Nature, 1 



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Index 



Kapteyn (J. C), the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung for 



the Equinox 1875, ^57 

 Kasner (Dr. E.), Algebraic Potential Curves, 221 

 Ka-Tanga, on the Belgian Expedition to, Captain Lemaire, 590 

 Kayser (Prof. H.), Scientific Worthies, Sir William Huggins, 



225 

 Keane (A. H. ), Central and South America, 353 

 Kellogg (Prof. V. L.), Animal Life : a First Book of Zoology, 



Kelvin (Lord), on the Magnetic Effects of Electrical Convec- 

 tion, 586; on the Absolute Amount of Gravitational Matter 

 in any Large Volume of Interstellar Space, 586, 626 



Kendal (Prof.), on the Chronology of the Stone Age of Mar, 

 615 



Kendall (Prof. P. F. ), on Overflow Channels and other Pheno- 

 mena Indicating Glacier-dammed Lakes in the Cheviots, 565 



Kendrickia Walkeri, on Abnormal Secondary Thickening in, 

 Miss A. M. Clarke, 618 



Kerr (J. Graham), on the Origin of Vertebrate Limbs, 5SS 



Kerr's Phenomenon, Luigi Giuganino, 554 



Kidd (Dr. Walter), Hair on the Digits ot Man, 351 



Kidston (R. ), on the Geological Distribution of the Fishes of 

 the Carboniferous Rocks and of the Old Red Sandstone of 

 Scotland, 565 



Kildonen Field, Sutherland, on the Source of the Alluvial Gold 

 of the, J. Malcolm Maclaren, 566 



Kilroe (J. R. ), Intrusive Tuff-like Rocks in Ireland, 295 ; on 

 the Resemblance of the Old Red Sandstone of North-West 

 Ireland to the Torridon Rocks of Sutherland, 565 ; on the 

 Relation of the Silurian and Ordovician Rocks of North- West 

 Ireland to the Great Metamorphic Series, 565 ; on the Ap- 

 plication of Geology to Agriculture by the Preparation of 

 Soil Maps, 565 



Kimmins (Dr.), on the Teaching of Botany in Universities, 593 



Kinahan (G. H.), on the Relation of the Silurian and Ordo- 

 vician Rocks of North-west Ireland to the Great Metamorphic 

 Series, 565 



Kingsley (Mary H.), West African Studies, 231 



Kinsley (Carl), Measurement of Sensitiveness of Coherers for 

 Wireless Telegraphy, 60 



Kirby (W. F.), Familiar Butterflies and Moths, 375; the 

 Colorado Potato Beetle, 450 



Kirkaldy (G. W.), the Stridulating Organs of Water- Bugs, 20 



Kitchen (Dr. F. L.), the Jurassic Brachiopoda of Cutch, 134 



Kites in Meteorology raised by Tug Motion, A. L. Rotch, 453 ; 

 on the Exploration of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere 

 by means of Kites, A. Lawrence Rotch, 590 



Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S ), the Diagnosis of Plague, 91 



Kling (Andre), Oxidation of Propylglycol by Mycoderma Aceti, 

 344 



Knight (James), the Self-Educator in Chemistry, 467 



Knoevenagel (Dr. Emil), Praktikum des Anorganischen 

 Chemikers, 99 



Knowledge, the Extension of, Dr. D. J. Hill, 117 



Knowlton (F. IL), Status of the Mesozoic Floras of United 

 States, the Older Mesozoic, 633 



Kny (Prof.), on Correlation in the Growth of Roots and Shoots, 

 618 



Koch (Prof. Robert), the Suppression of Tuberculosis, 312 



Kodis (Dr. Theodore), New Method of Staining Brain Tissue, 

 72 



Koenig (Rudolph), Death of, 579; Obituary Notice of, 630 



Kohlstock (Dr.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 40 



Korda (D.), New Method of Crystallising Ferro-Silicium, 

 Manganese and Chromium, 165 



Kosciusko, New South Wales, Geological Notes on. Prof. 

 J. W. E. David, F.R.S., R. Helms and E. F. Pittman, 143 ; 

 New Rock from Kosciusko, F. B. Guthrie, Prof. David, 

 F.R.S., and W. G. Woolnough, 416 



Kowalski (J. de). Refraction Indices of Liquid Mixtures, 272 



Kress Flying Machine, the, 190 



Kroeber (A. L.), the Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho 

 Indians, 582 



Krystallisation von Eiweissstoffen und ihre Bedeutung flir die 

 Eiweisschemie, die. Dr. F. N. Schulz, 375 



Laar (J. J. van), Lehrbuch der Mathematischen Chemie, 375 

 Laboratories: the Leipzig Chemical Laboratory, 127; the 

 Aims of the National Physical Laboratory, Discourse deli- 

 vered at the Royal Institution by Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 



F.R.S. 290 ; the Laboratory of Wilhelm Ostwald, 42S ; the 



Report of the Thompson-Yates Laboratories, 604 ; a Manual 



of Laboratory Physics, H. M. Tory and F. H. Pitcher, 350 

 Lacaze-Duthiers (Baron de), Deach and Obituary Notice of, 3S0 

 Lakes of the British Islands, on the Scientific Studies of the. 



