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INDEX. 



Lightning, figures made by, 117. 

 Lime and plaster, 519. 



for the preservation of timber, 

 466. 

 Lime-water against earth-worms, 3S9. 

 Lindenschmidt, Mr., clxii. 

 Lindsay, Mr.W. S. C, clxxiii., 321. 

 Linen, rapid bleachiug of, 524. 



starching, 522. 

 Lingua Chiapaueca, cliv. 

 Linnsser, Mr., 36S. 

 Lippmauu, Mr., xlviii. 

 Liquid and gaseous state of matter, 125. 

 Liquors, clarifying, 452. 

 Lissajous, Mr., xlix. 

 List of new minerals, xcvii. 

 Littrow, Mr. A. von, 63. 

 Livingstone, Dr., cxxix. 

 Lloyd, Mr., 164, 424. 

 Loach, respiration of the, 345. 

 Loan exhibition of scientific apparatus, 



5SS. 

 Lockwood, Rev. S., cc. 

 Lockyer and Roberts, Messrs., lxv., 133. 



Mr., xxv., lxvi., 11, 23, 40, 134, 141. 

 Locomotives, adhesion to tracks of, 504. 

 electric light for, 151. 

 electricity for the head- 

 lights of, 512. 

 Loew, Dr. Oscar, cclxxxii., 215, 295. 

 Logan, Sir William E., 593. 

 Lohse, Dr., xxvii., 19. 

 Loiseau Pressed Fuel Company, cclxix. 

 London, association to provide dwellings 

 for laboring men of, 453. 

 Physical Society, xxxvi. 

 Long, Captain Thomas, hy4. 

 Looinis, Prof., xl., 27. 

 Loriu, Mr., Ixxxviii. 

 Lostal, Mr., 466. 

 Love'u,Mr., clxxxvii. 

 Lovering, Mr., xxxv. 

 Lowe, Mr. T. S. C, cclxx. 

 Lowry, Mr. T. J., xxiii. 

 Lubarsch, Mr., lxvii., 170. 

 Lubbock, Sir John, on bees, wasps, etc., 



cxci., 349, 583. 

 Lubeck, Mr., 178. 

 Lucas, Messrs., 424. 

 Liidersdorff, Dr., 532. 

 Ludington, Mr. C, 415, 436. 

 Lull, Commander E. P., ccxlviii. 

 Luminosity and non-luminosity of flames, 



136. 

 Luminous mixture, new, 445. 

 Lundquist, Mr., lviii., 146. 

 Lustre sheep, a new breed, 3S7. 

 Liitken, Dr., cc. 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, 5S7, 594. 

 medal, the, 5S7. 



M. 



Macfarlane, Rev. Mr., cxxxiii. 

 Mach, Mr., lxix. 

 Mackenzie, Mr. Donald, cclii. 

 Mackinaw, national park in the island of, 



5S6. 

 Mackintosh, Mr.W. D., clxxii. 

 Macleay, Mr. William, cxxxii. 

 M'Cloud River salmon, 434. 

 McDonald, Dr. William, 594. 

 Mcintosh, Mr.W.D., clxxii. 

 M'Kenzie, Mr., 132. 

 Macropus brunii, 338. 



Magellan, coal in Strait of, 242. 



Magnet, influence upon the galvanic arch, 



160. 

 Magnetic declination at St. Petersburg, 96. 

 disturbances and auroras in the 

 arctic regions,95. 

 and earthquakes, 

 64. 

 needles, circular, 200. 

 ore separator, 462. 

 permeability of iron, nickel, etc., 



167. 

 platinum, imitation of, 206. 

 sand in Labrador, 237. 

 Magnetism, Ixx. 



by electric currents, 166. 

 effect on electric discharges, 



165. 

 new source of, 167. 

 Magneto-electric machine of Gramme, im- 

 provements in, 16S. 

 Magnets, formation by electrolysis, 164. 

 Magnus, Prof., 209. 

 Maine, changes of level on the coast of, 238. 



salmon, young, 41S. 

 Making of carbon cells, 162. 

 Mallet, Mr., xcvii., 20, 66, 96. 

 Malvosia, Mr., 96. 

 Maly, Mr., xciv., 221. 

 Mammals, new tertiary, 336. 

 Mammoth Cave, fauna of, archaeology, 313, 



327. 

 Manganese residues, regenerating,cclxxix. 

 Mangauiferous iron, 460. 

 Manometer, new, 170. 

 Manual, meteorological, xxxvi. 

 Manufacture of cod-liver oil, 428. 



of copper and brass wire, 546. 

 of stearic acid, 537. 

 Manure, new mineral, 3S6. 

 Manuscript, rendering faded, legible, 458. 

 Maories of New Zealand, the, clxix. 

 Miircker, Dr., ccxxiii., 383. 

 Marcou, Prof. Jules, 295. 

 Marey, Mr., 340, 503. 

 Marggraf, Mr., clxii. 

 Marine algae of the United States, ccxvii. 



worm, gigantic, 352. 

 Maritime Conference in London, SS. 

 Marked salmon, 432. 

 Markham, Commodore, cxix. 

 Marking-ink, red, 518. 

 Marsh, Prof., cvi., clxxii., ccii., 305, 336, 



337, 357. 

 Marshall, Lieut.W. L., 295. 

 Marsham, Mr. Robert, 90. 

 Rev. H. P., 90. 

 Marth, Mr., xxvi. 

 Martin, Prof. D. S., 93. 

 Martindale, Mr., 562. 

 Marvine, Mr., 573. 

 Mascart, Mr., lxvii., 145. 

 Maskelyne, Mr., xcvii. 

 Mason, "Mr. N. N., cxxxvi. 

 Rev. Francis, 594. 

 Mass of Jupiter, the, 20. 

 Massachusetts Commissioner of Fisheries' 

 Report, 406. 

 inspector of fertilizers of, 



3S1. 

 silver-lead mines of, 245. 

 Mastodon, food of, 339. 

 Materia medica and hygiene, 559. 

 Mathematics and astronomy, 1. 



