Kathode Fall of Potential in Compound Gases ; Eelation to Fall in Elements 



(Capstick), 356. 



Kew Observatory Committee, Report of the, for the year 1897, 161. 

 Krypton, New Constituent of Air (Ramsay and Travers), 405; Position among 



Elements (Crookes), 408. 



Lang (William H.) On Apogamy and the Development of Sporangia upon Fern 

 Prothalli, 56. 



Larmor (Joseph) Note on the Complete Scheme of Electrodynamic Equations 

 of a Moving Material Medium, and on Electrostriction, 365. 



Light, Absorption in Dilute Solutions (Edser), 374 ; Extension of Maxwell's 

 Theory of, to include Dispersion, Metallic Reflection, and Allied Phenomena 

 (Edser), 91, 374; Relative Retardation of Components of a Stream of, when 

 passed through a Crystalline Plate (Walker) , 79 ; Velocity of, in Metals, 

 Connection with Electric Conductivity of Metal (Edser), 374. 



Lister (Arthur) elected, 373; admitted, 412. 



Macallum (A. B.) On the Detection and Localisation of Phosphorus in Animal 



and Vegetable Tissues, 467. 



McMahon (Lieut.-Qen. C. A.) elected, 373 ; admitted, 412. 

 Magnetic Deformation in Nickel, Influence of Temperature on Change of, with 



Time (Jones), 44. 

 Magnetic Field, Modifications of Spectra of Iron and other Substances produced by 



(Preston), 26. 



Magnetic Properties of Iron, effects of heating on (Roget), 258. 

 Magnetic Range (Diurnal), and Period of Sunspot Frequency, relation between 



(Ellis), 64. 

 Magnetic Susceptibility of Liquid Oxygen (Fleming and Dewar), 311 ; 



of Rocks in England and Ireland (Riicker and White), 460. 

 Magnetism and Light ; Zeeman Effect and Faraday Rotation of Polarisation Plane 



(FitzGerald), 31. 

 Marcet (William) A Calorimeter for the Human Body, 232; and Floris 



(R. B.) An Experimental Inquiry into the Heat given out by the Human 



Body, 242. 



Marine Life, Animal and Vegetable, relations between (Vernon), 155. 

 Martin (C. J.) and Cherry (T.) The Nature of the Antagonism between Toxins 



and Antitoxins, 420. 



Maxwell (Sir Herbert Eustace) admitted, 63. 

 Meeting of March 3, 1898, 1; March 10, 25; March 17, 63; March 24, 63; 



March 31, 205 ; April 28, 206 ; May 5, 212 ; May 12, 231 ; May 26, 270 ; 



June 9, 373 ; June 16, 412. 



Mendeleeff (D.) Experimental Investigations on the Oscillations of Balances, 454. 

 Metabolism in the Plant, Nature and Significance of (Pfeffer), 93. 

 Metargon, New Gas in Air (Ramsay and Travers), 437. 

 Monaco (Prince Albert I of) On the Meteorological Observatories of the Azores, 



206. 



Moore (John Carrick), Obituary Notice of, xxix. 

 Mueller, (Baron) Ferdinand von, Obituary Notice of, xxxii. 

 Murray (G-eorge) and Blackman (V. H.) A Study of the Phyto-Plankton of the 



Atlantic, 269. 

 Muscles, on the early Degenerative Changes in the Sensory End Organs of (Batten), 



61. 



