KNOWLEDGE. 



vu. 



Lawes. Sir John Bennet, Bart. — 



Obituary Notice of 280 



Le Souef. D.. C.M.Z.S.— 



The Mud-Nest Building Birds of Australia 92 



Leaves, A Cloud of Dried Beech- 

 Letter on : by T. H. Astbuuy 109 



Leo. Alan — 



Letters on Astrology ... ... ... 22s, 255 



Lichen growing on Quartz — 



Letter on ; by J. A. Cook 



Lightning, Trees Struck by— 



By HowARii B. Little 



Little. E, D.— 



Polarity in ^lagic Squares 



Little, Howard B. — 



Trees Struck by Lightning 



183 



13 



31, 53 



13 



Locock, C. D.. B.A.— 



Chess Column 



23, 17, 71, 95, 119, 143, 167, 

 191, 215, 239, 263,287 



Lunar Phenomena, Some Curious — 



Letter on ; by Walter Willums ... ... 6-1 



Lunar Rainbow- 

 Letter on ; by J. Macintosh ... ... ... 255 



Letter on ; by Charles L. Bkook ... 276 



Lydekker, R., F.R.S.— 



The Natives of Australia and their Origin . 6 



Some Wild Indian Tribes ... 67 



Oceanic Negroes ... ... ... 97 



The First Musk Oxen in England since the 



Glacial Epoch ... ... 137 



American Indians ... ... ... ... 150 



The Pygmies of Asia 196 



The Smallest of the WUd Cattle 217 



The Pygmies of the Great Forest ... ... 259 



MacDowall, Alex. B., M.A.— 



Long Waves of Winter Weather ... ... 44 



Letter on London Summers ... ... . 110 



Letter on Hot and Dry Summers 201 



Macgeorge, James — 



Letter on " The ' Seas ■ of the Moon '■ ... 15 



Macintosh, John 



Letter on Lunar Rainbow 255 



Markwick, Colonel E. E., F.R.A.S.— 



Letter on The Constituents of the Snn 61, 8(; 



Marriott, H. P. Fitz-Gerald, F.R.G S., and 

 L. W. Bristowe — 



Stone Implements ou the Gold Coast .. 241 



Maunder, E. Walter, F.R.A.S.— 



Astronomy and Astrology ; A Question of 



Primogeniture ... ... ... ... 35 



'I'he (.'oming Eclipse of the Sun 49 



The Total Solar Eclipse of May 28, 1900 145, 175 



Astronomy Without a Telescope. 



1. Introductory ... ... ... ... 9 



IL The Zodiacal Light 61 



III. The Northern Stars ... 81 



IV. A Total Solar Eclipse 104 



V. Observations of the Sun ... ... 132 



VI. The Milky Way 158 



VII. Meteors— The Perseids 174 



VIII. Four Variable Stars 199 



L\. Aurorse 223 



X. The Meteors of November 251 



Maunder, Mrs. Walter— 



Thi' !Milky Way in Cygnus 



Meteor, A Large- 

 Letter ou ; by W. E.\kp 



Meteoric Dust, Collecting- 

 Note on ... 



Microscopy — 



. 273 



155 



16 



By .loiiN H. CooKE ... 21, 45, 69, 94, 117, 141, 

 1G5, 189, 214, 238, 262, 284 



Mid-Air Observations— 



By -John M. B.\con ... ... ... ... 1 



Mills, John, F.R.A.S.— 



Explosions in Coal Mines ... 4 



Mira Ceti— 



Letter on ; by David Flaneky ... 20(! 



Mitchell, Arthur Ed.— 



Letter on Is the Stellar Universe Finite ? ... 155 



Mivart, Prof. St. George, F.R.S., etc.— 



Obituary Notice of 110 



