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1 INDEX 
Kant’s View of Space, 289, 314, 334, 360, 389 
Kingdoms of Nature, The Three, 456 
Kingsley (Rev. Canon), World of the Sea, 78 
Kirkwood on the Origin of Comets, 115 
Koch (Prof.) on Transformations of Parts of Flowers, 293; on 
the Formaton of the Germen, 293 
Ladies, Lectures to, 45, 113, 170, 193, 212 
Lallemand’s (M.) Experiments on Transparent Solids, 29 
Langley’s Via Medica, 504 
Language, The Science of, by Professor Max Miiller, 256 
Lankester (E. Ray) on the Origin of Blood-letting, 76 ; on the 
Mammalia of Switzerland, 281 
Lawson (Prof.) on Chlorophyll, 172 
Leaves, Viridescence of, 343 
Lectures to Working Men, 71, 138 
Legislation and Nature, by E. Goadby, 648 
Lenormant (M.) on the Antiquity of the Ass and the Horse, 225 
Lesser’s Tables of Pomona, 18 
Le Sueur (Albert), Report of his Paper on the Melbourne Tele- 
scope, 443, 517 
Leuckart (Dr.), Literature of Natural History, 236 
Levi (Prof.) on a Scientific Census, 99 
Lewes (G. H.) on Kant’s View of Space, 289, 334, 386; Article 
on Popular Lectures on Physiology, 353 
Lichens, Notes on, 467 
Liebermann (Prof. C.) on Chrysene, 493 
Liebig on the Decomposition of Sugar, 411 
Lightning in a Clear Sky, Letters on, 139, 193 
Linnean Society, 345, 491, 567 
Lischke’s Japanese Shells, 32 
Listing’s Amplifier, Letter on, by Dr. Pigott, 430 
Littrow (Carl Von), his Address as Rector at the University of 
Vienna, 195 
Liverpool Naturalists’ Field Club, 393 ; New Observatory, 464 
Livingstone (Dr.), 194, 363 ; his Explorations, 72; Letter from 
Dr. Beke, 240; from Keith Johnston, jun., 336 
Lockyer (J. Norma») on the Recent Total Eclipse in America, 
14; on Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun, 195; the 
Recent Eclipse of the Sun in the United States, 366 
Login (‘T.) on the Suez Canal, 24, 290; on the Abrading and 
Transporting Power of Water, 629, 654 
Lombard Scientific Institute, 297 
Loschmidt’s (Prof.) Paper on the Diffusion of Gases, 641 
Lowne, The Blow Fly, 330 
Lubbock (Sir J.) on Madsen’s Danish Antiquities, 15 
Lupinus, Genus, Prof. Fenzl on, 293 
Macadam (Dr. Stevenson), Report of his Address at the Edin- 
burgh Ph ysical Society, 147 
Macalister (Prof.) and the Spontaneous Generation Theory, 114 ; 
on the Mode of Growth of Uniyalye Shells, 296; on the 
Curves in the Spine considered zsthetically, 346 
Mackintosh (D) on the Scenery of England and Wales, 361 
Maclure (Robert) on Solar Spots visible to the Naked Eye, 431 
Madan (H. G.) on the New Telescope at Eton, 263 
Madder, Colouring Matter from, 494 ; History of, 545 - 
Madreporaria dredged up in the Porcupine, by Professor Dun- 
can, 612; of the Deep Sea, 660 
Magnetic and Sun Spot Phenomena for 1870, 412, 579 
Magnetism Terrestrial, by Dr. B. Stewart, 264 
Magnus (Prof.) on Heat Spectra, 28 ; on Radiation of Heat, 177; 
Death of, by Prof. ‘Tyndall, F.R.S., 607 
Malaria, a Probable Cause of, 481 
Mammalia of Switzerland, by E. Ray Lankester, 281 
Mammals of Iowa, 418 
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 29, 93, 119, 
200, 273, 297, 347, 393, 468, 520, 544, 640 
Mango, Fruit of the, 60 
Marine Animals, Distribution of, 348 
Mars, Stereograms of, 114; the Poles of, 170 
Marsilea, Floating Leaves of, 516 
Marsilea, Prof. Hildebrand, on, 293 
Martins (Prof.) on the Flora of Southern France, 293 
Maskelyne (Prof.) on Dana’s Mineralogy, 161, 186 
Masters (Dr.) on the Plants at Chiswick, 118; on Vegetable 
Teratology, 325 
Mathematician, a Plea for, by Prof. Sylvester, 237, 261 
