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INDEX 



XIX 



Dislocations de l'Ecorce Terrestre, Essai de Definition et de 



Nomenclature, 433 

 Julfa, Earthquake at, 183 

 julien (Alexis A.), Sonorous Sands, 515 

 Julius (V. A.), Tables of Reciprocals, 77 

 Jupiter, the Red Spot on, \V. F. Denning, 342 

 Tupiter's Mass, Fresh Calculation of, E. de Haertl, 608 

 Jutland : Discovery of Ancient Clay Urns in, 454; Excavation 



of a Viking Mound in, 454 ; Opening of the Oyster Banks at 



Sild, 553 ; Discovery of Amber in, 598 



Kandy, Proposed Forest School at, 41 



Kara tcrzi in Varna Vineyards, 134, 172 



Kazan Observatory, Jubilee of. 186 



Kent (Saville), Australian Fisheries, 600 



Kermadec Islands : Exploration of, 18 ; Flora of the, W. Botting 



Hemsley, 622 

 Kew Bulletin, 63, 203, 349, 485, 552 

 Kew Magnetometer, on some Additions to the, Prof. Thorpe, 



F.R.S., and Prof. Riicker, F.R.S., 214 

 Kibbler (Dr.), New Stand and Camera for Photomicrography, 



167 

 Kilimanjaro : Exploration of, 19 ; Dr. H. Meyer's Ascent of, 259, 



529 

 Kina Balu Expedition, 301 

 Kinematics and Dynamics, Prof. Greenhill on, Prof. J. G. 



MacGregor, 149 

 Kirchhoff (Alfred), Volapuk or Universal Language, 1 ; Key to 



the Volapuk Grammar, 1 

 Kirkwood (Prof.), the Short Period Comets and Asteroids, 



114 

 Klapalek (Prof.), Transformations of Bohemian Caddis-flies, 



553 

 Kleiber (Joseph), Michell's Problem, 542 

 Knight (S. R.) and PI. S. Hall, Arithmetical Exercises, 490 

 Knott (Dr.), Biographical Note on Ino Chukei, 205 

 Knowledge, Earth, W. J. Harrison and H. R. Wakefield, 563 

 Knutson (M.), River Mimeh Explored by, 136 

 Koenig's (Dr. A.) Measurements of Intensities of Light in 



Spectrum, 119 ; Experiments on Fechner's Psycho-Physical 



Law in Relation to Use of Sight, 464 

 Koenig (Dr.) and Dr. von der Pfordten, New Chlorine Com- 

 pounds of Titanium, 133 

 Kbnigsberg Physico-Economic Society, Prof. F. Lindemann on 



Molecular Physics, 404 

 Korzchinsky (M.), on Aldrsvandia vesiculosa, 160 

 Kossel (Dr.), a New Base in Tea, 303 

 Krakatab, the New Vegetation of, Dr. M. Treub, W. B. 



Hemsley, 344 

 Krakalab Committee of the Royal Society, the Report of the, 



540, 566 

 Krebs (M.), on a Telephone with Closed Magnetic Field, and 



Plaque with Equal Concentric Cylindrical Sections, 384 

 Kreutz (Dr. H.), Comet 1888 c, Brooks, 397, 503; Comets 



Brooks and Faye, 528 

 Kruss and Kiesewetter (Drs.), Chemistry of the Rare Earths, 



326 

 Kiihne (Dr. W.), on the Origin and Causation of Vital Move- 

 ment, 627 

 Kund and Tappenbeck (Lieuts.), Expedition into Cameroons, 



186 

 Kundt, Proportionality between Velocity of Light, Electric 



Conductivity, and Conduction of Heat in Metals, 305 



Labour in Belgium, Report of Royal Commission on Condition 



of. 133. 

 Lacouperie (Prof. Terrien), on the Old Babylonian Characters 



and their Chinese Derivates, 122 

 Lagrange's Hypothesis on the Origin of Comets and Meteorites, 



H. Faye, 215 

 Lakes (Russian), Projected Exploration of, 529 

 Lallemand (M. Ch.), Determination of the Mean Level of the 



Sea, 191 

 Lamarckism versus Darwinism, Prof. R. Meldola, F. R.S. , 388 ; 



Edward B. Poulton, 388, 434 ; Prof. George J. Romanes, 



F.R.S., 413, 490 



Lamey (Dom M.), Rings of Saturn, 191, 231 



Land and Fresh-Water Mollusca of India, H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 217 



