INDEX. 



601 



Leaves absorb and radiate heat, 76. 

 Le Bon, 520. 

 Ledum palustre, 424. 

 Lee, Henry, 317, 3'20. 

 Legeudre, 3. 

 Leirgie, Dr., 38. 

 LeFdy, Prof., 299. 

 Leigh, Evan, 543. 

 Lemming, migration of the, 299. 

 Lemsirom, Prof., 75, 132. 

 Lescarbanit, 46. 

 Lespes, 289. 

 Lesueur, 318, 43G, 437. 

 Letheby, Dr., 543. 

 Le Veau, 37. 

 Levees, efl'ects of, 4G9. 

 Le Verrier, 46. 

 Levy, Dr., 530. 

 Ley, Clement, 98, lOG. 

 Liais, 57. 



Libyan desert, constitution of the atmos- 

 phere of, 130. 

 Liebermaun, 492. 

 Life-saving device, new, 412. 

 Light, action of, on ebonite, 17G. 



and electricity, 163. 



curious electrical, 167. 



di!?persiou of, by prisms, 158. 



electric, of the Gramme machine, 

 190. 



influence of, upon the conductivity 

 of crystalline selenium, 166. 



mathematical theory of, 151. 



new incandescent, 414. 



photographic power of, 483. 



reflected by the sliv iu the daytime, 

 quantity of, 99. 



the Chan dor, 41.5. 

 Light-house, electric, 460. 

 -houses, gas for, 461. 

 Lightning from a clear sky, 171. 



protection against, 171. 

 Lightning-conductors, 172. 

 Liguose, a new explosive, 457. 

 Lime-water on wood, 431. 

 Limit of visibility in the microscope, 265. 

 Limits of vision, Sorby on, 273. 



Helmholtz on, 274. 

 Limon, Dr., 509. 

 Lindemann, 7. 



l>inen, Tyrian-purple ink for marking, 429. 

 Lippmann, 142, 439. 



Lippmann's experiments on capillary at- 

 traction, 142. 

 Liquid glue, ."^ll. 

 Liquids, surface tension of, 173. 

 Lisbon, observations of meteors at, 28. 

 Lithium, bromide of, 530. 

 Lithobius, 336. 

 Liversidge, Prof, 221. 

 Lockwood. 519. 



Locomotive boilers, cast steel for, 432. 

 Locomotives, self-watering, 439. 

 Logarithmic tables, 43. 

 Lohrmann,45. 

 Lohse, Dr. 0.,51. 

 Loigne, 444. 

 Loisant, 4. 

 Lorenz, 1.53. 

 Lortrt, 322. 

 Lostal, 431. 



Loven, Prof Sven, 242. 

 Lowe and Gill, 207. 

 Lubbock on the senses of insects, 2SS. 



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Lubische and Riederer, 513. 

 Lucas, Louis A., 543. 

 Lucioperca,401. 

 Ludicke, 133. 

 Lukowski, 207. 

 Lunar maps, 45. 



theory, the, 38. 

 Luviui, Prof., 187. 



M. 



McAdam, Dr. S., 428. 

 McCloud River salmon, 402. 

 McDougall, A., 198. 

 McLeod, Herbert, 176. 

 McNabb, 116. 

 Macaya, de Castera, 543. 

 Machines, calculating, 43. 

 Mackintosh, 512, 514. 

 Madamet, 140. 

 Madau, 153. 

 Maddox, Dr., 478. 

 Madeira wine, production of, 423. 

 Miidler, 23. 



Magnetic iron, vauadic acid iu, 198. 

 map of France, 162. 

 observations iu the Indian 



Ocean, 162. 

 particles iu atmospheric dust, 

 132. 

 Magnetism and light, theories of, 157. 



distribution of, iu a magnet, 



159. 

 iu bundles of infinitely long, 

 very thin plates of iron, 161. 

 in short thick magnets, 159. 

 of cobalt and nickel, r.)2. 

 Magnets composed of compressed pow- 

 der, 160. 

 formation of natural, 158. 

 influenced by armatures, 15S. 

 Ma.gnus, 119. 

 Main, Rev. Robert, 45. 

 Maine, Report of Fish Commissioners of, 



392. 

 Maiiland, Major, 462, 472. 

 Male rotifer, 324. 

 Mallet, Prof, 223. 

 Robert, 70. 

 Mammoth, the Siberian, 297. 

 Man in the post-pliocene of Buenos Ay res, 

 293. 

 in the tertiary period of Europe, 293. 

 Management of aquaria, 307. 

 Mandril for bending metal pipes, flexible, 



517. 

 Maun, Dr. R. J., 171, 172, 313. 

 Mannheim observations, 38. 

 Manufacture of carbolic acid, 207. 



of soda from sea-weed, 200. 

 Man yon, 451. 

 Maps, lunar, 45. 



microscopic, 4S2. 

 Maquenne, 76. 

 March, William T., 544. 

 Marine glue, 510. 

 Mariot, Lieut., 409. 

 ISIarking-ink, 485. 



Marsh, Prof. O. C, 282, 297, 298, 301, 311, 

 31.% 314. 

 on the broutotheridai, 301. 

 recent discoveries of, 297. 

 Mnrshnm, Robert, 82, 349. 

 Marth,53. 

 Martin, Lieut., 6. 



