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INDEX 



[Nature, May 3^^, 18S9 



Lapworth (Prof. C, F.R.S.), on the Discovery of the Olenellus 

 Fauna in the Lower Cambrian Rocks of Britain, 212 



Larva, Syi-tematic Relations of I'latypsyllus as determined by 

 the. Prof. C. V. Riley, 94 



Launay (L. de), Di>locations of Primitive Formations of North 

 Central Plateau of France, 192 



Laussedat (Colonel), National Time, 240 



Lawes (Sir John B., F.R.S.), Wheat Crop of 1888, 21 



Lawson (Inspector General K.), Deaths from Lightning, 623 



Layard (Consul E. L. ), Anthelia, 413 



Learned Societies in Russia, 67 



Ledges on Mountain-slopes and Hill-sides, the Formation of. 

 Dr. A. Ernst, 415 ; Edmund J. Mills, 460 



Leeds Mechanics' Institute, 304 



Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 232 



Lemoine (M.), Rising of the Upper Rhone, 495 



Lendenfeld (Dr.), Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, 282 



Leonid Meteor- Shower, 1888, W. F. Denning, 84 



Leonis, R, and R Hydrse, Spectra of, 567 



Less (Dr.), Snowfalls, 287 



Lesseps (M. de), State of the Suez Canal, 575 



Leutemann (H.), Pictures of Native Life in Distant Lands, 148 



Lewes (Prof. V. B.), the Ci rrosion and Fouling of Steel and 

 Iron Ships, 616 



Lewis (Prof. W. J.), Salts of Base containing Chromium and 

 Urea, 430 



Ley (Annie), Remarkable Rime and Mist, 270, 342 



Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Alpine Maze, 270 



Leyden : proposed Meeting of the Dutch Congress of Science 

 and Medicine at, 589 ; Leyden Museum, 500 ; Leyden Zoolo- 

 gical Museum, Fire at, 565 



L'Hote (M. L.), on the Quantitative Analysis of Organic 

 Nitrogen by the Kjeldahl Method, 311 



Liba, Lake, Dr Zintgiafif, 283 



Lie (Sophus), Die begriffe Gruppe und Invariante, 310 



Liebreich (Prof), the Inert Layer in Chemical Reactions, 599 



Light : on the Influence of, upon the Explosion of Nitrogen 

 Iodide, Prof J. W. Mallet, 22 ; an Historical and Descriptive 

 List of some L'ouble Stars suspected to vary in, A. M. Gierke, 

 55 ; Aberration of Light, M. Gerigny, 240 ; Action of the 

 Ultra-violet rays of Light on Electrical Discharges, Dr. Ritter, 

 288 ; Behaviour of Metals to Light, Prof Kundt, 360 ; 

 Hallwachs on the Connection between Light and Electricity, 

 380 ; Repetition of Hertz's Experiments and Determination 

 of the Direction of the Vibration, Fred. T. Trouton, 391 ; 

 a Correction, 412 ; the Selective Reflection by Metals of 

 Light, Dr. Rubens, 552 ; an Effect of Light upon Magnetism, 

 Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 572; Heat and Light, Edward 

 Aveling, 580 ; Polarized Light, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 358 ; 

 Zodiacal Light, O. T. Sherman, 128; Observations on, W. 

 Donisthorpe, 537 



Lightning : Effects of, Prof Neesen, 264 ; Deaths from, Inspector- 

 General R. Lawson, 623 



Lightning Conductors, 308 ; Early History of, Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 558 



Lindberg (Prof. S. O.), Death of 565 



Lindemann (Prof P". ), Molecular Physics, an Attempt at a Com- 

 prehensive Dynamical Treatment of Physical and Chemical 

 Forces, G. W. de Tunzelmann, 63 



Lindemann (Dr. H.), Physical Geography of Heligoland, 19 



Lindet (L ), Saccharification by Diastase, 479 



Lindsey (Dr.), Therapeutic Value of Regions below Sea-level, 



591 

 Lindstedt Series, on the, M. H. Poincare, 311 



Linnteus, Life of, Albt. Albery, 257 



Linne (Carl von), Ungdomsskrifter, 222 



Linnean Society, 71, 189, 262, 334, 405, 454, 496, 503, 551, 



.597 

 Liverpool, Geographical Society, 613 



Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, Proposed Dredging Ex- 

 pedition, 590 

 Lob-worms, Duke of Argyll, F. R.S., 300 

 Local Scientific Societies, British Association and, 187 

 Lock (Rev. J. B.), Elementary Statics, 53 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.) : Notes on Meteorites, 139, 233, 

 400 ; Total Solar Eclipse of January I, 487 ; Spectrum of the 

 Rings of Saturn, 564 

 Locusts, Algerian, Habits and Natural History of the, J. 

