Index 



V Supplement to Nature, 

 L December 8, 1898 



Kelvin's (Lord) Scientific Work, Prof. Oliver Lodge, 581 

 Kempf (Herr), a New Long Period Variable, 60 

 Kent (Saville), Position of Sponges in Animal Kingdom, 426 

 Kerner (Prof. Anton), Death of, 206 ; Obituary Notice of, Dr. 



Otto Stapf, 251 

 Kerr (Richard), Wireless Telegraphy, 495 

 Kew, Royal Gardens, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 



1897, 245 

 Keyes (C. R.), Eolian Origin of Loess, 634 

 Kimura (H.), the Variation of Latitude at Tokyo, 490 

 Kinematograph Films, the Manufacture of, 552 

 King (Sir George), Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Calcutta, Vol. viii., the Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya, 465 

 King(L. W.), First Steps in Assyrian, 341 

 Kingdon (J. A.), Applied Magnetism: an Introduction to the 



Design of Electro-Magnetic Apparatus, 591 

 Kingzett (C. T.), a Pocket Dictionary of Hygiene, 495 

 Kinsley (Carl), Series Dynamo Electric Machines, 72 

 Kipping (F. S.), Separation of Optical Isomerides, 23 

 Kirby (W. F.), Epidemics among Mice, 223 

 Kirchhofif's Spectroscope, Prof. H. C. Vogel, 19 

 Kirchner (Herr), Leprosy in Russia, 158 

 Kirstadter (F. ), Magnetisation of Hollow and Solid Iron Rings, 



187 

 Kite, a Propeller, Lawrence Hargrave, 312 

 Kite Flight, High, Record broken for, Messrs. Clayton and 



Ferguson, 513 

 Klebs (Prof.), Alternation of Generations in Thallophyta, 632 

 Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.), the Etiology and Prevention of Malarial 



Fever, 175 

 Klein (Prof. Felix), the Mathematical Theory of the Top, 

 Lectures delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial 

 Celebration of Princeton University, 244 

 Knibbs (G. H.), Water-Flow in Uniform Pipes and Channels, 



354 

 Knipp (C. T.), New Form of Make and Break, 92 

 Knight (W. C), New Jurassic Vertebrates from Wyoming, 117 

 Knight-Darwin Law, the, Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 630 

 Knott (Prof. C. G.), Magnetic Strains, 190 

 Knuth (Dr., Paul), Handbuch der Blutenbiologie unter zugrun- 



delegung von Hermann Miiller's werk, " Die Befruchtung 



der Blumen durch Insekten," Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 434 

 Koch (Prof.), a Plague Centre in German East Africa, 254 

 Koettlitz (Dr. R.), Geology of Franz Josef Land, 239 

 Kohlrausch (F.), Conductivities of Electrolytes, 93 

 Kohnstamm (P.), the Weston Standard Cell, 335 

 Kolliker (Albert von), Prof. W^ F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., I 

 Kollmann (Dr. J.), Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des 



Menschen, 77 

 Kossel (Prof. A.), on Albumens, 481 

 Kozloff (P. K. ), the Lob-Nor Controversy, 41 

 Kromsk5p Colour Photography, Frederick Ives, 124 

 Kronecker (Prof.), on the Results of Further Investigation of 



the Respiration of the Heart of the Tortoise, 481 

 Kronfeld (Dr.), Silphium among the Ancient Greeks, 628 

 Ktibler (Herr), Leprosy in Russia, 158 

 Kulczynski (Ladislao), Aranece hungarice, 365 

 Kiittner (Prof.), the Rontgen Rays in Surgery, 302 



La Cour (Prof. ), the Utilisation of Wind Power, 300 



Labbe (H. ), New Method of Separating Geraniol and Citron- 

 nellol, 191 ; Acids of Essential Oils of Geranium, 240 



Laboratories : the New Physical Research Laboratory at the 

 Sorbonne, 12 ; on Laboratory Arts, Richard Threlfall, C. V. 

 Boys, F.R.S., 145; the National Physical Laboratory, 548, 

 565 ; Opening of the Thompson-Yates Laboratories at 

 University College, Liverpool, 575, 606 ; a Chemical 

 Laboratory Course, A. F. Hogg, 592 ; New Physical 

 Laboratory of Owens College, Manchester, 621 



Ladd (G. T.), Outlines of Descriptive Psychology, 316 



Lafar (Dr. Franz), the Utilisation of Micro-Organisms in the 

 Arts and Manufactures : a Practical Handbook on Ferment- 

 ation and Fermentative Processes, &c. , 265 



Lafouge (M. le General), Essai synthetique sur la formation du 

 Systeme Solaire, 342 



Lagrange (C), the Theory of Errors ; a Theory of Recurring 

 Means, 489 



Lahmann's (Dr. H.) Natural Hygiene, 614 



Lake Bassenthwaite, Rotifers in, Prof. Sydney J. Hickson, 

 F.R.S., 200 ; W. T. Calmen, 271 



Lake Mendota, Plankton Studies on, Dr. E. A. Birge, 259 



Lake Minnewaska, N.Y., Blue Grotto on, Dr. H. C. Bolton, 



525 

 Lake Tanganyika, the Marine Fauna in, and the Advisability 



of Further Exploration in the Great African Lakes, J. E. S. 



