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Index 



[Sttppleiiient to Nature, 

 June i6, i8g8 



Korea and her Neighbours, Mrs. Bishop, 512 

 Kreutz (Prof. H. ), Comet Perrine, 568 

 Kums (Dr. A.), les choses Naturelles dans Homere, 146 

 Kunz (G. r.), Sapphires from Montana, 189 



Laboratory Directions in General Biology, Harriet Randolph, 



606 

 Laboratory, Organic Chemistry for the, Prof. W. A. Noyes, A. 



Harden, 29 

 Laboratory Practice for Beginners in Botany, William A. 



Setchell, 268 

 Laboulbeniacea, Contributions towards a Monograph of the, 



Roland Thaxter, 620 

 Lachambre (Henri), Andree and his Balloon, 609 

 Lacroix (A.), Ktypeite, 431 



Ladd (Prof G. T.), Philosophy of Knowledge, 125 

 Lagrula(M.), Corrected Position of the Moon, 159 

 Lake, Crater, Oregon, 375 



Lake Rudolf, Mr. H. S. 11. Cavendish on his Journey to, 331 

 Lake Superior Iron Ore Region, the, Bennett H. Brough, 473 

 Lakes, Great, Modification of the, by Earth Movement, Prof. 



G. K. Gilbert, 211 

 Lakes and Inland Seas, Undulations in, due to Wind and 



Atmospheric Pressure, W. H. Wheeler, 321 

 Lamb (Prof H.), Waves in Medium having Periodic Discon- 

 tinuity of Structure, 143 

 Lambert (P. A.), Analytic Geometry for Technical Schools and 



Colleges, 292 

 Lampblack, J. Stark, 70 

 Lamplugh (G. W.), the Glacial Period and the Irish Fauna, 



245. 342 

 Land, the Fertility of the, Isaac P. Roberts, 75 

 Landauer (John), Spectrum Analysis, 581 

 Lander (G. D.), Action of Alkyl Iodides on Silver Malate and 



on Silver Lactate, 526 

 Lang (V. von). Counter Electromotive Force of Aluminium, 401 

 Lang (W. H.), Apogamy and Sporangia Developments on 



Fern Prothalli, 501 

 Langley (Dr. T- N., F.R.S.), Experimental Junction of Vagus 



Nerve with Superior Cervical Ganglionic Cells, 382 

 Langley (Prof.), a Railroad Flying Machine, 156; Smithsonian 



Institution Report, 544 ; the Bolometer, 620 

 Lantern Slides, Stereoscopic Projection of, Prof. G. H. Bryan, 



F.R.S., 511 

 Lantern Slides, the Preparation of Marine Animals and Plants 



as Transparent, Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 520 

 Lapparent (Prof. A. de), Notions generates sur I'ficorce 



terrestre, 196 

 Lapworth (A.), a Possible Basis of Generalisation of Isomeric 



Changes in Organic Compounds, 239 

 Lark, an Albino, 228 



Laurent (Jules), Absorption of Organic Material by Roots, 143 

 Law of Divisibility, the, Henry T, Burgess, 8, 30, 55 ; Dr. C. 



Borgen, 54 ; a Correction, 136 

 Le Roy(F. ), Resistance of Crystallised Silicon, 310 

 Lead-Poisoning averted by Addition of Metastannic Acid to 



Glass-Polishing Putty, L. Gueroult, 168 

 Lean (B.), Preparation of Pure Iodine, 358 

 Lebeau (P.), Preparation of Beryllium by Electrolysis, 479 

 Lecaillon (A.), the Germinative Plates of Coleoptera, 143 

 Lecercle (L. ), Action of X-Rays on Cutaneous Evaporation, 24 

 Leclere (A.), the Analysis of Silicates, 143 

 Lectures on Physiology, First Series, on Animal Electricity, A. 



