INDEX 



\Maiurt^ May 22, 1S79 



Lakes : Glaeiation of the Italian, Geo^ A, Gibson, 173 ; the 

 Freezing of, J. Y. Buchanan, 383, 412, 433 



Lalande's Stars, 99 



Lancashire^ Science in, 322 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), Research under Difficultie.-, 

 342 ; Moseley's Naturalist on the Challenger, 415 



Lanthanum, Cerium, and Didymium, Prof. Cossa on the Occur- 

 rence of, 424 



Latham (Baldwin), "Sanitary Engineering," I 



Laughton (J. K.), on Air Temperature, its Distribution and 

 Range, 177 



Lavas of the Glyder Fawr, North WaleS) 522 



Lavoisier's Chemical Apparatus, 591 



Lawes (Rev. W. G.), on Indo-Oceanic Races, 258 



Layard (Consul E, L.), Time and Longitude, 197 ; Hereditary 

 Transmission, 197 ; Transportation of Seeds, 527 ; Rayons da 

 Crepuscule, 527 



Leaf-Sheaths and the Growth of Plants, John Munro,^ 147 



Leaves of Plants, Absorption of Water by, 75, 183; Alfred S. 

 Jones, 244 ; Chemical Composition of, 90 



Leben, das. Prof. Philipp Spiller, 384 



Leeds, the Exhibition by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 232 



Legge (Capt. W. Vincent), "Birds of Ceylon," R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 505 



Lehmann (Dr. R.), Ueber ehemalige Strandlinien in anstehen- 

 dem Fels in Norwegen, 578 



Leibnitz's Mathematics, A. B. Nelson, 196 ; James Bottomley, 

 267 ; Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 267, 364 ; Prof. P. G. Tait, 288, 

 384 ; Thomas Muir, 482 



Leighton's Lichen-Flora of Great Britain, &c., 376 



Lei] zig, Aquarium at, 45 



"Leisure-Time Studies," Dr. A. Wilson, 286 



Letts's Diaries, &c., 181 



Leverrier's Great Refracting Telescope, 109 



Lewes (George Henry), Obituary Notice of, 106 



Ley (Annie), Rayons du Crepuscule, 54 



Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Clouds and VVeather Signs, 178; In- 

 clination of the Axes of Cyclones and Anticyclones, 275 



Liberty of Science and of Teaching, Prof. Ernst Haeckel on, 



113, 13s . 



Library Bulletin of Harvard University, 517 



Liesegang (Dr. Paul E.), Manual of the Carbon Process of 

 Photography, 362 



Life and Habit, Samuel Butler, 477 



Life in the Universe and the Tendency to Temperature Equi- 

 librium, S. Tolver Preston, 460 



Light and Electricity, a New Relation between, J. E. H. 

 Gordon, 402 



Light on Organic Infusions, Note on the Influence exercised by, 

 Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 210 



Light, the Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection and Refrac- 

 tion of, G. F. Fitzgerald, 282 



Light, the Motion of a Luminous Source as a Test of the Un- 

 dulatory Theory of Light, S. Tolver Preston, 178 



Lighthouses in France, 517 



Lighthouses, on the Vertical Distribution of the Light from, 

 placed at High Elevations above the Sea-Level, T. Stevenson, 



Lightning Conductors, the Earth Connection of, 475 



Lightning, Globular, Charlotte Hare, 5 ; the Spectrum of. Dr. 

 A. Schuster, 427 



Limestones, the Structure and Origin of, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 

 424 



Linear Equations, on a Machine for the Solution of Simul- 

 taneous, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 161 



Linnaean Society, 67, 90, 162, 235, 355, 378, 426, 476, 499, 570 



Littrow (Karl von). Medal of, 256 



Liveing and Dewar (Professors), Studies in Spectrum Analysis, 



163 

 Liverpool, Proposed. New College at, 46 



Lizards, Colour- Variation in, Alfred R. Wallace, 4 ; Prof. Leith 

 Adams, 53 ; J. Wood-Mason, 53 ; Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 

 97 ; F. Herbert Carpenter, 122 

 Llanos of Venezuela, Dr. Carl Sachs's Work on, 456 

 Local Societies, the Association of, J. Clifton Ward, 165 

 Lockwood (E.), " Natural History, Sport, and Travel," 337 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), on the Compound Nature of the 

