GENERAL INDEX. 
145 
Eyesight and colour-blindness of bogs at 
Marlborough College, report by Mr. C. 
Roberts on, observations on, 1881, 26 S 
- Inspector- General Lawson on test¬ 
ing, 1881, 261 
-- observations on, by C. Roberts, 1884, 
279 
Eyre (G. E. Briscoe), cottagers and open 
wastes in the district of the New Forest, 
1882, 645 
- (General Sir Vincent) on the desir¬ 
ability of an exploration being made of 
the district between the Brahmaputra, 
the Upper Irawadi, and the Yang-tse- 
Kiang, 1868, 430 
Fabrics, mixed, J. Spiller on the discri¬ 
mination of fibres in, 1870, 64 
Facial characteristics of the races and 
principal crosses hi the British Isles, 
report of the Committee for defining 
the, and for obtaining illustrative pho¬ 
tographs with a view to their publica¬ 
tion, 1883, 306 ; 1884, 294 
Facing-point lock, Luke’s patent safety, 
for securing railway facing-points, R. 
Luke on, 1874, 224 
* Facing-points, M. Evans on a safety- 
lock for, 1876, 223 
Factions, Prof. Cayley on the analytical 
forms called, 1875, 10 
Factor table for the fourth million, ac¬ 
count of the calculation of the, 1878, 172 
- see 4 Mathematical Tables.’ 
Factorials, J. W. L. Glaisher on the func¬ 
tion that stands in the same relation to 
Bernoulli’s numbers that the gamma- 
function does to, 1872, 17 
Factories and Workshops Acts, the, past 
and present, G. H. L. Rickards on, 1890, 
927 
Factors of safety, W. B. Marshall on, 1890, 
960 
Factory Acts, a proposed reduction to 
system of the 4 modifications,’ or pri¬ 
vileges to work overtime, which are 
granted to particular trades under the, 
Sir G. Young, Bart., on, 1877, 185 
—— Acts, R. W. Cooke-Taylor on the, 
1884, 853 
-industries, the suitability of small 
towns for, R. R. Tanner on, 1888, 767 
^Fahlberg (Dr.), saccharine, the new 
sweet product from coal-tar, 1887, 649 
Fairbairn (William), Presidential Ad¬ 
dress at Manchester, 1861, li 
- report on steamship performance, 
1861, 190 ; 1862, 282 ; 1863, 339 
- on the resistance of iron plates to 
statical pressure and the force of i mpact 
by projectiles at high velocities, 1861, 
280 ; report to determine the effect of 
vibratory action and long - continued 
changes of load upon wrought - iron 
girders, 286 
Fairbairn (William) on the temperature 
of the earth’s crust, as exhibited by 
thermometrical returns obtained dur¬ 
ing the sinking of the deep mine at 
Dukinfield, 1861, 53 
- on the mechanical properties of iron 
projectiles at high velocities, 1862, 178 
-Address to the Mechanical Section, 
1862, 178 
- report on the application of gun¬ 
cotton to warlike purposes, 1863, 1 ; 
1865, 264 
- preliminary investigation of the 
mechanical properties of the proposed 
Atlantic cable, 1864, 408 
- on the strength of materials consi¬ 
dered in relation to the construction of 
iron ships, 1865, 243 
-on india-rubber and gutta-percha as 
insulators for submarine telegraphic 
cables, 1865, 14 ; on some of the causes 
of the failure of deep-sea cables, and 
experimental researches on the per¬ 
manency of their insulators, 178 
--- meteorological and physical observa¬ 
tions in three balloon ascents made in 
1865 and 1866, 1866, 367 
-on the means employed for removing 
and replacing in a new position the 
iron columns of a fireproof cotton mill, 
1866, 141 
-- on the analysis and condensation of 
the information contained in the reports 
of the 4 Steamship Performance ’ Com¬ 
mittee, and other sources of information 
on the same subject, 1867, 58 ; 1868, 114 
1869, 330 ; experimental researches on 
the mechanical properties of steel, 1867, 
161 ; 1869, 96 
- on a uniformity of weights and 
measures, 1868, 484 ; 1869, 308 ; [Sir 
W.] 1870, 232 ; 1871, 198 ; 1872, 25 
-—— on steam-boiler explosions, 1869, 47 ; 
1870, 1 ; 1871, 166 ; 1872, 57 
- on underground temperature, 1870,3 1 
Fairlie (R. F.), on the gauge of the 
railways of the future, 1870, 215 
-on the gauge for railways, 1871, 234 
f——- (Thomas) on the action of hydro¬ 
gen on polycyanides, 1864, 26 
*-on the reactions of cyanogen, note 
on glycocine, with tables, 1865, 29 
- on polyatomic cyanides, 1868, 519 
-on cyanogen, 1870, 54 ; on the dis¬ 
tillation of sulphuric acid, 55 
-on chlorine, hj'pochlorous acid, &c , 
and peroxide of hydrogen, 1874, 57 ; on 
perchloric acid, 58 
——- on the separation of lead, silver, and 
mercury, with a proposed process for 
the estimation of lead, 1875, 42 ; on a 
new method of preparing periodates. 
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