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Journal, astronomical, 345 

 Jnlien, Stanislas, 165 

 Kilauea, old crater of, 235 

 Kinloch, Andrew, 52 

 Kirkwood's analogy, 335 

 Kxanized rope, 78 

 Lake Superior, ancient mining opera- 

 tions on, 300 

 black oxide of copper 



from, 261 



copper mines of, 201 



deposits of iron near, 203 



mirage on, 151 



native copper of, 260 



new fishes from, 310 

 vanadium in the copper 



ores of, 262 

 Lakes, Northern, rise and fall of waters 



in, 245 

 Lane, John, 42 

 1/trd manuficture in Cincinnati, 97 

 Large water-wheel, 32 

 Lath, wire as a substitute for, 63 

 L'izy heavers, 3-3 

 Lea, Isaac, 281 

 Lead pipes, action of water on, 199 

 Leclaire, M., 214 

 Leech, mechanical, 66 

 Lee-way indicator, 70 

 Lepidoptera, metamorphoses of, 327 

 Leyden battery, new mode of discharg- 

 ing, 119 

 Liddington, E. B., 100 

 Light, action of. on vegetation, 144 

 " and actinism, new phenomena of, 144 

 electric, 103 

 " apparatus to preserve 



constant, 105 



galvanic polarization of, 168 

 of the voltaic arc, experiments 



with, 108 

 velocity of, proved by experi- 

 ment, 145 

 Li'jht-house, C'arysfort, 72 

 " " Minot Rock, 74 

 Light houses in the U. S.. report on, 71 

 Lightning, production of, by rain, 118 

 Lime, carbonate of, in sea-water, 201 

 " bisulphite of, in extracting sugar, 108 

 Limestone of Texas, fossil footprints in, 280 

 Lines in the voltaic arc, 107 

 Links, chain, for cables, 81 

 Liquids, conducting power of, 111 

 Liquid protoxide of nitrogen, 103 

 Locality, best, for whales, 153 

 Locke. Prof. J., 147 

 Locke's electro-chronograph, 121 

 Locomotive boilers, improved, 38 

 ensines, anthracite coal in, 39 

 " new. 36 

 Locomotives, improvements in, 38 

 London Coal Kxi-hange, 101 

 Longitudes, American, 340 

 i ,oniiinln of liosto.il, 341 

 Lonjrmaid, W . 94 

 Loom for weaving carpets, 53 

 Loom-picker, new, 54 

 " power, inventor of, 52 

 Lot's wife, 237 

 Lotus and stapelia, 294 



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Louis, F. H., 185 



Loveurove, T. J., 79 



Lowe, E. J., 349 



Lower animals, circulation and diges- 

 tion of, 328 

 Lunar Daguerreotypes, 141 

 Lavini, M., 149 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, 205, 295 

 Lyman, Rev. C. S., 235, 260 

 " A. S., 26 

 Lynch, Lieut., 161, 236, 237, 294 

 Macaire, Prof., 289 

 Machine cordage, 77 

 for cutting stone, 49 

 for making envelopes, 55 

 for making percussion caps, 47 

 for printing wall-paper, -58 

 for spinning wool, new, 51 

 for taking the yeas and nays, 50 

 new brickmaking, 49 

 sewing, 50 

 steam hoisting, 25 

 to indicate a vessel's variation 



from her course, 70 



Machinery, corks made by, 76 



improved envelope, 54 



for spinning yarn, 51 



Magnesian limestone, effects of trap 



dikes on, 235 



Magnetic action on railways, 133 



u needle, secondary variations 



of, 137 



needle, diurnal variations of, 135 

 " self-registering, 134 



relations of the optic axes of 



crystals, 131 



telegraph and the coast sur- 

 vey, 124 

 Magnetism, action of, on all bodies, IJ<> 

 direct production of heat by, 138 

 " discoveries in, 129 

 Male of plants and animals, ovules in, 302 

 Mammalia, young, geological character 



of, 324 



Mammalian remains in New York, 287 



Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 



railroad, girder-bridge on, 21 



Manganese in water. 202 



Manna, new species of, 293 



" of the Israelites, 292 



Mansfield, C. B., 191 



Mantell, Dr., 288 



Manufacture, ivory as an article of, 95 



of carpets, improvement 



in, 52 



of copper type, 59 



u of India-rubber, discovery 



in, 102 



" of lard and oil in Cincin- 



nati, 97 



of metallic compounds, 

 of steel, invention for, 

 of the finer irons and steel, 80 

 of soda, 209 



Manufacturing bar-iron, improvements 



in, 86 



shot, new mode of, 48 



Map, subterranean, of Paris, 36fi 



Marine engines, high-pressure, steam in, 28 



Maryland, gold in, 255 



