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INDEX 



{Nature, Dec. 27, 1SS3 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 213, 534 



Journal of the Russian Chemical and l'hysical Society, 21, 93, 



134, 213, 430, 455 

 July Meteoric Epoch, Shooting Stars of the, W. F. Dennirg, 



35' 

 Junker (Dr. W.), Explorations of A-Madi Country, 209, 404 

 Jupiter : Great Red Spot upon Disk of, 403 ; A. Ricci), 487 ; 



\V. F. Denning, 622 ; Apparent Disappearance of Jupiter's 



Satelli es, W. F. Denning, 563, 588 



" Kallos, a Treatise on the Scientific Culture of Personal Beauty 

 and the Cure of Ugliness,'' 171 



Kalmuck Tribe at Jardin d'Acclimatation, 426 



Kant's Prolegomena and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural 

 Science, R. B. ILddane, 561 



Kautokeino, Dr. Tromholt's Auroral Observatory at, 397 



Karelin (G. S.), Voyage on Caspian Sea, 611 



Kazan University, Proceedings of the Medical Society of, 65 ; 

 Science at, 212 



Keane (Prof. A. H.) : Proposed Work on the Classification of 

 the Races of Mankind, 42 ; American Ethnology, 174 ; " The 

 Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern Persia," C. J. Wills, 

 266 ; Fuegian Ethnology, 344 



Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean, the Fauna and Flora of, H. O. 

 Forbes, 78 



Keeping (Walter), NeocDmian Fossil-, 433 



Kent's Cavern, 524 



Kepler's Nova of 1604, 158 



Kerr (Dr.), Chinese Medical Compendium, 179 



Kharkoff and Ekaterinoslav, Geology of, A. W. Gurjff, 157 



Kiell on Tycho Brahe's Nova 1572, 65 



Kiuchinjunga, Proposed Ascent of, 16 



King (Dr.), Report on Bengal Government Cinchona Planta- 

 tions, 624 



Kinship, Arithmetic Notation of, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 435 ; 

 Alex. MacFarlane, 588 



Kireef (Dr.), Animals cannot be Bled by Cutting one Carotid, 



Kilto (Edward), Meteorological Council and Falmouth Obser- 

 vatory, 31s 



Klein (E , F.R.S.), Elements of Histology, 412 



Klein (M.), on the Law of Isomorphism, 18 



Kobelt (Dr. W.), " Iconographie der schalentragenden euro- 

 j aischen Meeres-conchylien," Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.K.S., 

 224 



Kohnleiu's New Method of Preparing Paraffins, 18 



Koto (B.), Agriculture in Japan, 231, 445 



Krakatoa, Volcanic Eruptions at, 134, 329, 425 



Krause (Heir A.), South-Eastern Alaska, 359 



Kronecker (Prof.), Influence of Temperature on the Conducti- 

 bility of Nerves, 215 



Kuczumare (Austria), Earth Disturbance at, 209 



Kum-bum, the Sacred Tree of, E. L. Layard, 79 



Kyzyl-Kum Steppe, Formation of Dunes in, Borschoff, 158 



Laboratory, New Biologicrl, Johns Hopkins University, 425 



Lachine Aerolite, E. W. Claypole, 319 



Lady Graduate at Upsala University, 624 



Lake-Dwellings at Ulrome, Yorkshire, 623 



Lamp, Regnard's Incandescent, Arthur E. Shipley, 366 



Lane (Denny), Clerk-Maxwell's "Devil on Two Sticks," 104 



Lane-Fox on Storage Batteries, 307 



Langdon (R.), Intelligence in Animals — Can a Viper Commit 

 Suicide? 319 



I.angegg (Herr van), " Nara ; eine alte Kaiserstadt," 182 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.) : Deductive Biology, 171 ; 

 Opening Address in Section D (Biology) at the Meeting of 

 the British Association at Southport, 517; on a Young Speci- 

 men of the Gray Seal (//. gryphus) from Boscastle, Cornwall, 

 580 



"Lantern Readings," Lant Carpenter, 180 



Last (J. T. ), the Masai Country, 447 



Lava, Floating, 532 



Lawes (Sir J. B., Bart., I.L.D., F.R.S.), Composition of Ash 

 of Animals used as Human Food, 335 



Laurence (G. F.), Palreolithic Implements at Stratford, 367; 

