from the atmosphere 
in India, M. Prinsep, xxxii, 199. 
XXVIl, 
FIS 
Fish, the limits of their occurrence 
in high latitudes, vi, 383. 
, removal from salt to fresh 
water, xl, 405. 
, see farther under Zoology. 
, fossil, remarks on, R. 
Murchison, xxxiv, 46. 
3 , of England and Scot- 
land, xxvii, 75. 
, , American, W. C. Red- 
field, xli, 24. 
» ——, identified from 
fossil teeth, LZ. Agassiz, xxviii, 
276. 
; , in the Connecticut val- 
I. 
ley, E. Hitchccock, vi, 76.‘ 
; , at Sunderland, 
Wega. E. Hitchcock, iii, 222, 365. 
5 , at Middletown, 
D. Te H., xxxiv, 198. 
>— , at Southbury, 
Xxvil, 358. 
, , in New Jersey, W. C. 
Redfield, xxxvi, 186; xliv, 134° ; 
xlv, 314. 
, and Connecticut, 
identical, W. C. Redfield, xxxvi, 
186. 
, : ,in red sand- 
stone, Prof. Gale, xxxv, 192. 
; ,in Pennsylvania, at 
Blossburg, Holoptychus nobilis- 
simus, xlii, 283. 
‘ , in Virginia, W.C. Red- 
field, xxxiv, 201. 
5 , see farther under Zo- 
ology. 
Fishes, notice of L. Agassiz’s works 
on, xxviii, 198; xxxiv, 46, 212; 
xxxix, 3890; xlv, 211. 
, abstract of Agassiz’s work 
on fossil, xxx, 33. 
, notice of W. Yarrell’s British, 
xxxvil, 167. 
Fish skins, new mode of preserving 
for museums, xxxvi, 196. 
Fisher, A. M., on pete temper- 
ament, i, of, 176.£ 
, on improvements in the con- 
struction of the Buane press, 
and its thease iii, 311.f 
