lOG GENEEAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTUEAL JOUENAL. 



LEUCITE. 



Bichat'g distinction between relative 

 and organic life, 2G8 ; Mr. Woods, on 

 the cross-breeding of sheep, 268. 



Leucite, the, analysis of, xiii. 582. 



Level, drain, a, described by S. H. Payne, 

 vi. 247. 



, an improved, described by T. Cooke, 



with the process of levelling, x. ICi. 



Lias foi-mation of Somersetshire (Acland); 

 xi. 707. 



of Lincolnshire (Clarke\ xii. 2Go. 



, on the soils of, by J. Trimmer, xii. 



491. 



, on the soils of, in Northamptonshire, 

 by W. Beam, xiii. 48. 



■ of the Keythorpe estate (Trimmer), 

 xiv. 97. 



soils of Oxfordshire (Read), xv. 199. 



Lice, on plants (J. Curtis), iii. 49. 



of corn crops, vi. 5G3. 



of peas and beans, vii. 41G. 



Licorice plant, cultivation of, near Pon- 

 tefract, ix. 297. 



Liebig, remarks on his theories of ma- 

 nures, by J. B. Lawcs, xvi. 411. 



' , on some points in agi-icultural che- 

 mistry, xvii. 284 ; his manm-e and 

 pamphlets vindicated, 314. 



• , remarks on, by Mr. Lawes, xviii. 



513, 519. 



• , his percentage of nitrogen too high 



for common agricultural soils (Lawes 

 and Gilbert), xvii. G14. 



• , on the percentage of nitrogen in 



hay, xix. 223. 



• , on the assimilation of food by plants 



from the soil, xxi. lOG. 



' , on nitrification, xxiii. 355. 



, on the weight of the excreta per 



million of the population, xxiv. 125. 



• , his ' Natural Laws of Husbandry,' 



xxiv. 420. 



• , his mineral theory criticised (Lawes 



and Gilbert^, xxv. 95, 491, 498. 



• , his remarks on Mr. J. Lawes and 



the mineral theory, xxv. 502 ; ammo- 

 niacal salts not an organic manure, ancf 

 never held to be so by the writer, ib. ; 

 atmospheric ammonia a source of nitro- 

 gen to plants, 503; carbonic acid and 

 ammonia the atmospheric food of vege- 

 tables, ih; atmospheric and mineral 

 elements, ib. ; definition of mineral con- 

 stituents, 504; Mr. Lawcs's theoiy as 

 to manure, ib. ; the author's views on 

 plant food, ib. ; De Saussure, Sprengel, 

 and Thaer, on the kinds of manure, 

 505 ; points of difference tetwecn Lawes 

 and De Saussiu-e, ib. ; ditto, between 

 Lawes and the author, 506 ; Messrs. 

 Lawes and Gilbert's conclusions criti- 



cised, 507; organic matter not to be 

 artificially produced, ib. ; fabrication of 

 manures from inorganic or mineral sub- 

 stances, 508. 



Liebig and Smith, of Lois Weodon, their 

 teaching contrasted (Lawes and Gil- 

 bert), xvii. 593. 



Liebig's wheat manure, observations on, 

 by J. B. Lawcs, viii. 244; by Dr. 

 Voelcker, xviii. 345. 



, trials with, for wheat, by J. B. 



Lawes, xii. 12. 



Ln-E, definition of (Rev. IM. J. Berkeley), 

 xxiv. 428. 



Light, its action on the leaves of plants 

 (Fownes), iv. 513. 



, its inlluence on plants, by G. 



Phillips, vii. 308. 



, emitted by decomposing animal sub- 

 stances and by potatoes (Bowditch), 

 xiv. 340. 



, influence of, see "Soil, tempera- 

 ture of." 



, chemical effects of (Gay-Lussac and 



Draper), xvii. 423 ; ditto (G. Wilson), 

 424. 



, its influence on vegetation (Hen- 



frey), xvii. 84. 



Light land farming (Ilaxton), xv. 88. 

 See "Soils," "Siin-ey," &c. 



LiGXiNE, the pure priuoiplo of wood (Dr. 

 Eichardson , xx. 2. 



LiGCLE or tongue, the, of grasses (Buck- 

 man), xvii. 165. 



Lille Agricultural Society, report of com- 

 mittee on employment of Flemish ma- 

 nure (nightsoil), xxiii. 317. 



, international agricultural meeting, 



report on (Sir A. K. Macdonald and 

 Prof. WUson), xxv. 209. 



LiLLiE, Sir J., his patent cultivator 

 (Clarke), xx. 178. 



LiJiE, on the use of, by J. Sybray, iii. 429. 



in Nottinghamshire (Corringham), 



vi. 35 ; the varjing quality of the 

 Derbyshire and Yorkshire, ib. 



, its value as a first dressing for newly 



reclaimed heath-lands, vi. 93. 



as a manure in Devonshire (Tanner), 



ix. 468. 



used as a manure in South Wales 



(Read), x. 143. 



Lime and marl without manure, xxv. 346. 



, P. Pusey, on, xi. 408. 



, tried in irrigation in Cumberland 



(Dickinson^ xiii. 293. 



, chemical properties of (Hemming), 



xiii. 429. 



, analysis of three soils in which it 



was present in the state of silicate, sul- 

 phate, and carbonate, xiii. 554. 



