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Index 



xxin 



Lightning, 393 ; White Poplar specially attractive to 

 »htning, 492 



imb (C), Determination of Electromotive Force of Clark 



Cell in Absolute Measure, 445 

 Limb (M. ), the Direct Absorption of Nitrogen by Barium, 



204 

 I.inde (C. ). Lowest Temperatures and Liquefaction of Gases* 



453 

 Lindgren (W.), Gold-Silver Veins of Ophir, California, 466 

 Linnean Society, 71, 191, 214, 263, 358, 406, 500, 550, 599 

 Linney (C. E.), Crime and VVeather, 304 

 LinoUtma inaritiina (Leach), Henry Scherren, 152 

 Linton (L. A.), Trinidad Pitch, 573 

 Lippmann (G. ), on keeping up Pendulum Motion without 



Interfering with Time of Oscillation, 311 

 Lippmann (Prof. G.), Colour Photography, 617 

 Liquefaction of Air and Research at Low Temperatures, Prof. 



J. Dewar, F.R.S., 329 

 Liquefaction of Air and other Gases, the New Process for the, 



515 

 Liquid, New Heavy, F. L. Penfield, 178 

 Lilienthal's Experiments on Flying, 300 

 Lithology, Manual of, Edward H. Williams, jun., 556 

 Littlehales (G. W.), Form of Isolated Submarine Peaks, 286; 



Improbability of finding Isolated Open-Sea Shoals by the 



Chart, 452 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee : Work during 1895 ^t 



Port Erin, 305 

 Lizard, the Frilled {Chlatnydosauriis kingi), W. Saville-Kent, 



395 

 Local Museums, the New Education Bill and, 580 

 I.ockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S. ), the New Gases from Uraninite, 



163, 526 ; Gases from Eliasite, 190 ; Variable Stars of SCephei 



Class, 262 ; the Story of Helium, 319, 342 ; the Shifting of 



Spectral Lines, 415 

 I.ockyer (William J. S.), a Contribution to the New Photo- 



[;raphy, 324 ; an Unusual Solar Halo, 509 

 I.^lge (Prof. Oliver, J., F.R.S.), Metallic Resistance and 



Radiation, 79 ; the Rontgen Rays, 412 ; Surgical Experi- 

 ments with Rontgen Rays, 524 ; Action of X-Rays on Films, 



613 

 Loch's Experiments on Normal Developments of Exovates, 



Dr. Rawitz, 215 

 Londe (A.), Application of Rcintgen's Method. 384 

 London : the London University, 103 ; the Status of London 



University, 272 ; Vote of Convocation on the Cowper Com- 

 mission Scheme, 274 ; Sea-water for London, 106 ; London 



City Companies' Grants to Science and Education, 425 ; the 



Past, Present, and Future Water Supply of London, Dr. E. 



Frankland, F. R.S., 619 

 Longitude : Differences of Longitudes between Nice, Ajaccio 



and Rousse Island, MM. Hatt, Driencourt, and Perrotin, 23 ; 



Australian Longitudes, Pietro Baracchi, 424 

 Longitudinal Light, G. Jaumann, 374 

 Longitudinal Waves in Ether, on the Generation of, Lord 



Kelvin, F.R.S ,450 

 Lorenz (Prof. ), Two General Propositions in Theory of Light, 



359 

 Lorenz (Dr. L. V.), New Wild Dog from Western Matabele- 



land, 492 

 Lortet(L. ), Influence of Indirect Currents on Living Bacteria, 



624 

 Losener (Dr.), the Hygienic Aspects of Burial, 327 

 Loudon (W. ].), a Laboratory Course in Experimental Physics, 



172 ; an Elementary Treatise on Rigid Dynamics, 578 

 Low Temperatures, the Liquefaction of Air and Research at. 



Prof. }. Dewar, F.R.S. , 329 

 Lowe (E. T., F.R.S.), Fern-growing, 3 ; the Culture of Divided 



and Redivided Prothalli of Scolopendium viilgare, 454 

 Lucas (Edouard), L'Arithmetique Amusante, i 

 Lucas (William), L'Arithmetique Amusante, 79 

 Luminescence of Solids and Solid Solutions, E. Wiedemann and 



G. Schmidt, 94 

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

 Luminous Centipede, a. Rose Haig Thomas, 131 ; R. 1. Pocock, 



131, 223 ; J. Lloyd Bozward, 223 ; T. Plowman, 249 

 Lummer (O.), a Perfectly Black Body, 136 

 Lunt (Joseph), Comet Perrine-Lamp, 519 

 LUscher (Herr), Electrical Changes in CEsophagus during 



Deglutition, 576 



Lynn (W. T.), Claudius Ptolemy and his Works, 488 

 Lyon (Prof. James), a System of Domestic Hot-water Supply, 

 335 



Macalister (A., F.R.S.), Physiolc^, 266 



Macallum (Dr. A. B.), Distribution of Assimilated Iron Com- 

 pounds in Animal and Vegetable Cells, 212 

 MacBride (E.W.), Development ol Aster ina gibhosa, 334 

 Macbride (Thomas H.), Lessons in Elementary Botany for 



Secondary Schools, 388 

 McClelland (J. A.), Leakage of Electricity through Dielectrics 



traversed by Rontgen Rays, 502 

 MacCullagh's Theory of the .Ether, Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S., 5 

