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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1890 



Keiser (Dr. E. H.), Redetermination of Atomic Weight of Pal- 

 ladium, 44 

 Kent, Discovery of Coal in, 400 

 Kerville (Henri Gadeau de), Les Animaux et les Vegetaux 



Lumineux, Prof W. A. Herdman, 293 

 Kew Bulletin, 42, 136, 283, 325, 448, 569 

 Kew Observatory Report, 208 

 Key to the Royal Society Catalogue, James C. McConnel, 342, 



391, 418 _ ^ 

 Khurbet 'Ajlan, Excavations at, 592 

 Kiel, the Botanical Institute and Marine Station at, 397 

 Kiev, Actinometric Observations (1888-89) at, R. Savelief, 359 

 Kilima-Njaro, the Ascent of, Dr. Hans Meyer and Purtscheller, 



164, 572 

 King Charles Land, Prof Kuekenthal's Researches in, 234 

 King (Dr. George, F. R. S. ), Materials for a Flora of the 



Malayan Peninsula, 437 

 King (Dr. W.), Provincial Index of Minerals of India, 546 

 Kirby (W. F.), Systems of " Russian Transliteration," 534 

 Kirschbaum (Madame Rosa), First Lady Physician admitted to 



Medical Practice in Austria, 509 

 Klein (Dr. E., F. R.S.), the Bacteria of Asiatic Cholera, 509 

 Klingemann (Dr. F.), o-y3-Dibenzoyltyrolene and Zinin's Lepiden 



Derivatives, 142 

 Knight (Francis A.), Idylls of the Field, 79 

 Knopf (Dr.), Comet Brooks {d 1889, July 6), 115 

 Knott (Prof. Cargill G.), the Earthquake of Tokio, April 18, 



1889, 32 

 Kny (Herr), on Trees Growing in an Inverted Position, 86 

 Kolaba District, Flint Remains in, W. E. Sinclair, 114 

 Kossel (Prof), Microscope as applied to Physiological Chemis- 

 try, 23 

 Krakatab, the Period of the Long Sea- waves of, James C. 



McConnel, 392 

 Kremser (Dr.), Frequency of Mist, 215 

 Kubary (J. S.), Ethnographische Beitriige zur Kenntniss des 



Karolinen Archipels, 433 

 Klichenmeister (Dr. Gottlob Friederich H.), Death of, 592 

 Kuekenthal's (Prof.), Researches in King Charles Land, 234 

 Kunz (G. F.), Mexican Amber, 372 



Kutter(W. R.) and E. Ganguillet, a General Formula for the 

 Uniform Flow of Water in Rivers and other Channels, 411 



Laboratories of Bedford College, London, 279 



Laboratory, Botanical, in the Royal Gardens, Peradeniya, 



Ceylon, 445 

 Laboratory, New Marine, at St.-Wast-la-Hougue, 160 

 Laboratory, the Poona Bacteriological, 469 

 Laboratory Work, Elements of, A. G. Earl, 461 

 Labuan, the African Oil Palm in, 42 

 Laccadive Islands, Rat-plague in, 303 

 Ladybird, Australian, in California, Spread of the, J. R. 



