INDEX. 



G41 



Lead, action of various salts on, 5S4. 

 in gold, S3. 



red, manufacture of, 497. 

 Leather and glycerine, 507. 

 artificial, 527. 

 belts for machinery, 519. 

 Leaves, absorption of moisture by, 346. 

 Lebon, Dr., 2S5. 



Lectures in Great Britain, penny, C02. 

 Leeches, breeding of, 441. 

 Left and right handedness, 290. 

 Leidy, Professor, 117, 127, 129, 200, 243, 244, 



246, 275, 330, 337, 420, 003, 010. 

 Leman, lake, lacustrine remains on, 224. 

 Lens, the, a new scientific journal, 310. 

 Lepus campestris, 234. 

 Lescarbault, Mr., 4. 

 Lespes, M., 021. 



Lesquereaux, Professor, 127, 129, 201, 352. 

 Lesueur, Mr. C. A., 8, 603. 

 Letheby, Dr., 501. 

 Level in the northern seas, 64. 

 Lexolophodon semicinctus, 244. 

 Ley, Mr. W. Clement, 46, 47. 

 Liais, Mr., 18. 

 Liebig, Professor, 541, 553. 

 Liebreich, Dr., 550, 555, 5S3, 5S9, 590, 591. 

 Lienrnur's system of closets, 583. 

 Life-boat, 494. 



Light eliminating oxygen from plants, 

 75. 

 on olive-oil, 90. 

 on vegetation, variously colored, 



352. 

 refraction of, 76. 

 Light-houses in the United States, 493. 



on Sable Island, 493. 

 Lights at sea, identification of, SI. 

 Lime, bisulphate of, 463. 



chloride of, against vermin, 45S. 

 on fruit trees, 369. 

 Limestone, millepora, 118. 

 Limnofelis latidens, 300. 

 Limulus polyphemus, 26S. 

 Lindsay, Dr. W. Lauder, 2S8. 



Lord, 31. 

 Linnrean Society, new members of, 616. 

 Linoleum, a new fabric, 525. 

 Lithofracteur, experiments with, 4S3. 

 Lithographic stone, substitute for, 514. 

 Little, Commander Edward P., 1S5. 

 Livingstone, Dr., 163, 164, 177, 17S, 179. 

 Mr. W. O., 177. 

 Relief Commission, 177. 

 Lloyd, Mr. W. A., 219, 325. 

 Lobster, American, 269. 

 Lobsters, "close time" proposed for, 305. 

 Lockyer, Mr., 4, OS, 600. 

 Loewy, Mr., 9, 615. 

 Loiseau, Mr., 479. 

 Lofloden cod-fisheries, 424. 

 Logan, Sir William, 616. 

 Logwood, alcoholic extract, 462. 

 Lombard, Dr., 558. 



London, Arctic Committee of Geographic- 

 al Society, 195. 

 exposition of 1S71, S9. 

 physicians aaiu/a alcohol, 553. 

 I"i)ivcisitv,vicc-chancellorBhipof, 



015. 

 Zoological Gardens, young hippo- 

 potamus at, 333. 

 Long, Captain Thomas, 141. 



on Pavy's explorations, 141. 



Longitude, difference in, between Cam- 

 bridge and San Francisco, 23. 

 Lophius americanus, 200. 

 Lord, Mr. John Keast, 219, 621. 

 Louvel, Dr., 374. 

 Lovering, Professor, 607. 

 Lubbock, Sir John, 224, 265, 600, 615. 

 Lucas, Hon. James H., 612. 

 Ludwig, Dr., 87, 464. 

 Liihder, Mr.,162, 212. 

 Lunar craters, change of spots in, 33. 



photographs, 24. 

 Lunge, Dr. George, 505. 

 Luther, Mr., 30. 



Lyman, Mr. Theodore, 217, 605. 

 Lynch, Lieutenant, 159. 

 Lyon, Mr. Sidney J., 021. 



M. 



Macacus tibetanus, 239. 



Machine, new netting, 499. 



M'Clintock, Sir Leopold, 150, 187. 



M'Clure, Mr. William, 003. 



M'Connell, Mr., 330. 



MacCormac, Dr., 579. 



M'Cormick, Mr. Leander J., 20. 



Macfarlane, Mr., 168. 



M'Gill University, Montreal, GIG. 



M'Naushton,187. 



Mack, Captain, 1, 5, 141, 204. 



Mackerel, catch of, in 1S72, 437. 



Maclear, Commander J. P., 1S2. 



Macmillan's Magazine, 2. 



Macrochloa tenacissima, 3G2. 



Macroscepis trianse, 355. 



Madagascar, zoology of, 213. 



Magnesia, bisulphate of, 403. 



Magnesium in the flame of the sun, 30. 



manganite, 532. 

 Magnet, action of, on electric light, 74. 

 Magnetic action of petroleum, 81. 



disturbance and solar outbursts, 



34, 39. 

 observations, concurrent, 73. 

 pole, cause of variation of, 72. 

 Magnetism, terrestrial, 72. 

 Magnus, Professor, 109. 

 Mahogany, imitation of, 519. 

 Maine fish commissioners' report, 403. 

 Maladies, weakening of fatal, 558. 

 Malaria, origin of, 573. 

 Mallet, Mr. Richard, 477. 



Professor J. W., 114. 

 Mammals, fossil, tvpe of, 244. 



from the West, fossil, 337. 

 higher groups of, 238. 

 ol Thibet, 318. 

 Mammoth in Canada, 303. 

 in Siberia, 243. 

 Man in the post-tertiary of Ilungarv, 224. 

 Manasaein, Dr., 270,279. 

 Manchester, aquarium in, 298. 

 Manganese, borate of, 506. 

 Manganite of magnesium, 532. 

 Mantchooria, explorations in, 101. 

 Manure from fish in England, 426. 



from sewer-water, 374. 



from weeds, 300. 



Hnano, ::ti. r >. 



sulphate of iron as, 393. 

 Manuscript, mode of reproducing, 518. 

 Map of Spitsbergen, alteration in, 148. 

 Marble imitation. |S6. 

 Marie-Davy, Mr-, 015. 