Moore, 404 

 Lake Urumiah, the Medusa of. Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., 



319 ; the Jelly-fish of, R. T. Gunther, 435 

 Lamb (Horace, F.R.S.), an Elementary Course of Infinitesimal 



Calculus, 292 

 Landolt (H.), Das optische Drehungsvermogen organischer 



Substanzen und dessen praktische Anvvendung, 172 

 Lang (Mr.), Prothallus of Lycopodiuin clavattwi discovered, 



633 



Langer (Dr.), the Immunity of Bee Keepers from Bee Poison, 

 18 



Langley (Edward M. ), Animals and Poisonous Plants, 597 



Langley (Dr. J. N., F.R.S.), on the Discovery of the Possibility 

 of obtaining an Experimental Union between the Nerve- 

 fibres of the Vagus Nerve and the Sympathetic Nerve-cell of 

 the Superior Cervical Ganglia, 482 



Langlois (Prof. ), Observations upon the Resistance of Diving 

 Animals to Asphyxia, 485 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), a Text-Book of Zoology, 

 Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, F.R.S., and Prof. W. A. Haswell, 

 F.R.S., 25 ; Traite de Zoologie Concrete, Prof. Yves 

 Delages and E. Herouard, 25 ; a Student's Text-Book of 

 Zoology, Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., 147 ; the Scientific 

 Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. i. , 613 



Larden (W.), Solar Halos, 344 



Larmor (Joseph, F.R.S.), the Complete Scheme of Electro- 

 dynamic Equations of a Moving Material Medium, 166 



Larvae, Horn-Feeding, W. H. McCorquodale, 140, 546 ; 

 Captain G. G. Traherne, R.A., 521 



Larvce in Antelope Horns, Dr. Henry Strachan, 468 ; W. H. 

 McCorquodale, 468 



Latitude Variation in a Rigid Earth, Prof. Henry Crew, 232 



Latitude at Tokyo, the Variation of, H. Kimura, 490 



Laurie (Dr.), on the Results obtained in Studying the Cooling 

 Curves of Fatty Acids, 557 



Laver (H.), the Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes of Essex, 242 



Le Chatelier (H.), Limit of Inflammability of Carbon Mon- 

 oxide, 71 ; Electrical Resistance of Steel, 191 ; Influence of 

 Tempering on Electrical Resistance of Steel, 216; Radiation 

 of Incandescent Burners, 240 



Lead-Boring Insects, Dr. L. O. Howard, 230 



Leatham (F. G.), Possibility of deducing Magneto-Optic 

 Phenomena from Direct Modification of Electro-Dynamic 

 Energy Function, 142 



Leavitt (R. G. ), Pyschrometer applicable to Study of Plant 

 Transpiration, 187 



Lebeau (P.), Industrial Treatment of Emerald in Electric 

 Furnace, 23 ; Iodide of Beryllium, 47 ; a Boro-Carbide of 

 Beryllium, 71 ; Anhydrous Beryllium Fluoride and Oxy- 

 fluoride of Beryllium, 96 



Lecornu (L. ), Regularisation du Mouvement dans les Machines, 



495 

 Leduc (A.), Error of M. Regnault in Determination of Specific 



Heat of Air at Constant Pressure, 240 

 Lee (Dr. F. S.), on the Fatigue of Muscle, 484 

 Leeds Astronomical Society, the, 160 

 Lees (Dr. C. ), Increase of Thermal Conductivity of Sandstone 



by Pressure, 524 ; on the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks at 



Different Pressures, 532 

 Leger (L. ), a New Coccus, Echinospora veniricosa, 516 

 Leidie (E.), Compounds of Rhodium, 287 

 Leidenfrost Drop, the, J. Stark, 335 



Leist (M.), a Local Magnetic Pole at Kotchetovka, 72, 86 

 Lemstrom (Prof. S.), on the Action of Electricity on Plants, 



533 

 Lenard(P.), Behaviour of Kathode Rays Parallel to Electric 



Force, 491 

 Lenses, not of Glass, Mr. J. W. Giflford on, 532 

 7 Leonis, Parallaxes and Masses of 7 Virginis and, Dr. Belo- 



polsky, 400 

 Lepidoptera, YAXie^AQSoi Abraxas grossulartaia, Rev. J. Greene, 



no; Drinking Habits of Butterflies and Moths, T. W. 



Tutt, no ; Individual Wing-Variation in Lepidoptera, 



W. L. W. Field, 524 

 Leprosy in the Far East, Distribution of, S. B. J. Skertchly, 



514 

 Leprosy in Russia, MM. Kirchner and Klibler, 158 



