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INDEX 



{Nature, Dec. I, 1887 



Krakatab Dust, Upper Wind-Currents near the Equator and the 



Diffusion of, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 85 ; E. Douglas Archi-. 



bald, 152 

 Krasan (Franz), the History of Development of Form in Robu- 



roid Oaks, 22 

 Krasnoff (A. N. ), History of the Valley of the Hi River, 64 ; 



the Formation of Loess from the Glacial Gravelly Clay in 



the Tian-Shan, no; Floraof the Altai, 325 

 Krause (Herr G. A.), News of, 258 

 Krejci (Dr. Johann), Death of, 376 

 Kreutz (Dr. H.), Comet 1887 e (Barnard, May 12), 401 

 Krouchkoll (M.), on the Polarization of Copper, 119 

 Kriiss and Nilson (Drs.), Thorium, 255 ; a Double Fluoride of 



Potassium and Germanium, 209 

 Kung-Fu, Taoist Medical Gymnastics, Dr. Dudgeon, 375 

 Kuro Siwo, the, Prof Davidson, 283 

 Kiitzing (Herr), Proposed Gift to, 614 



La Nature, Account of a Steam Tricycle, 564 



Lacouperie (Prof, de), Miryeks or Stone Men of Corea, 615 



I. add (Geo. T.), Elements of Physiological Psychology, 290 



I^adenburg(Dr.): Ptomaines — Cadaverin, 453; on the Constitu- 

 tion of Atropine, 570 



Lady Graduates in Medicine, no 



Lagrange (Ch.), Intertropical Diurnal and Annual Variations of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, 95 



Lahore Museum, 452 



Lake Albert Nyanza, Emin Pasha's Explorations of, 161 



Lake Geneva, on the Recent Waterspout in, M. H. F'aye, 552 



Lake Muta-Nzige, A.J. Wauters, 617 



Lakes of Marine Origin, Dr. R. Credner on, 65 



Lalande's Catalogue, Revision of, 623 



Lamb (Prof F. R. S.), on the Theory of Electrical Endosmise 

 and Allied Phenomena, and on the Existence of a Sliding Co- 

 efficient for a Fluid in Contact with a Solid, 523 



Lamp, on a Standard, Prof. A. A. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., 

 549 



Lamp (Dr. E.), Comet 1887 e (Barnard, 1887 May 12), 90; 

 Parallax of 2 2394, 616 



Lamplugh (G. W.), Mammaliferous Gravel at Elloughton in the 

 Humber Valley, 153 



Lancaster (J.), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 102 



Land of the Broads, Ernest R. Suffling, 457 



Landerer (J. J.), on the Variation of Telluric Currents, 504 



Landslip at Zug, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 389 



Lange (Dr. G. ), Ueber Gemiithsbewegungen, 603 



Langley (Prof S. P.), Sunlight Colours, 76 



Language without Reason, No, — No Reason without Language, 

 Prof. F. Max Miiller, 249 



Lattice conchilega, the Nephridia of, Malmgren, J. T. Cunning- 

 ham, 162, 246 



Laporte(F.), Determination of Longitude of Haiphong, Tonquin, 

 by Telegraphy, 456 



Larmor (J.), a Treatise on Geometrical Optics, R. S. Heath, 

 219 



Lattakia, on the Pliocene Deposit of Marine Shells near, and a 

 Similar Deposit in the Island of Zante, Dr. Geo. E. Post, 

 245 



Law-rent (M. Leon), a Projection Saccharimeter, 456 



Law (Robert) and Jas. Horsfall, on the Discovery of Carboni- 

 ferous Fossils in a Conglomerate at Moughton Fell, near 

 Settle, Yorkshire, 571 



Law of Error, J. Venn, 411 ; F, Y. Edgeworth, 482 ; T. W. 

 Backhouse, 531 



Law of Storms, 617 



Laws of Motion, Newton's, 366 



Lawes (Sir J. B., F.R.S.) : and Dr. Gilbert, F.R.S., the Present 

 Aspect of the Question of the Sources of Nitrogen in Vegeta- 

 tion, 570 ; the Wheat Crop of 1887, 622 



Lea (M. C), Photography, Image Transference, 480 



Lead-poisoning, A. W. Blyth, 117 



Leander McCormick Observatory, Prof. Ormond Stone, 543 



Lebour(Prof. G. A.), Outlines of <the Geology of Northumberland 

 and Durham, Prof A. H. Green, F.R.S., 289 



Ledeboer, on Coefficient of Self-induction of Two Bobbins com- 

 bined in Quantity, 482 



Lee (Carey), Salts of Silver used in attempting to obtain 

 Photographs in Natural Colours, 64 



Leeches, Sense of Taste or Smell in, Prof A. G. Bourne, 125 

 Leefe, Rev. J. E., 159 



Lees (Charles H.), W. W. Haldane Gee, and Henry Holden, 

 Experiments on Electrolysis and Electrolytic Polarization, 



550 

 Lendenfeld's (Dr. R. von) : Explorations of Australian Alps, 283; 



