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with application as a test for iodine 
and sodium, ib .; *on new solvents for 
gold, silver, platinum, &c., with an ex¬ 
planation of the so-called catalytic 
action of these metals and their salts 
on hydrogen dioxide, ib. ; *on the use 
of potassium dichromate in Grove’s 
and Bunsen’s batteries to ensure con¬ 
stancy, ib. 
*Fairlie (Thomas) on hydrogen peroxide 
and some uranium compounds, 1877, 51 ; 
*on the thermo-chemistry of oxygen, ib. 
. -on the blowing wells near Northal¬ 
lerton, 1881, 544 ; analyses of the water 
and gas therefrom, 60 r 
* -on vacuum injector pumps for use 
in chemical laboratories, 1887, 669 
-notes on the limits of the reactions 
for the detection of hydrogen dioxide, 
and the reactions for uranium, 1890, 
783 ; *011 a double aspirator, 785 
Faivre (Prof. E.) on annular incisions 
on mulberry trees, 1868, 95 
Falconer (Dr.) *on ossiferous caves in 
Malta, 1862, 195 ; *on the asserted 
plurality of species of existing Asiatic 
elephants, ib. 
* -on fossil and human remains of the 
Gibraltar cave, 1864, 53 
Falk (M.), elementary demonstration of 
the theorem of multiplication of deter¬ 
minants, 1878, 473 
Fallows (W.) on the origin of the Stock- 
ton and Darlington Railway, 1863, 153 
Family, C. Staniland Wake on the 
primitive human, 1878, 592 
Fantee languages, H. Clarke on the 
Ashantee and, 1873, 142 
Faraday (F. J.), considerations arising 
from Koch’s discovery of the bacillus 
of tuberculosis. 1882, 578 
Faraday's law of electrolysis with refer¬ 
ence to silver and copper, the verifica¬ 
tion of, W. IV. Shaw on, 1886, 318 
Farmers, small, the decline of, in York¬ 
shire and Lancashire, J. W. Ellis on, 
1870, 190 
- small, the condition of, and their 
position with reference to the land 
question, M. O’Brien on, 1878, 661 
Farms, the economy of large and small, 
W. Botly on, 1870, 188 
Farquharson (Mrs.) on the identifica¬ 
tion of the British mosses by their 
distinctive characters, 1885, 1063 
Farr (Dr. W.) on the recent improve¬ 
ments in the health of the British 
army, 1861, 219 
-Address to the Section of Economic 
Science and Statistics, 1864, 151 
* -life-tables, by the Swedish calcu¬ 
lating-machine, 1864, 165 
- on a uniformity of weights and 
measures, 1866, 352 ; 1867, 448 ; 1868, 
484 ; 1869, 308 ; 1870, 232 ; 1871, 198 ; 
1872, 25 ; 1874, 359 
Farr (Dr. W.) on international coinage, 
1869, 381 
- on the practicability of adopting a 
common measure of value in the assess¬ 
ment of direct taxation, 1876, 27 ; 
1878, 220 ; on the worli of the 
Anthropometric Committee, 1876, 266 ; 
1878, 152 ; 1879, 175 ; 1880, 120 ; 1881, 
225 
-on some doctrines of population, 
1877, 174 
- on Babbage's analytical machine , 
1878, 92 
Farrar (Rev. F. W.) on language and 
ethnology, 1865, 120 
-. on the teaching of science at the 
public schools, 1866, 72 
-(Rev. T.) on the fixity of the types 
of man, 1864, 143 
Farrer (J. A.) on savage and civilised 
warfare, 1879, 396 
* - (Sir T.), some notes on money, 
1887, 830 
Fas, in Morocco, J. Stirling on a visit to 
the holy city of, 1869, 168 
Fat of the animal body, J. B. Lawes 
and Dr. J. H. Gilbert on the sources of 
the, 1866, 41 
——- woman exhibiting in London, Sir 
D. Gibb on a, 1871, 152 
Fats, W. L. Carpenter on the presence of 
albumen in neutral, 1872, 71 
-- contributions to the analysis of, by 
Dr. J. Lewkowitsch, 1890, 787 
-the constitution of the natural, J. 
A. Wanklyn and W. Fox on, 1883, 470 
Fatty oils, the action of various, on 
copper, W. H. Watson on, 1877, 53 
-oils, ignition of cotton by saturation 
with, J. Galletly on the, 1872, 73 
Fault systems of Central and West 
Cornwall, J. H. Collins on the, 1880, 5 S 4 
Faulting and deposit in Carboniferous 
times in Craven, Yorkshire, R. H. 
Tiddeman on concurrent, with a note 
on Carboniferous reefs, 1889, 600 
Fauna of the Ashton-under-Lyne dis¬ 
trict, J. R. Byrom on the flora and, 
1883, 541 
* -Atlantic, Prof. Wyville Thomson 
on the palaeontological relations of the 
North, 1871, 134 
-of British India, and its relation to 
the Ethiopian and so-called Indian 
fauna, W. T. Blanford on the, 1869, 107 
* -of the Firth of Clyde, W. E. Hoyle 
on the, 1888, 717 
- and fiora of the Cameroons moun¬ 
tain, report on the, 1887, 73 
- and fiora of the smith coast of Devon 
and Cornwall, report on the marine, 
1865, 51 ; 1867, 275 ; 1869, S 4 ; 1872, 