Dr. Mill, 590 ; Sir John Murray, 590 

 Lamarckism : Foreign Oysters acquiring Characters of Natives, 



J. M. Tabor, 126 ; F. W. Headley, 158; Hair on the Digits 



of Man, Dr. Walter Kidd, 351 

 Lamp (Prof. Johannes), Death and Obituary Notice of, 237 

 Lamp, the Cooper-Hewitt Mercury Vapour, 581 

 Lamp, Nernst, in America, A. J. Wurts' Paper read at 



American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 632 

 Landslip in Danby Dale, 41 

 Landslip at Barbados, 635 

 Lane Lectures at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, 



History of Physiology during Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and 



Eighteenth Centuries, Sir M. Foster, K.C.B., Sec.R.S., 417 

 Lang (William H. ), Prothalli of Ophioglossum Pendulum, Hel- 



minthostachys Zeylanica and Psilotum, 365 ; Contributions to 



our Knowledge of the Gametophyte in the Ophioglossales 



and Lycopodiales, 616 

 Langdon (W.), on the Supersession of the Steam by the Electric 



Locomotive, 437 

 Langley (Prof. S. P.), the Smithsonian Solar Eclipse Expedi- 

 tion, 53; Astrophysical Researches at Smithsonian Institution, 



269 ; Colour-standards, 269 ; Measurements of Solar 



Radiation, Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory at the 



Smithsonian Institution, 352 ; the Fire Walk Ceremony in 



Tahiti, 397 

 Language and Origin of the Basques, the, 90 

 Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), a Treatise on Zoology, 26 ; 



the Okapi, 1S8, 247 

 Lannelongue (M.), Influence of Feeding, Work and Dust on 



Tuberculosis, 71 ; Influence of Variations of Temperature on 



Tuberculosis, 644 

 Lapicque (L. ), Reaction-time in Different Races, 224 

 Larmor (Alexander), Geometrical Exercises from Nixon's 



Euclid, Revised, with Solutions, 497 

 LarvK, Horn-feeding, Captain W. J. Hume McCorquodale, 



446 

 Lasch (Dr. R. ), the Pontianak of the Malay, 555 

 Lassar-Cohn (Dr.), an Introduction to Modern Scientific 



Chemistry, 5 

 Last Essays, Rt. Hon. Prof. F. Max Midler, 251 

 Latitude, Formula for Variation of, 42 

 Lauder (A.), the Absorption Spectra of Cyanogen Compounds, 



175 

 Laussedat (Colonel A.), Recherches sur les Instruments, les 



Methodes et le dessin Topographiques, 622 

 Lawrence (Dr. W. T.), Handbook on Petroleum, Captain J. T. 



Thomson and Boverton Redwood, 441 ; on Duty-free 



Alcohol, 611 

 Layard (Miss Nina), on a Skull Found in Peat in the Bed of the 



River Orwell, 614; on a Flint Pateolith with alleged 



" Thong-marks," 615 

 Le Conte (Dr. Joseph), Death and Obituary Notice of, 261 

 Lead Silicates in relation to Pottery Manufacture, Dr. T. E. 



Thorpe, F.R.S., 94 

 Lead Compounds in Pottery, the Use of. Prof. T. E. Thorpe, 



F.R.S., 408 

 Lead Fritts, Influence of Grinding on Solubility in. Dr. T. t. 



Thorpe, F.R.S., and Charles Simmonds, 175 

 Lean (G.), on Aluminium-tin Alloys, 612 



Lecithoblast und Angioblast der Wirbellhiere, Wilhelm His, 75 

 Lecomte (Prof. H.), LeCoton, 124 



Lees (Dr. C. H. ), JIathematics and Physics at the British Asso- 

 ciation, 586 

 Lefevre (J.), Thermal Conductivity of Living Human Skin, 263 

 Leighton (Gerald R.), the Life-history of British Serpents and 



Local Distribution in the British Isles, 624 

 Leipzig Chemical Laboratory, the, 127 



Lemaire (Capt. ), on the Belgian Expedition to Ka-Tanga, 590 

 Lengenbach Binnenthal, Notes on Minerals from the, R. H. 



silly. 577 „ . 



Length, Measures of. Best Alloy for. Dr. Benoit, 112 

 Leon (G.), an Electrical Grisoumeter, 200 

 Lepidoptera : Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palrearctischen 



Faunengebietes, 348 ; Lepidoptera of the British Islands 



Charles G. Barrett, 444 



