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INDEX 



[raiure, Nov. ;8, i{ 



teafy Ways, by, Francis A, Knight, 32 



I^eblanc (M.), the Transmission of Power by Alternate Currents, 



383 

 Leblanc (Nicolas), Statue of, 653 

 JLectures and Addresses, Popular, Sir William Thomson, 



F.R.S., Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 433 

 Lectures, Victoria Hall Science, 653 

 Lefevre, Colour of Eyes and Hair of Amos, 68 

 Leffmann (Henry), Examination of Water for Sanitaiy and 



Technical Purposes, 293 

 Eeft-leggednes, W. K. Sibley on, 632 

 Leger (E.), o-oxycinchonine, 72 

 Leidie (M.), on a New Series of Double Oxalates of Rhodium, 



254 

 Leverett (Frank), the Glacial Phenomena of North East Illinois 



and North Indiana, 557 

 Lewes (Prof. Vivian B. ):on the Formation of Marine Boiler 



Incrustations, 19 ; Service Chemistry, 639 

 Lewis ([). M.), Bunsen's Photometer, 174 

 Lias, Middle of Norihamptonshire, Beeby Thompson, 341 

 Lieben (Richard), and Rudolf Auspilz, Untersuchungen iiber 



die Theorie des Preises, 242 

 Life-history of a Marine Food Fish, Prof. W. C. Mcintosh, 



F.R.S., 156 

 Light : in Doubly Refracting Bodies, the Magnetic Rotation of 

 Plane of Polarization of, A. W. Ward, 117; Notes on 

 Polarized Light, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 143 ; Patches of 

 Prismatic Light, C. S. Scott, 224 ; Corona; round a Light, 

 produced by a Peculiar Structure in the Eye, James Ci 

 McConnel, 342 ; Action of Light on Allotropic Silver, M. C. 

 Lea, 404 ; a Guide to the StuHy of the Measurement of Light, 

 Practical Photometry, W. J. Dibdin, 572 ; the Action of 

 Light on the Hydracids, Dr. Richardson, 587 

 Lightning : and Electricity, an Italian Precursor of Franklin, 

 108 ; Photographs of Lightning, Dr. Huffert, 190 ; Curious 

 Effects of Lightning on a Tree, Alfred S. Gubb, 203 ; Photo- 

 graphs of Lightning and " Black " Electric Sparks, A. W. 

 Clayden, 262 ; the Eiffel Tower as a Lightning Conductor, 

 261 ; the Duration of Lightning Flashes, 264 ; on the Pheno- 

 mena of the Lightning Discharge as Illustrated by the Striking 

 of a House in Cossipore, Calcutta, Walter G. McMillan, 295 ; 

 on Some Effects of Lightning, C. Tomlinson, F. R.S., A. 

 F. Griffith, 366, 543; Spencer Pickering, 415, 620 ; Captain 

 J. P. Maclear, 437 ; Arthur E. Brown, 543 ; Globular 

 Lightning, A. T. Hare, 415 ; Electric Figures Produced by I 

 Lightning, Ch. V. Zenger, 432 ; on Dark Flashes of Light- 

 ning, A. W. Clayden, 585 

 Lights, Beacon, and Fog Signals, Sir James N. Douglass, F.R.S., 



87, no 

 Limestone of Culdaff, Coral-like Structures from the, Prof. E. 



Hull, F.R.S., 608 

 Linnieus, Portraits of, Carruthers, 106 



Lincolnshire, the Upper Jurassic Clays of, Thos. Roberts, 167 

 Lindley (Percy), Walks in Holland, 254 

 Linnenn Society, 22, 47, 118, 237, 263 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, 305, 401, 595, 635 

 Lippmann ((J.), Chromatic Photography by Use of Coloured 



Glasses, 48 

 Liquid Motion, on an Electro-magnetic Interpretation of Turbu- 

 lent, Prof. Geo. Eras. Fitzgerald, F. R. S., 32 

 Liquids, the Expansion of, S. U. Pickering, 166 

 Lisbon Geographical Society, 182 



Liveing (Prof. G. D., F.R.S.,) Spherical Eggs, 55 ; the Ab- 

 sorption Specira of Oxygen, 211, 212 ; on " Eikonogen," a 

 New Developer, 587 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee's Easter Dredging Cruise, 



