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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 16, 1876 



Jack (R. L.), on Tertiary Basaltic Dykes in Scotland, 481 



Jack (Dr. William), on Compulsory Education, 491 



Jahrbuch der kaiserlichen-koniglichengeologischen Reichsanstalt, 

 Wien, 301 



James (W. H,, M.P.), on the City Guilds, 559 



Janssen (M,), Solar Observations, 62, 79, 180 ; Automatic Pho- 

 tographic Revolver, 534, 535 



Japan, Meteorology in, 295 



Jenisei, Nordenskj old's Expedition to, 16, 380, 497, 517 



Jenkins (B. J.), Visible Horizon, 49 



Jenkinson's Guides to the Isle of Wight, 349 



Jordan Valley, Prof. Porter on the, 491 



Journal of Botany, 37 



Journal of the Chemical Society, 17, 261, 301, 562 



Journal of Mental Science, 122, 301 



Journal of Microscopical Science, 37 



Journal de Physique, 18, 220, 302, 519 



Judd (J. W.), Pal^^ontology and the Doctrine of Descent, 275 



Jukes' School Manual of Geology, 504 



Jupiter, Drawings of, by M. Trouvelot, 299 



Jupiter's Satellites and Uranus, Relative Brightness of, 595 



Xalmia, Stamens of, 231 



Kent's Cavern, Report on the Exploration of, 452 

 Keratitis, Neuro-paralytic, 321 

 Kerguelen's Land, the Birds of, 317, 351, 369 

 Kew Gardens' Report, 292 

 Kew Museum, 241 



Kidder (Pr. J. H.), Birds of Kerguelen's Land, 317 

 Kiel and Heligoland, Proposed Zoological Stations at, 535, 570 

 Kinahan (G. H.), Wind Driftage, 191 

 "Kinematics of Machinery," Reuleaux's, 213, 233 

 * ' Kinematics and Kinetics, " by E. T. Gross, 288 

 Kingzett (C. T.), the Action of Alcohol on the Brain, 486 

 Kirkv/ood (Prof. Daniel), the Meteors of April 20 ; the Clay- 

 water and Meno Meteorites, 526 



Lake Nyassa, Mr. E. D. Young's Paper on, 157 

 Lakes of Australia, Periodicity of the Fresh-water, 47 

 Lancashire Coast, the .^olian Formation on the, William Gee, 



450 

 Land Shells, Carboniferous, 317 

 Lang (Major Fred, H.), Comatula rosacea, 527 

 "Language and its Study," Prof. Whitney's, 88 

 Language, the Science of, Rev. A. H. Sayce, 88 ; Hovelacque 



on the Science of, 306 

 Lankester (E. Ray, F.R.S,), the Endowment of Research, 126 ; 



Perigenesis v. Pangenesis, Haeckel's New Theory of Heredity, 



235 



Lasaulx (Prof. A. von), Discovery of a New Metal, 480 



Laurentian Fossil. Dr. W. B. Carpenter on a new, 868 



Laycock (Dr. Thomas), Death of, 497 



Leech, Organs of Sense in the, 13 



Leeds, Yorkshire College of Science, 217 



Leipzig University Observatories, 300 



Lemming, Migration and Habits of the Norwegian, 113 



Le Verrier (M.), Tables of Saturn, 192 ; on the Intra- Mercurial 

 Planet Question, 533, 570 



Lewisham, the Geology of, 243 



Lick (Mr.), Death of, 580 



Liebig ]Memorial, 580 



Life, Origin of, Douglas A. Spalding, 44 



"Life with the Hamram Arabs," A. R. Myers, 190 



Light and Photography, Vogel's Chemistry of, 328 



Lightning, Men Struck by, at Valbonne, 158 ; Prof. Clerk Max- 

 well on the Protection of Buildings from, 479 



Limestone-makers, Prof. P, Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 9 