 a Paleolithic Flake, 564 



Lawton (William), Zodiacal Light (?), 6 



Layard (E. I..), the Sacred Tree of Kum-bum, 79; Curious 



Habit of a Brazilian Moth, 589 

 Leaves, the Shape of, E. M. Holme 

 Leaves and their Environment, J. Brown, 55 

 LeConte (Prof. John), Hydrogen Whistles, 54 

 LeConte (Prof. Joseph), Carson Footprints, 101 

 Lectures to Working Men, 33 

 Leibnitz, Statue of, 43 



Leland (C. G.), Industrial Art in Schools, 207 

 Lelande and Chaperon, New Bat ery, 354 

 Lemstrrim (Prof. Selim), the Aurora BorealL, 61, 107, 128 

 Lena, the Arctic Meteorological Station on the, 59. 510 

 Lenz (Prof.) : Proposed Observations on Terrestrial Currents, 



156; Periodicity of Aurora Boreali-, 545 

 Lepidoptera, the Mealy Odorous Spot in, Dr. II. A. Ilagen, 



244 

 Lessar (M.), Excursions in Central Asia, 15S, 547 

 Ley (Rev. W. Clement) : Sheet Lightning, 4, 54 ; Cirnform 



Clouds, 34; SqualL, 132; Remarkable Form of Cloud, 343 

 L'Hoste's Balloon Ascent, 471 



Leibscher (Dr.), on B. Koto's "Agriculture in Japan," 445 

 Licherdopol (J. P.), Geology of Cephalonia, 1 73 

 Lick Observatory, 279 

 Light, Pillar of, R. S. Newall, F.R.S. , 54 

 Light, New Mock- of Measuring, W. Preece, F.R.S., 206 

 Light, Action of, on Incliarubber, Prof. Herbert McLeod, 226 

 Lightning, Sheet, So ; Kev. W. clement Ley, 4,54; Antoina 



d'Abbadie, 29 ; Prof. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 54 ; Fred. Pratt, 



104; N. W. Tayl >r, 126 ; W. G. Stillinao, 271 

 Lightning Phenomenon, Lieut. -Col. W. H. Godwin-Austen, 



173 

 Lightning : Effects of, Lieut. -Col. A. Farnell, 197 ; Indiana 



University set on fire by, 352 

 Lime and Bones, 414 

 I.inant Pasha, Death of, 353 

 Lindstrom (Prof. G.), on Uperculate Corals, 35 

 Linnean Society, 22, 142, 191, 238 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, 383, 536 

 Liquefaction of Oxygen and Nitrogen, Wroblewski and 



Ol-zewski, 533 

 Liquids, the Freezing-Point of, 18 

 Liquid, Solid and, Illuminating Agents, 282 

 Liquid Films and Molecular Magnitudes, Profs. A. W. Reinold 



and A. W. Riicker, 389 

 Lisbon, Earthquake at, 623 

 Literary Piracy in Japan, 43 

 Littleton (W.), Aldabra Island Tortoises, 398 

 Livcing and Dewar (Profs.): on the Reversal of Hydrogen 



Lines, and on the Outburst of Hydrogen Lines when Water 



is dropped into the Arc, 21 ; on Sunspots and the Chemical 



Elements in the Sun, 550 

 Lizard, the Poisonous, 83 



Local Scientific Societies, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 135 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.) : American Observations of the 



Eclipse, 230 ; the Move nents of the Earth, 598 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), on Teslacella hallotoidea, 581 

 Locusts in Russia, 258 



Lodge (Prof. Oliver J.), Lord Rayleigli's Dark Plane, 297 

 Loijan (Sir W. E.), Life of, by B. J. Harrington, Dr. A. 



Geikie, F.R.S., 585 

 Logarithms, Hutton's Table of, Error in, Maxwell Hall, 225 

 "Logarithms, Accented Five-Figure," L. D'A. Jackson, 460 

 Lubbock, Sir John, Weakness of Educational System, 328 

 Luminosity of Gases, Siemens and Wiedeman, 181 

 Lunar Phenomenon at Weston-super-Mare, C. Pooley, 54 



MacCormac (Dr. Henry) : Antihelios, 299 ; Animal Intelligence, 



Macdougall (Alan), Aurora; and Ihunderstorms, 436 



Macfarlane (Alex.), Arithmetical Notation of, 5SS 



Mackie (William), "Subsidence and Elevation," 4SS 



Maclagan (Nellie), Intelligence in Animals, 150 



Maclear (Mrs. J.), Waking Impressions, 270 



McLeod (Prof. Herbert), Action of Light en Indiarubber, 226 



MacMunn (Dr. C. A.),on the Colouring-Matters of the Bile of 



Veitebrates and Invertebrates, 46; on the Occurrence of 



Chlorophyll in Animals, 581 

 McNeill (Malcolm), Extinction of Flatfish, 226 



