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INDEX 



XXUl 



Lock (Rev. John B.), Dynamics for Beginners, 75 ; Units of 

 Weight, Mass, and Force, 174, 317 



Locomotion, Comparative, Marcy and Pages', 312 



Locust Plague in Algiers, the, 380 



Lodge (Prof. Oliver J., F.R.S.) : Names for Electric Units of 

 Self-Induction and Conductivity, 174 ; Electricity of Contact 

 of Gases with Liquids, 412 ; Report of the B.A. Electrolysis 

 Committee, 520 ; Modern Views of Electricity, 532, 559, 

 582 ; Experiments on the Speeds of Ions, 547 



Loess, the Formation of, from the Glacial Gravelly Clay in the 

 Tian-Shan, Krasnoff, no 



Lcewenthal (Prof.), the Teaching of Hygiene, 64 



Lcewy (Dr.), a General Method of Determining the Constant of 

 Aberration, 118 ; the Respiratory Centre in Medulla Oblon- 

 gata, 168 



Logarithms, ABC Five-figure, C. J. Woodward, 243 



Logic, the Game of, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Sidgwick, 3 ; John 

 Venn, 53 



London Institute for Advancement of Technical Education, Sir 

 P. Magnus's Report, 349 



London, the Jubilee of Telegraphy in, 230 



London Mathematical Society, 42, 158, 614 



London Teaching University, the Case for a, 329 



London, Thunderstorm in, Chas. Harding, 397 



Longitude of Haiphong, Tonquin, Determination of, by Tele- 

 graphy, F. Laporte, 456 



Longman's New Geographical Reader, 196 



Longman's Shilling Geography, 555 



Loomis (Elias), Contributions to Meteorology, i 



Lory (C), Albite Crystals in Limestone Rocks of Western Alps, 

 287 



Low (W.) : Prof. Ewing, F.R.S., and, on the Magnetization 

 of Iron in Strung Fields, 546 ; Magnetization of Hadfield's 

 Manganese Steel in Strong Fields, 548 ; on the Influence of a 

 Plane of Transverse Section on the Magnetic Permeability of 

 an Iron Bar, 548 



Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), Remarkable Hailstones, 44; Remarkable 

 Phenomenon seen on April 26, 1887, 102 



Lucas (Jos.), Studies in the Topography of Galloway, Sir 

 Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 337 



Luderitzland, Dr. Hans Schinz's Exploration of, 309 



Luminiferous Ether, on the Vortex Theory of, Prof. Sir W. 

 Thomson, F. R. S., 550 



Luminous Boreal Cloudlets, D. J. Rowan, 245 



Luminous Solar Rays, Observations on, 45 



Lunar Atmosphere Question, the, R. Guerin, 456 



Lunar Eclipse of August 3, 1887, 367 ; G. Rayet, 383 ; H. P, 

 Malet, 413 ; E. Lescarbault, 432 



Lunar Rainbows, A. F. Griffith, 531 



Lunge (Prof.), a New Apparatus for condensing Gases by Con- 

 tact with Liquids, 569 



Lymburn (J.), Natural History of the Roman Minerals, 555 



Lymph, &c., of Living Fish and other Vertebrates, on the 

 Presence of Bacteria in the. Prof J. C. Ewart, 251 



Lyons (Lieut. H. G.), the London Clay and Bagshot Beds, 71 



Lyra, Ring Nebula in, Variable Star in the, Hcrr Spitaler, 



Lyster (Major C. B.), Spider allowing for the Force of Gravity, 

 366 



Vlacallum (A. B.), on the Termination of Ner\'es in the Liver, 

 ^ 69 

 VIcCosh (James), Psychology : the Motive Powers, Emotions, 



Conscience, Will, 579 

 Vlacdonald (Greville), Three Lectures on the Forms of Nasal 



Obstraction in Relation to Throat and Ear Disease, 603 

 Vlacfarlane (Prof. Alex.), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 



174 

 vIcGill University, Medicine in. Prof T. Wesley Mills, 198 

 klackenzie (Sir Morell), Hay Fever and Paroxsymal Sneezing, 



363 

 klackinder (H. J.) : the Teaching of Geography, Arch. 



Geikie, F.R.S. , 506 ; Teaching of Geography at the Universi 



ties, 596 

 tlaclear (Capt. J. P.), Christmas Island, 12 

 ilacleod (Henry Dunning), the Elements of Economics, 27 

 »Iadan (H. G.), Svastika on English Walls, 437 ; the Solar 



Eclipse of August 19, 437 



Madras Meridian Observations, 138 



Madras Literary Society, Journal of Literature and Science, 



S87 

 Maggi (Prof. L.) : on some Method of testing the Purity of 

 Drinking- Water, 116; Importance of Qualitative Bacterio- 

 logical Examination of Potable Waters, 335 

 Magnetism : on Sequences of Reversals, Magnetization, A. H. 

