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INDEX 



XIX 



Lobley (J. Logan), Mount Vesuvius, 195 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.) : the Physical and Chemical 

 Characteristics of Meteorites as throwing Light upon their 

 Past History, 305 ; on the Zodiacal Light, 402 



Locomotive, the Latest Express Compound, 448 



Locusts in India, E. C. Cotes, 403, 491 



Locusts in the Red Sea, G. T. Carruthers, 153 



Lodge ( Prof. Dr. Oliver J. , F. R. S. ) : Modern Views of Electricity, 

 5, 80 ; Specific Inductive Capacity, 30 ; the Peltier Effect and 

 Contact E. M.F., 224; Easy Lecture Experiment in Electric 

 Resonance, 368 ; Electrical Radiation from Conducting 

 Spheres, an Electric Eye and a Suggestion regarding Vision, 

 462 



Loewig (Dr. K. J.), Death of, 545 



Logical Machine, a New, Mary Boole, 79 



London Geological Field Class, 519 



London Mathematical Society, 594 



London, the Moon in. Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 586 



London Polytechnic, a South, 481 



London, Polytechnics for, 242 



London University, the Proposed Reconstitution of, 28?, 348 



Longitude of Mount Hamilton, 211 



Longitude between Paris and Leyden, Difference of, Bassot, 



215 



Longitudes, Annuaire du Bureau des, 327 



Loochoo Islands, Proposed Meteorological Observatory in, 401 



Loomis on Rainfall of Earth, Dr. van Bebber, 43 



Lott (Francis Edw.) and Chas. Geo. Mathews, the Microscope 



in the Brewery and Malt-house, 246 

 Lovell {].), S >lar Halos and Parhelia, 560 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), the Chaffinch, 394 

 Lucas (W.) and T. A. Garrett, Wimshurst Machine and Hertz's 



Vibrator, 515 

 Ludwigshafen, Antediluvian Remains Discovered at, 520 

 Lumholtz (Carl), Among Cannibals, 200 

 Luminous Clouds : T. W. Backhouse, 297 ; Joseph John 



Murphy, 298 

 Luminous Night Clouds, Evan McLennan, 131 

 Luminous Organisms, Henri Gadeau de Kerville, Prof. W. A. 



Herdman, 293 

 Lummer (Dr.), Abbe's Apparatus for Testing Transparent 



Films with Plane Parallel Surfaces, 552 

 Lunar Craters, Changes in. Prof. Thury, 183 

 Lund Museum in the University of Copenhagen, 26 

 Lunge (Prof.), Improved Apparatus for Gas Measurements, 471 

 Lupton (Sydney), the St. Petersburg Problem, 165 

 Lussana (S.), the Absorption of Hydrogen by Iron, 380 

 Lydekker (Richard), Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and 



Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), 534 

 Lynn (W. T.), Obituary Notice of Lorenzo Respighi, 254 



Macalister (Prof. Alex., F.R.S.), a Text-book of Human 



Anatomy, 269 

 M'Alpine (A. N,), How to know Grasses by their Leaves, Prof. 



John Wrightson, 557 

 McConnnel (James C.) : the Period of the Long Sea- Waves 



of Krakatab, 392 ; Key to the Royal Society Catalogue, 342, 



391, 418 

 McGrath (Joseph), the Arc Light, 154 

 MacGregor (Prof. J. G.), Peculiar Ice Forms, 463 

 McGregor (Sir W. ), Explorations in New Guinea, 374 

 Mcintosh (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), the Administration of Foreign 



Fisheries, 497 

 McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Galls, 131 

 McLennan (Evan), Luminous Night Clouds, 131 

 Macmahon (Major P. A., R.A.) : a New Theory of Symmetric 



Functions, II., 71 ; Symmetrical Functions of Roots of 



Systems of Equation^, 380 

 McNab (Dr. William Ramsay) : Death of, 112 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 159 ; Proposed Memorial to, 347 

 Madagascar, Astronomical Observatory at, 497 

 Magnetic Observatory, Potsdam, Dr. Eschenhagen, 479 

 Magnetic Surveys of Special Districts in the British Isles, Profs. 