 Elements, 157, 197, 225 ; Preliminary Note on the Substances 

 which produce the Chromospheric Lines, 292 

 Locomotion : a Study in. Prof. Marey, 438, 464, 488 ; Photo- 

 graphy of Animals in Motion, 517 



Locusts and Sun-Spots, E. D. Archibald, 145 



Lommel (Dr. E.), German Degrees, 267 



"London Science Class- Books," 143 



London, the Grace Collection of Maps, &c., of, 351 



London University, Registrarship of, 130, 149 



Longitude and Time,. 290 ; E, L, Layard, 197; Latimer Clark, 



220 

 Loomis (Prof.), on Storms in the United States, 270 

 Lord Howe Island, 223 

 Lorentz (Dr. Don, P. G.), " La Vegetacion del Nordeste de la 



Provincia de Entre-Rios," 119 

 Losche (Dr. Edward), Death of, 350 

 I>ott (Frank EJ, Snow Flakes, 529 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), on Ants, 377 

 Ludwig (Dr. Phil. Hubert), "Morphologische Studien an Echino' 



dermen," 406 

 Lunar Researches,, Newcomb's, 166 



Macalister (Prof. A,), Class- Books of Zoology, 143 



McClure (Edmund), Colour-Blindness, 5 



Macfarlane (Dr. A.), the Disruptive Discharge of Electricity, 184 



Macfarlane's American Geological Railway Guide, 287 



Macintosh (H. W.), on the Spines of Echini, 319 



Mackay (A. M.), his Nyanza Expedition, 99 



McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Phylloxera in Italy, 375; did Flowers 



Exist in the Carboniferous Epoch ? 554 

 Maclay (Dr. Miclucho), on Proposed Zoological Stations, 



472 ; on Opium Smoking, 492 

 McLeod (Herbert), Schwendler's Testing Instructions for 



Telegraph Lines, 231 

 M'Nab (James), Obituary Notice of, 84 

 M'Nab (Prof. W, R.), Class-Books of Botany, 143 

 Madagascar Forms in Africa, 470; Prof. W. T. Thiielton 



Dyer, 527 

 Madagascar, J. M. Hildebrandt's Tour through, 324 

 Madeira, the River, Expedition up, 44 

 Madrid Geographical Society, 422 

 "Magic Lantern Manual," Chadwick's, 327 

 Magic Mirror of Japan, 186, 539 

 Magnetic Storms: W. H. Preece, 432 ; of May 14, 15, 1878, 



Henry C. Mance, 148, 409; W. H. Preece, 173 ; Rev. S. J. 



Perry, F.R.S., 220; C. P. Patterson, 288 ; C. A. Schott, 288 

 Magnetism, a Study in, Prof. Sylvanus P. Thompson, 79 

 Magnet^, on the Magnetism of Artificial, V. S. M. van der 



Willigen, 552 

 Magnus's " Hydrostatics" and the " London Science Series," 32 

 Majendie (Major) on Dynamite, 473 

 Malta, Winterberg's Book on, 77 

 Mammalian Foot, the Muscles of the, 155 

 Mammoth : the, 91 ; the Range of the, Clement Reid, 122 ; J. 



J. Wild, 146 

 Mance (Henry C), Magnetic Storm, May 14, 1878, 148, 409 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 23, 260, 452, 



Mdrey (Prof.), a Study in Locomotion, 438, 464, 488 



Marine Flowering Plants, 584 



Marlborough College Natural History Society, 592 



" Marocco and the Great Atlas," Plooker and Ball's, 366 



Marocco, E. de Amici's Account of, 438 



Mars and Saturn, the Conjunction of, 154 



Mars, the Figure of the Planet, H. Hennessy, F.R.S., 31 



Marshall (A. Milnes) on the Olfactory Nerve and Organ of 



Vertebrate-, 40 1 

 Marshall (Prof. J.), Pechar's " Coal and Iron," 336 

 Marston (R. B.), "Translation of Liesegang's "Manual of the 



Carbon Process of Photography," 362 

 Marsupials of Australia, Henry Weld Blundell, 528 

 Mathematics : at Cambridge, 22, 49, 87, 497 ; Mathematical 



Society, 89, 162, 260, 378, 475, 570 ; Proceedings of, 527 ; 



Mathematical Drawing Instruments, 128 ; Spanish and Italian 



Journals of, 407 ; Mathematical Visitor, 592 

 Matter in the Gaseous State, the Constitution of. Prof, Wurtz on, 



62 ; Dimensional Properties of, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 



F.R.S., 435 . 



Matter, Strange Properties of, Chas. A, Fawsitt, 98 

 Mauritius: Meteorology in, 17; the Museum of the Society of 



Arts and Sciences, 279 

 Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), "Paradoxical Philosophy," 



141 ; Guthrie's "Physics," 311 ; Verses on his Review of 



Guthrie's " Physics," 384 



