Supplement to Sature,~\ 

 November 26, 1891 J 



Index 



XXI 



Kitchen Range, Waste in the Use of the Ordinary, 354 



Klein (Dr.), Immunity, Natural and Acquired, 422 



Klenze (Herr), the Digestibility of Different Kinds of Cheese, 



325 



Knott (Prof. C. G. ): some Relations between Magnetism and 



Twist in Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, 191 ; Electric Resistance 



f Cobalt at High Temperatures, 311 ; Thermo-electric 



1 ositions of Cobalt and Bismuth, 311 



ivoch's (Dr.) Present Views regarding Tuberculin, Prof. Ehrlich, 



398 

 Koenig (Dr. A.), Ornithological Observations in Madeira and 



the Canary Islands, 163 

 Koeppelin (Rodolphe), Death and Obituary Notice of, 231 

 Koh-i-Nur, a Criticism, Prof. N. Story-Maskelyne, F.R.S., 555 

 Koh-i-Nur, a Reply, V. Ball, F.R.S., 592 

 Krause (Dr.), the Slow Combustion of Explosive Gas Mixtures, 

 354 

 -chtafovitch (N.), Traces of an Inter-glacial Period in Middle 

 viissia, 232 



ss (Dr.) and Dr. Ohnmais, on the Crystallization of 

 \nimonium Sulphovanadate, 19 

 enthal (Willy), Porpoises in African Rivers, 175 

 ...;nz (G. F.), Emission of Light by Diamonds in Darkness, 88 



Laboratory, Marine, of fohns Hopkins University, 206 



Laboratory Reports of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 Edinburgh, J. George Adami, 73 



Labrador, American Ethnological Expedition to, 185 



Lachaud (M.), Researches on Thallium, 336 



Lacquer Tree at Frankfort, Acclimatization of the. Prof. Rein, 

 500 



Lake Waters, Fluctuations in Height of, P. du Boys, 120 



Lalande (F. de). New Models of Copper Oxide Batteries, 144 



Lancaster (M.), Normal Temperature in Europe, 437 



Lang (Dr. C), Secular Variations of Damage by Lightning and 

 Hail, 354 



Langdon (William), Railway- Train Lighting, 41 



Language, the Formation of, W. J. Stillman, 106 



Langley (Prof. S. P.), Experimental Researches on Mechanical 

 Flight, 277 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.): the University of London, 

 76 ; Mammals Living and Extinct, by Prof. W. H. Flower, 

 F. R.S., and Richard Lydekker, 121 ; the Proposed Albert 

 University, 222 ; Lessons in Elementary Biology, Prof. T. 

 Jeffery Parker, F. R.S., 290 ; Die Organisation der Turbellaria 

 Accela, Dr. Ludwig von Graff, 465 



Lanthanum, Dr. Brauner on, 68 



Laplace's Pressure in the Virial Equation, Van der Waals's 

 Treatment of. Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S., 499, 597 ; Prof. P. G. 

 Tait, 546, 627 



Larden (W.), W = Mi?-, 493, 614 



Larnior (Alex.), Geometry of Position, by R. H. Graham, 195 



Larmor (J.), the Theory of Electrodynamics, 139 



Law of Tensions, H. G. Williams, 591 



Lawrence (G. F.), Drift Implement of Unusual Form found in 

 Oxford Street, 282 



Laws of Force and Motion, John Harris, 443 



Lawson (Inspector-General), on the Communicability of Cholera 

 from one Country to another, 366 



Le Conte (Prof. John), Death of, 17 



Le Conte (Prof. Joseph), Purposes of the International Geo- 

 logical Congress, 504 



Lea(M. Carey), Blue Silver, 189; Allotropic Silver, 584 



Lechartier (G.), Variation of Composition of Jerusalem Arti- 

 chokes at Different Periods of Growth, 608 



Lecithines, Biological Functions of the, Walter Maxwell, 471 



Leduc (A.): New Gravimetric Method of ascertaining Com- 

 position of Atmospheric Air, 311 ; a New Copper Hydride, 

 and the Preparation of Pure Nitrogen, 288 ; Densities of 

 Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen, 336 ; the Expansion of 

 Phosphorus, 360 



Leeward Islands, Mr. C. A. Barber appointed Superintendent 

 of the Agricultural Department of, 257 



Leffmann (Dr. Henry) and William Beam, Examination of 

 Water for Sanitary and Technical Purposes, 102 



Lehfeldt (Robt. A.), Instruments in Just Intonation, 519 



Lehmann (Dr. O. ), on Micro-Chemical Analysis, 76 



Leibnitz and the Aneroid Barometer, 40 



Leidie (E.), Research on Separation of Acids from Platinum, 

 '44 



Leidy (Prof. Joseph, M.D.) : Death of, 17 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 63 ; Proposed Memorial to, 351 



