Index 



V Supplement to Nature, 

 L June II, i8q6 



Kirby (Frederick Vaughan), the Game Fields of the Eastern 

 Transvaal, 467 



Kirchner (Dr. O. ), Root-tubercles of Soja-Bean, 598 



Kitasato (Dr. ), Inoculation for Leprosy, 349 



Klebs (Prof. G.), Original Mode of Plant-Multiplication Non- 

 Sexual, 279 



Klemencic (I.), Circular Magnetisation of Iron Wire, 166 



Knaggs (Dr. H. G.), Wax secreted by Lepidoptera, 13 ; Insect 

 Wax-Secretion, 453 



Knight (James), Food and its Functions, a Text-book for 

 Students of Cookery, 217 



Knowles (H. B.), Permeability to Rontgen Rays, 479; Opacity 

 of Various Substances to Rontgen Rays, 616 



Koehne (Dr.), Electrolytic Solution of Carbon, 504 



Kohlrausch (F.), Practical Use of Wheatstone's Bridge, 94; 

 Density Measurements of extremely Dilute Solutions, 94 



Kolguev Island, Glacial Geology of. Col. H. W. Feilden, 



143 



Komaroff (M.) Flora of Zerafshan, 496 



Konig (Rudolph), the Wave-Siren, 453 



Konovaloff (M.), Nitration of Menthone, 48 



Korschelt (Dr. E.), Text-Book of the Embryology of In- 

 vertebrates, 361 



Kostycher (Prof. A. P.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 160 



Krauss (Dr.), Folk-Lore of South Slavs, 472 



Kreider (D. A.), Quantitative Determination of Perchlorates, 23 



Kremser ^Prof.), Duration of Sunshine over Europe, 359 



Kreutz (Dr.), the Great Comet of 1843, 138 



Krueger (Dr. Adalbert), Death of, 609 



Kuenen (Dr. J. P.), Expansion of Argon and Helium as com- 

 pared with Air and Hydrogen, 213 ; Negative of Frog taken 

 by the Rontgen Rays, 419 



Kiilpe (Oswald), Outlines of Psychology, 313 



Kum-Bum, the Sacred Tree at, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 

 F.R.S., 412, 556 ; A. Grigoriev, 534 



La Touche (J. D.), Apparatus for determining the Specific 

 Gravity of Minute Fragments of Minerals, 199; the Barisal 

 Guns and Similar Sounds, 248 ; a Bright Meteor, 581 



Labesse (M.), Passage of Rontgen Rays through Liquids, 455 ; 

 Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 528 



Laboratory Course in Experimental Physics, a, W. J. Loudon 

 and J. C. McLennan, W. G. Rhodes, 172 



Lacroix (A.) Structure of Earthy Silicates, 96; the Volcanic 

 Tufas of Segalas, 3 1 1 



Lafay'(A.), Magnetic Experiments with X-Rays, 528 ; Electrified 

 Rontgen Rays, 600 



Lagos, the New Rubber Industry in, 13 



Lagrange (M.), Sympathetic Movements of freely-suspended 

 Needles, 183 



Laisant (C. A.), Traite d'Arithmetique, i 



Lake Baikal, New Sponges from, B. Sukatchoff, 573 



Lake, Eichener, Reappearance of, 612 



Lake, the Merjelen, Dr. C. S. Du Riche Preller, 129 ; Percy 

 F. Kendall, 175 ; Greenwood Pim, 198 



Lake Urumiah, the Jelly-fish of, F. F. Irving, 108 



Lake (Philip), British Silurian Acidaspis, 287 



Lamb (Horace, F.R.S. ), Hydrodynamics, Prof. A. G. 

 Greenhill, F.R.S., 49 



Lamp Accidents, Petroleum, 475 



Lamp, Trouve's Calcium Carbide (Acetylene), 226 



Lamp (Dr.), Perrine's Comet, 376 ; Comet Perrine-Lamp, 519 



Lamplugh (G. W.), Speeton Series in Yorkshire and Lincoln- 

 shire, 358 



Lancet : Surgical Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 524 



Lang (Robert), Relation between Dielectric Constant and 

 Chemical Valency of Gas, 166 



Lang (V. von), Change of Resistance of Contact by Electric 

 Irradiation, 430 ; Determination of Wave-Lengths of Hertz 

 Electric Waves, 518 ; Interference of Electric Waves, 526 



Langley (S. P.), Smithsonian Investigations, 428 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S. ), the Discovery of the Anti- 

