{Nature, Da. 1 8, 18S4 



Life-Histories and Origin of the Least and Lowest Living 



Things, Researches on, Rev. W. Dallinger, F.R. S., 619, 645 

 Light at Great Depths in Sea, A. E. Verrill, 280 

 Light, by Prof. Tait, R. T. Glazebrook, 261 

 Light Phenomenon, Major R. D. Gibney, 194 

 Light, Wave-Theory of, 545 



Lighthouse Illuminants, Trinity House Experiments on, 362 

 Lighthouses, Electric Light for, J. Munro, 406 

 Lighting, Artificial, R. F. B. Crompton, 281 

 Lightning, Forked, Rev. Dr. C. Michie Smith, 463 

 Lightning, Worthington G. Smith. 241 

 Lignites, Canadian Coals and, 154 

 Linnean Society, 70, 1S6 



Linnean Society of New South Wales, 95, 259, 307 

 Linschoten, Corruption of Schichi-to, 643 

 Lipmann's Capillary Electrometer, 568 

 Liquidambar, the Wood used in Chinese Tea-Chests, Fauvel, 



299 

 Liquids, Capillary Constants of, at their Boiling-Points, 618 

 Living Things, Researches on the Origin and Life-Histories of 



the Least and Lowest, Rev. W. Dallinger, F.R.S., 619, 645 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Movements of the Earth, no, 



254, 480 

 Locomotives, Consumption of Fuel in, M. Georges Marie, 41 

 Lodge (Prof. O. J.), Dust-Free Spaces, 54; Experiment in 



Thought-Transference, 145 

 Lcewy's New Telescope System, A. Ainslie Common, 434; 



Reply to Grubb on Equatorial Condi of Paris Observatory. 



4- 53 

 London Institute, City and Guilds of, 377 

 London Water- Supply, G. Phillips Bevan, 165 

 Lonergan (E. A.), Animal Intelligence, 77 

 Longridge (J. A.), Wire in the Construction of Ordnance, 285 

 Loochoo Islands, their Geography, Miiller-Beeck, 643 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), the Recent Eclipse of the Moon, 589 

 Lower Congo, Meteorology of the, 5S9 



Lubbock (Sir J., F.R.S.), British Mites, A. D. Michael, 141 

 Luminous Phenomena at Morges, in Valley of Saas-Fee, at 



Sand-Alp, and at Madrid, 394 

 Lunar Eclipses: on October 4, 519, 548; Recent, II. Dennis 



Taylor, 632 

 Lunar Halos, Iridescent, T. II. rotts, 464 

 Lupton's Numerical Tables, 222 

 Luzon, History of, 643 

 Lynn (W. T.), " Celestial Motion," Handy Book of Astronomy, 



606 



McAdie (Alexander), Atmospheric Dust, 194 



MacCormac (Dr. II.), Animal Intelligence, 240 



McCormick (R.), Voyages of Discovery in Arctic and Antarctic 



Seas, 239 

 MacGregor(Prof. J. G.), on the Density and Thermal Expansion 



of Aqueous Solutions of Copper Sulphate, 227 

 Mcintosh's (Prof.), Inquiries into the Artificial Culture of Flat- 

 Fish, 82 

 McLachlan (R,, F.R.S.), Earthquake, 170; Trichoptera of the 



European Fauna, 434 

 MacMunn (C. A.), Dr. Hansen on Chlorophyll. 224 

 Machinery, Dynamo-Electric, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 630 

 Mackay (J. S.), " Euclid," 311 ; Simson's Line, 635 

 Mackerel, Prof. Huxley on Parasites in, 199 

 Madagascar, Geology and Mineralogy of, Dr. G. W. Parke-, 



307 

 Magellan. Notes on a Few of the Glaciers in the Main Strait 



of, Capt. J. L. Wharton, 177 

 Magnetic Heat, Bacbmetiefr", 223 

 Magnetic Observatory at Rome, Proposed, 199 

 Magnetic Rotatory Polarisation of Chemical Compounds, Per- 



kin's Researches on, 616 

 Magnetic Shells, Experiments on, M. Duter, 568 

 Main (Dr. J. F.), " Applied Mechanics," James H. Cotterill, 



F.R.S., 382 

 Malacca, Natural History Collections of, 615 

 Malayan Geol gy, Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, 76 

 Malayan Ornithology, 346 

 Malayan Peninsula, the Mountain System of the, Rev. J, E. 



