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Feticism

the

Feudal System

that constitutional system which was introduced into Europe by the N. nations after the fall

Filander

in zoölogy, Halmaturus asiaticus, a species of kangaroo found in the N. of Australia, in the region of King George's Sound. It is about the size of a common rabbit, and has a scaly tail.

It is also called the short-tailed kangaroo.

Film

a transparent, flexible substance used as a substitute for glass plates for portable photographic work.

It consists of a strip of celluloid which treated with a sensitized coating, the same as is used on plates. See PHOTOG- RAPHY. bottom is a filter. It may consist of a

Finances

UNITED STATES. See UNITED STATES, section FINANCE.

Finch

FRANCIS MILES, an Ameri can poet, and associate judge of N. Y. Court of Appeals; born in Ithaca, N. Y., June 9, 1827. He was graduated at Yale; and was the author of the wellknown lyrics "Nathan Hale" and "The Blue and the Gray," and of several popular college songs. He died July 31, 1907.

Findlay College

a coeducational institution in Findlay, O.; founded in 1882 under the auspices of the Church of God; reported at the close of 1919:

Professors and instructors, 19; students, 535. President, W. I . H. Guyer, A. M., D. D.

Fingal's Cave

a curious cavern formed of basaltic columns, in the Isle of Staffa, one of the Hebrides, on the W. coast of Scotland, 25 miles from Oban. See BASALT.

FINGER ALPHABET. See DEAF AND DUMB.

Finland

GULF OF, one of the great arms of the Baltic Sea, extending E. and N. between lat. 58° 40′ and 60° FINLEY 40', and between lon. 23° and 30° 10' E.

It has a length of 260 miles, by a varying width of between 25 and 90 miles.

Firelock

a musket or other gun, with a lock furnished with a flint and steel, by means of which fire is produced in order to discharge it; distinguished from the old matchlock, which was fired with a match.

Fisher

HARRISON, an American illustrator; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1876. He was educated in San Francisco. He was recognized as one of the most talented of American illustrators, and his work appeared in the leading He made ade illustrations for magazines. "The Market Place," by Harold Frederic; "The Eagle's Heart," by Hamlin Garland; and other books.

Fisk University

a coeducational institution for colored persons in Nashville, Tenn.; founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Congregational Church.