 toxin of Snake-Poison, 128, 175 



Lannelongue (M. ), Aneurism cured by Injection of Zinc Chloride 

 Solution, 263 ; Surgical Diagnosis with X-Rays, 527 



Lantern, Magic : Newton and Co.'s New Method for showing 

 Stereoscopic Pictures, 228 



Lapworth (A.), Isomeric ir-bromo-a-nitrocamphors, 214 



Larmor (Dr. J., F.R.S.), MacCullagh's Theory of the JEther, 5 



Lascelles (B. P.), Single-Salt Analysis, 508 



Lassar-Cohn (Dr.), a Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry, 



195 

 Latitudes : the Influence of Atmospheric and Oceanic Currents 



upon Terrestrial Latitudes, Prof. Simon Newcomb, F.R.S., 



618 

 Laurie (A. P. ), Facts about Processes, Pigments and Vehicles : 



a Manual for Art Students, 28 

 Lawrence (Bryan), Death of, 543 

 Lawrence (Ralph R. ), the Rontgen Rays, 436 

 Lawrence ( W. R. ), the Valley of Kashmir, 99 

 Lawson (Prof. Geo.), Death of, 86 

 Lawson (M. A.), Death of, 470 

 Laycock (W. F.), Products of Dry Distillation of Bran with 



Lime, 406 

 Le Bon (Gustave), Dark Light, 335 ; Photography with Dark 



Light, 349 ; Le Bon's Black Light merely a False Light, 



Mr. Archenholz, 600 

 Le Chatelier (H.), Combustion of Acetylene, 239 

 Leahy (Prof. A. H.) Velocity of Propagation of Electrostatic 



Force, 364 

 Leake (II. C), Measurement of High Potential Difference, 



334 

 Leap-year, M. Auric's suggested Alteration of Gregorian Rule 



for finding, M. Flamant, 263 

 Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a Bell, A. G. Osborn, 



223 ; R. L. Taylor, 272 ; H. G. Williams, 367 

 Leeds (M. E.), the Rontgen Photography, 502 

 Lefevre (Leon), Traite des Matieres Colorantes organiques- 



artificielles, 603 

 Lefort (Jules), Death of, 609 

 Legge (Thomas Morison), Public Health in European Capitals, 



294. 

 Lemoine (E.), Traite d'Arithmetique, i 

 Lemoine (Jules), Verification of Kerr's Law in Absolute 



Measure, 599 

 Lenard (P.), the Absorption of Kathode Rays, 94 

 Lengfeld (M.), New Carbide of Zirconium, 503 

 Lenoble (E), La Theorie atomique and la Theorie dualistique, 



555 



Lepidoptera: Wax secreted by. Dr. H. G. Knaggs, 13; Mr. 

 Adkin's Collection of Orkney Lepidoptera, 70 ; a Handbook 

 of British Lepidoptera, Edward Meyrick, 265 



Lepinay (J. M. de). Determination of Mass of Cubic Deci- 

 metre of Distilled Water, 480 



Leprosy, Inoculation for, Dr. Kitasato, 349 



Lescoeur (H.), the Alcoholates, 71 



Leucocytosis, Biological Value of Inflammatory, W. Woronine, 



24 

 Leventhorpe (A.), Measurement of High Potential Difference, , 



334 

 Levinge (H. C), Death and Obituary Notice of, 583 

 Lewes (V. B.), Acetylene Theory of Luminosity, 357 

 Lewin (Dr.), Experiments on Dog's Stomach, 407 

 Lewis (R. T.), Fireball of November 22, 102 

 Levy(L. ), Titanium Silicide, 239 

 Ley (Annie), the Habits of the Cuckoo, 223 

 Libraries, Public, the Dissemination of Infection by, MM. Da 



Cazal and Catrin, 253 

 Library, the Boston Public, T. R. Sullivan, 232 

 Liebig's Condenser, C. E. Weigel the Inventor of. Dr. G. W. 



A. Kahlbaum, 375 

 Light : Light, H. P. Highton, 4 ; the Perception of. Sir G. G. 

 Stokes, F.R.S., 66; the Theory of Magnetic Action upon 

 Light, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 130; Emissivity of Glowing 

 Bodies and Auer Burner, C. E. St. John, 166; Dark Light, 

 Gustav Le Bon, 335 ; Photography with Dark Light, G. Le 

 Bon, 349 ; Le Bon's Black Light merely a False Light, Mr. 

 Archenholz, 600 ; Two General Propositions in the Theory 

 of Light, Prof. Lorenz, 359 ; Longitudinal Light, G. Jau- 

 mann, 374 ; the Action of Light on the Iris demonstrated by 

 a New Pupilometer, Prof. Charles Henry, 568 

 Lighthouse Illumination, Recent Improvements in, 56 

 Lighting : Trouve Calcium Carbide (Acetylene) Lamp, 226 

 Lightning : Personal Injury from a Fireball, Prof. Geo. M. 

 Minchin, F.R.S., 5; Lightning-Chain Formation, W. Craw- 

 ford, 5 ; Slow Lightning, Robert Bridges, 31 ; Globular 

 Lightning, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 152 ; a Remarkable Discharge 

 of Lightning, Robert Godlonton, 272 ; Two Lightning- 

 Strokes, Prof. Neesen, 336 ; the Destruction of Trees 