Lindley Library, 200, 218 



Linnean Society, 38, 81, 162, 202, 262 



Liquids, Expansion of, to Lamellae, 498 



Littrow (Charles D.), Method of Distributing Astronomical Pre- 

 dictions, 149 



Liverpool Geological Society, 583 



Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington, 

 i> 21, 34, 41, 52, 72, 76, 92, 114, 120, 138, 140, 157, 159, 

 231; Conferences, 72, 92, 114, 140, 159, 175 ; Science Lec- 

 tures at, 138, 157, 180, 199 ; Photography of, 149 



Logarithms, Prof. F. E. Nipht r on Writing, 321 



London University, the Science Degrees of, 331 



Long (Col. C. Chaille), "Naked Truths of Naked People," 521 



Lunar Maps, J. Birmingham, 49 



Lydekker (Richard), Wallace's Geographical Distribution of 

 Animals, 544 



Macalister (Prof.), "Animal Morphology," Part I., 2$ 



Machinery, Reuleaux's Kinematics of, 213, 233 



McCoy (Prof. F.), Prodromus of the ^Palseontology of Victoria, 

 130 



McKendrick (Prof., F.R.S. ), Modes of Demonstrating the 

 Action of the Membrana Tympani, 253 ; Address on] Physio- 

 logy at the British Association, 482 



McLeod (Prof. Herbert), Action of Light on Ebonite, 525 



McNab (Prof., W. R.), the Seychelles Islands, 113; Cohn on 

 the Biology of Plants, 326 



McVean (C. A.), Meteorological Observations in Japan, 295 



Magnetic Induction, M. Chwolson on, 202 



Magnetic Observations in China, Rev. S. J. Perry, 196 



Magnetism, the History of. Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 10; Wm. 

 Chappell, F.S.A., on the Early History of, 147 



Main (Rev. Robt., F.R.S.), Sun-spots suspected to be identical 

 with an Intra-Mercurial Planet, 473 



Main (P. T.) on Force, 505 



Mallet (R., F.R.S.), Volcanic Dykes, 302 



Mallock (Arnulph), Visual Phenomena, 350 



Mammalia, Prof. Flower's Hunterian Lectures on the, 1 1 



Mammals and Birds of Burma, E. Blyth's Catalogue of, 153 



Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 19, 83, 563 



Manchester, a University of, 200, 225, 245, 265 



Mansion House, Science at the, 59 



Manufactiuring Industries, British, 145, 423 



Marey (Prof.), Apparatus for Registering Animal Movements, 

 214 



Margary's Journal and Letters, 229 



Marsh (Prof. O. C), on the Brontotheridse, 36 



Martin (Dr.), Appointment to Professorship at Baltimore, 79 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. S., F.R.S.), the Rowton Siderite, 272 



Massachusetts, Survey of, 36 



Massachusetts Society of Agriculture, Prizes of the, 321 



Mathematical Society, 123, 183, 581 ; Proceedings of the, 247 



Mathematical Tables, 477 



Matter, the Divisibility of, 537 



Maudsley's " Physiology of Mind," Douglas A. Spalding, 541 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), Diffusion of Gases through Ab- 

 sorbing Substances, 24 ; the Theory of Electrical Induction, 

 27 ; Whewell's Writings and Correspondence, 206 ; Report 

 on Ohm's Law, 452 ; the Protection of Buildings from 

 Lightning, 479 



Mayer's Recent Acoustical Researches, 318 



Medical Profession, Admission of Women into, 560 



Meehan (Thos.), the Self- Fertilisation of Plants, 475 



Melanophlogite, a new Mineral, 480 



Melbourne, Meteorology at, 153 



Meldola (R.),. Protective Mimicry, 330 



Meldrum (C, F.R.S.) on Cyclones, 479 



Membrana Tympani, Modes of Demonstrating the Action of the. 

 Prof. McKendrick, F.R.S., 253 



Memoria della Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italian!, 81, 281, 562 



Mental Science, Journal of, 122, 301 



Mesopotamia, Plague in, 218 



Meteorites, in Shropshire, 79; Fall of, in Sweden, 304; Gases 

 in, 498 ; the Claywater and Meno, 526 



Meteorological Research, Pro''. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 388 



Meteorological Society, 10, 143, 223 



Meteorological Stations, Proposed Arctic, 200 



Meteorologische Beobachtungen, 300 



Meteorology, International, 1 1 ; Vienna Congress, 1 1 ; Weather 

 Maps of the German Seewarte, 79 ; of Saxony, 121 ; at Mel- 

 bourne, 153 ; New Laboratories at Montsouris, 156 ; Rainfall 

 of Italy, 158 ; Lectures on, 169, 209 ; Prediction of Storms, 

 200 ; Observations at Bath, 219 ; in Japan, 295 ; Observations 

 at Stonyhurst College Observatory, 299 ; Observations in New 

 Zealand, 343 ; System of Telegraphic Warnings in France, 

 381 ; J. A. Broun on Variations of the Barometer, 464 ; 

 " Rosser's Law of Stcrms," 504 ; Balloon Ascents and, 517 ; 

 Observations of the Norwegian Scientific Expedition, 536 



Meteors, 289, 292, 351 ; the November Meteor Stream, lo ; of 

 April 20, 29; the August Meteors, 331 ; a Brilliant, 496, 

 505, 516 



Metre Diagram, 280. 



Metric System, Report on the, 477 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), the Spelling of the Word "Papua," 90 



Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 37 