Tenison-Woods, 264 



Maldives, Ibn Batuta's Travels to the, 132 



Malmgren (Prof. And. Joh.), Migrations of Salmo sa'ar, L., in 

 the Baltic, 521 



Malta and Sicily, Remarkable Sunsets in, 20 



Mammalia of India and Ceylon, the, R. A. Sterndale, 98 



Mammals, Brazilian, Natterer's, 74 



Manby (Charles, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice, 343 



Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 72 



Manufactures, Science and, I 



Marie (M. Georges), Consumption of Fuel in Locomotives, 41 



Marine Biological Association of United Kingdom, 40, 82, 275, 

 323, 350 ; Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 76, 123 



Marine Station, Scottish, 566 



Marine Zoological Survey, a Plea for a National, 25 



Mars, the Rotation Teriod of, W. F. Denning, 55 



Marshall (W. P.), Circular Rainbow, 584 



Martin (H. Newell) and W. A. Moale, Handbook of Ver'e- 

 brate Dissection, 143 



Massowah, Earthquake at, 324 



Mathematical Society, 71, 186, 355, 640 



Maw (Geo.), the Flow of Streams, 486 



Measuring Earthquakes, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 149, 174 



Measuring Heat, Prof. J. Joly, 361 



Mechanical Engineers, Meeting of, 614 



"Mechanics, Applied," James H. Cotterill, F.R.S., Dr. J. F. 

 Main, 382 



Mechanics, Teaching of, 567 



Medical Congress, International, at Copenhagen, 372, 394 



Medicine in Japan, 345 ; in British Burmah, 545 



Meldola (R. ), the Earthquake, 145 ; Phosphorescence of the 

 Jelly-fish, 289 



Memoirs, Scientific, Diffusion of, Prof. John Milne, 267 



Mendeleeff (Prof.), Increase of Densities of Solutions of Salts 

 in Proportion to Increase of their Molecular Weight?, 84; 

 Researches into Specific Weights, 374 



Mercury in Chinese Alchemy, 299 



Merjelen Lake, Proposed Drainage of, 430 



Merriman (Mansfield), Text-Book on the Method of I/east 

 Squares, 336 



Merriman (Owen), "Gas-Burners," 270; Gas-Burners, Old and 

 New, 335 



Merv and Russo-Persian Frontier, 430 



Messerschmidt, Exploring Expeditions of, 153 



Metals, Refraction- Equivalents of, Kannonikow's Experiments 

 in Measuring the, 84 



Metals, on a Relation between the Co-efficient of the Thomson 

 Effect and certain other Physical Properties of, Shelford 

 Bidwell, 94 



Meteorology : the Low Barometer of January 26, 1884, 58 ; 

 Meteorological Observatories in the China Seas, 108 ; Me- 

 teorological Observatory at Boma, 223 ; Meteorological ( Ob- 

 servatory at Falmouth, Laying Foundation-Stone of, 429 ; 

 Meteorology of Ben Nevis, Alexander Buchan, 336 ; Me- 

 teorology in Victoria, 126; Meteorological System of Japan, 

 299; Scottish Meteorological Society, 326; the Meteorological 

 Conference, 351 ; Meteorological Office, 545, 567 ; o( Japan, 

 478; in Hong Kong, &c, 567 ; in Hudson's Bay, 641 ; in 

 Japan, 642; of the Lower Congo, 589; Committee of 

 Meteorology, Magnetism, &c, at St. Petersburg, 430; Polar 

 Station of, 430 



Meteors : Rev. J. Hoskyns-Abrahall, 102, 385 ; at Stockholm, 

 300; E. L. Layard, 538 ; November, 615 ; in Norway, 200 ; 

 Meteor-, Moon-, and Sun-shine, Prof. C. I'iazzi-Smyth, 462 



Meter-Bridge, Kohl rausch's, Dr. W. II. Stone, 145 



Metrical System, Extent to which it is used and to which it is 

 optional, 153 



Metrics: the Yard, the Metre, and the Old French Foot, Lieut. - 

 Col. Herschel, 312 



Meyer's Bird-Skeletons, 78 



Michael (A. D.), "The British Oribatidse," Sir J. Lubbock, 

 F.R.S., 141 



Michela, in Italy, Author of New Development of Telegraphy, 



546 



Microbes, Dr. Klein and, 566 



Microscopical Examination of Volcanic Ash from Krakatoa, 



Notes on, J. Joly, 23 

 Microseismology, 614 



Midday, Extraordinary Darkness at, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 6 

 Migration of Salmon, 361 



