INDEX 



[Natuti; Nov. 27, 1890 



Les Mureaux, the Covered Mortuary Chambers at, Dr. Verneau, 

 407 



Lesage (Pierre), Thickening of Leaves by Marine Habitat, 327 



Leuchs (Dr.), Simpler Derivatives of Hydroxylamine, 137 



Levi (Dr. L. E.), Biophene, a New Intermediate between P'atty 

 and Aromatic Series, 281 



Lewes (Prof. Vivian B. ), Spontaneous Ignition and Explosions 

 in Coal Bunkers, 271 



Leyet (E.), on the influence of the Times of Reading Thermo- 

 meters, 17 



Library, National, of Ireland, Science and Art Museum, Dublin, 

 and the, 391 



Liebrecht (Dr. Felix), Death and Obituary Notice of, 426 



Life-Boats, Steam, J. F. Green on, 533 



Light, Actinic, of ihe Solar Corona, Frank H. Bigelow, 138 



Light, the Cheapest Form of, Langley and Very, 432 



Light, Electric, its Production and Use, John W. Urquhart, 

 540 



Light, Heat and, an Elementary Text-book of, R. Wallace 

 Stewart, 567 



Light, Heat, and Sound, Chas. H. Draper, 197 



Light, Production of, by Animals and Vegetables, 460 



Lighthouse Illuminants, the Royal Society Committee on. 86 



Lightning, Curious Effect of a Thunderstorm at Playford in 

 Suffolk, Herman Bidel, 36 



Lightning and the i:iectric Spark, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 

 151 



Lightning Flash, Optics of the, Eric Stuart Bruce, IQ7 



Lightning, Globular, seen on the Summit of the Bohul Moun- 

 tain, 458 



Lightning Spectra, W. E. Woods, 236, 377 



Lightning, Stream, W. B. Croft, 126 



Lightning-Protectors for Cables, &c.. Prof. Oliver T. Lodge, 

 F.R.S., 92 



Lightning-Strokes in Central Germany, 66 



l.ima. Earthquake at, 134 



Limb-Movement, Instrument for Measuring, Eras. Galton. 143 



Lime, Carbonate of, the Secretion of, Irvine and Woodhead, 

 97 



Limestone, Algerian, Excavation by Land-Snails, 327 



Linder (S. E.) and H. Picton, Note on the Hydrosulphides, 

 45 



Linear Dynamics, Syllabus, 28 



Linnaeus, Proposed Statue of, 523 



l^innean Society, 22, 71, 191, 214, 287 



Linnean Society of New South Wales, 376, 574 



Lion (M.), Application of the Properties of Iodide of Nitrogen 

 to Photometry, 511 



Liquefied Gases, on the Properties of, E. Mathias, 116 



Liquid Compound of Nickel and Carbon Monoxide, A. E. 

 Tutton, 370 



Lisbon, Earthquake at, 618 



Literature of Insular Floras, Recent Additions to the, W. Bolting 

 Hemsley, F.R.S., 322 



Liveing (Prof., F.R.S.) and Prof. Dewar, F.R.S., on the Ex- 

 plosion of Gases under High Pressure, 531 



Liverpool Geological Society, 376 



Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, the Sixth Scientific 

 Cruise of the Steamer Hycena with the, Prof. W. A. Herd- 

 man, 132 



Lizard, Discovery of a New Species of, at Zalmo, 16 



Lizard, Simony's, 91 



Lobster Culture in the Isle of Mull, 399 



Loch Coulter Reservoir, Eels in, 159 



Lock (Rev. J. B. ), Dynamics for Beginners, 270 



Lockyer (Prof. J. Norman, F.R.S.) : on the Spectra of 

 Comets, 20, 112 ; Photographs of the Nebula in Orion, 92 ; 

 Comparison of the Spectra of Nebulae and Stars of Groups 

 I. and II. with those of Comets and Auroroe, 342, 393 ; 

 Stellar Variability, 415, 545 



Locomotion, Aquatic, Studied by Photo-Chronography, M. 

