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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. 22, 1SS8 



190 ; Circles of Light, Edmund Catchpool, 342 ; Report of 

 Effects of Light on Water-Colours, Dr. W. J. Russell and 

 Captain Abney, 348 ; Light-Curve of U Ophiuchi, S. C. 

 Chandler, 576 ; Zodiacal Light, O. T. Sherman, 594 ; Dr. 

 Henry Muirhead, 618 



Lighthouse, St. Catherine's Point, the New Light at, 501 



Lightning, Destruction of Captive Balloon in Barcelona Ex- 

 hibition by, 578 



Lightning, Meteorological Society's Report on, 238 



Lightning and Milk, F. A. Bather, 30 ; Rev. John Cyprian 

 Rust, 103 



Lightning Photographs, 203, 374, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 

 244 ; M. Ch. Moussette, 432 



Lightning-Conductors, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 546; Prof. 

 Oliver J. Lodge, 546 ; Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 547 ; Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., 547 ; W. de Fonvielle, 547 ; Sidney 

 Walker, 547 ; G. J. Symons, 547 



Lightning-Flashes of several Seconds' Duration, Trouvelot, 555 



Lightning-Flashes, Successive, Prof. Elihu Thompson, 305 



Lights, Mysterious Sky, W. Mattieu Williams, 102 



Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life, John Freeman, 29 



Lime, Fluorescence of Ferruginous, M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 

 216 



Lindemann (Prof. F.), Molecular Physics, an Attempt at a 

 Comprehensive Dynamical Treatment of Physical and Che- 

 mical Forces, G. W. de Tunzelmann, 404, 458, 578 



Lingualumina, or Language of Light, F. W. Dyer, 1 



Linnaeus, Eulogy on, Prof. Fries, 116 



Linnean Society, 94, 191, 214; Hundredth Anniversary Meet- 

 ing of, 86, 116 



Linnean Society of New South Wales, 583, 623 



Lithine, on a New Method of Quantitative Analysis for the, 

 contained -in a Large Number of Mineral Waters, M. A. 

 Carnot, 360 



Liveing (Prof.), on Solution and Crystallization, 215 



Liveing and Dewar (Profs.), Investigations on the Spectrum of 

 Magnesium, 165 



Liverpool Astronomical Society, 277 



Liversidge (A.), the Minerals of New South Wales, 75 



Lizards, Scaling of Renewed Tails, G. A. Boulenger, 215 



Lobley (J. L.) : Geology for All, 125 ; Formation of Lava, 597 



Lobsters, Live, sent to California, 327 



Lock (Rev. J. B.) : Arithmetic for Beginners, 76 ; Weight and 

 Mass, 77 



Lockroy's (M.) Speech at the Sorbonne on Education, 325 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.): Suggestions on the Classifica- 

 tion of the Various Species of Heavenly Bodies, 8, 31, 56, 79 ; 

 Notes on Meteorites, 424, 456, 530, 556, 602 ; the Maximum 

 of Mira Ceti, 621 



Lockyer (W. J.), a Curious Resemblance, 270 



Locomotion, Representation of the Attitudes of Human, M. 

 Marey, 191 



Lodge (A.), the Multiplication and Division of Concrete 

 Quantities, 281 



Lodge (Dr. Oliver J., F.R.S.) : Photography of Lightning, 244; 

 Modern Views of Electricity, 389, 416, 590 ; on Lightning 

 Conductors, 546 



Logarithms, the Elements of, W. Gallatly, 172 



London, Curve Pictures of, for the Social Reformer, Alex. B. 

 Macdowall, 410 



London, Fuel-testing Station for, Bryan Donkin, 172 



London Mathematical Society, List of Names for the New 

 Council, 623 



Lory (Prof. Ch.), on the Constitution and Structure of the 

 Crystalline Schists of the Western Alps, 506 



Lossen (Prof. A. K.) Some Questions connected with the 

 Problem presented by the Crystalline Schists, together with 

 Contributions to their Solution from the Palaeozoic Forma- 

 tions, 522 

 Louguinine (W.), Heats of Combustion of Isomerous Acids, 48, 



608 

 Louise and Roux, Freezing-Points of Solutions of Organic 



Compounds of Aluminium, 608 

 Lovering (Prof.), Resignation of Chair at Harvard College, 182 

 Lowson (Geo.) and John Y. Gray, the Elements of Graphical 



Arithmetic and Graphical Statics, 4 

 Lucerne, Elec'ric Mountain Railway near, 453 

 Lummer (Dr.): Movement of Air in the Atmosphere, 192; 

