INDEX. 



643 



Kriiss, Mr., Ixiii. 



Kuhlmaun, Mr., cclxxix. 



Klihn, Mr.,446. 



Kundt & Warburg, Messrs., lvii., 169. 



Kunzel, Dr., 535, 536. 



L. 



Labrador, magnetic sand in, 237. 

 Lacaze-Duthiers, Mr., cxlvi., clxxxii. 

 La Cour, Mr., Hi. 

 Laennec, Dr., clxxi. 

 Lagneau, Dr., clvii., clxvi. 

 La^Gnerre, Mr., 6. 

 La Have, great light-bouse at, 149. 

 Lake Champlaiu, stocking the rivers on 

 the west side of, 419. 



Erie, pound nets in, 409. 



Geneva, level of, 99. 



Nyanza, cxxxi. 

 Lakes of Galilee and of Utah, 64. 

 Lambert, Mr., 103. 

 Lamont, Prof., 64, 164. 

 Lamothe, Mr., 237. 

 Lamp for burning nitric oxide gas, 443. 



for photographv, cclxxxviii. 

 Landrin, Mr., 224, 518, 519. 

 Lane, Col. J. C, cxxix. 

 Lang, Mr. von, lxxxv. 

 Langerhaus, Dr. Paul, clxviii. 

 Langley, Prof., xxiii., 3, 10, 11, 60. 

 Lankester, Dr. Edwin, clxxx., 593. 

 Lansdowne, Lord, 5S3. 

 Laopithecus robustus, 336. 

 Lapham, Dr. Increase A., 593. 

 Laptschinsky, cxli. 

 Larne, Prof., 237. 

 Laroche-Berthier, cave of, 325. 

 Larrev, Baron, 332. 

 Lartet, Mr. Edward, 335. 



Mr. Louis, 335, 356. 

 Lasaulx, Mr., xxxiii., 66, 96. 

 Lasegue, Mr., 561. 

 Laspeyres, Mr., lxxx. 

 Lassell, Mr.,21. 

 Latham, Mr., 408. 

 Latimer, Mr. George, cliv., 325. 

 Latitude and time, determination of, 

 32. 

 simple method of determining, 

 31. 

 Latitudes, variability of terrestrial, 31. 

 Lauuoy and Bienverin, Messrs., 503. 

 Laussedat, Mr., 30. 

 Lauth, Prof., clxxi. 

 Laveissiere & Son, Messrs., 546. 

 Lawes, Mr., 400. 



Lawson, Captain John C, clxix. 

 Lay, Mr., 493. 

 Lay apparatus, 507. 



Lea, Mr. Carey, Ixxxviii., lxxxix., xcv. 

 Lead in Chinese bronze, 520. 



in tin lining, to detect, 210. 

 League Island naval station, ccxlv. 

 Leather, golden varnish for, 532. 

 Leather-paper, Japanese, 54S. 



-waste, utilization of, 545. 

 Leaves, respiration in the dark, 369. 

 Le Besque, Mr., 593. 

 Leclanche' battery, new modification of, 



161. 

 Le Conte, Dr. J. L., cxcviii. 



Prof. Joseph, clxxx. 

 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Mr., 223. 



Lee, Mr. Henry, 432. 

 Mr. J. E., clxii. 

 Leeches, fresh-water, clxxxvi. 

 Leete, Edwards, & Norman, Messrs., 424. 

 Le Fons, Alexander de, 593. 

 Lesgett, M. D., Commissioner of Patents, 



579. 

 Leguat, Mr., 353. 

 Lehfeld, Mr., 453. 



Lehigh University Observatory, xxi. 

 Lehmann, Mr., ccxxiii. 

 Leidy, Dr. Joseph, cxxiv., cxliv., cxlvi., 



cxlvii., clxxviii., clxxxv. 

 Leipoldt, Mr., 251. 

 Leituer, Dr., clxviii. 

 Le Marquand, Mr., 537. 

 Lemon, dry rot of the, 391. 

 Lemstrom, Mr., 26, 50. 

 Lemur, a new fossil, ccix. 

 Lemuravus distans, 336. 

 Lenoir's air-engine, 123. 

 Lenz, Mr., 71. 

 Lepidosteus, fossil, 347. 

 Leprosy from eating fish, 567. 

 Leptocephali are larval forms of congers, 



etc., 34S. 

 Leroux, Mr. E., clix., clxiv. 

 Lesley, Mr., cii. 

 Leslie's photometer, 1S3. 

 Lesquereux, Prof. Leo, cvi., cxxiv., 364, 



573. 

 Lesseps, M. de, ccl. 

 Lesueur, Mr., lxxii. 

 Leucithine and cerebrine, 316. 

 Level of Raritan Bay and Delaware River, 

 253. 

 of the ocean, changes in, 70. 

 on the coast of Maine, changes of, 

 238. 

 Levels, correction of, 302. 

 Le Verrier, Mr., xxii., xxv., xxx., lxx., 14, 



37, 41, 82. 

 Lewin, Mr., ccxc, 464. 

 Ley, Mr., xxxviii., xl., 112. 

 Leydig, Dr., cxlvii. 



Librarian of Congress, Report of, 5S6. 

 Libyan Desert, botany of, 363. 



ozone in, 20S. 

 Lick, Mr. James, xxi. 

 Liebermann and Fisher, Messrs., lxxxvii. 



Mr., lxxxvii. 

 Liebig, Mr. G. von, xlviii. 

 Liebreich, Mr., 222, 316. 

 Life-saving dress, water-proof, 444. 

 Light, a new, 442. 



action of, upon chlorophyl, 146. 

 elliptic polarization of, 140. 

 experiments on the velocity of, 



147. 

 from glycerin, 451. 

 illustrating the mechanical effects 



of, 137. 

 measuring of velocity of, 149. 

 physiological action of, 315. 

 reflected from glass, 138. 

 reflection of, 146. 

 registration of the chemical action 



of, 14S. 

 velocity of, lxi. 

 Light-house at La Have, 149. 



at Souter Point, 150. 

 Report of Major Elliott, 46S. 

 Light-houses, gas for, 441. 

 Lightning-conductors, 156. 



