XXIV 



Index 



V Supplement to Nature, 

 L May 11, 1894 



Liquids, the Decomposition of, by contact with Cellulose, C. 



Beadle, 457 

 Liquids, the Behaviour of, under High Pressure, J. W. Rodger, 



506 

 Lissajous's Figures, Lnproved Form of Blackburn's Pendulum 



for Slow Production of, Prof. A. Righi, 582 

 Literature, the Earliest Mention of the Kangaroo in, Baron 



C. R. Osten-Sacken, 198 

 ±-.Utledale (St. George), Across Central Asia, 567 

 LiUlewood (Mr.), Method of Determining Refractive Indices 



of Liquids, 450 

 Liver- Ferment, Note on the. Miss M. C. Tebb, 523 

 Liversidge (Prof. A..), the Origin of Gold Nuggets, 415 

 Livingstone (Dr.) and the Zambesi Ants, 95 

 Lochner (L. J.), the Elongation of Soft Iron by Magnetisation, 



160 

 Lock's (J. B ) Shilling Arithmetic, Key to, Henry Carr, 480 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Early Asterisms, 199 

 Lockyer (N. J.), Round the Works of our Great Railways, 



312 ; a Text-Book on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines, Bryan 



Donkin, 430 

 Locomotion of Animals, Chrono-Photographic Study of the, 



Locusts, Dried, as Food for Insectivorous Cage and Game 



Birds, Dr. Glinther, E. C. Cotes, 253 

 Locusts in England, Miss E. A. Ormerod, 253 

 Lodge (Prof. Oliver J., F.R.S.), Clerk Maxwell's Papers, 366 

 Lommel (E. von), Objective Representation of Interference 



Phenomena in Spectium Colours, 46 

 London Lunatic Asylums, the Projected Pathological Labora- 

 tory in connection with, 129 

 London, Map of Electric Lighting Districts of, 298 

 London, University of, the Proposed Reconstruction of the, 



558 



Loney (S. L.), Solutions of the Examples in the Elements of 

 Statics and Dynamics, 122 ; Plane Trigonometry, 339 



Long (Prof.), Agricultural Resources of Canada, 561 



Longman! s Magazine, Science in, 156 



Loomis (E. H.), a more Exact Method for Determination of 

 Lowering of Freezing-points, 547 



Lott (Frank E. ), Micro-organisms and Fermentation, 577 



Love (A. E. H.), Stability of Certain Vortex Motions, 118; 

 Motion of Paired Vortices with a Common Axis, 499 



Lovett (Edward), Prehistoric Man in Jersey, 487 



Low Vapour Pressures, Measurements of, J. W. Rodger, 436 



Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), Abnormal Eggs, 366 



Lubudi River, the, 582 



Liidtke(Herr H.), Properties of Mirror Silver chemically Pre- 

 cipitated on Glass, 229 



Lukuga River explored by M. Delcommune, 559 



Luminiferous Medium, a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and. 

 Dr. Joseph Larmor, F. R.S., 260, 280 



Luminosity of Candle Calculable from Dimensions of Flame, P. 

 Glan, 460 



Lummer (Dr.), the Unit of Light, 356 



Lunar Rainbow, a, Rev. C. W. Langmore, 321 



Lunatic Asylums, London, the Projected Pathological Labora- 

 tory in connection with, 129 



Lydekker (Richard), the Royal Natural History, 220; Life 

 and Rock : a Collection of Zoological and Geological 

 Essays, 575 



McAulay (A.), Utility of Quaternions in Physics, Prof. P. G. 



Tait, 193 

 Macaulay (F. S.), Groups of Points on Curves, 498 

 McConnell (W.), Gases occluded in Coal from various Durham 



Collieries, 232 

 Macdonald's (Sir Claude) Journey up the Cross River, 346 

 Macfarlane (A.), Electric Strength of Solid, Liquid, and 



Gaseous Dielectrics, 181 

 Macfarlane (Dr. A.), on the Definitions of the Trigonometric 



Functions, 480 

 Macgillivray (G. J.), Recognition Marks, 53 

 McGregor (J. M.), Ethereal Salts of Diacetylglyceric Acid in 



relation to connection between Optical Activity and Chemical 



Constitution, 142 

 Machine Drawing, Thomas Jones and T. Gilbert Jones, 362 

 Mack (F. W.), a Comet-Finder, W. R, Brooks, 543 

 McKay (Capt,), the Fate of the Bjorling Arctic Expedition, 85 



McKillop (Mr.), the Interaction of Hydrogen Chloride and 

 Potassium Chloride, 118 



McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), the Postal Transmission of Natural 

 History Specimens, 172 



Maclear (Rear- Admiral, J. P.), Aurora of February 28, 442 



Macleay Memorial Volume, the, 597 



McLeod (H.), Liberation of Chlorine during Heating of Mix- 

 ture of Potassium Chloride and Manganic Peroxide, 425 



McMurtrie's (Mr. James) Collection of Fossil Plants acquired by 

 South Kensington Museum, 415 



McNair (Capt. F. V.), U.S. Naval Observatory, 324 



Madagascar, the Silk-Spider of. Dr. Karl Midler, 253 



Madras, Wrought Iron Making in, 255 



Madras Observatory, 511 



Magazines, Scienc2 in the, 31, 155, 235, 352,443, 543 



Magnetism : Correlation oi Solar and Magnetic Phenomena, 

 William Ellis, F.R.S., 30, 245 ; H. A. Lawrance, loi ; Dr. 