D. Waller, F.R.S., 50 

 Leduc (A.), Gas Mixtures, 310; the Law of Gas Mixtures, 



440 ; Paris Air richer than London Air in Oxygen, 359 

 Lees (Dr. C. H.), Thermal Conductivities of Solids and 



Liquids, 286 

 Legrand (Emmanuel), Electric Conductivity of Solutions of 



Permanganate of Potassium, 576 

 Lehfeldt (Prof. R. A.), the Properties of Liquid Mixtures, 477 

 Lehman (Susanna), a Bright Meteor, 271 

 Lehmann (O.), Magnetic and Electric Wind, 402 

 Leipzig Universitat, Arbeiten des Physikalisch-chemischen 

 Instituts der, aus den Jahren 1887 bis 1896, Dr. John 

 Shields, 508 

 Leleux(M.), Dissociation of Barium and Manganese Carbides, 

 479 



Lemoult (Paul), Constitutional Formulae of Isocyanuric Acidj 



143 



Leonid Display, the, 1897, W. F. Denning, 82 



Leonid Meteors, the, W. F. Denning, 30 



Lepidoptera of the British Islands, the, Charles G. Barrett, 

 W. F. Kirby, 460 



Lepidosiren paradoxa, J. G. Kerr, 191 



Lesparre (A. de G. de). Function of Aroma in Truffle, 431 



Lessons from Life, Animal and Human, 172 



Leuckart (Dr. Rudolf), Death of, 371 ; Obituary Notice of, 542 



Leumann (Surgeon-Captain B. H. S.), Notes on Micro-organ- 

 isms Pathogenic to Man, 52 



Level of Sun-spots, 284 



Lewis (Prof. Henry Carvill, F.R.S. ), Papers and Notes on the 

 Genesis and Matrix of the Diamond, 315 



Liana, Does a Phosphorescent South American, exist ? Prof. 

 Italo Giglioli, 412 



Lick Observatory, Resignation of the Director of the, 16 



Life Histories of American Insects, C. M. Weed, 99 



Life, Lessons from, Animal and Human, 172 



Life ? What is, o;- Where are we ? What are we ? and Whither 

 do we go ? Frederick Hovenden, 535 



Light, Fire-fly, Dr. Carlo del Lungo, 130 



Light, on the Absorption of, by Fluorescing Bodies, Prof C. E. 

 Guillaume, John Burke, 427 ; Light, Visible and Invisible, 

 Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., 506 ; Extension of 

 Maxwell's Electro-Magnetic Theory of, Edwin Edser, 599 ; 

 Rontgen Rays and Ordinary Light, Lord Raylfeigh, F. R.S. , 

 607 



Lightning-Flash, Current Intensity of, F. Pockels, 301 



Limelight, the Use of Compressed Coal Gas, C. E. Ashfordi, 



485' 



Lindemann (Dr. Edward), Death of, 280 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 299 



Linde's (Dr.) Method of Producing Extreme Cold and Lique- 

 fying Air, Prof J. A. Ewing, 469 



Link in the Evolution of a certain Form of Induction Coil, a. 

 Rev. F. J.Jervis-Smith,F.R.S., 30 



Linnean Society, 94, 118, 262, 359, 430, 501, 623 



Liquefaction of Fluorine, the, 82 



Liquid Mixtures, the Properties of. Prof. R. A. Lehfeldt, 



477 



Liverpool Fisheries Exhibition, 13 



Liversidge (Prof A., F.R.S.), Presidential Address to Austra- 

 lasian Association, 493 



Living Substance as such and as Organism, the, Gwendolen 

 Foulke Andrews, 362 



Lizards, Bipedal, W. Saville-Kent, 341,' 365 



Local Distribution of Electric Power in Workshops, Ernest 

 Kilburn Scott, 197 



Local Government Board, Scientific Investigations of the, 131 



Locard (A.), a Deep-Sea Malacological Polybathic Fauna, 

 310 



Lock wood (P. H.), Storm and Sunshine in the Dales, 463 



Lockyer (Sii Norman, K.C B., F.R.S.), the Total Eclipse of the 

 Sun, 342 



Lockyer (Dr. W. J. S.), Memorials of William Cranch Bond and 

 George Phillips Bond, Edward S. Holden, 171 ; Large Re- 

 fracting and Reflecting Telescopes, 200 



Locomotion, Heilmann's Electric, 58 



Lodge (Prof Oliver J., F.R.S. ), Electric Signalling without Con- 

 ducting Wires, 334 



Loeb (Prof.), on the Influence of the Discharge of highly 

 charged Conductors on Nerve Muscle Preparations, 19 



Lomas (J.), the Hereford Earthquake of December 1897, 85 ; 

 Crystalline Gneisses representative of Portions of Original 

 Earth's Crust, 205 



Lombard (Prof W. P.), on the Effect of Frequent Excitations on 

 the Contractility of Striped Muscle, 19 



London, Influenza in, 350 



London Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the, 510 



London, Reorganisation of the University of, 297 



London University Bill, the, 587 



Loney (S. L. ), an Arithmetic for Schools, 560 



Long Division, Abridged, Rev. C. L. Dodgson, 269 ; Robert 

 W. D. Christie, 390 



Longitude of Madras, 284 



Longuinine (W.), Beschreibung der Hauptmethoden welche 

 bei der Bestimmung der Verbrennungswarme iiiblich sind, 364 



