150 
GENERAL INDEX. 
apparatus for indicating the pressure 
and amount of, 1867, 31 
Fire-damp in mines, an instrument for 
indicating and measuring the, Prof. G. 
Forbes on, 1878, 449 
- in mines, an instrument for detecting, 
report of the committee appointed to 
improve , 1879, 131 
* -indicator, J. W. Swan on a, 1S87, 
884 
—— detector, an automatic, J. W. Swan 
on, 1888, 817 
Fire extinction, the injector hydrant for, 
J. H. Greathead on, 1883, 635 
--extinction, automatic sprinklers for, 
C. J. H. Woodbury on, 1884, 894 
y -insurance rules and electric light¬ 
ing, W. Hartnell on, 1890, 958 
-making in North Borneo, S. B. J. 
Skertchly on, 1889, 795 
-risks of electric lighting, K. Hedges 
on, 1883, 653 
Fireplace, ventilating, description of a, 
with experiments upon its heating- 
power as compared with that of ordi¬ 
nary fireplaces, by Capt. D. Galton, 
1868, 191 
Fires, J. F. Bateman on street-pipe ar¬ 
rangements for extinguishing, 1861, 
25 5^ 
-C. B. King on extinguishing, 1863, 
174 
-C. W. Siemens on a system of tele¬ 
graphic communication adopted in 
Berlin in case of, 1861, 264 
-W. Ladd on a respirator for use in 
extinction of, 1871, 44 
Firing, mechanical, and furnaces, G. F. 
Deacon on the efficiency of, 1870, 211 
*Firth of Clyde, the fauna of the, W. E. 
Hoyle on, 1888, 717 
*Firth (S.), the application of machinery 
to coal-cutting, 1863, 192 
-(W.) on the application of machinery 
to the cutting of coal in mines, 1873, 175 
Fiscal policy, how the prosperity of a 
nation may be affected by its, by A. 
Forbes, 1885, 1169 
Fischer (Prof. W. L. F.) on tided obser¬ 
vations, 1868, 489 ; 1870, 120 
*Fish, a, supposed to be of deep-sea 
origin, Rev. D. Honeymanon, 1884, 761 
-breeding, artificial, five years’ ex¬ 
perience in, showing in what waters 
trout will and wall not thrive, W. F. 
Webb on, 1869, 118 
* -freshwater, of Algeria, Colonel 
Playfair on the hydrographical system 
of the, 1871, 134 
-in the New Red Sandstone (Upper 
Keuper) in Warwickshire, Rev. P. B. 
Brodie on the discovery of, 1886, 629 
-of the West Riding coalfield, J. W. 
Davis on, 1890, 822 
Fish, new to the British fauna, obtained by 
dredging among the Shetland Isles, Dr. 
A. Gunter on four species of, 1867, 446 
* - jaw, hinged, T. J. Moore on a re¬ 
markable, and a young Lamantin, 
1870, 121 
-the preservation of, and preventing 
the pollution of rivers, Lieut.-Gen. Sir 
J. E. Alexander on, *1870, 109 ; 1880, 
672 
* — - remains that have occurred in 
the Coal-measures of Durham and 
Northumberland, T. Atthey and J. W. 
Kirkby on some, 1863, 191 
- remains in the Coal-measures, the 
occurrence of certain, and the evidence 
they afford of their fresh-water origin, 
J. W. Davis on, 1878, 539 
-remains in the Old Red Sandstone at 
Portishead, W. Hellier Baily on the 
occurrence of, 1864, 49 
-remains, some fossil, found in the 
upper beds of the Yoredale series at 
Levburn, in Yorkshire, J. W. Davis on, 
1883, 492 
- some remains of, from the Upper 
Silurian rocks of Pennsylvania, Prof. 
E. W. Claj’pole on, 1884, 733 
-specimens of, from the Lower Old 
Red Sandstone of Forfarshire, Rev. H. 
Mitchell on, 1885, 1023 
-spine, the Rev. W. S. Symonds on a 
new, from the Lower Old Red Sand¬ 
stone of Hay, Breconshire, 1871, no 
- Dr. Stevenson Macadam on the 
poisonous action of crude paraffin oil. 
and the products of its rectification 
upon, 1866, 41 
Fisher (Rev. G.) on the numerical mode 
of estimating educational qualifications, 
as pursued at the Greenwich Hospital 
School, 1862, 153 
- (Rev. O.) on the denudations of 
Norfolk, 1868, 63 
Fisheries of Canada, L. Z. Joncas on the, 
1884, 854 
--fresh water, the improvement of, 
Sir J. E. Alexander on, 1881, 680 
-salmon, Thomas Ashworth on the 
scientific cultivation of, 1862, 121 
- report on the aid given by the Do¬ 
minion Government and the Govern¬ 
ment of the United States to the en¬ 
couragement of , and to the investigation 
of the various forms of marine life on 
the coasts and rivers of Forth America, 
1885, 479 
Fishes, Charles Robertson on the cervical 
and occipital vertebras of osseous, 1861, 
172 
* -congenital abnormalities in, Prof. 
B. C. A. Windle on certain, 1889, 616 
* -the migration of, observations on, 
by Prof. J. C. Ewart, 1889. 627 