Mathews (Wm., jun.,) on the Mechanical Properties of Ice and 
their Relation to Glacier Motion, 534 
Mechanical Properties of Ice and Glacier Motion, 534 
Medico-Botanical Map, 269 
Melbourne Telescope, the, 144, 443 
Meldrum (Mr.), Note on Meteors +t the Mauritius, 220 
Mental Progress of Animals, 169 
Metals, Hardness of, ascertainable, 563 
Meteor at Torquay, Mr. Pengelly’s Letters on, 58, 267 ; at 
Wellington, New Zealand, 470; of Nov. 6th, Sir W. Arm- 
strong’s Letter on, 112; at Mauritius, 220; Cause of the In- 
candescence of, 88; of Nov. 1869, M. Chapelas on, 120; 
(Philadelphian Society) 666 
Meteorites, Microscopic Investigation of, 383; Fall of, 5383 
Whence do they come? 239 
Meteorological Society, 467 
Meteorology, Physical, by Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 101 
Meunier (Dr.) on a Meteoric Stone, 641 
Mice’s Organic Chemistry, 380 
Microcephalous Subject, 319, 516 
Microscopical Society, 92, 198, 321. 445 
Microscopic Fauna of the English Fen District, by G.S. Brady, 
483 ; Objects, Illumination of, 321 
Midnight Sky, the, 215 
Milan, Royal Lombardian Institute, 248, 347 
Milde’s Bryologia Silesiaca, 108 
Milk, Changes in, 62 
Millingen (Major) on Circassian Slaves and Sultan’s Harem, 491 
Mills (Dr.) on Barff's Handbook of Chemistry, $0 
Milne-Edwards (M.) on the Antiquity of the Horse, 225 
Mineralogy, 246 
Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63 
Miners’ Association for Cornwall, 243 
Minister of Public Instruction, 423 
Mistletoe, 214 
Mollusca, Preservation of, 482 
Monck (W. Stanley) on Kant’s View of Space, 334, 386; on 
the Moon’s Diameter, 606 
Monro (C. J ) on the Correlation of Colour and Music, 362 
Montigny (M.), his Notes on the Coloration of the Edges of the 
Sun’s Disc, 226 
Montreal Natural History Society, 93, 248 
Moon, How Large, by R. A. Proctor, 462; Letters on, 507,556; 
Diameter of, 606 
Moore (Chas.) on Australian Mesozoic Geology and Palseon- 
tology, 99 
Morphia, Test for, 388 
Motion of a Free Rotatory Body, by Professor Sylvester, 482 
Miihry’s Terrestrial Physics, 330 
Murr (Thomas) on Heat Units, 606 
Miiller (Prof. Max) on the Science of Language, 256 ; Report 
of his Paper on the Writing of the Malayan People, 642 
Murchison (Sir R. I.), Report on the Geology of Ross-shire, 174 
Murphy (Joseph J.) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 651 ; 
on Habit and Intelligence, 105 
Muscarin, Action of, 144 
Muscle, Metamorphosis of, 62 
Muscles, Geometrical Characters of, 297 
Muscular Physics, a Point in, 159 
Mythology, Current British, 592 
Natal, Fossils of, 642 3 
Natural Philosophy, Properties of, by Prof. Tait, 184 
Natural Science at Cambridge, by Rev. T. G. Bonney, 451 
Nebule, if any, and Star Systems, by R. A. Proctor, F.R.A.S., 
331; Letters on, 359, 384 
Nerve Substance, Reaction of, 144 
Newall (Mr.), his Refractor, 316, 408; on Rainbow Colours, 335 
New Batrachians, 108 
Newcastle-on-Tyne Chemical Society, 176, 469 
Newman’s British Moths, by W. S. Dallas, 16 
Newmarch (W.), Inaugural Address of, at the Statistical So- 
ciety, 119 
Newton (Prof. A.) on Cuckows’ Eggs, 74, 265 ' 
Newton (Prof., of Yale College) on the November Star Shower, 
170, 562 
New Zealand, Public Works of, 199 ; Wellington Philosophical 
Society, 470 
Nile Problem, Mr. Stuart’s Letters on, 406 ; Sources of the Nile, 
by K. Johnston, jun., 607 
Novels Crp of, and Associated Beds, by Joseph Prestwich, 
PRS. 307, 
Norwich Geological Society, 176 ; Naturalists’ Society, 249, 416 