A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 598 

 Magnetical Results of the Voyage of H. M.S. Challenger, 



Report on the, Commander E. W. Creak, F.R.S., 105, 363, 

 Magnetism in Brick Buildings, R. W. WiUson, 405 

 Magnetism, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 249. 273 

 Magnetism and Electricity, Arthur W. Poyser, 52 

 Magnetism and Electricity, Prof. Andrew Jamieson, 30, 461 



Magnetism, a Proposed Gilbert Club, 84 



Magnetization of Cobalt, Effects of Pressure on, C. Chree, 237 



Maiden (J. IL), the Useful Plants of Australia, 194 



Malaga, Earthquake at, 470 



Malay Peoples, the. Dr. B. Hagen, 21 



Malayan Peninsula, Materials for a Flora of the, Dr. Geo. King, 



F.R.S., 437 



Malic Acid and its Compounds, D. Gemez, 94 



Maltese Butterflies, George Eraser, 199 



Mammalian Molars, Primitive Types of, 465 



Mammoth Skeleton in Russia, Discovery of, 448 



Manchester Conference on the Technical Instruction Act, 97 



Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, 593 



Manchester Free Libraries, the, 181 



Manchester Literary and Philosophical .Society, 373 ; Annual 

 Report of, 137 



Manchester, Proposed Planting of Evergreen Shrubs in, 401 



Manchester, Street Plants in, 42 



Manganese, New Mode of Preparing, Dr. Glatzel, 67 



Manure, Stable, the Fermentation of, Th. Schloesing, 143 



Manures and their Uses, Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 222, 272 



Manuscripts, Ancient Cingalese, 349 



Manx Geological Society, 208 



Maori Cave-dwelling, Discovery of, H. O. Forbes, 209 



Maps : Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, 

 A. E. Nordenskidld, 558 



Maquenne (M.), j8-Inosite, 215 



Marcet (Dr.), Atmospheric Dust, 358, 473 



Marchand (Em.), Observations on Sun-spots made at Lyons 

 Observatory in 1889, 599 



Marine Fisheries Society of Great Grimsby, 520 



Marine Laboratory, New, at St.-WaU-la-Hau^jue, 160 



Marine Millipede, a, 104; Edward Pa'^fiit, 153; R. I. Pocock, 

 176 



Mnr ne Phenomenon at Batoum, Curious, 426 



Marine Station at Kiel, 397 



Marine Survey of India, 140 



Markham (Clements R., F.R.S.), a Life of John Davis, 52 



Marlborough College Natural History Society, 545 



Marriott (William), Royal Meteorological Society's Exhibition, 

 491 



Mascart (M.), Relation of certain Magnetic Perturbations to 

 Earthquakes, 23 



Mascart (M. E.), Traite d'Optique, J. D. Everett, 224 



Mass of Saturn, Asaph Hall, 429 



Massaja (Cardinal G.), Dc:ath and Obituary Notice of, 164 



Masson (Prof. Orme), Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 441 



Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Oates, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 169 



Mathematics : Calcul des Probabilit^s, J. Bertrand, 6 ; the 

 Method of Quarter Squares, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., 9; 

 the Use of the Word Antiparallel, W. J. James, 10 ; a Phy- 

 sical Basis for the Theory of Errors, C. V. Burton, 47 ; a 

 NewTheory of Symmetric Functions (II.), Major MacMahon, 

 71 ; a New Logical Machine, Mary Boole, 79 ; Geometrical 

 Teaching, 80; Mathematical Society, 94, 214, 287, 503, 575, 

 594; W. E. Johnson on the Proof of the Parallelogram of 

 Forces, 153 ; the St. Petersburg Problem, Sydney Lupton, 

 165 ; Glissette of Hyperbola, Prof. Tait, 214 ; the Extension 

 and Flexure of Cylindrical aid Spherical Thin Elastic Shells, 

 A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 238; a Treatise on Ordinary and 

 Partial Differential Equations, Prof. W. W. Johnson, 270 ; 

 the Parallelogram of Forces, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 

 298 ; Roots of an Algebraic Equation, Prof. A. Cayley, 

 F.R.S., 335, 359; B. A. Muirhead on Ten and Tenth Nota- 

 tion, 344 ; Determination of Regulated Harmonic Surfaces, 

 L. Raffy, 359 ; Symmetrical Functions of Roots of Systems 

 of Equations, Major P. A. MacMahon, R.A., 380; Unit of 

 Length of Sir G. Shuckburgh's Standard Scale, General J. 

 T. Walker, R.E,, F.R.S., 381 ; the Exponential Function, 

 Stieltjes, 382 ; a Formula in the Theory of Least Squares, 

 D. Wetterhan, 394 ; Newton in Perspective, Robert H. 

 Graham, 439 ; the Elaslical Researches of Barre de Saint- 

 Venant, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 458 ; on a Certain 

 Theory of Elastic After-Strain, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 

 463; Oxford "Pass" Geometry, 467; a Treatise on Linear 

 Differential Equations, Thos. Craig, 508 ; Four-Figure 

 Mathematical Tables, J. T. Bottomley, F.R.S., 5ro; Equa- 

 tions aux derivees partielles de la Physique Mathematique, 

 Poincare, 525 ; the Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum, 



