INDEX II. 



225 



125; on the Trichomonas vaginalis of 

 Donn6, ih. ; on a peculiar structure 

 lately discovered in the epithelial cells 

 of the small intestines, together with 

 some observations on the absorption of 

 fat into the system, 126; on the Hec- 

 tocotylus, or male of the Argonaut, 127. 

 Koyunjik, on deciphering the inscriptions 

 on two seals found by Mr. Layard at, 

 145. 



Laing (James) on a new air-pump exhi- 

 bited by, 207. 



Lake district of England, on the glacial 

 phaenomena of the, 80. 



Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran, on the occur- 

 rence of the pentacrinoid larva of Co- 

 matula rosacea in, 107. 



Land measures, on decimal arrangement 

 of, 165. 



Language, on a philosophic universal, 145. 



Lankester (Dr.), exhibition of the model 

 of a dredge by Mr. Dempster, 118; 

 exhibition of photographs on glass, of 

 histological and natural history objects 

 by Mr. Redfern, ib. 



Lanza (Signor) on the formations of Dal- 

 matia, 83. 



Lapland giantess, on the pelvis of a, 134. 



Layard (Mr.) on deciphering the inscrip- 

 tions on two seals found by, at Koyun- 

 jik, 145. 



Leitch (Rev. William) on the develop- 

 ment of sex in social insects. 111. 



Lens, on the optical illusions of the atmo- 

 spheric, 12, 



LepismidsB, on the homologies of, 110. 



Lesmahagow, on new forms of Crustacea 

 from the district of, 96. 



Leucine, on the occurrence of, in the pan- 

 creatic fluids and contents of the in- 

 testine, 124. 



Lichens, on the commercial uses of, 64, 



Liebig (Baron von), exhibition of a large 

 bar of aluminium, 64 ; on a new mode 

 of making bread introduced into Ger- 

 many, ib. ; on a new form of cyanic 

 acid, ib. 



Life table, on a mechanical process by 

 which a, commencing at birth, may be 

 converted into a similar table, com- 

 mencing at any other period of life, 1 63. 



Light, 7 ; photochemical researches, with 

 reference to the laws of the chemical 

 action of, 48 ; on the action of, on the 

 germination of seeds, 56 ; influence of, 

 on the germination of plants, 103. 



Limestone, on the freshwater, of Dr. Hib- 

 bert, 91 ; on some of the mechanical 

 structures of, 97. 



1855. 



Lindsay (Dr. A. L.) on the commercial 

 uses of lichens, 64. 



Liquors, on certain curious motions ob- 

 servable on the surfaces of, 16. 



Lithographs, on a process for obtaining, 

 by the photographic process, 69. 



Livingston (Dr.), extracts from letters 

 describing his journey across tropical 

 Africa, 148. 



Locke (John) on the agricultural labourers 

 of England and Wales, their inferiority 

 in the social scale, and the means of 

 efiecting their improvement, 171. 



Longmynd, on some fossils from the Cam- 

 bi'ian rocks of the, 95. 



Lowe (E. J.) on the force of the wind in 

 July and August 1855, as taken by the 

 " atmospheric recorder " at the Beeston 

 observatory, 40; singular mortality 

 amongst the swallow tribe, 112. 



Ludlow rock of Ludlow, on a phyllopod 

 crustacean in the upper, 98. 



Macadam (Dr. Stevenson) on the chemi- 

 cal composition of the waters of the 

 Clyde, 64. 



Macdonald (Dr. William) on the verte- 

 bral homologies in animals, 128. 



Macdonald (James) on the form and di- 

 mensions of the human body, as ascer- 

 tained by a universal measurer or an- 

 drometer, 127. 



MacDonald (Prof.) on the preadamitic 

 condition of the globe, 148. 



Macdonald (Prof.) on the structure of shell 

 mortars without touch-hole, to be dis- 

 charged by galvanic circuit, 207. 



Macgillivray, (Dr.) exhibition of a copy 

 of the "Natural History of Deesideand 

 Braemar" by 'he late, 118. 



Machinery, on an application of galvanic 

 power to, 208. 



M'Andi-ew (Robert) on the Brachiopoda 

 observed in a dredging tour on the 

 coast of Norway, 106; exhibition of 

 zoophytes, moilusca, &c. observed on 

 the coast of Norway, in the summer of 

 1855, 113. 



M'Callum (Rev. A. K.) on juvenile delin- 

 quency — its principal causes and pro- 

 posed cure, as adopted in the reforma- 

 tory schools, 173. 



M'Clelland (James) on measures relating 

 to the adoption of the family and agri- 

 cultural system of training in the re- 

 formation of criminal and destitute 

 children, 179. 



M'Cormac (Dr.) on the origin of tuber- 

 cular consumption, 131. 



Mackworth (Herbert) on the nietra, 207< 

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