Dobbins, 161 

 Lagrange (Dr. Fernand), Physiology of Bodily Exercise, 485 

 Lake-dwelling near Milan, Discovery of, 67 

 Lalang, Noxious Grass at Singapore, 182 

 Lamarck versus Weismann, Prof. E. D. Cope, 79 

 Lamarck's and Darwin's Theories as to Transmission of Acquired 



Characters, Prof. E. R. Lankester, F.R.S., 486 

 Lamb (Prof. Horace, F.R.S.): on a Certain Theory of Elastic 



After-strain, 463 ; on the Deformation of an Elastic Shell, 549 

 Lamp (Dr. E.) : Return of Brorsen's Comet, 69; Comet Swift 

 . (/1889, November 17), 233 



Lampert (Dr.), Zoogeography, Wolves, &c., in Germany, 182 

 Lamplugh (G. W.), the Wanton Destruction of Sea-birds, 490 

 Lancaster (M. A.), Biographical Note on, J. C. Houzeau, 20 

 Land, Area of the, and Depths of the Oceans in Former Periods, 



T. Mellard Reade, 103 

 Langley (E. M.), the Use of the Word Antiparallel, 104 

 Langley (J. N., F.R.S.), Local Paralysis of Peripheral Ganglia 



and Connection of Nerve-Fibres with them, 118 

 Langley (Prof.), the Solar and the Lunar Spectrum, 450 

 Language, Study of Physiological Notes on Primary Education 



and the, Mary Putnam Jacob), 28 

 Languages, American Indian, Use of Edison Phonograph "in 



Preserving, J. W. Fewkes, 560 

 Lankester (Prof, E. Ray, F.R.S.) : Darwinism, 9 ; E. D. Cope 



on the Causes of Variation, 128 ; the Inheritance of Acquired 



Characters, 415 ; Transmission of Acquired Characters and 



Panmixia, 486 ; Panmixia, 558 



Lapouge (M. de). Modern Crania in Montpellier, 357 

 Larden (W.), Mirage in the South American Pampas, 69 

 Lascelles (B. P.) and R. P. Williams, Introduction to Chemical 



Science, 128 

 Latitude, Redetermination of, in Tokio, Watanabe, 427 

 Latter (Prof, Oswald H.), Who Discovered the Teeth in Omi- 



thorhynchus ?, 130, 174 

 Law, Science and, 399 

 Lawes (Sir J. B., F. R. S.), a Field laid down to Permanent 



Grass, 229 

 Lea (A. S. ), a Comparative Study of Natural and Artificial 



Digestions, 430 

 Leak-stopping in Steel Ships, Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald, 



R.N., 516 

 Lean (Wm. Scarnell), a Brilliant Meteor, 60 

 Leaper (Clement J.), Synoptical Tables of Organic and Inorganic 



Chemistry, 510 

 Least Squares, Theory of, a Formula in the, D. Wetterhan, 394 

 Lebeau (P.) : Volumetric Estimation of Copper, 431 ; Estimation 



of Free Halogen and Iodides in Presence of Chlorine and 



Bromine, 479 

 Le Conte, Formation of the Earth's Crust, 46 

 Lefroy (Sir John FL, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



568 

 Lehmann (Dr.): the Babylonian Metrical System, 167; the 



Testing of Tuning-forks, 383 

 Leicester Museum Grounds, on a Mite of the Genus Tetranychus 



found Infesting Lime Trees in the, F. R. Rowley, 31 

 Leicestershire and Rutland, the Vertebrate Animals of, Montagu 



Browne, 220 

 Lendenfeld (Dr. Robert von) : a Monograph of the Horny 



Sponges, 146 ; Physiology of Sponges, 570 ; Foreign .Sub- 

 stances attached to Crabs, 317 

 Lepidoptera, Sugar losing its Attractions for, Joseph Anderson,. 



349 

 Lepidoptera, Temperature Experiments on, F. Merrifield, 191 

 Lesquereux (Prof), Death of, 135 

 Lesser Antilles, the, Owen T. Bulkeley, 268 

 Leumann (Prof. ), Influence of Blood-Circulation and Breathing 



on Mind-Life, 209 

 Leveau (G. ), D'Arrest's Comet, 596 

 Lewes (Prof. V.), the Ignition of Coal Cargoes, 517 

 Lewis (Prof. H. C), the late, Wm. Upham, 256 

 Ley (Rev. W. Clement) : Thought and Breathing, 317; Chifif- 



Chaff singing in September, 317 

 Leyden Ethnographical Collection, the, 180 

 Libraries, Free, the Manchester, 181 



Library, Bethnal Green Free, Proposed Enlargement of, 349 

 Library, Proposed Free, at Whitechapel, 16 r 

 Library Reference Atlas of the World, John Bartholomew, 413 

 Liebreich (Prof), the Bladder in Fishes, 359 

 Life, Animal, Glimpses of, W. Jones, 409 

 Light, Coronal, Photometric Intensity of, Prof. Thorpe, 139 

 Light and Heat, Rev. F. W. Aveling, 558 

 Light, New, from Solar Eclipses, William M. Page, William 



E. Plummer, 529 

 Light-Waves, Measurement by, A. A. Michelson, 405 

 Lightning, Effects of, 10 



Lightning. Globular and other Forms of, Reuben Phillips, 58 

 Like to Like, a Fundamental Principle in Bionomics, Prof. Geo. 



J. Romanes, F.R.S., 535 ; John T. Gulick, 535 

 Lime, Crystals of, H. A. Miers, 515, 560 

 Lime Trees in Leicester Museum Grounds, on a Mite of the 



Genus Tetranychus found Infesting, F. R. Rowley, 31 

 Linear Differential Equations, a Treatise on, Thomas Craig, 



508 

 Ling (A. R.), Studies on Isomeric Change, IV., Halogen De- 

 rivatives of Quinone, 527 

 Linnean Society, 143, 191, 239, 334, 405, 431, 478, 527, 599 

 Linnean Socielyof New South Wales, 161, 284 

 Linossier (G.), Morphology and Biology of Oidium albicans, 72 

 Liquid Surfaces, Tension of Recently-formed, Lord Rayleigh, 



566 

 Liquids, Determination, by Measurement of Ripples, of Surface 



Tensions of, Prof C. Michie Smith, 575 

 Lissa (Baron de), the Pioneer Plants of British North Borneo, 



494 

 Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 471 

 Liverpool Physical Society, 135 

 Lizard of South- West United States, Heloderma suspectum, the 



Poisonous, Craniology of, R. W. Shufeldt, 181 



