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INDEX 



XIX 



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



271 

 Language, Reason and, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 364; 



Prof. F. Max Miiller, 323, 412 

 Lankester (Prof. Ray, F.R.S.), on the Coelom and the Vascular 



System of the Mollusca and Arthropoda, 498 

 Lansdell (Rev. Dr. Henry), Through Central Asia, 221 

 Larden (W. ), Electricity for Public Schools and Colleges, 217 

 Latchinoff (P. ), on the Empirical Formula of Cholic Acid, 525 

 Law, Periodic, Donald Murray, 247 

 Layard (Mrs. Granville), Through the West Indies, 199 

 Lea (Carey), Photography in Colours, 88 

 Lea (Rev. T. S.), Island of Fernando Noronha, 617 

 Leaps of Lepus, R. W. Shufeldt, 247 

 Ledeboer (M. R.), Influence of Temperature on a Magnetic State 



of Iron, 288 

 Lee (Henry), the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, 176 

 Leech (J. H.), Butterflies from Central China, 503 

 Lees (Edwin), Death of, 34 

 Leger (E.), on Cinchoniline, 479 

 Lehrbuch der Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen und der 



Wirbelthiere, by Prof Oscar Hertwig, 506 

 Lehrbuch der Histologic, Dr. Philipp Stohr, 461 

 Leipzig : Ethnological Museum, 301 ; Psychological Laboratory 



of, 64 

 Leland (Chas. G. ), Practical Education, 562 

 Lemmings in Southern Norway, 283 



Lendenfeld (Dr. R. von). Medusae of the Australian Seas, 399 

 Leotard (M. ), and Peaks of the Pyrenees, 493 

 Lepus, the Leaps of, R. W. Shufeldt, 247 

 Less (Dr.), Meteorological Conditions of February and March 



1888, 552 

 Lesseps (M. de), the Isthmus of Panama, 310 

 Lesson and Martinet (MM.), on the Polynesians, their Origin, 



Migrations, &c., 164 

 Leutemann (H.). Animals from the Life, 176 

 Levasseur (E.), Statistique de la Saperficie et de la Population 



des Contrees de la Terre, 24 

 Level, Changes of, in the African Lake?, Dr. Robert Sieger, 



354 

 Ley (Rev, W. Clement), Classification of Clouds, 177 

 Lick Observatory, 66, 330 

 Liebreich (Prof), on Local Anesthetics, 480 

 Life, Animals from the, H. Leutemann, 176 

 Life Contingencies, 457 

 Life in Corea, W. R. Carles, 581 

 Life, Duration of, Dr. August Weismann, P. Chalmers Mitchell, 



541 

 Light, the Absolute Wave-length of, Louii Bell, 623 

 Light and Heat, Rev. F. W. Aveling, 176 

 Light, and Heat, Sound, Mark R. Wright, 199 

 Light, Penetration into Water of, Prof Forel, 88 

 Light, Photographic Experiments on Penetration of, F. A. Forel, 



575 

 Light, Velocity of, 328 

 Lightning Conductors, Iron for, 355 

 Lightning, Farm at Mors in Denmark struck by, 64 

 Lightning, Globular, in North Atlantic, 187 

 Lightning, Injuries caused by, in Africa, Dr. Emin Pasha, 582 

 Lightning Protectors, Prof. Oliver Lodge, 497 

 Lightning-rods, on the Price of the Factor of Safety in, 407 

 Limestone of Strath, Skye, the Age of the Altered, Dr. 



Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 191 

 Lindelof (M.), Trajectory of a Body moving over the Earth's 



Surface under the Influence of Terrestrial Rotation, 543 

 Lindeman (Prof), the Hessian Fly, 157 



Lindemann (Dr. E.\ Total Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 616 

 Linnean Society, 118, 142, 166, 299, 431, 453, 478, 526, 623 

 Lintthal, Earthquake at, 595 

 Lipetsk Mineral Springs, 71 

 Lissauer (Dr. A.), Die Prahistorischen Denkmiiler der Provinz 



Westpreussen und der angreuzenden Gebiete, Arthur J- 



Evans, 531 

 Lister (J. J.), Christmas Island, 203 

 Lister (T. V.), Infusorial Earth, 30 

 Little (A. J.), Through the Yang-tse Gorges, 556 

 Liveing (Prof) and Prof Dewar : on the Ultra-Violet Spectra of 



the Elements, 526 ; the Spectrum of the Oxyhydrogen Flame, 



383 



Liverpool Biological Society, 113 



Living Lights, a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and 

 Vegetables, C. F. Holder, 411 



Lockyer (J.Norman, F.R.S.): Researches on Meteorites, 55, 

 80 ; Notes on Spectrum of Aurora, 358 ; Suggestions on the 

 Classification of the Various Species of Heavenly Bodies, 585, 

 606 



Lodge (Alfred) : Note on the Dimensions and Meaning of J, 

 usually called the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 320 ; 