 M. Bosanquet, 23 ; Isogonic Magnetic Curves, 24 ; Isoclinous 

 Magnetic Curves, M. C. Decharme, 624 ; Intertropical Diurnal 

 and Annual Variations of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ch. Lagrange, 

 95 ; on the Constant P in Observations of, Wm. Harkness, 

 366; William Ellis, 436; Prof. Arthur W. Rucker, F.R.S., 

 508; on the Heat of Solution of Magnetized Iron, Dr. Gross, 

 96 ; Earthquakes and the Suspended Magnet, Dr. M. A. 

 Veeder, 102 : Magnetic Torsion of Iron Wires, Shelford Bid- 

 well, 143 ; on Electrical Condition of Magnets during Mag- 

 netization, Dr. Gross, 144 ; Action on Superficial Tension in 

 Liquids of Intense Magnetic Field, Prof. Dufour, 209 ; 

 Calorific Conductibility of Bismuth in Magnetic Field, A. 

 Righi, 312-^ Chemical Action in a Magnetic Field, Prof. H. 

 A. Rowland, 547 ; Magnetic Resistance, Profs. Ayrton, 

 F.R.S., and Perry, F.R.S., 262 ; Sounding Coils, Prof. W. 

 Stroud and Wertheimer, 262 ; Magnet Ammeters and Volt- 

 meters, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 263 ; Theory of Magnetic 

 Measurements, F. E. Nipher, 316; Report of the B.A. Com- 

 mittee on Magnetic Observations, 499 ; Magnetization of Iron 

 in Strong Fields, Prof. Ewing, F.R.S., and W. Low, 546; 

 Magnetization of Hadfield's Manganese Steel in Strong Fields, 

 Prof J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., and W. Low, 548 ; on the In- 

 fluence of a Plane of Transverse Section on the Magnetic Per- 

 meability of an Iron Bar, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., and W. 

 Low, 548 ; on the Magnetic Properties of Gases, Prof. 

 Quincke, 549 ; Effects of Magnetization on the Viscosity and 

 the Rigidity of Iron and Steel, C. Barus, 575 



Magnetite, Artificial Production of, 24 ; Alex. Gorgeu, 43 



Magnitudes of Nautical Almanac Stars, Prof. Pickering, 401 



Magnus (Sir Philip), Report, City and Guilds of London Insti- 

 tute for Advancement of Technical Education, 349 



Mainoff, Juridical Customs of the Mordovians, 400 



Malaria, Bacillus of, 613 



Malay Peninsula, the Geography of the, by Prof. A. H. Keane, 

 88 ; New Map of, 349 



Malayo-Melanesians and Papuo, A. Featherman, 147 



Malet (H. P.), Lunar Eclipse of August 3, 413 



Malet (J. W.. F.R.S.)j the Atomic Weight of Gold, 568 ; on a 

 Partial Separation of the Constituents of Solution during 

 Expansion by Rise of Temperature, 570 



Mallet and Jovis's Balloon Ascent, 374 



Malmgren, the Nephridia of Lanice conchilega, J. T. Cun- 

 ningham, 162 



Malvern Wells, Salmon Fry at, 431. 



Mammalian Teeth, on the History of the Evolution of, Oldfield 

 Thomas, 94 



Mammaliferous Gravel at Elloughton in the Humber Valley, G. 

 W. Lamplugh, 153 



Mammals, on a Collection of, made at Mossamedes, Dr. Jentink, 



"7 

 Man, the Experimental Production of Chest Types in, G. W. 



Hambleton, 599 

 Man, Measurement of the Muscular Force in, 45 

 Man, Pre-Glacial, Migrations of, Glaciator, 245 ; Dr. Henr/ 



Hicks, F.R.S., 269, 599 

 Manchester Microscopal Society, 208 

 Manchuria, H. E. M. James's Exploration of, 138 

 Maneuvrier, on Coefficient of Self-induction of Two Bobbins- 



Combined in Quantity, 432 

 Manganese and Bismuth, Fluorescences of, Lecoq de Boisbau- 



dran, 336 

 Manganese, New Oxides of. Dr. Franke, 476 

 Manganese Steel, Hadfield's Magnetization of, in Strong. 



Fields, Prof. J, A. Ewing, F.R.S., and William Low, 



548 

 Mankind, Social History of the Races of, A. Featherman, Prof. 



A. II. Keane, 147 

 Miinnermann's New Method of preparing Siemens Steel Tubes,. 



216 

 Mansion (Paul), Elemente der Theorie des Determinanten, 



51 

 Maps : Malay Peninsula, New, 349 ; Philips Handy Volume 

 Atlas of the World, 208; Stanford's Tourists' Guides, 185 



