156 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Foot-clothing, James Dowie on the loss 
of muscular power arising from the 
ordinary, now worn, and on the means 
required to obviate this loss, 1862, 125 
Foot of birds, P. M. C. Kermode on the, 
1881, 670 
Foote (R. B.) on the occurrence of stone 
implements in the coast laterite, south 
of Madras, and in High-Level Gravels 
and other formations in the South 
Mahratta country, 1880, 589 
Footprints on the Lower Carboniferous 
sandstones of Northumberland near 
Otterburn, notes on the numerous newly 
discovered fossil, by Aid. T. P. Barkas, 
1889, 565 
*Foraminifera, Dr. Fritsch on some 
models of, 1862, 72 
-Prof. T. R. Jones and W. K. Parker 
on some fossil and recent, collected in 
Jamaica by the late Lucas Barrett, 
1863, 80 , 105 
-new to the British fauna, Henry B. 
Brady on, 1863, 100 
-- of the Middle and Upper Lias of 
Somersetshire, Henry B. Brady on the, 
1864, 50 
- Edward Waller on the, dredged off 
the Shetland Isles, 1867, 441 ; 1868, 340 
- of mineral veins, Henry B. Brady 
on the, 1869, 381 
- brackish-water, H. B. Brady on, 
1870, 113 
-H. B. Brady on Archrediscus Karreri, 
a new type of Carboniferous, 1873, 76 
*-collected in the ‘Valorous ’ expedi¬ 
tion, Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the 
arenaceous, 1876, 146 
Forbes (A.), how its fiscal policy may 
affect the prosperity of a nation, 1885, 
1169 
-- (David) on some minerals from 
South America, 1865, 29 : on the colour 
of gold as seen by transmitted light, 
30 ; on the existence of gold-bearing 
eruptive rocks in South America, which 
have made their appearance at two very 
distinct geological periods, 52 ; on the 
igneous rocks of South Staffordshire, 53 
—- on standards of electrical resistance, 
1867,474; I 869/434 
- on the chemical nature of cast iron, 
1869, 82 ; 1870, 13 
-on the utilisation of sewage, with 
special reference to the phosphate 
imocess, 1870, 56 
--(George) on the meteor shower of 
August 1867, 1867, 20 
- on the meteor shower of August 
1868, 1868, 13 
-on astronomical refraction, 1872, 36 
- on earthquakes in Scotland, 1873, 
194 ; 1874, 241 ; 1875, 64 ; 1876, 74 
*-on certain connections between the 
molecular properties of metals, 1873, 
29 ; *on irradiation, 38 ; *on thermal 
conductivity, 40 
Forbes (George) on observations of lu¬ 
minous meteors, 1874, 269 ; 1875, 199 : 
1876, 119 ; 1877, 98 ; 1878, 258 ; 1879, 
76 ; 1880, 39 
*-on the site of the grave of Genghiz 
Khan, 1876, 182 
- on arrangements for taking certain 
observations in India, and observations 
on atmospheric electricity at Madeira, 
1878, 103 ; 1879, 63 
-on a diagonal eyepiece for certain 
optical experiments, 1878, 449 ; on a 
clock with detached train, ib. ; on an 
instrument for indicating and measur¬ 
ing the fire-damp in mines, ib. ; on the 
mutual action of vortex atoms and 
ultramundane corpuscles, 498 
- on improvements in astronomical 
clocks, *1879, 131 ; 1880, 56 ; on an in¬ 
strument for detecting fire-damp in 
mines, 1879, 131 
- *011 an instrument for determining 
the sensible warmth of air, 1879, 277 ; 
on the bursting of firearms when the 
muzzle is closed with snow, earth, &c., 
283 ; *on an electrical gyrostat, 290 
- on the measurement of the lunar dis¬ 
turbance of gravity, 1880, 25 ; I 88 L 93 ; 
1882, 95 
-on the velocity of white and coloured 
light, 1882, 441 ; on a new form of arc 
lamp, 668 ; on the laws defining the 
strength of current which can be sent 
through wires of different diameters 
■without raising the external tempera¬ 
ture above a certain limit, ib. 
-*on the velocity of light of different 
colours, 1884, 653 ; *on the heating of 
conductors by electric currents, 894 
- on standards of white light, 1885, 
61 ; 1886, 39 ; 18S7, 47; 1388, 39 
-*thermopile and galvanometer com¬ 
bined, 1886, 527 ; on magnetic hyste¬ 
resis, 550 ; dynamos for electro-metal¬ 
lurgy, 815 
- on an electric current meter, 1887, 
564 
-underground conductors for electric 
lighting, &c., 1887, 875 
- discussion on lightning conductors T 
1888, 607 
-electric lighting in America, 188S, 
S 13 
-electric launches on the Thames, 
1889, 741 
-and W. H. Preece, a new thermo- 
metric scale, 1889, 514 
-(H. O.) on the Koeboes and other 
tribes of Sumatra, and on some cus¬ 
toms prevalent among the inhabitants 
of Timor, 1883, 565 
