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INDEX 



JX 



Kent (W. Saville), Sound-producing Arthropods, 11 ; a Zoolo- 

 gical Station for the Channel Islands, I02 



Kern (Sergius), Davyum, 245, 292 



Key (Rev. Henry Cooper), the Earthworm in Relation to the 

 Fertility of the Soil, 28 



Kieff, University Intelligence, 374 



Kirtland (Dr, J. P.), Obituaiy Notice of, 232 



Knots, Trefoil, 421 



Koenig and Appunn — Beats in Confined Air, Alex. T. Ellis, 

 F.R.S., 26 



Konigsberg, University Intelligence, 55, 478 



Korostovtseff (M.), Exploration of the Northern Pamir, 249 



Kosmos, 20, 254, 374 



Krupp's Workshops, Statistics of, 351 



Kuhlmann (Prof.), Collection of his Researches, 437 



Kurz (Sulhiz), Death of, 391 



Lagrange, the Statue of, 53 



Laing (S, M. P.), Glacial Geology of Orkney and Shetland, 123 



Lake-Dwellings, English, and Pile Stnictures, Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones, F.R.S,, 424 



Lakes, Depths of, 468 



Lalande, the Star, 382, 488 



Lamps, Lighting by Electricity, 108 



Lamy (Prof. A.), Death of, 436 



Landslip near Cork, C. J. Cooke, 425 



Land-Tortoises, Gigantic, Dr. Giinther, F.R.S. , 483 



Landvort (M. Schoun), Death of, 170 



Langdon (W, E.), the Application of Electricity to Railway 

 Working, 461 



Language, the Science of, Abel Hovelacque, 464 



L'Annee Geographique, 1876, 489 



Lapland, Exploration of Russian, 345 



Laplanders at the Westminster Aquarium, 70 



Last of the Gases, 177 



Lava, Mineral Oil in, at Mount Etna, 150 



Lebour (Prof. G. A.), Marine Fossils in the Gannister Beds of 

 Northumberland, 320, 352 



Leeds, Yorkshire College of Science, 175 



Leicestershire and Rutland, Harrison's Geology of, 58 



Leidenfrost's Phenomena, Wm. Garnett, 466 



Leipzig, University Intelligence, 95 



Levels, Bubbles of Air in, 233 



Leverrier, the Pension to his Widow, 52 ; Proposed Monument 

 to, 350. 391 



Leverrier (Madame), Death of, 37 



Lexington, U.S., Endowment of the University, 175 



Library, Statistics of the Paris National, 92 



Libraries of German and Austrian Universities, 374 



Libraries, Research in, Robert L. Jack, 486 



Liebig, the Proposed Monument to, at Munich, 16 



Liebreich (Dr. R.), the Deterioration of Oil Paintings, 493, 515 



Liesthal, Earthquake at, 475 



Lighting Lamps by Electricity, 108 



Light, Chemical Action of, 151, 436; the Sources and Reflec- 

 tion of, Mayer and Barnard, 405, 427 ; Action of, on a 

 Selenium (Galvanic) Element, Robert Sabine, 512 ; Experi- 

 ment on Light and Electricity, 233 



Lime, Strontian, and Baryta, Crystallisation of, 372 



Limestone Rock, the Origin of a. Prof. W. C. Williamson, 

 F.R.S., 265 



Lindsay (Lord), his Dun Echt Observatory Publications, 432 



Lingula, Structure of, 383 



Linne, Centenary of his Death, 210, 271 



Linnean Society, 55, 155, 175, 235, 315, 355, 394, 439, 499, 

 519 ; and the Centenary of Linne, 309 



Liquefaction of Air and of the so-called Permanent Gases, 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 384 



Liquefaction of Oxygen, &c., 169, 177, 265 



Liquids, Compressibility of, M. Amagat on, 91 ; Thermo-elec- 

 tric Properties of, G. Gore, F.R.S., 479; Volume of and the 

 Absorption of Gases, 514; the Concentration of, and their 

 Electromotive Force, 515 



Lisbon, Earthquake at, 1 7 



Littrow (Carl von), Obituary Notice of, 83 



Liveing and Dewar (Piofs.), on the Reversal of the Lines of 

 Metallic Vapours, 498 



Liver, the Glycogenic Function of the, 439 



Liverpool Historic Society, 193 



Lizard, the Bermuda, G. Brown Goode, 425 



Lloyd (W. A.), the Proposed Channel Islands' 2^ological Sta- 

 tion, Aquarium, and Piscicultural Institute, 143 



Lloyd (Dr.), Scientific Papers of, 272 



Lob-Nor, Lake, Expedition to, 234, 434 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), the Sun's Photosphere, 23 ; the 

