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GENERAL INDEX OF VOLS. 1 — 12 OF THE 



Light and heat, on the production of by 

 animals, vi. 246 ; the results of vibra- 

 tory motion, vii. 342. 



Light-houses, on the improvement of, ii. 

 221 ; experiments on Drummond's light 

 for, \iii. 238 ; on different modes of il- 

 luminating, xi. 94. 



Lightning, on the effects of a stroke of, 

 i. 191. 



heat, on the cause of, iv. 340. 



Lime, carbonate of, formation of, i. 84 ; 

 its decomposition by heat, x. 496 ; its 

 crystalUne form, xii. 465, 470. 



, hydraulic, viii. 591. 



, its action on solutions of carbonate 



of potash, iii. 314. 



, on the sulphurets of, xi. 195. 



Limestone, freshwater, in the coal-beds 

 near Shrewsbury, iv. 158. 



Lime-water, precipitation of muriate of 

 platinum by, determined by the action 

 of light, i. 58. 



Linmanthes, on, iii. 70. 



Limnoria terebrans, vi. 55. 



Lindley (Dr. J.) on the affinities of Oro- 

 banche, xi. 409. 



Link (Prof.) on the composition of cellu- 

 lar membrane, xi. 440. 



Linnaean Society, present of the East In- 

 dia Company's herbarium to the, i. 71 ; 

 proceedings of, ii. 67, 222, 307, 377 ; 

 iii. 69 ; iv. 52, 150, 309, 381, 454 ; v. 

 70, 298 ; vi. 72, 220, 379 ; vii. 519 ; viii. 

 75, 255, 345, 423, 580 ; x. 71, 223, 464 ; 

 xu. 92, 531. 



Linseed oil, combustion of, xi. 324. 



Lion*", on a claw in the tail of the, ii. 73 ; 

 on a maneless species of, iv. 378 ; on 

 the cranium of the, iv. 454. 



Liquids, maximum density of, xii. 1. 



Lisbon and Oporto, on the geology of, i. 

 227. 



Lister (J. J.) on the structure and func- 

 tions of Polypi and Ascidia?, iv. 365. 



Lithic acid, composition of, v. 465. 



Lithotrity, Baron Heurteloup's improve- 

 ments in, i. 75. 



Litton (Dr.) on the yew at Macross, vii. 

 499. 



Littrow (Prof.) on the projection of maps 

 and charts, x. 229 ; construction of the 

 hour-lines of sun-dials, x. 229. 



Liverpool tides, on the, viii. 147, 418, 547. 



Living fabrics, Mr. Keith on, ii. 8, 120. 



Lixouri, on a tertiary deposit near, xi. 209. 



Lloyd's (Capt.) levelling from the sea to 

 the Thames at London bridge, i. 187. 



levelUng instrument, verification of, 



vii. 364. 



Lloyd (J. A.) on meteorological deductions 

 made at Port Louis in 1833, 1834,' and 

 1835, xi. 97. 



Lloyd (Prof. H.) on the phaenomena of 

 light, ii. 112, 207 ; on the propagation 

 of light in uncrystalllzed media, x. 385 ; 

 xi. 132 ; on the aurora borealis, Feb. 

 18, 1837, xii. 98 ; account of the mag- 

 netical observatory at Dublin, xii. 119. 



Locke (Dr. J.) on a thermoscopic galva- 

 nometer, xi. 378. 



Locomotive engines upon railways,ix.l35. 



Logarithms of unity, on, viii. 281 ; ix. 252. 



Lohgo, a small nondescript, ix. 299. 



London, historical account of, i. 364. 



clay, on the, i. 233. 



Longitude deduced from the moon's right 

 ascension, on the, i. 60 ; on the deter- 

 mination of, by lunars, vii. 241. 



Lonsdale (Mr.) on the oolitic formations 

 of Gloucestershire, ii. 300. 



Lubbock's (J. W.) researches in physical 

 astronomy, i. 69, 381, 389; on the 

 tides, iii. 129, 143; iv. 362; x. 381; 

 *' Mathematical Tracts," review of, iv. 

 218; on cask-gauging, iv. 326 ; on some 

 elementary applications of Abel's the- 

 orem, vi. 116; determination of the 

 terms in the disturbing function of the 

 fomth order, vi. 142 ; on the elements 

 of the orbit of Hallcy's comet in 1759, 

 vii. 139; on the double achromatic 

 object glass, vii. 161 ; on tide observa- 

 tions made at Liverpool, vii. 208 ; viii. 

 418 ; on Bernoulli's theory of the tides, 

 vii. 457 ; viii, 418 ; on a property of the 

 parabola, ix. 100 ; on the tides at the Port 

 of London, ix. 528 ; on the fluctuations of 

 the height of high-water due to changes 

 in the atmospheric pressure, xi. 195 ; 

 on the variation of the arbitrary con- 

 stants in mechanical problems, xi. 49^ ; 

 xii. 255 ; on the wave-surface in the 

 theory of double refraction, xi. 417; 

 xii. 47 ; on the divergence of the nu- 

 merical coefficients in the lunar theo;^, 

 xii. 133. 



Luetke's (Capt.) experiments with an in- 

 variable pendulum, i. 420. 



Luminosity of the ocean, xii. 212 ; of the 

 human subject after death, xii. 420. 



Lunar nutation, determination of the con- 

 stant of, xii. no. 



observations, new method of redu- 



cjng, vii. 251 ; viii. 373. 



occupations, i. 87, 167, 247, 327, 



405, 473; ii. 159, 239, 319, 40J;, 483; 

 iii. 159, 319, 399, 467. . ; '^^ 



^ rainbows, on, ii. 317. \,'/ . 



theory, on the divergence of tl{e?iili- 



merical coefficients, xii. 168. '" ' ' 



Lujtford (G.) on the discovery of Cucuba- 

 liis baccifer in the Isle of Dogs, xii.'93. 



Lyefl (C.) on the geology of Cerdagne in 

 the Pyren^s, iv, 376; on the loamy 



