152 
GENERAL INDEX. 
FitzRoy (Rear-Aclm. R.) on tidal obser¬ 
vations, 1861, 56 
Flame, Sir W. Thomson on volta-convec- 
tion by, 1867, 17 
* -- N. P. Burgh on the action and 
effect of, in marine boilers, 1866, 140 
^Flanging-iron and steel plates for boiler 
purposes, A. B. Brown on a, 1876, 219 
Flax, W. Charley 011 the injurious effects 
of dew-rotting, in certain cases, 1874, 
56 
-New-Zealand, Dr. W. Lauder Lind¬ 
say on the obstacles to the utilisation 
of the, 1867, 141 
Fleming (Captain), journey from Tien¬ 
tsin (N. China) to the capital of Man- 
tchu Tartary, 1863, 136 
* -on the ethnology of Eastern Man- 
tchuria, 1863, 136 
-(Dr. A.) on the prevalence of tape¬ 
worm in Birmingham, and its causes, 
1865, 106 
-(J. A.) on the decomposition of an 
electrolyte by magneto-electric induc¬ 
tion, 1875, 28 
—— recent progress in electric railways, 
1882, 667 ; * *011 electric light engineer¬ 
ing, ib. ; *on the efficiency of the Edison 
steam djmamo, ib. 
- on standards for use in electrical 
measurements, 1883, 41 ; 1884, 29 ; 
1885, 31 ; 1886, 145 ; 1887, 206 ; 1888, 
55 ; 1889, 41 ; 1890, 95 
--- electrolysis in its physical and 
chemical bearings, 1886, 308 ; 1887, 
336 ; 1888 , 339 ; 1889 , 223 ; 1890, 138 
- on the desirability of introducing a 
uniform nomenclature for the funda¬ 
mental units of mechanics, 1888, 27 
* -(S. F.) on the conventional divi¬ 
sion of time now in use, and its disad¬ 
vantages in connection with steam 
communications in different parts of 
the world ; with remarks on the desi¬ 
rability of adopting common time over 
the globe for railways and steam-ships, 
1876, 182 
551 -universal time : a system of nota¬ 
tion for the twentieth century, 1886, 
735 
* -(W.) on the steering of ships, in 
special relation to a new form of rudder, 
1872, 243 
*Flesh diet in tropical climates, C. 0. 
Groom-Napier on the unwholesomeness 
of, 1876, 153 
Fletcher (A. E.) on a self-registering 
perpetual aspirator, 1867, 32 ; on an 
ether anemometer for measuring the 
speed of air in Hues and chimneys, 33 
-on a new anemometer for measuring 
the speed of air in flues and chimneys, 
1869, 48 
■-on the purification of Sankey Brook, 
1870, 55 ; *on air-pollution from che¬ 
mical works, 56 
Fletcher (A. E.) on the rhysimeter, an 
instrument for measuring the speed of 
floating water or of ships, 1871, 234 
- on instruments for measuring the 
speed of ships and currents, 1872, 176 ; 
1873, 460 ; 1874, 255 ; 1878, 219 ; 1879, 
210 
- on the estimation of potash and phos¬ 
phoric acid, 1875, 24 ; 1877, 9 , 26 
- on an anemometer for measuring 
the speed of smoke or corrosive vapour, 
1879, 279 
-- on the present position of the alkali 
manufacture, 1887, 638 
-(Lavington E.) on the unsatisfac¬ 
tory character of coroners’ inquests 
consequent on steam-boiler explosions. 
1868, 190 
- on boiler explosions, 1869, 47 ; 1870, 
1 ; 1871, 166 ; 1872, 57 
*—— on Government action with regard 
to boiler explosions, 1869, 210 
--- on steam-boiler legislation, 1871, 
236 
^Flight and its imitations, F. W. Brearey 
on, 1879, 292 ; see 1865, 17 
-F. W. Brearey on artificial, 1881, 545 
Flight (W.) on observations of luminous 
meteors, 1875, 199 ; 1876, 119 ; 1877, 
98 ; 1878, 258 ; 1879, 76 ; 1880, 39 ; 
1881, 290 
— accounts of aerolites and aerolitic 
meteors , and abstracts of recent re¬ 
searches on them, 1876, 168 
*Flint in the Chalk of Yorkshire, J. R. 
Mortimer on the distribution of, 1875, 
78 
- and chert implements found in Kent's- 
. Cavern, W. Pengelly on the, 1868, 49 , 
54 ; 1873, 209 
*—- conchoidal fracture of, C. B. Rose 
on the, as seen on flint-faced buildings 
in Norwich, Yarmouth, &c., 1868, 77 
-factories at Portstewart and else¬ 
where in the North of Ireland, W. J. 
Knowles on, 1878, 579 
-flake core found in the upper 
Valley-Gravel at Salford, J. Plant on a, 
1870, 156 
* -flakes of Devon and Cornwall, C. 
Spence Bate on an attempt to approxi¬ 
mate the date of the, 1866, 50 
-—- flakes used by the early inhabitants 
of Devon in prehistoric times, Towns- 
hend M. Hall on the method of forming 
the, 1869, 134 
* -flakes from Cornwall and the Sc illy 
Isles, Dr. Barham on, 1877, 114 
-hammer from the western coast of 
New Guinea, exhibition and explana- 
t ion of the uses of a, by Prof. Rolleston, 
1877, 121 