Land of the Pink Pearl, L. D. Powles, 101 



Landslip at Zug, the, 268 



Langley (E. M.), Further Use of Ptolemy's Theorem (Euclid 

 VI. D) for a Problem in Maxima and Minima, 149 



Langley (E. M.) and W. S. Phillips, the Harpur Euclid, 218 



Langley (Samuel Pierpoint), the New Astronomy, A. M. Clerke, 

 291 



Langlois (P.) and Ch. Richet, on the Influence of the Organic 

 Temperature on Convulsions produced by Cocaine, 168 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F. R.S.) : Nose-Blackening as Preven- 

 tive of Snow- Blindness, 7 ; Functionless Organs, 364 ; Pro- 

 phetic Germs, 539, 588 



Lantern, W. Lant Carpenter, on New Form of, 214 



Laos States, Exploration of, 19 



Lapouge (M. de), Heredity in Political Economy, 212 



Laramie Group, Relation of the, to Earlier and Later Forma- 

 tions, 189 



Latent Colours of Bodies, M. G. Govi, 631 



Latham (Baldwin), Strange Rise of Wells in Rainless Season, 

 198 



Lava, Formation of, Logan Lobley, 597 



Lavis (Dr. H. J. Johnston), Islands of Vulcano and Stromboli, 



13 



Lawrence (H. N ), Thunderstorms and Lightning Accidents, 

 172 



Layard (Consul E. L.) : an Unusual Rainbow, 270; a Shell 

 Collector's Difficulty, 566 



Le Conte (Joseph), Evolution and its Relation to Religious 

 Thought, 100 



Lee (Leslie A.), Recent Visit of Naturalists to the Galapagos, 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 569 



Leech the Medicinal, Nerve Endings in Unstriated Muscle- 

 Fibres of, Dr. Heymans, 264 



Lees (F. A.), Flora of West Yorkshire, 147 



Lehaie (Jean-Charles Houzeau de), Death of, 277 



Lehmann (Prof. J.), Remarks on some of the more Recent Publi- 

 cations dealing with the Crystalline Schists, 549 



Leidie (M. E. ), Researches on some Salts of Rhodium, 360 



Lemurs, Placentation of the, an Additional Contribution to the, 

 Prof. Sir William Turner, Knt., F.R.S., 190 



Lenard and Howard's Flat Bismuth Spirals for measuring In- 

 tensity of Magnetic Field, 577 



Lenses, Focal Length of, Dr. Lummer, 192 ; Prof, von Helm- 

 holtz, 192 



Lepidoptera of Jersey, Dr. R. C. R. Jordan, 327 



Lepidoptera, New Works on, 266 



Lepidopterous Insects, Description of New Indian, from the 

 Collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, F. Moore, 266 



Lepidosiren, Giglioli (Dr.), Prof. G. B. Howes, 126 



Lepidosiren paradoxa, Another Specimen of, Prof. Henry H. 

 Giglioli, 102 



Lesser Antilles, the Fauna and Flora of the, 370 ; H. A. 

 Alford Nicholls, 566 



Lethrus eephalotes, the, A. J. Shipley, 172 



Levasseur (Emile), Centenarians in France, 288, 501 



Levy (Maurice), on a General Property of Elastic Solid Bodies, 



431 

 Lewis (Prof. H. Carvill), Death of, 302 

 Leyden Jar Discharge, the Oscillatory Character of, 578 

 Leyden Museum, Notes from the, vol. x. No. 3, July 1888, 



356 

 Liane, Report on the Excavations made in the Bed of the, Dr. 



E. T. Hamy, 357 

 Liberia, Mammals of, Dr. F. A. Jentink, 137 

 Lick Observatory, the, 257 ; Prof. Holden, 355 ; Publications 



of, 43 ; Forthcoming Hand-book of the, 113 ; a Guide to the, 



Prof. Edward S Holden, 410 

 Life, Factors in, H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 267 

 Life Statistics of an Indian Province, S. A. Hill, 245, 565 ; 



Dr. Hyde Clarke, 297 

 Lifting Power of Magnets, Formula. 1 of Bernoulli and Haecker 



for the, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190 

 Ligament, on the Luminous, in the Transits and Occultations <>f 



Jupiter's Satellites, Ch. Andre, 632 

 Light : Wave-Lengths of, Louis Bell, 91 ; a Comparison of the 



Elastic and the Electric Theories of Light, J. Willard Glbbs, 



