[Natuie, June n, 1885 



Konig (Dr.), Measurements of Colour, Sense, and Visual 



Acuteness of Zulus, 476 

 Konig (Dr.), and Dr. Richarz's Experiments on the Constants of 



Gravitation, 475 

 Konig and Richarz (Drs.), Plan for Ascertaining Mean Density 



of the Earth, 260, 484 

 Konigsberg International Industrial and Polytechnic Exhibition, 



279 

 Korsel (Dr.), Adenine, 380 

 Krakatoa Eruption, the, 279; S. E. Bishop, 288; Henry Cecil, 



506 ; Pumice from, found in Madagascar, 610 

 Krao Canal Commission, 323 



Kremser (Dr.), Meteorological Observations on Schneekoppe, 

 r 54S 

 Krukenberg's Chromatological Speculations, C. A. MacMunn, 



217 



Laboratories, Bangor, 391 



Laboratories, Scientific, Sir William Thomson, F. R.S., 409 



Lacouperie (Prof, de), Chinese Ethnology, 63 



Lake Region Reported to Exist in the North-Eastern Part of the 

 Provinces of Quebec and in Labrador, Expeditions Dis- 

 patched to Explore the, 350 



Lake-Mud (Australian), Prof. Sars' Experiments with, 64 



Lamb's Prize for Sanitary Essays, 321 



Lampe (Prof), Exercises in Calculating Attraction, 211 ; Notes 

 on Calculations respecting Solids of Attraction, 260 



Lamplugh (G. W.), Sky-Glows, 28 



Landolt (Prof.), Contrivance for Recovering the Products of 

 Sublimation, 211 



La Nuova Scienza, Prof. Caporali's, 394 



Lang (Dr. Henry), "Butterflies of Europe," R. McLachlan, 

 F.R.S., 122 



Langley (J. N., F.R.S.), the Paralytic Secretion of Saliva, 

 570 



Langley (S. P.), Atmospheric Absorption, 46 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), Dr. Koch and the Comma- 

 Bacterium, 168 ; Dr. Benjamin Lowne on the Morphology of 

 Insect's Eyes, 504, 578 



Lantern Screen, Rev. Chas. J. Taylor, 388 



Lapland, Swedish Exploration of, Dr. F. Swenonius, 613 



Lartigue (M.), Death of, 60 



Latitude, Proposed Observations for, at U. S. Naval Obser- 

 vatory, 300 



Latzel (Dr. R. ), Myriopods of Austria, 526 



Lauth (M.), Discovery of a New Porcelain, 227 



Lavis (Dr. H. J. Johnston-), a Plea for the Experimental Inves- 

 tigation of some Geological Problems, 338 



Lavisato (Dr.), on Tierra del Fuego, 252 



Layard (E. L. ), Bird's Nest Soup, 82 



Leaves, Forms of, Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., 398,479; 

 Rev. Geo. Henslow, 434 ; R. A. Rolfe, 600 



Lectures, Free, William A. Tilden, 409 



Leeming (Surgeon Thomas), Sky-Glows, 5 



Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 156; Inaugural 

 Address, 514 



Le Mouvement Geographique, 397 



Lemstrom (Selim), Results of the Scientific Expedition to 

 Sodankyla, 372 



Lena Meteorological Station, 16 



Lena Delta, in the, &c, G. Melville Phillips, 287 



Lendenfeld (R. von), Survey of the Australian Alps, 469 



Lenz (D. Oscar) •' Timbuktu," Prof. A. H. Keane, 550 



Leslie (Robert), Rosy Glow about the Moon, 102 



Lewis (Fred.), Earthworms, 127 



Lewis (T. C), Heroes of Science, 50 



Lewis on Supposed Glacial Action in Pennsylvania, 41 



Lexden Earthquake, 279 ; R. Meldola, 289 



Leyden Anthropological Notices, 396 



Libraries, Report ot Manchester Free, 135 



Lichens, on the Nature of, Marcus M. Hartog, 376 



Lick Observatory, California, 18, 180 



Light, Wave Theory of, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 91, 

 115; On the Double Refraction of, in Liquids, Dr. E. von 

 Fleischl, 204 ; Action of very Minute Particles on, J. Spear 

 Parker, 481 ; Proposed Experiments for Redetermining the 

 Velocity of, at the Paris Observatory, 441 ; New Arrangement 

 of the Apparatus of the Rotating Mirror for Measuring the 

 Velocity of, M. C. Wolf, 517 



Lighthouses and Ships, Electric Light for, A. Ainslie Common, 



125 

 Lightning, Injuries caused by, in Venezuela, A. Ernst, 458 ; 



Magnetisation by Lightning, 211 ; Injuries caused by Lightn- 

 ing in Africa, Dr. Von Danckelman, 127 ; Lightning in the 



Tropics, J. J. Meyrick, 194 ; Lightning-Conductors, Col. 