 M. A. Veeder, 245 ; Sun-spots and Magnetic Disturbances, 

 Dr. M. A. Veeder, 503 ; Dr. L. Palazzo, 397 ; Magnetic 

 Susceptibility of Oxygen, K. Hennig, 108; Magnetic Rotary 

 Dispersion of Oxygen, Dr. Siertsema, 607 ; Magnetic Shield- 

 ing of Concentric Spherical Shells, Prof. A. W. Riicker, 

 F. R.S., 141 ; Magnetic Experiments in Senegambia, T. E. 

 Thorpe, F.R.S., and P. L. Gray, 141 ; Elongation of Soft 

 Iron by Magnetisation, S. J. Lochner, 160 ; Law of Mag- 

 netisation ot Soft Iron, P. Joubin, 284, 308 ; Magnetic 

 Field of Current running in Cylindrical Coil, Prof. G. M, 

 Minchin, 190 ; the Hysteresis attending Change in Length 

 produced by Magnetisation in Nickel and Iron, H. Nagaoka, 

 229 ; Prof. Knott, 230 ; Magnetisation of Iron and Nickel 

 Wires by Rapid Electrical Oscillations, Prof. Klemencic, 607 ; 

 Magnetic-Twist Cycles for Iron and Nickel, Prof. Knott, 230 ; 

 Magnetic Rotation of Hydrogen and Sodium Chlorides and 

 Chlorine in Different Solvents, W. H. Perkin, 239 ; Report 

 for 1892 of Magnetic Observatory of Copenhagen, 298 ; 

 Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism, J. 

 J. Thomson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 357 ; a TextBpok on 

 Electromagnetism and the Construction of Dynamos, Dugald 

 C. Jackson, Prof. A. Gray, 429 ; Variations of the Pelthier 

 Effect Produced by Magnetisation, L. Houllevigue, 524 ; 

 " Magnetarium," H. Wilde, F.R.S., 521 ; Magnetic Proper- 

 ties of Iron at Various Temperatures, M. P. Currie, 595, 620 ; 

 New Apparatus for Absolute Measurement of the Magnetic 

 Properties of Different Kinds of Iron, Dr. Roepsel, 595 



Magnitude and Position of T Aurigae, M. Bigourdan, 85 



Magnus (Sir Philip), Elementary Course of Practical Science, 

 Hugh Gordon, 121 ; on Preparing the Way for Technical 

 Instruction, 400 



Maize, the Original Home of. Dr. Harshberger, 298 



Mallock(A.), Insect Sight and Defining Power of Composite 

 Eyes, 472 



Malpighi (Dr. Marcellus), 583 



Malta, the Har Dalam Cavern, 514 



Mamert (Thomas), on j8-dibromopropionic Acid, 524 



Mammalia in North America, the Rise of the. Prof. H. F. 

 Osborn, 235, 257 



Man, the Perfect, Dr. Topinard, 520 



Man of Mentone, the, Arthur J. Evans, 42 



Manchester Free Libraries, Forty first Report of, 133 



Manganese Nodules, the Origin of. Prof. J. W. Judd, 235 



Manganese Peroxide in Sewage, Reduction of, W. E. Adeney, 



499 



Manoeuvring Powers of Steamships and their Practical Applica- 

 tions, Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb, R.N., 174 



Maples, Sugar, W. Trelease, 323 



AlarattiaccLV, Development of the Mucilage-Canals of the, 

 George Brebner, 523 



Marchal (Paul), the Reproduction of Wasps, 47 



Margerie (De), Geographical Conditions of Pyrenees, 275 



Marine Biology : the Pteropod Collections of the Albatross, 36 ; 

 Week's Work of Plymouth Station, 37, 67, 84, 162, 323, 

 372, 418; some Laboratories of Marine Biology, 70; Projected 

 Marine Biological Station at Millport, N.B. , 180; the Pro- 

 tective Colouration of Vibriits varians, Prof. W. A. Herd- 

 man, F.R.S., 417 ; the Floor of the Ocean at Great Depths, 

 Dr. John Murray, 426 ; Entomostraca and Surface Film of 

 Water, Dr. J. Scourfield, 474; the Rovigno Station, 560; 

 the Melbourne Exhibition Aquarium, 583 



Marine Boiler Management and Construction, C. E. Stromeyer, 

 410 



