Index 



Suppletnettt to Naturt, 

 December i, 1892 



Light, the Reflection of, by Moving Bodies, H. A. Lovenby, 

 028 



Light, Electric, Effect on Herbaceous Plants on, Gaston Bon- 

 nier, 580 



Light Variations of y Cygni, Prof. Duner, 87, 134 ; Mr. Yen- 

 dell, 134 



Lighthouse Illumination, on the Progress of the Dioptric Lens 

 as used in, C. A. Stevenson, 431 ; Chas. A. Stevenson, 514 



Lighthouse Lens, a New Giant, J. R. Wigham, 71 



Lightning Spectrum, A. Fowler, 268 



Lightning, Treatment of Persons Struck by, Dr. R. Assmann, 

 521 



Lightning, Globular, Curious Instance of, 548 



Lilienfeld's (Dr.) Investigations on Distribution of Phosphorus 

 in Various Tissues, 263 



Lilley (H. T.), a Lecture Course of Elementary Chemistry, 

 585 



Limits of Animal Intelligence, the, Edward T. Dixon, 392 ; C. 

 Lloyd Morgan, 417 ; Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 466 



Lindeck (Dr.), Wire Standards of Electric Resistance, 383 



Linebarger (C. E.), Molecular Masses of Dextrine and Gum 

 Arabic, as Determined by their Osmotic Pressures, 67 



Line of Sight, Motion in the, W. W. Campbell, 64 



Line Spectraof the Elements,- Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 

 29, 126, 222, 268 ; Prot. C. Runge, 100, 200, 247 



Ling (A. R.), Studies on Isomeric Change, iv. ; Halogen 

 Derivatives of Quinine, 142 



Linnean Society, 143, 190, 238 



Linnean Society of New South Wales, 572 ; Proposed Publica- 

 tion in Memory of Sir William Macleay, 227 



Lippmann (G.), the Photography of Colours, 24 



Litten (Prof.), a Phenomenon of Human Respiration, 263 



Live Stock, Prof. Wrightson, 76 



Liverpool Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, Opening of 

 the, 155 



Liverpool Observatory, Mr. W. E. A. Plummer appointed 

 Director of, 276 



Liverpool Overhead Railway, the, J. H. Greathead, 526 



Lizards (popularly called Horned Toads), a Curious Habit of, 

 O. P. Hay, 596 



Lock (G. H.), Key to J. B. Lock's Elementary Dynamics, 173 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Origin of the Year, 104; the 

 Opposition of Mars, 443 



Lockyer (N. J.), the Locomotive Engine and its Development, 

 Clement E. Stretton, 538 



Locomotive Engine and its Development, the, Clement E. 

 Stretton and N. J. Lockyer 538 



Locomotive, New Design of Electric, E. H. Woods, 430 



Locomotives, Two Electric, Alex. Siemens, 429 



Locusts in India, 86 



Locusts in America, C. V. Riley, 256 



Loczy (Louis), the Neglect of Scientific Geography in England, 



65 

 Lodge (Prof. Oliver J., F.R.S.), Electric Sparks in and to 

 /^ Water, 44; Electric Retina, 44 ; Historical Summary of our 

 I Knowledge of the Connection between Ether and Matter, 

 I 164 ; the Motion of the Ether near the Earth, 497 ; the 

 / Position of 4Tr Electromagnetic Units, 292 ; the British 

 I Association Committee on Electrical Standards, 334 ; Units 

 I Discussion at the British Association, 368 ; the Discussion on 

 ' the Nomenclature of Units, 383 ; Discussion on a National 



Physical Laboratory, 382 ; a so-called Thunderbolt, 513 

 Loew (O.), the Active Albumen in Plants, 491 

 Loewy (Prof.), Experiments on Respiration under reduced 



atmospheric pressure, 168 

 Logic, the Student's Manual of Deductive, Theory and Practice, 



K. R. Bose, 561 

 Logic : Induction and Deduction, Francis C. Russell, 586 ; E. 



E. Constance Jones, 293, 586 

 Lohse (Dr.), Photographs of Sun-spots, 258 

 London Institute, City and Guilds of. Woodwork Examination, 



300 

 London, a Professorial University of, 121 

 London University, the New, 151, 169 

 London University of the Future, the, 193 

 London Water Supply for September, 1892, Profs. W. Crookes 



and W. Odling, 617 

 Loney (S. L.), Key to Elementary Dynamics, 268 

 Longitude, Determination of, by Photography, Dr. H. 



Schlichter, 407 



Longmans' School Geography for North America, Geo. G. 



