148 
GENERAL INDEX. 
weights and measures , 1865, 375 ; 1866, 
352 ; 1867 , 468 ; 1868 , 484 ; 1869 , 308 ; 
1870, 232 ; 1871, 198 ; 1872, 25 
Fellows (F. P.) on the practical advan¬ 
tages of the metric system of weights 
and measures, 1865, 147 
*-on certain errors in the received 
equivalent of the metre, &c., 1866, 2 
-on the various methods in which 
our coinage may be decimalised, the 
advantages and disadvantages of each, 
1867, 138 
-on the new scheme of Mr. C. Seely, 
M.P., and Mr. F. P. Fellows for 
Admiralty estimates, and ‘ finance,’ 
‘ expense,’ ‘ manufacture ’ and other ac¬ 
counts, &c., recommended for adoption 
by the Committee of the House of 
Commons on naval moneys and 
accounts, and now being introduced, 
1868, 159 
-on our navy, 1870, 190 
-on a proposed Doomsday Book, 
giving the value of government 
property as a basis for a sound system 
of national finance and accounts, 1871, 
211 
-suggestions for improving and 
extending our national accounts, 1872, 
224 
- statistics and observations on the 
National Debt and our disbursements 
from the revolution in 1688 to the 
present time, showing the advisability 
of ascertaining our annual governmental 
capital and current expenditure, 1873, 
186 
- on the economic effects of combina¬ 
tions of labourers and capitalists, 1874, 
266 ; 1875, 146 
-on political economy and the laws 
affecting the prices of commodities and 
labour, and on strikes and lock-outs, 
1874, 203 ; *on governmental accounts, 
with further suggestions for establish¬ 
ing a Doomsday Book, giving the 
value of governmental property, 204 
- on the work of the Anthropometric 
Committee, 1876, 266 ; 1877, 231 ; 
1878, 152 ; 1879, 175 ; 1880, 120 ; 
1881, 225 ; 1882, 278 ; 1883, 253 
-- on the present appropriation of 
mages and sources of income, 1880, 318 ; 
1881, 272 ; 1882, 297 
--- on Admiralty moneys and accounts, 
1880, 668 
- the cost of shipbuilding in H.M. 
dockyards, 1886, 779 
Fellowships, James Hey wood on, at the 
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 
1862, 153 
Felstones and conglomerates of the 
Pentland Hills, J. Henderson on the 
age of the 1871, 101 
*Female emigration, Miss M. Rye on, 
1884, 866 ; Mrs. Burt on, ib. ; Mrs. 
Joyce on, ib. 
Fens of Cambridgeshire, some thermal 
springs in the, F. W. Harmer on, 1870 ,74 
- W. Thorold on the failure of the 
sluice in, and on the means of securing 
such sluices against a similar contin¬ 
gency, 1862, 186 
*Ferguson (A.) on white-lead, 1876, 63 
* -(W.), notes on a cist found at Park- 
hill, Dyce, in October 1881, 1885, 1225 
Fermanagh, the exploration of some 
caves in the Limestone hills in, T. 
Plunkett on, 1877, 76 
* - Cares, report on the exploration of 
the, 1878, 183 
Fermat’s theorem, recurring decimals 
and, Prof. R. W. Genese on, 1888, 580 
Ferment, dust as a, C. R. C. Tichborne 
on, 1870, 65 
Fermentations, bacterial, contributions 
to the study of pure, by Prof. P. F. 
Frankland, G. C. Frankland, and J. J. 
Fox, 1889, 544 
Fern prothallia, the cultivation of, for 
laboratory purposes, J. Morley on, 
1886, 707 
Fernando Noronha group, some rock 
specimens from the islands of the, 
Prof. A. Renard on, 1885, 1031 
Fernie (John) on the iron and steel 
shown at the Paris Exhibition, 1867, 
154 
Ferns, the abnormal growth of, T. M. 
Hall on, 1870, 117 
* -E. J Lowe on the propagation of, 
by means of spores, 1865, 83 
-E. J. Lowe on abnormal forms of, 
1867, 91 ; 1870, 120 
-abnormal, hybrids, and their parents, 
E. J. Lowe and Col. Jones on, 1888, 713 
- of the Coal-measures, and their 
affinities with existing forms, W. Car- 
ruthers on the tree, 1872, 98 
* -meristem of, as a study in phy- 
losrenv, Prof. F. O. Bower on the, 1889, 
618 
* -the question of the phylogenj 7 of, 
Prof. F. O. Bower on, 1890, 867 
Ferrel’s theory of the winds, C. 
Chambers on, 1890, 745 
Ferric sulphate, the action of zinc and 
magnesium on acidified solutions of, 
Prof. T. E. Thorpe on, 1881, 595 
Ferrier (Prof. D ) on the localisation of 
function in the brain, 1873, 126 
- and Dr. J. B. Sanderson on the 
origin and distribution of microzymes 
(bacteria ) in water, and the circum¬ 
stances which determine their exist¬ 
ence in the tissues and liquids of the 
living body, 1871, 125 
Ferrous acid, W. Odling on, 1862, 48 