 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 364 



Lodge (Dr. Oliver J., F.R.S.) : Hughes's Induction Balance, 6 ; 

 Modem Views of Electricity, 8, 105, 322, 344, 366 ; Gore's 

 Railway, 128 ; Weight and Mass, 416 ; on Lightning Pro- 

 tectors, 497 ; Force, and Newton's Third Law, 558; Self- 

 induction, 605 



Loess, Potanin's Observations on the Mobility of, 89 



Loewy (M.) and P. Puiseux, on Equatorial coitde and Equa- 

 torials in general, 504, 527 



Logic, a Short Introduction to the Study of, Lawrence Johnstone, 

 Alfred Sidgwick, 175 



London Geological Field Class, 519 



London, Increase of Fog and Smoke in. Sir Douglas Galton, 208 



London, Proposed Teaching University for, 331, 339 ; Sir Philip 

 Magnus, 393 



Longitude of Odessa, Dr. E. Becker and Prof. Block, 302 



Lotman (Cornelius S. E.), Earthquake at the Bahamas, 54 



Loven (Prof Sven), and Catalogue of Lovisa Ulrika Museum, 



445 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R. S.), Extraordinary Fog in January 1888 at 



Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow, 294 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F.R. S. ): the Habits of Ants, Bees, and 



Wasps, 138; Sense and Senses of Animals, 210; Technical 



Education, 284 ; and Woolwich Examinations in Physical 



Science, 409 

 Lucas (Felix), Immediate Solution of Equations by Electricity, 



479 

 Lunar Eclipse of January 28, Total, Dr. E. Lindemann, 616 

 Limd University, Botanical Museum, 442 

 Lunge (G.), Vitriol-chamber Process, 335 

 Lupton (Sydney), the Art of Computation for the Purposes of 



Science, 237, 262 

 Luther, (Dr. E.), Death of, 16 

 Lydekker, (Richard), Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the 



British Museum, 461 



M.P., P.R.S., 49 



McAlpine (D.), on Bivalve MoUusks, 527 



McCarthy (f.) Siam, 66 



McConnel (James C), Effect of Snow on the Polarization of the 



Sky, 177 ; the Fog-Bow, 487 

 McCook (Henry C), Tenants of an Old Farm, 363 

 McCoy (Prof F.), Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, 533 

 McGregor (G. R.), Earthquake at the B ihamas 54 

 MacGregor (James Gordon), Elementary Treatise on Kinematics 



and Dynamics, Prof A. G. Greenhill, 361 

 Machinery, Mechanics of, Alex. B. W. Kennedy, Prof A. G. 



Greenhill, 195 

 Mackenzie (John), Austral Africa, 5 

 Mackinlay (Major G.), Text-book of Gunnery, 1887, 148 

 Mackinnon (Rev. Donald), Death and Obituary Notice of, 256 

 Maclean (Magnus), Class Experiments, 612 

 McNab (Prof W. R.), Hand-book of the Fern Allies, J. G. 



Baker, F.R.S., 4 

 McVail (Dr. J. C), Vaccination Vindicated, 483 

 Madan (H. G.), Optical Properties of Phenyl-thio-carbioiide, 



165 

 Madras Micrococcus, Note on a, Edgar Thurston, 79 

 Madras Presidency, Storm Signals at the Ports of the, 208 

 Madreporia, on the Anatomy of the, 23 ; Dr. G. H. Fowler, 572 

 Madreporite of Cribrella ocellata, 334 . 



Madsen (H. F.), Making Glass Specula by Hand, A. Ainslie 



Common, F.R.S., 382 

 Magnesium, Electro-positive Character of, Heim, 497 

 Magnetism : on the Magnetic Circuit in Dynamo Machmes, 

 Prof W. E. Ayrton and Prof J. Perry, 502 ; Davidson s Dis- 

 covery of Records of Magnetic Declination, A.D. 1714, C. A. 

 Schott 379 ; on the Measurement of Magnetic Fields by 

 Diamagnetic Bodies, by F, Joubin, 50*4 ; Proposed Magnetic 