Chisholm and C. H. Leete, 585 

 Longstaff (Dr. G. D.), Death of, 520 

 Lorentz (H. A.), the Reflection of Light by Moving Bodies, 



628 

 Lortet (M.), Earthworms and Tuberculosis, 263 

 Lovering (Prof. Joseph), Memorial of, 521 

 Lovibond (J. W.), an Unit of Measurement of Light and 



Colour, 93 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), Raindrops, 95 

 Lowne (B. Thompson), Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology, and 



Development of the '2\o^-?iy{Callipho)-aerythrocephala), 267 

 Lugard (Capt.), Return of, 552 



Luminosity of Hydrocarbon Flames, Prof. Lewes on the, 401 

 Luminous Clouds, W. Clement Ley, 294 

 Luminous Night Clouds, W. Foerster and Prof. O. Jesse, 575, 



589 



Lunar Eclipse, May II, 1892, 372 



Lunar Photography, Dr. L. Weinek, Prof Holden, 257 



Lunar Volcanoes, Active, Prof. Pickering, 134 



Lydekker (R.), the Discovery of Australian-like Mammals in 

 South America, 11 ; Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present, 

 74 ; the Washington Collection of Fossil Vertebrates, 295 



Lyra Ring Nebula, Photographs of the. Prof. Denza, 41 



Mabery (Prof. C. F.) Sal-Soda Manufacture in the United 



States, 332 

 Macalister (Andrew, F.R.S.) Opening Address in Section H 

 of the British Association, 378 ; on Some Facial Characters 

 of the Ancient Egyptians, 433 

 McClure (Rev. Edmund), Aurora Borealis, 368 

 McCook (Dr. Henry C), on the Social Plabits of Spiders, 403 ; 



Can Spiders Prognosticate Weather Changes ? 406 

 Macdonald (A. C.), the Extermination of the Antbear in Cape 



Colony, 522 

 Macdonald (Dr. C. F.), on the Success of Execution by Elec- 

 tricity in New York State, 256 

 Macgowan (D. J.), Remarkable Accounts of Interior of Southern 



Formosa, 228 

 Macgregor's (Sir Wm.) Explorations in New Guinea, no 

 Macgregor (J.), Fermentation of Arabinose by Bacillus ethacet- 



icus, 311 

 Machinery, Dynamo-Electric, Prof. A Gray, F.R.S., 296 

 Mcintosh (Prof., F.R.S), a Sketch of the Scotch Fisheries, 

 chiefly in their Scientific Aspects, during the past Decade 

 1882-92, 404 

 McKendrick (Tohn Gray, F.R.S), Life in Motion, or Muscle and 

 Nerve, 583 "; Method of Recording Curves of Muscular Con- 

 traction, 404 

 MacLachlan(R., F.R.S.), Carnivorous Caterpillars, 151 

 Maclean (Magnus), Experiments with a Ruhmkorff Coil, 384 

 Macleay (Sir Wm.), Proposed Memorial Publication of Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, 227 ; Memorial Volume, the 

 Proposed, 572 

 McLeod (Prof. Herbert, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 



B of the British Association, 327 

 McMurrich (Prof. J. Playfair), the Early Development of the 



Isopods, 406 

 Madagascar, Imerina, the Central Province of. Rev. James 



Sibree, 47 

 Madras, Earthquake, 109 

 Madras Observatory, 301 



Magnetism : Magnetic Storm of February in Mauritius, 20 ; Prof. 

 J. J. Thomson's new Edition of Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on 

 Magnetism and Electricity, 38; Wave- Propagation of 

 Magnetism, Fred T. Tronton, 56 ; Magnetic Variations, 

 William Ellis, 67 ; on the Changes Produced in the Length 

 of Wires Carrying Currents by Magnetization, Shelford Bid- 

 well, F.R.S., 140; a -.Compound Magno meter for Testing 

 Magnetic Properties of Iron and Steel, G. F. C. Searle, 143 ; 

 the Volume-Effects of Magnetization, Dr. C. G. Knott and A. 

 Shand, 143, 262 ; the Measurement of the Magnetic Pro- 

 perties of Iron, Thomas Gray, 163 ; the Volume-Effects of 

 Magnetism, Dr. C. G. Knott, 385 ; Leaky Magnetic Circuits, 

 Dr. du Bois, 384 ; on a Magnetic Balance and its Practical 

 Use, Prof du Bois. 385 ; Magnetic Curve Tracer, Prof. 

 Ewing, 385 ; an Estimate of the Rale of Propagation of 

 Magnetization in Iron, Prof. Fitzgerald, 385 ; Propagation of 

 Magnetic Impulses along a Bar of Iron, V. A. Julius, 392 ; 



