INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1S79 



"Jack's Kducation " Prof. H. Tanner, 576 



Jahresbericht der k.V. geologischen Reichfanstalt zu Wien, l86 



Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Cheaiie, 133 



Jamaica, the Blue Mountains of, 325 



Japan : Asiatic Society of, 64, 401 ; Coal in, 66, 327 ; Dis- 

 covery of Silver in, 278 ; on the Population of, 365 ; Biology 

 •n> 373 > Railway Extension in 374 ; New Dockyards, &c., at 

 Mihara, 374 ; New Map of, 630 



Japanese Society of Art &c., 232, 304 



yeannctk, the. Arrival of the, at Onalaska, 425 



Jedrzejwicz (Dr.), his Observatory, 629 



Jeens (Charles Henry), Death of, 640 



Jeflfreys (Dr. Gwyn, F.R.S.), "Le Conchiglie Pompeiane," 624 



Jeffries (Dr. B. J.), " Colour-Blindness," Dr. William Pole, 

 F.R.S., 477 



Jenner (J. H. A.), Butterfly Swarms, 220; Insect Swarms, 481 



Johns Hopkins University, 380 



Johnston's Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry, 455 



Johnston (Keith), his African Journey, 205 ; his Death, 344 



Johnston (Prof. J. F. W., F.R.S.), " The Chemistry of Common 

 Life," 25 



Johnson (Rev. Samuel J.), Early Sun-Spot Records, 146 



Jolly (Herr von). Variability of Atmospheric Air, 41 



Jones (Alfred S. ), Aberdeenshire Agricultural Exhibition, 316 



Jones (Rev. Percival), the Telephone, 266 



Jornal de Sciencias mathematicas physicas e naturaes, 22 



Journal de Physique, 234, 356, 500, 619 



Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 308 



Journal of Fhysiolofry, 451 



Journal of Royal Microscopical Society, 45 1 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 22, 185, 500 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 460 



journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, 475 



jungfrau. Avalanche from the, 89 



Jupiter, the Planet, 403, 605 



Kah-chen, Burmah, Domestic Life in, 64 



Kara Sea, Navigation of, 582 



Kar.-ten's Telephonic Syren, 435 



Keane (A. H.), Our New Protectorate, 453 



Kelland (Prof.), Death of, 64 



Kempe (A. B.), on how to Colour a Map, 275 



Kent's Cavern, B.A. Report on the Exploration of, 441 



Kesteven (W. H.), Intellect in Brutes, 428 



Kew Gardens, Damage to, by a Hailstorm, 352 



Kew Gardens, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 630 



Kilbum Agricultural t-how, 189, 220, 247 



Kilauea, Volcano of, 513 



Kincaid (Rev. S. Bolton), Conic Sections, 218 



Kinetic Theory, Temperature Equilibrium in the Universe in 



Relation to the, S. Tolver Preston, 28 

 King (Clarence), nominated Director of the U.S. Geological 



Survey, 40 

 Kitchener (F. E. ), Lunar Rainbow, 457 

 Knapton (H. P.), Mechanical DifKculty in Growth of Plants 



and Animals, 290 

 Koch (Karl), Death of, 134 ; Obituary Notice of, 173 

 Kohlrausch on the Electric Conductivity of Aqueous Fluids, 



232 

 Konkoly (Prof, von), Spectroscopical Observations on Shooting 



Stars, 521 

 Kosmos, 234, 452 



Kroeni^ (Prof. August), Death of, 206 



Kuija, Across the Tiau Shan to I.obNor, Col. N. Prjvalsky, 4 

 Kuntze(Ur. Otto), How did Eozoon Originate, and is, Graphite 



a Proof of Organic Beings in the Laurentiau Period ? 425 ; 



Vegetation of Sargas.sum, 552 



Laboratory, M. Pasteur's, 6$ 



Lagrange (M.), on the Formation of Bodies in the Universe, 



«7 

 Lake Erie, Triangulation of, 267 

 LakiB (Prof. A.), Golden Eagle and a Decoy, Audacity of a 



Hawk, 122 

 Lamont (Prof.), Death of, 373 ; Obituary Notice of, 425 

 Land Shells of Californian and Mexican Islands, 535 

 Laos Country, Tix|)lriration of, 15 

 Latham (Baldwin), on the Ai gle of the Lip of Rain Gauncs, 



446 



Launceston, Scientific and Historical Society, iii 



"Law of Frequency," Donald McAlister, 337 



Layard (Consul E. L.), " liag Bu^hes, 456 ; a Meteor and the 

 Weather in New Caledonia, 147 ; Intellect in Brutes, 338 ; 