Arthur Parnell on, 80 

 Limpet, Habits of the, J. R. Davis, 200 

 Lindesberg, Mirage at, 42 

 Lindstrom's Fossil Scorpion, 135 

 Line Divider, 275 



Linnasan Society, 70, 118, 209, 235, 321, 355, 436, 523 

 Linnseus, Statue of, at Stockholm, 610 

 Liquids, Phenomena of Mixture of, Prof. Guthrie, 47 

 Liquids, Non-Explosive, Accidental Explosions Produced by, 



Sir Frederick Abel, F.R.S., 469, 493, 518 

 Li Shan-Lan, Death of, 227 

 Live Stock, Early Maturity of, 582 

 Liverpool Astronomical Society, 321 

 Liverpool Corporation Free Lectures, 367 

 Liversidge (Prof), Proposed Australasian Association, 40 

 Lobster Fishery in America, the, 467 

 Lodge (Prof. Oliver J.), Dust, 265 

 Loliqopsis Ellipsoptera, W111. E. Hoyle, 339 

 Lome (Dupuy de), Death of, 320 

 London School Board, Report of the Committee on Technical 



Education, 205 

 London Society for Extension of University Teaching, 226 

 London, Proposed Teaching University for, 145, 159, 352, 394 

 Lortigue (Henri), Death of, 156 

 Lovell (J.), Quinquefoliate Strawberry, 601 

 Lovell (M. S. ), Edible Mollusca of Great Britain and Ireland, 



124 

 Lowe (E. J.), Large Meteor, 150 

 Lowne (Dr. Benjamin T.), on the Morphology of Insects' Eyes, 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 504, 528, 578; Dr. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 528 

 Lubbock (Sir John), Marriage among Australian Aborigines, 



186 ; Forms of Leaves, 39S, 479 

 Ludwig (Prof. Carl) Awarded Copley Medal of Royal Soci;ty, 



62 

 Lunar Eclipse, Recent, Wentworth Erck, 28 

 I.upton (Sydney), the Coal Question, 242; Civilisation aid 



Eyesight, 458 

 Lushington (Dr.), Scientific Work at a University, 512 

 Luxor and Egypt, Climate of, 157 

 Luzon, Negrito Tribes in, F. Blumentritt, 18 

 Lycopodiaceaa, the Life History of the, W. T. Thisclton Dyer, 



F.R.S., 3 t7 

 Lydekker (R.), Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the 



British Museum, 597 

 Lymnocodium Sowcrbii, Hydrifonn Phase of, Alfred Gibbs 



Bowme, 107 

 Lynn (W. T.), First Principles of Natural Philsophy, 77 

 Lyra;, 0-, on the Periodicity of Changes in the Spectrum of, Von 



Gothard, 467 



McClellan (Rev. J. B.), on the Higher Teaching of Agriculture, 



167 

 Macfarlane (J. M. ), on the Distribution of Honey-glands in 



Pitchered Insectivorous Plants, 171 

 McGee (W. J.), Peculiar Ice Forms, 480 

 McGill College, Montreal, 586 

 Mad jowan's (Dr.) Account of the Chinese Cholera Epidemic 



of 1883, 41 ; on the Chinese as the Originators of Gunpowder 



and Firearms, 156 

 Mcintosh (Prof., F.R.S.), Eggs of Fishes, 534, 555 

 McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), " Butterflies of Europe," Henry Lang, 



M.D., 122 ; Fly-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars, 54 

 Maclay (Dr. N. de Miklouho-), Temperature of the Body of 



Monotremata, 600 

 McLeod (Prof. Herbert), a Sunshine Recorder, 319 

 MacMunn (C. A.), Krukenberg's Chromatological Speculations, 



217 

 Macpherson (Joseph), the Earthquakes in Andalusia, 277 

 Macropus Venustes, 109 

 McWilliam (Dr.), the Eel's Heart, 329 

 " Madagascar and France," Geo. A. Shaw, 406 ; Antanana 



rivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, Prof. M. Foster, 479 ; 



Pumice from Krakatoa Found in, 611 