 Focal Length of Lenses, 192 



21 ; as observed at Milan, 



Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 1 



553 

 Lunar Rainbow, T. D. A. Cockerel], 365 

 Lupton (Sydney), Michell's Problem, 272, 414 

 Luvini (Jean), Origin of the Aurora Borealis, 143 



Macallan (John) and Sir C. A. Cameron, on the Compounds of 

 Ammonia with Selenium Dioxide, 46 



McCaul (C. C), the Chinook Wind, 500 



Macclesfield Observations, Cleveland Abbe, 365 



Macdowall (Alex. B.), Curve Pictures of London for the Social 

 Reformer, 410 



McGee (W. J.), Three Formations of the Middle Atlantic 

 Slope, 190 



Macgowan (Dr. D. J.), Taxation in China, 364 



MacGregor (Prof.), on Kinematics and Dynamics, 149 



Mcintosh (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.). Note on the Tarpon or Silver 

 King (Megalopes thrissoides), 309 



McKendrick (Prof. John Gray, F.R.S.) : the Gases of the Blood, 

 376, 399 ; a Text-book of Physiology, Dr. L. C. Wooldridge. 

 489 



Mackinder (Mr.), Geography at Oxford, 423 



Maclachan (R., F.R.S.), on Cold Winters in Relation to 

 Insects, 228 



Madagascar, Projected French Mission to map Coasts of, 577 



Madan (H. G.), a Substitute for Carbon Disulphide in Prisms, 

 &c, 413 



Magnesium, Investigations on the Spectrum of, Profs. Liveing 

 and Dewar, 165 



Magnesium, Photograph of the Eye by Flash of, Prof. Claude 

 du Bois-Reymond, 15 



Magnetism: Magnetic Properties of Iron and Nickel, II. 

 Tomlinson, 95 ; Graphic Treatment of the Lamont-Frolich 

 Formula for Induced Magnetism, 95 ; Magnetic Qualities of 

 Nickel, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 117, 336 ; Measurements 

 in Magnetism and Electricity, Prof. A. Gray, 113 ; Mag- 

 netic and Electric Experiments with Soap Bubbles, C. V. 

 Boys, 162 ; Electricity and Magnetism, a Treatise on, E. 

 Mascart and J. Joubert, 241 ; on Magnetic Lag, and the 

 Work lost due to Magnetic Lag in Alternating Current 

 Transformers, T. H. Blakesley, 141 ; Prof. S. P. Thompson 

 on the Formulae of Bernoulli and Haecker for the Lifting 

 Power of Magnets, 190 ; Magnetic Determinations in the 

 Basin of the West Mediterranean, M. Th. Moureaux, 359 ; 

 Magnetic Charts of the West Mediterranean Basin, M. Th. 

 Moureaux, 384 ; on an Explanation of the Action of a Magnet 

 on Chemical Action, 430 



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

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



Magnus (Sir Philip), Report on Technological Examinations, 

 1888, 372 



Malet (Sir E. ), Report on Agricultural Education in Northern 

 Italy, 1 38 



Mall (Dr. F.) : on the Branchial Clefts of the Dog, with Special 

 Reference to the Origin of the Thymus Gland, 356 ; on the 

 Development of the Eustachian Tube, Tympanic Membrane, 

 and Meatus of the Chick, 356 



Mammal, a New Australian, E. C. Stirling, 588 



Mammalia during Geological Time, Prof. A. Gaudry's Work 

 on, 4 



Mammalia, Mesozoic Structure and Classification of, H. F. 

 Osborn, 611 



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



Man (E. H.), the Nicobar Islanders, 2S7 



Man, Stratigraphic Palaeontology in Relation to, Marcellin 



Boule, 211, 431 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Memoirs and 



Proceedings of, 230 

 Manchuria, Exploration of, 90 

 Maneuvrier (G.), on Mechanism of Electrolysis by Process of 



Alternative Currents, 263 

 Manganese, Application of, to Metallurgy, 20 

 Mangon (Herve) : Death of, 86 ; Obituary Notice of, III, 118 

 Mansel-Pleydell (J. C), the Birds of Dorsetshire. 125 

 Mantis, Humming-bird and, G. W. Alexander, 303 

 Manual Training School, C. M. Woodward, 5 

 Manure Gravels of Wexford, Mr. Bell, 597 