 Distribution of Black Rat, 339; Signalling by Sunshine, 

 456 ; Bag like Fabrication Exhibited by Sydney Saunders, 

 456 ; Leaping Power of Mantis, 481 



LeConte (Prof.), on the Volcanoes about Mont Mono, 100 



Lehigh Mathematical Society, 127 



Lenz's Sketches from West Africa, 119 



Leptodora, the Occurrence of, in England, 472 



Lesley (J. P.), the Mechanical Theory of Earth-Heat, 168 



Les Mondes, Change of Ownership, 353 



I.esseps (M. de), on the Panama Canal, 249 



Levelling, the Zero Point of, in Paris, 208 



Levi (Prof. Leone), en Scientific Societies, 475 



Lewis (Frederick), Plague of Rats, 267 



Lewis (T. R., M.B.), "The Microscopic Organisms found 

 in the Blood of Man and Animals, and their Relations to Dis- 

 ease," 50 



Ley (Rev. W. C), Change of Colour in Frogs, 580 



Lick Observatory, the Site for, 134 



Liddon (Canon), on Natural Science Degrees at Oxford, 132, 



•55 

 Lisjlitning, Coloured, 629 

 Lightning Conductors, Charles S. Tomes, 145 ; R. S. Newall, 



F.R.S., 145 ; a New Work on, 276 

 Lightning, Effects of, G. W. Camphuis, 95 

 Lightning Protection for Telegraphic Apparatus, W. H. Preece, 



445 

 Limnimeter, a Registering, 615 

 Lindsay (Lord), Palisa's Comet, 455 

 l.innasus. Memorial Museum of, 207 



Linnean Society : 137, 210, 235 ; New Foreign Members, 88 

 Liquids, Diffusion of, W. Chandler Roberts F.R.S., 587 

 Liveing and Dewar (Professors), on the Reversal of the Lines 



of Metallic Vapours, 46 

 Liverpool, Electric Light in, 255 

 Lizards, Local Colour- Variation in. Dr. A. Ernst, 290 ; Dr. J. 



von Bedriaga, 480 

 Lizards, Black, Win. Ackroyd, 339 

 Lob-Nor, Col. N. Prjvalsky's Journey to, 4 

 Lobster, the Blood of the, 302 



Lochaber, the Parallel Roads of. Prof. Prestwich on, 112 

 Lochnell, .Serpent Mound of, near Oban, 242 

 Lock (C. G. W.), "The Home of the Eddas," 265 

 LocVyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Note on the Spectrum of 



Sodium, 137 ; Notes en Recent Spectral Observations, 46S 

 Lockyer (Mrs. Norman), Death of, 513 

 Locras, the Lake-Dwelling of, 362 

 Locusts, Plague of, in Russia, 208 

 Lodge (Dr. O. J.), Elementary Mechanics, 623 

 Liiwy (M.), Annuaire pour I'an 1879, public par le Bureau des 



Longitudes, 59 

 Lomonossnff (A.), Notes from Russia, 45 

 London School Board, 234 

 Longitudes, Annuaire pour Pan 1879, public par les Bureau des, 



59 . 



Loomis (Prof.), on Storms, 270 



Lowe (\V. Bezant), the Ice-Cavern of Dobschau, 151 



Lowry (Joseph Wilson), Obituary Notice of, 197 



Lubbock (Sir John), HissarliU, 265 ; on Science Teaching in 



Schools, 333 ; Scientific Lectures, 335 ; on the Occurrence of 



Leptodora in England, 472 ; on Fruits and Seeds, 472 

 Lubbock (Lady), Death of, 640 

 Luminous Dials for Clocks, 543 

 Luminous Meteors, B.A. Report on, 444 

 Lump-.Sucker, the, 196 

 Lunar Crater, John Birmingham, 121 

 Lunar Rainbow, F. E. Kitchener, 457 

 Lunge (Dr. George), Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, 



Prof. H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 263 

 I.yall (Watson), "Sportsman's and Tourist's Guide," 42 

 Lydney Paik, Roman Antiquities at, 285; the Temple of 



Nodens in, Capt. S. P. Oliver, 579 



McAlister (Donald), " The Taw of Frequency," 337 

 McCoan (J. C), Our New I'rotectorate, 453 

 McCook (II. C), the Agricultural Ants ot Texas, A. R. Wal- 

 lace, 501 



