162 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Fream (Prof. W.), the agricultural situa¬ 
tion, 1885. 1161 
-colonial agriculture and its influence 
on British farming, 1886, 758 
-on the gramineous herbage of water 
meadows, 1887, 744 ; on the Hessian 
fly, or American wheat-midge, Ceci- 
domyia destructor, Say, and its appear¬ 
ance in Britain, 767 ; preventable 
losses in agriculture, 834 
- on the effects of root-section on 
the vitality of pasture plants, 1889, 
648 ; on the methods of forecasting 
the yield of crops, 703 
Frean (George) on the use of milk and 
Scotch barley as an article of diet, 
1861, 122 
Free paths, ray-curvatures, and brachis¬ 
tochrones, Prof. J. D. Everett on the 
relations between, 1889, 498 
-public libraries of Manchester and 
Notting Hill, London, J. Heywood on 
the, 1881, 762 
-public library, Notting Hill, the sta¬ 
tistics of the, J. Heywood on, 1883, 604 
* -libraries, Prof. L. Levi on, 1883, 
605 
* -trade in labour, D. A. Spalding on, 
1875, 220 
- trade, and protection, the battle 
between, in Australia, W. Westgarth 
on, 1887, 833 
^Freeholds, the compulsory conversion 
of substantial leaseholds in towns 
into, Dr. De Meschin on, 1870, 196 
*Freeman (Archdeacon) on man and 
the animals, being a counter theory to 
Mr. Darwin’s as to the origin of species, 
1869, 132 
- (R. A.), journeys in Ashanti and 
neighbouring regions, 1890, 892 
Freezing as an aid to the sinking of 
foundations, by 0 . Reichenbach, 1886, 
799 
Freezing-points of solutions, an apparatus 
for the determination of, P. J. Hartog 
and J. A. Harker on, 1890, 779 
Freight as affected by size and other 
dynamic 'properties of steamships, 
Charles Atherton on, 1861, 82 
*Freke (H.), a tabular view of the re¬ 
lation which subsists between the 
three kingdoms of nature with regard 
to organisation, 1862, 195 
*Fremantle, Australia, the tides of, Capt. 
Evans and Sir W. Thomson on, 1877 ,40 
French and English peoples, Dr. T. 
Nicholas on the ethnological affinities 
of the, 1872, 191 
French (A.) on lead fume, with a de¬ 
scription of a new process of fume 
condensing, 1879, 301 
Frere (Sir Bartle), Address to f e Geo¬ 
graphical Section, 1869, 152 ; on the 
Runn of Cutch and the countries be¬ 
tween Rajpootana and Sind, 163 
Frescoes in the Houses of Parliament, 
William Poole King on the premature 
decay of the, its cause and remedy, 
1864, 32 
*Freshfield (D. W.), notes on recent 
mountaineering in the Himalaya, 1885, 
1127 
* -on the place of geography in na¬ 
tional education, 1886, 729 
Freshwater deposits of the valley of the 
river Lea, in Essex, H. Woodward on 
the, 1869, 103 
Friction, Prof. W. J. M. Rankine on the 
theory of the influence of, upon the 
mechanical efficiency of steam, 1866, 
147 
- W. Froude on some difficulties in 
the received view of fluid, 1869, 211 
——- W. Froude on experiments on the 
surface, experienced by a plane moving 
through mater, 1872, 118 (see 1874, 
249 ) 
-—- of water upon water at low ve¬ 
locities, a short account of some ex¬ 
periments made to determine the, by 
Rev. S. Haughton, 1879, 275 
* -of journals, Prof. O. Reynolds on 
the, 1884, 895 
- of metal coils, Prof, llele Sham and 
E. Sham on the, 1888, 540 
*--- of shot, Prof. O. Reynolds on the, 
as affected by different kinds of rifling, 
1873 ,216 
- between surfaces moving at high 
velocities, general results of some re¬ 
cent experiments upon the co-efficient 
of, by Capt. D. Galton, 1878, 438 , *697 
-at high velocities, general results 
of experiments on, made in order to 
ascertain the effect of brakes on railway 
trains, Capt. D. Galtcn on, 1879, * 283 , 
508 
Frictional resistance of mater on a sur¬ 
face, report by W. Froude on the, 1874, 
249 
* -screw motions, G. Lauder on, 1870, 
219 
Friedel (Prof. C.) and Prof. J. M. 
Crafts on the decomposing action 
that chloride of aluminium exerts on 
hydrocarbons, 1883, 468 
Friendly Islands, report on the steps taken 
for the investigation of the natural his¬ 
tory of the, or of other groups in the 
Pacific visited by H.M.S. ‘ Egeria 
1889, 113 
Friendly societies, notes on, by Rev. G. C. 
White, with special reference to lapses 
and malingering, 1884, 869 
Frith of Forth, D. Milne Home on the 
old sea-cliffs and submerged banks of 
the, 1867, 61 