 Marey, 360 



Locomotives, Compound, 61 



Lodge (Prof. Oliver J., F.R.S.), the Alternate Current Trans- 

 former, Vol. I., by Dr. J. A. Fleming, 49 ; Lightning- 

 Protector for Cables, &c., 92; Testing for Colour-Blindness, 

 100 ; British Association Procedure, 491 



Logarithms, on Last Place Errors in Vlacq, Dr. Edward Sang, 

 593 



Logarithms, Short, and other Tables, W. Cawthorne Unwin, 

 F.R.S., 518 



Lombard (M.), Ethnographic Summary of Course of Distribution 



of Various Races in Europe, 213 

 London Fog, Royal Society Grant for Enquiry into the Com- 

 position of, 180 

 London, the Future University for, 73 

 London Mathematical Society, 617 ; List of Papers, R. Tucker, 



8 ; the De Morgan Memorial Medal, 180 

 London, a Teaching University for, 631 

 London-purple as an Insecticide, Blandford, 287 

 Long (J. H.), Circular Polarization of Certain Tartrate Solutions, 



655 

 Loomis (the late Prof. E.), Prof. H. A. Newton, 383 

 Loomis (H. B.), the Formation of Icebergs, 648 

 Loomis Process of Making Gas-fuel, R. N. Oakman, Jun., 356 

 Loria's (Dr.), Papuan Zoological Collections, 375 

 Louvain University, Dr. St. George Mivart appointed Professor 



of Philosophy of Natural History at, 375 

 Loye (Paul), Death and Obituary Notice of, 278 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), the Shapes of Leaves and Coty- 

 ledons, 81 

 Lubricants, on Mechanical Tests of. Prof. J. E. Denton, 528 

 Lucknow Museum, Catalogue of Birds in, 135 

 Lunar Photography, Richard A. Gregory, 568 ; Dr. J, W. 

 Draper, 568 ; W. C. Bond, 568 ; Niepce de Victor, 568 ; 

 Warren De La Rue, 569 ; Prof. J. Phillips, 569 ; Prof. 

 Crookes, 569 ; S. Fry, 569 ; Rutherford, 569 ; Dr. Henry 

 Draper, 571 ; Prof. Holden, 569 ; Paul and Prosper Henry, 

 571 

 Lupton (Prof. A.), on the Pneumatic Distribution of Power, 534 

 Lyddite and Melinite, the Origin of. Dr. H. Sprengel, F.R.S., 



519 

 Lydekker (Richard) : Bison and Aurochs, 53 ; Natural History 



Publications of the British Museum, 371 

 Lyell (G., Jun.), Bathing Habit of Victorian Butterfly, 402 

 Lynch (H. F.), on Persia, 580 

 Lyra, Ring Nebula in, 282 



McAdie (A.) on Tornadoes, 525 



Macalister (Prof. Alex., F.R.S.), Polyglot Medical Vocabulary, 



Theodore Maxwell, 267 

 McCook (Harvey C), American Spiders and their Spinning 



Work, 244 

 McCormick (Robert), Death and Obituary Notice of, 646 

 Macdonald (W. C), Munificent Gift to McGill College by, 252 

 Macdonell (Arthur A.), Camping Voyages on German Rivers 



389 

 Macdonnell (Hercules), Changing the Apparent Direction of 



Rotation, 614 

 Macfarlane (Dr. J. IL), on Hybrids, 579 

 McGill College, Munificent Gift by W. C. Macdonald to, 252 

 McGill University, New Botanical Laboratory at, 87 

 MacGiliivray (D.), a Remarkable Rainbow, 457 

 Macgowan (Dr.), on the Political Domination of Women in 



Eastern Asia, 88 

 Mcintosh (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), on the Capture of Young 



(Immature) Fish, and what constitutes an Immature Fish, 429 

 McKendrick (Dr. J. G., F.R.S.), Special Physiology, Vol. II., 



50 

 McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Maltese Orange-Pests, 192 

 Maclear (Captain), Action of Lightning during Thunderstorms, 



214 

 MacMahon (Major Percy Alexander), proposed Fellow of the 



Royal Society, 15 

 Macmurrich (Dr.), on the Actinaria of the Bahama Islands, 32 

 McNabb (D.), Caught by a Cockle, 415 

 Mach (E.) and P. Salcher, the Velocities of Projectiles, 250 

 Machine Design, the Elements of. Prof. W. Cawthorne Unwin, 



F.R.S., 171 

 Madagascar, Meteorological Observations for 1889 in, Rev. E. 



Colin, 278 

 Madagascar, or Robert Drury's Journal, Captain P. Oliver, 637 

 Madan (H. G.), Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous Spar-Prism, 52, 



99 

 Madras Central Museum, Natural History Index Collection, 



647 

 Madrid Fortnightly Meteorological Bulletin, 301 

 Magdeburjf, Electro-technical E.xperimental Station to bo 



founded at, 300 

 Mai;nesium obtained by Distillation in Vacuo, Properties of Pure, 



Burton and Vorce, 161 