Lenses, on the Measurement of, Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., 

 455 



Leon (Prof), a Two-legged Cat, 600 



Lepidoptera, South African, Rearrangement by Mr. R. Trimen 

 of the South African Museum Collection of, 207 



Lepierre (C), Researches on Thallium, 336 



Leprosy Bacillus cultivated in Serum by Drs. Rake and Buck- 

 master and Surgeon-Major Thomson, 161 



Leprosy, Indian Report on, 436 



Leste, or Hot Wind of Madeira, Dr. H. Coupland Taylor, 95 



Levander (F. C), a Rare Phenomenon, 519 



Levereit (Frank), Pleistocene Fluvial Planes of Western 

 Pennsylvania, 463 



Lewes, Discovery of Anglo-Saxon Skeletons near, 575 



Lewes (Prof. Vivian B.), on the Spontaneous Ignition of Coal, 



455 

 Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Erratic Track of a Barometric Depres- 

 sion, 150 

 Leyden Jars, Experiments with. Prof. O. Lodge, F.R.S., 238 

 Liberia, Projected Natural History Expedition by O. F. Cook 



to, 548 

 Library Association, Annual Meeting of, 475 

 Light (Captain R.), Voracity of Rats at Aden, 600 

 Light Diffused by Sky, Analysis of, A. Crova, 144 

 Light- Waves, Stronger Absorption by Water of Long than 



Short, Biological Bearings of Fact of, Herr Hufner, 478 

 Lighting in France, the Increase in the Consumption of Gas, 



Electricity, and Petroleum during the last Decade, 282 

 Lightning to Church at Needwood, Curious Case of Damage by, 



A. J. Hands, 239 

 Lightning Conductors, Relative Merits of Different Kinds of 



Points, Dr. Hess, 550 

 Lightning, a Curious Case of Globular, 327 

 Lightning, Damage by, to State Buildings in Prussia, 1877-86, 



501 

 Lightning Spectra, W. E. Wood, 504 

 Liquid Prisms, Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 273 

 Liquids, the Measurement of the Compressibility of, S. Skinner 



94 

 Liquids and Gases, Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S., 274 

 Liquids, Instrument for Optical Comparison of Transparent, 



M. Sonden, 478 

 Liquids under Mutual Affinity, Characteristic Property of 



Common Surface of Two, III., G. Van der Mensbrugghe, 240 

 Liquoscope, Instrument for Optical Comparison of Transparent 



Liquids, M. Sonden, 478 

 Limb (C), Electrolysis of Barium Chloride, 216 

 Linamarine, a New Glucoside from Linutii usitatissiinum, A. 



Joris«en and E. Hairs, 312 

 Linear Arrangement of Stars, 478 

 Linnean Society, 95, 118, 166, 215 ; Gold Medal awarded to 



Dr. Edouard Bornet, 1 1 1 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, 233 

 Lister (J. S.), Abnormal Development of Arms and Chests of 



Fakaofu Islanders presumably caused by Constant Paddling, 



476 

 Litvinoff (D. I.), Geo-Bolanical Notes on Flora of European 



Russia, 359 

 Liveing (G. D., F.R.S.), Crystallization, 156 

 Liverpool, Contemplated Geographical Society at, 161 

 Liverpool, the Geology of the Country around, G. H. Morton, 



Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 172 

 Liverpool, Mr. Francis Gotch appointed Professor of Physiology 



at University College, 257 

 Livingstone and the Exploration of Central Africa, H. H. 



Johnstone, 492 

 Lizard District, Crystalline Rocks of the. Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., and General C. A. McMahon, 22 

 Lockhart (J. G.), the Habits of the Moose, 114 

 Lockyer (Prof. J. Norman, F. U.S. ): on some Points in the 



Early History of Astronomy, 8, 57, 107, 199 ; Physical 



Science for Artists, 175, 227 ; the Solar Corona, 300 

 I.o ust in India, 18 

 Locusts in Egypt, 40 

 Lodge (Prof. Oliver J., F.R.S.) : the Spinning Ring, 106; 



Name for Resonance, 248; Force and Determinism, 198, 



272 ; Clock for pointing out Direction of Earth's Orbital 



Motion in Ether, 238 ; Experiments with Leyden Jars, 238 ; 



Opening Address in Section A of the British Association, 