Meteorology of the Australian Alps, 349 



Leone (S. ), Influence and Development of Bacteria on Organic 

 Substances in Water, 209 



Lepidoptera, Lord Walsingham's Collection at the British 

 Museum, 62 



Lepidopterous Larvae for the Purposes of Defence, the Secretion 

 of Pure Aqueous Formic Acid by, E. B. Poulton, 593 



Lescarbault (E.), Partial Lunar Eclipse of August 3, 1887, 432 



Level of the adjoining Oceans, on the Effect of Continental 

 Lands in altering the. Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 549 



Levy (Lucien), Titanates of Zinc, 432 



Lewin (Dr.), Hrematinin Urine, 120 



Lewis (Prof H. Carvill) : Matrix of the Diamond, 571 ; Ter- 

 minal Moraines of the Great Glaciers of England, 573 ; or> 

 some Important Extra-Morainic Lakes in Central England, 



573 

 L'as, Yorkshire, on a Star- fish from the. Prof J. F. Blake, 591 

 Library, Free Public, in Marylebone, 136 

 Liebreich (Herr), the " Dead- Space " in Chemical Reactions, 



280 

 Life in Japan, Sketches of. Major Henry Knollys, 171 

 Life and Sense, Studies in, Andrew Wilson, 316 

 Light, Action of Crystalline Plates on, M. Mascart, 576 

 Light, Action of, on the Hydracids of the Halogens in Presence 



of Oxygen, Dr. A. Richardson, 569 

 Light, on the Beneficial Effects of. Prof G. G. Stokes, Prof P. 



G. Tait, 98 

 Light Oils of Blast-Furnace Coal Tar from the Garthsherrie 



Works, on the Constituents of the, Watson Smith, 569 

 Light, Prof Stokes's Lectures on, 208 



Light, Standards of. Report of the B. A. Committee on, 499 

 Lighthouse Illumination and Signalling in Firth of Clyde, G. M. 



Hunter, 64 

 Lighthouse Work, D. A. Stevenson, 243 

 Lighthouse Work and Economy in the United Kingdom during 



the Past Fifty Years, a Review of, J. Kenward, 103, 179, 



201 

 Lightning : Note on a Stroke of, 119 ; Photography of, 137, 160 ; 



E. S. ShepheVd, 430 ; Lightning Damage in Germany, Dr. 



Hellmann, 159; Globular Lightning, H. S. Eaton, 215 ; Ball 



Lightning, Dr. J. W. Tripe, 215 ; Wild Geese killed by 



Lightning, 307 ; Prof Tyndall on Imperfect Construction of 



Lightning Conductors, 430 

 Limpopo, Matabeleland and the Country between the Zambesi 



and the, Capt. C. E. Haynes, 595 

 Lindley (Percy), Walks in the Ardennes, 340 

 Lindsay J. A.), Climatic Treatment of Consumption, 171 

 Ling (O. R.), Isomeric Change in the Phenol Series, 569 

 Linnean Society, 46, 70 ; New Foreign Members, 63 

 Linnets, Singular Nesting- Place of, H. Vian- Williams, 154 

 Lion (Moise), Means of avoiding Collisions at Sea, 432 

 Lippmann (M. G. ), on the Formulas of Dimensions in Electricity, 



624 

 Liquids, Superficial Tension in, Action of Intense Magnetic Field 



on. Prof Dufour, 209 

 Liquids, Solidification by Pressure of, E. H. Amagat, 312 

 Liquids, Electricity of the Contact of Gases with, J. Enright, 



365, 460; Prof, Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 412 

 Liquids, a New Apparatus for condensing Gases by Contact 



with. Prof Lunge, 569 

 Lisping, a Non-Lisper, 126 

 Lista's (Ramon) Exploration of Patagonia, 66 

 Literature, Science and. Prof Judd, F.R.S., 88 

 Liver, Electric Excitement of, Grehant and Mislawsky, 408 

 Liverpool Astronomical Society, 623 

 Liverpool Bay, Fauna of, and the Neighbouring Seas, First 



Report on the, 149 

 Liverpool Biological Society, 48 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Station on Puffin Island, Prof W. A. 



Herdman, 275 

 Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 501 

 Lizard District, on the Occurrence of Porphyritic Structures in 



some Rocks of the, Howard Fox and Alex. Somervail, 590 

 LI 26481, Proper Motion of, J. Tebbutt, 564 



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