Nature^ Nov. 27, 1890] 



ago (William), Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Prac- 

 tical, 590 

 amaica International Exhibition and the United States, 87 ; 



C. W. Eves, 134 

 anssen (P. J. C.) : Telluric Lines of the Solar Spectrum, 138, 



526, 555 ; Ascent of the Grands Mulcts, 457 

 apan : Monument to Ino Chukei, the Cartographist, 70 ; Col- 

 lection of Objects Illustrating the Art and Ethnology of, at 

 Salem, U.S.A., no ; Tea in Japan, Y. Kozai, 121 ; Ethnic 

 Composition of the Population of, M. Gueit, 207 ; Tokio 

 Technical School, 334 ; Japan and the Pacific, Manjiro 

 Inagaki, 368 ; Heinrich von Siebold's Japanese Collections 

 Presented to the Vienna Hofmuseum, 375 ; Japanese Folk- 

 Lore Journal, 459 ; the Birds of the Japanese Empire, Henry 

 Seebohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 633 



Jeans (J. Stephen), Waterways and Water Transport, 634 



Jelly (E. C), a Synonymic Catalogue of the Recent Marine 

 Bryozoa, 589 



Jevons (W. Stanley), Pure Logic and other Minor Works, 195 



John (M.), Sea-Urchins and their Homes, no 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Studies from Biological 

 Laboratory of, 212 



Johnston- Lavis (Dr. H. J.), the Eruption of Vulcano Island, 78 



joly (A.), Chloro-salts of Iridium, 168 



Jones (Principal J. V,), on the Determination of the Ohm, 577 



Joule Memorial at Manchester, 64 



Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 88, 401 



Journal of Botany, 93, 311, 655 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 510 



Journal of Morphology, 32 



Judd (Prof. J. W., F.R.S.) : on Eua Island in the Tonga Group 

 or Friendly Islands, 86 ; Petrological Research of the Occur- 

 rence of Chemical Change under Great Pressure, lOi 



Jukes (J. Beete, F.R.S.), the School Manual of Geology, 146 



Jumelle (H.), Comparative Influence of Anaesthetics on Chloro- 

 phyllian Assimilation and Transpiration, 560 



Junker (Dr. Wilhelm), Travels in Africa, 316 



Jupiter, Red Spot on, W. F. Denning, 100 



Kakke, Ethnic Composition of Population of Japan according 



to Distribution of the Disease, M. Gueit, 207 

 Kanara, North, the Venomous Snakes of, G. W. Vidal, 160 

 Kangaroo, the Etymology of the Word, 574 

 Kansas, F. H. Snow on a Fall of Meteorites in, 86 

 Keep (W. J.), on Aluminium in Carburetted Iron, 69 

 Keltie (J. Scott), on the Commercial Geography of Africa, 580 

 Kennedy (Prof. Alex.), on Marine Engineering, 38 

 Kent (\V. Saville), on the Embryology of the Australian Rock 



Oyster, 18 

 Kerr (John), proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 15 

 Kerr (J. Graham), the Pilcomayo Expedition, Prof. Isaac Bayley 



Balfour, F.R.S., 543 

 Kew Bulletin, 65, 159, 160, 206, 253, 375, 597 ; W. F. H. 



Blandford on Wire-worm in Beer-barrels, 573 

 Kew Gardens, Visitors to, 212 

 Kew Herbarium, Collection of Dried Plants presented to, by 



Dr. A. E. von Kegel, 485 

 Kiewel (Dr.), the Diurnal Periodicity of the Wind, 143 

 King (George, F.R.S.) : some New Species of Ficus from New 



Guinea, 587 ; Report of Calcutta Botanic Garden, 597 ; Re- 

 port of British Sikkim Government Cinchona Plantation and 



Factory, 597 

 Kirsch (Theodor), Obituary Notice of, 65 

 Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.), the Etiology of Diphtheria, 113 

 Klinge (Herr), Observations on Growth of Lake-Vegetation 



East of Baltic, 402 

 Kcenig (Dr. Rudolf) : on Musical Sounds and the Theory of 



Timbre, 34 ; Researches on the Physical Basis of Music, Dr. 