 MacCuUagh's Theory of Double Refraction, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 



55 

 MacDougal(D. T.), Experimental Plant Physiology, 436 

 McGee (W. J.), the Lafayette Formation of United States, 467 

 McHenry (Alex.), Crush-Conglomerates in Ireland, 414 

 Mcintosh (Prof.), Development of the Turbot, 118 

 Macintyre (Dr. John), the Rontgen Rays, 461 ; Fluorescent 

 Screens, 523 ; New Results with Rontgen Rays, 599 ; Ex- 

 periments with Rontgen Rays, 614 

 McKay (Prof. J. S.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 450 

 McKendrick (Prof. J. G.), Communications on Acoustics, 454 

 McLennan (J. C), a Laboratory Course in Experimental 



Physics, 172 

 MacMahon (Major P. A., F.R.S.), the Theory of the Par- 

 titions of Numbers, I. , 430 

 Macmillan's Geography Readers, 172 

 Macmillan (Capt. ), Drift Ice on Temperature, 254 

 Macmillan (Alexander), Death and Obituary Notice of, 302 

 McNair (F. W.), Simple Huyghens' Apparatus for the Optical 



Lantern, 535 

 Madrid, Remarkable Meteoritic Fall at (Feb. 10, 1896), 348 ; 



the Great Madrid Meteor, Augusto Arcimis, 395 

 Magdeburg Meteorological Observations for 1S94, 565 

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



Stereoscopic Pictures, 228 

 Magie (Prof. W. F.), New Instrument for use in Diagnosis by 



Rontgen Rays, 398 

 Magnetism : Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane 

 Circuits, W. H. Everett, 47 ; Prof. Ewing's Researches on 

 Magnetic Induction, Lord Kelvin, 114; the Theory of 

 Magnetic Action upon Light, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 130 ; 

 Method of Measuring Hysteresis of Iron, G. F. C. Searle, 

 143 ; Measurement of Energy dissipated in Iron by 

 Hysteresis, M. Maurain, 350 ; Circular Magnetisation of Iron 

 Wire, I. Klemencic, 166 ; Changes of Length in Bars and 

 Wires of Magnetic Material due to Magnetisation, C. Chree, 

 269 ; the French Magnetic Survey of the World, 299 ; the 

 Stress in Magnetised Iron, Prof. T. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 316 ; 

 Dr. E. Taylor Jones, 317 ; Dr. C. Chree, 365, 533; L. R. 

 Wilberforce, 462 ; Magnetic Influence of the Planets, Prof. 

 Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 318 ; Lines of Equal Secular Varia- 

 tion of Magnetic Declination for Period 1 540-1880, Dr. W. 

 van Bemmelen, 359 ; Temperature Variation of Magnetic 

 Permeability of Magnetite, Dr. E. H. Barton, 383 ; the 

 Isonomales and Lines of Secular Change of Earth's Mag- 

 netism, Lieut. -General Alexis de Tillo, 401 ; Magnetic Survey 

 of North- East Siberia, F. Miiller and N. Jurgens, 403 ; 

 Magnetic Survey of Italy, Dr. Luigi Palazzo, 404 ; Experi- 

 ments with X-rays, A. Lafay, 528 

 Magnus (Sir Philip), a German Imperial Institute, 32 

 Maiden (J. H. ), the Grey Gum (Eucalyptus propinqud), 192 

 Major Premiss in Physical Chemistry, the, Robert B. Warder, 



139 

 Majorana (Dr. Q.), Influence of Rontgen Rays on Induction 



Coil Sparks, 616 

 Malacological Society, 119 

 Malaspina Glacier, the, I. C. Russell, 440 

 Malay Archipelago, God-worship in, Baron van Hoevell, 46 

 Malay Archipelago, Rainfall of, Dr. A. Woeikof, 497 

 Male of Apus, Dr. W. B. Benham, 175 

 Mall^vre (A.), Pectase in Plants, 96 

 Malloch (W.H.), Physics and Sociology, 232, 331 

 Mammals of Land and Sea, Mrs. Arthur Bell, 244 

 Man : Ethnische Elementargedanken in der Lehre vom 



Menschen, A. Bastian, E. Sidney Hartland, 291 ; Evolution 



and Man's Place in Nature, Prof. Henry Calderwood, 435 ; 