 Modern Telescope, 66, 125, 188, 225 ; the Use of the Reflec- 

 tion Grating in Eclipse Photography, 354 ; the Coming Total 

 Solar Eclipse, 481, 501 



Locomotive Engine, Quick Mounting of, 438 



Locust Plague in America, Andrew Murray, 377 



Loewy (B.), "Heat," 43 



Lohrmann's Lunar Charts, 343 



London, University of, 19 



London Clay Fossils, 487 



Longitudes, Transatlantic, 244, 408 



Lubavin (N. N.), "Physical Chemistry," 240 



Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), Habits of Ants, 355 



Lunar Charts, Lohrmann's, 343 



Lunar Landscape, Winkler's, 469, 514 



Lyons Observatory, 149 



Macalister (Prof. Alex.), Royal Dublin Society, 183 



McCook (H. C), the Agricultural Ants of Texas, 433 ; the 



Aeronautic Flight of Spiders, 434 

 McKendrick (Prof. J. G.), Telephonic Alarum, 181 

 Mackennah (A.), Explosions, 123 

 McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Insect Fauna of Chili, 162, 182; on 



some Pecular Points in the Insect Fauna of Chili, 260 

 Maclear (Commander J. P.), Spectrum of Aurora Australis, 11 

 McNab (Prof. W. R.), Baker's Flora of Mauritius and Sey- 

 chelles, 77; Botany in Germany, 158; Oliver's Flora of 



Tropical Africa, 319 

 Macrosilia cluentms. Dr. Hermann Muller, 221 

 Madagascar, Hartlaub's Birds of, 9 

 Madrid, Annual Report of the Observatory of, 70 

 Magnet, a New, 252 

 Magnetical Measurements in Russia, 153 

 Magnets, Floating, Alfred M. Mayer, 487 

 Mahwa Tree, 394 



Maisonneuve (M. C. Durieu de). Death of, 436 

 Male Nurse, a, 222 



Malt, Explosion of, A. Mackennah, 123 

 Mammal, the Brain of a Fossil, 222 

 Mammoth Remains in Tomsk, 153 

 Mammoth, Discovery of a Fossil, in Hanover, 273 

 Man, Traces of Early, in Japan, 89; Antiquity of Man, 315 

 Manchester, Chemical Society at Owens College, 114; Literary 



and Philosophical Society, 96, 176, 296 

 Manjean (M.), Bequest to the French Institute, 70 

 Manfredonia, a Buried City near, 211 

 Manuscripts, Restoration of the Handwriting of, 351 

 Maps of the Balkan Peninsula, 346 

 Maps, Ancient, of Central Africa, 383 

 Marburg, University Statistics, 478 

 Mareotis, Lake, Proposed Draining of, 212 

 Marine Fossils in the Gannister Beds of Northumberland, Prof. 



G. A. Lebour, 320, 352 

 Marjoram and Thjnne, Fertilisation in, 127 

 Marmora (Gen. La), Death of, 211 

 Mars, the Satellites of, 15, 190, 231, 288, 433 ; the Planet, and 



B.A.C. 8129, 105 ; the South Polar Spot of, 209 

 Marseilles, Proposed Zoological Garden at, 474 

 Marsh (Prof. O. C), Brain of a Fossil Mammal, 340 

 Marshall (Dr. A. M.), the Development of Nerves, 382 

 Martini (Prof. Tito), Diffusion Figures in Liquids, 87 

 Maskelyne (Prof. N. S., F.R.S.), Indium in British Blendes, 5 

 Mathematical Society, 95, 155, 254, 336, 400, 459 

 Mauritius and Seychelles, the Flora of, by J. G. Baker, 77 

 Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), an Electrical Experiment, 180; 



Tail's "Thermodynamics," 257, 278 

 Mayer (Alfred M.), Edison's Talking Machine (the Phonograph), 



469 ; Floating Magnets, 487 

 Mayer and Barnard, the Sources and Reflection of Light, 405, 



427 

 Mayer (Robert Julius v.), Death of, 435 ; Obituary Notice, 450 

 Mayer (Dr. Paul), Entomological Query, 467 

 Mechanical Analysis of the Trevelyan Rocker, Samuel II. 



Frisbee, 242 

 Medusae, Prof. Eimer on the Nervous System of, George J. 



Romanes, 200 