 Kiinckel d'Herculais, 614 



Lodge (Prof Oliver J., F.R.S.): Modern Views of Electricity, 

 10, 319 ; Rankine's Modification of Newton's Investigation of 

 the Velocity of Sound in any Substance, 79 ; Mass and 

 Inertia, 270, 367 ; Mr. Grant Allen's Notions about Force and 

 Energy, 289 ; the Forces of Electric Oscillations treated 

 according to Maxwell's Theory, by Dr. H. Hertz, 402, 450, 

 547 ; Hertz's Equations, 583 ; the Discharge of a Leydeit Jar, 

 471 ; Alternative Path Leyden Jar Experiments, 486 ; Magneto- 

 optic Rotation by Transient Currents, 526 



Lcewenthal (M. W.), Biological and Therapeutic Experiments on 

 Cholera, 263 



Loewy (B.) : Elementary Experimental Physics, 247 ; Natural 

 Science, 305 ; Royal Astronomical Society Medal, 326 ; In- 

 ventions and Researches, W. II. M. Christie, F. R. .S., 421 ; 

 Catalogue of Moon-culminating Stars, 1889, 497 



Loftie (W. J., F.S.A.), Orient Line Guide, 210 



Logarithms, Examples in the Use of, Joseph Wolstenholme, 52 



Logarithms, Practical, and Trigonometry, J. H. Palmer, 52 



Logic, Dr. John Venn's Lectures on, 305 



Lomami River, the, 399 ; Exploration of the, M. W. Delcom- 

 mune, 593 



London, Smoke in Relation to Fogs in, Hon. F. A. R. Russell, 



34 . 



London, Ancient and Modern, from a Sanitary Point of View,. 

 Dr. G. V. Poore, 356 



Longmore (Sir J.), the Illustrated Optical Manual, 385 



Lousley (E.), Mass and Inertia, 413 



Love (A. E. H.), Vortex Moti.n in certain Trinngles, 310 



I ow (W.), Magnetization of Iron and other Metals, 165 



Lowe (E. J., P\R.S.), Kemarl-al le kinie and Mist, 319 



Lower Cambrian Rocks of Britain, on the Discovery of the 

 Olenellus Fauna in the, Prof. C. Lapv\orth, F.R. S., 212 



Lu River, Course of the, Lieutenant Vans Agnew, 450 



Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), the Senses, Instincts, and Intelli- 

 gence of Animals, with Special Reference to Insects, Prof. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, P". R.S., 76 



Lucas (Joseph), Yorkshire Legends and Traditions as told by 

 her Ancient ChronicKrs, her Poets, and Journalists, Rev, 

 Thos. Parkinson, 50 



Luminosity of Venus, 567 



Luminous Night Clouds, O. Jesse, 468, 537 



Lummer (Dr.), Photometers, 336 



Lunar Fclipse, January 17, 456 



Lupton (Sydney), 1 ime, 372 



Lydekker ( Richard \ Catalogue of the Fossii Reptilia and Am- 

 phibia in the British Museum, 53 



Lymphangitis and Erysipelas, Identity of, Verneuil and Clado, 

 623 



M'Aulay (Alex.), Differentiation of any Scalar Power of a 



Quaternion, 455 

 McCarthy fRev. Lawrence), Key to Todhunter's Mensuration, 



26 

 McClelland (W. J.) and T. Preston, Spherical Trigonometry, 

 26 



McConntrl (James C.) : on the Plasticity of Glacitr and other 

 Ice, 203 ; Crystallization of Lake Ice, 367 ; Halo and Mock 

 Suns, 557 



Macedonia and Old Servia, Ethnographical Conditions of, Spi- 

 ridion Gopcevic, 520 



Mach (Dr. E.), Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwickelung historisch- 

 criti:chdargesiellt, i;56 



Macleay (Hon. W.), Presentation of his Museum to the Uni- 

 versity of Sydney, 207 



McLennan (Evan), Solar Halo, 341 



McLeod (Prof. PL, F.R S.), Decomposition of Potassic Chlor- 

 ate by Heat in the Presence of Manganic Peroxide, 502 



Macluer Inlet and Geelvink Bay, New Guinea, 283 



Madagascar : the Geology of. Rev. R. Baron, 551 ; M. RoUand's 

 Report on the Geography of, 4'o 



Madan (H. G.), Degradation of Energy, 249 



Madras Government Central Museum, 113 



Madras Meridian Circle Observations, 1865, 1866, 1867, 210 



Magnesium Silicates, Action of tfea-water on, Alex. Johnstone, 

 Prof Crum Brown, 455 



Magnetism : Magnetic Elements in Caribee Islands, the, T. E. 

 Thorpe, F.R.S., 596; Magnetic Fitments for Paris, 1888, 

 159 ; Relation telween Magnetic Rotatory Power and the 

 Transrcisnon of I vminous M aves by Ponderable Matter, M. 