Prof. W. A. Herdman, 47 

 Liverpool, Note on some Hailstones that Fell at, on Sunday, 

 June 2, 1889, Edward C. Robinson, 151 ; Miss C. D. Holt, 

 272 

 Liverpool Physical Society, Proposed, 627 

 Lizard Swallowed by a Viper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 



134, 150 

 Lochavullin, Ancient Lake-Dwelling Discovered at, 180 

 Lock's Elementary Trigonometry, Key to, Henry Carr, 125 

 .Lockyer (J. Norman, F. k.S.), Notes on Meteorites, 136 

 Lodge(Pror. Oliver J., F. R. S. ) : Name for Unit of Self-Induction, 

 .11 ; an Electrostatic Field Produced by Varying Ma.jpetic 

 Induction, 93 ; the Concentration of Electric Radiation by 

 Lenses, 94 ; Use or Abuse of Empirical Formula, and of 



Differentiation by Chemists, 273 ; Popular Lectures and 

 Addresses, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 433; on the 

 Failure of Metal Sheets to Screen off the Electrostatic Effect 

 of Moving or Varying Charges, 586 ; Section Work at the 

 British Association, 593; and R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., on 

 the Determination of v by Means of Electric Oscillations, 

 584 . . 



Loewy (Benjamin), a Graduated Course of Natural Science, 271 

 Lombard, the Centre of Creation, 92 

 London Geological Field Class, 13 

 London Mathematical Society, 626 

 London and Paris, Telephonic Communication between, W. H. 



Preece, F. R.S., on, 631 

 London, Proposed Teaching University for, 60 

 London, Report of the Royal Commission on the University of, 



121, 149 

 London Teacher, a. Report of the Royal Commission on the 



University of London, 149 

 Longitude between Paris and Madrid, Difference of, Esteban 



and Bassot, 612 

 Longmans' New Atlas, 148 

 Longmans' School Arithmetic, F. E. Marshall and J. W. Wels- 



ford, 52 

 Loomis (Prof. Elias) : Contributions to Meteorology, 21 ; on 

 Rainfall, R. A. Gregory, 330 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of, 401 

 Lord Howe Island, its Zoology, Geology, and Physical Cha- 

 racters, 414 

 Lorenz (M.), the Molecular Action of Dissolved Substances, 



216 

 Lorie (Signor), Investigations in New Guinea, 4^5 

 Loubat (Count), Prize for Encourage ent of North American 



Studies, 372 

 Louisiade Archipelago, the. Dr. Macgregor, 61 

 Louisiade and D'Enirecasteaux Islands, Basil H. Thomson on, 



256 

 Lovel (J.), Stationary Dust-Whirl, 174 

 Low (D. A.), Applied Mechanics, 31 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F. R.S.), on the Shape of the Oak Leaf and 



the Leaves of the Guelder Rose, 611 

 Luminous Night Clouds, D. J. Rowan, 151 

 Lunacy, Annual Report of the Commissioners in, 253 

 Lunar Radiation, Recenc Determinations of the Amount of. 



Prof. C. C. Hutchins, 209 

 Luy (Dr. Alfredo de), the Effect of Climate on Race. 423 

 Lydekker (R.) : Chelonian Remains from Wealden and Purbeck, 

 238 ; on Phenacodus and the Athecje, Prof. E. D. Cope, 298 

 Lynn (William Thynne), Celestial Motions, a Handy Book of 

 Astronomy, 293 



McAdie (Alexander), Atmospheric Electricity, 223 



MacColl (Hugh), Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet, R. A. Gregory, 



291 

 MacConnel (James C.) : Corona round a Light produced by a 



Peculiar Structure in the Eye, 342 ; Glories, 594 

 Macdonald (Greville), Board School Laryngitis, E. Clifford 



Beale, 8 

 Macfadyen (Dr. A.), the Ferment Action of Bacteria, 21 

 McGee (W. ].), Palaeolithic Man in America, 163 

 Macgowan (Dr.), Alleged Avenging Habits of the Cobra in 



Indian and Chinese Folk-Lore, 423 

 Macgregor (Sir William): the Louisiade Archipelago, 61; 



Ascent of Summit of Owen Stanley Range by, 308 ; Ascent 



of Mount Owen Stanley, 449 ; Ascent of the Owen Stanley 



Range, 551 

 Mcintosh (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), the Life-history of a Marine 



Food Fish, 11, 130, 156 

 Mackinder (H. J.) : Beitrage zur Geophysik, Abhandlungen aus 



dem geographischen Seminar der Universitat Strassburg, 75 ; 



Bericht iiber die Entwickelung der Methodik und des Studiums 



der Erdkulide, Dr. Hermann Wagner, 75 

 MacLaurin (Dr.), on the British Race in Australia, 62,2 

 Maclear (Capt. J. P.), on some Effects of Lightning, 437 

 McLeod (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Black-bulb Thermometer /« 



vacuo, 585 

 McMillan (Walter G.), on the Phenomena of the Lightning 



Dischargeas Illustrated by the Striking of a House inCossipore, 



Calcutta, 295 

 McNair (W. W.), Death of, 483 