S. P. Thompson, 190 ; Theory of Beats, Very Rev. Dr. 



Gerald MoIIoy, 246 

 Konigsberg, the Konigliche physikalisch-oekonomische Gesell- 



schaft, Centenary of, 108 

 Konkoly (Dr. Nicolaus von). Spectroscopic Observations (Sawer- 



Ihal's Comet 1881 I., and & Lyrae), 650 

 Koppenfels (von) and Gorilia, 53 

 Kopsel(Dr.), Apparatus for Calibration of Siemens-Halske 



Torsion Galvanometer, and New Form of Resistance for 

 ^ use in Measuring Powerful Currents, 144 

 Kozai (Y.), Researches on the Manufacture of various Kinds of 



INDEX 



Tea, Bulletin of the Imperial College of Agiiculture and 



Dendrology, 12I 

 Kriiss (Dr.), another Determination of Atomic Weight of 



Beryllium, 554 

 Kunz (George Frederick) : Remarkable Meteor in Iowa, 136 ; 



Gems and Precious Stones of North America, 315 

 Kuriles, the Flora of the, 322 



Laboratory, Seaside, Opening at Cold Spring Harbour, U.S.A , 

 of, 327 



Labyrinthodonts of Swabia, Eberhard Fraas, 551 



Lacaze-Duthiers (M. de). Dinner in Honour of, 65 



Laccadives, the. Flora of the, 322 



Lacerta simonyi. Discovery of, at Zalmo, 16 



Lagos, Proposed Government Inquiry into Mineral and Veget- 

 able Resources of, 252 



Lake Miirjelen, Bursting of Glacier Dam by, 402 



Lake-Vegetation East of Baltic, Observations on Growth of, 

 Herr Klinge, 402 



Lakes of America, on the Origin of. Prof. J. W. Spencer, 23 



Lancashire and Cheshire, Lepidopterous Fauna of, John VV. 

 Ellis, 245 



Lancaster (M. A.), General List of Astronomical Societies, 

 &c., 648 



Landerer (M.), Rocks of the Moon, 331 



Langley (E. M.) and W. Seys-Phillips, the Harpur Euclid, 295 



Langley (J. N., F.R.S.) and W. L. Dickinson, on the Pro- 

 gressive Paralysis of the Different Classes of Nerve-cells in 

 the Superior Cervical Ganglion, 22 



Langley (S. P.), the Cheapest Form of Light, 432 



Language, Ethnological Basis of, the Hunza Language, Dr. 

 Leitner, 143 , 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.); Panmixia, 5, 52; on the 

 Advancement of Science, 339 ; elected Deputy Linacre Pro- 

 fessor, 233 



Lapps, Dietary of the, M. Rabot, 408 



Larden (W.), Natural History Notes from South America, 115 



Larva-collecting and Breeding, Rev. J. Seymour St. John, 269 



Larvae, Luminous, 403 



Latitude: Sea-movements, Avalanches, &c., a Cause of Varia- 

 tion, R. Radau, 655 ; Established Variations in Observations 

 of Latitude of same Place, A. Gaillot, 655 



Latouche (T. D. ), Knowledge of Natives of Mineral Resources 

 of India, 403 



Laurie (Malcolm), Embryology of Scorpion, 334 



Lavoisier, La Revolution Chimique, Marcellin Berthelot, Prof. 

 T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 313 



Lawes (Sir J. B., F.R.S.) and Prof. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., on 

 the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, 41 



Lawrence and Harries on Alternate versus Continuous Currents 

 in Relation to the Human Body, 534 



Laycock Loom for Weaving Horsehair Cloth, the, 357 



Layton (Thomas, F.S.A.), Collection of Prehistoric Armour, 

 108 



Le Chatelier (H.) : Expansion of Silica, 312; Electrical Re- 

 sistance of Metals, 560 



Lea (Dr. Arthur Sheridan), proposed Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, 15 



Leander McCormick Observatory, 404 



Leaves and Cotyledons, the Shapes of, Sir John Lubbock, 

 F.R.S., 81 



Leaves, Extraordinary Flight of, James Shaw, 637 



Le9ons sur Ja Theorie Mathematique de I'Electricite, Prof. J. 

 Bertrand, 2 



Leduc (A.), Density of Nitrogen and Oxygen according to 

 Regnault, and Composition of Air according to Dumas and 

 Boussingault, 384 



Leeds, Meeting of the British Association at, 351 



Lehmann (Dr. O.), Molekularphysik, mit besonderer beriick- 

 sichtigung Mikroskopischer Untersuchungen und Anleitung 

 zu Solchen, sowie einen Anhang iiber mikrochemische Ana- 

 lyse, I 



Leitner (Dr. G. W.), the Hunza Language, 143 



Lenard (P.), Photographs of Water-drops, 148 



Lendenfeld (Dr. R. von) : Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent, 29, 

 81, 148; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 53, 100 



Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire, John W. 

 Ellis, 245 



Lepsius (Prof.), Experiments on Action of Carbon heated to 

 Whiteness in Electric Arc on Gaseous Compounds, 235 



