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INDEX \ 



Kronecker (Prof. ). on Serous Albumen, 504 



Krueger(Dr. A.), Comet Finlay (1886 e), 85, 134 



Kriimmel (Dr. Otto), Der Ozean, 6 ; Relief of the Australian 



Mediterranean, 447 

 Kurrachee Technical College, the, 84 



La Perouse Expedition round the World, Centenary of the, 



443 

 Laboratories, Engineering, on the Use and Equipment of, Prof. 



Alex. B. Kennedy, 235 

 Laboratories, New Building for the, of the Paris Medical 



School, 473 

 Lacaze-Duthiers (Prof, de), Presentation from his Pupils, 473 

 Lake, Soundings at Cr.iter, 353 

 Lake Nganii Region, Dr. Hans Schinz on, 547 

 Lake Kelbia District, Geology of, 455 

 Lake-Dwelling recently discovered at VVallishafen on the Lake 



of Zurich, 423. 

 Lakes, North Germnn, Dr. Otto Zacharias's Investigation of, 



473 



Lamarck's Herbarium, Removal of, 312 



Lamb (Horace, F. R. S.) : Origins of Geometry, 269 ; Ellipsoidal 

 Current Sheets, 574 



Laniellary Thomsonite from Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Descrip- 

 tion of a, 335 



Lamp, Herr Linnemann's New, 432 



Landerkunde des Erdteils Europa, 473 



Langley (Prof. S. P.), Extension of the Corona, 52 



Langner (Herr Hugo), Ueber eine Methode zur Messung 

 kleiner Winkeldifferenzen, 329 



Languages, on the Origin of, Horatio Hale, 1 7 



Lapouge (M. de), on the Decline of the Birth-rate in France, 

 357 



Larva, a Balanoglossus, from the Bahamas, W. F. R. Weldon, 

 477 



Latent Heats of Vaporisation of some very Volatile Substances, 



551 



" Latex," on the Term, in Botany, M. A. Trecul, 600 



Laurie (A. P.), Electric Charge on the Atom, 131 



Lavas, Acid, Nature and Origin of Lithophysee and the Lamina- 

 tion of, J. P. Iddings, 380 



Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas, Dr. W. Doberck, 135 



Le Conte (Prof. Joh'i), Lightning Flashes, 342 



Lead, Note on the Manipulation of Glass containing, M. G. 

 Madan, 150; \V. A. Shenstone, 223 



Leaf-beds, Ardtun, J. Starkie Gardner, 382 



Leaves of Gymiuma syivestj-e, an Examination of the, David 

 Hooper, 565 



Lebanon, Geology of the. Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 10 



Lechartier (M. G. ), on the Composition of the Ashes of Cider, 

 3S2 



Leclanche Battery, Modifications of the, 331 



Lecture Experiment on the Expansion of Solids by Heat, H. 

 G. Madan, 89 



Lectures and Essays, W. K. Clifford, F.R.S., 270 



Legge (Prof. Di), Researches on the Sun's Diameter, 595 



Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, l8o 



Leicestershire, Flora of, including the Cryptogams, J. G. Baker, 

 411 



Lemons, Irregularly Developed, 430 



Lemstrbm (M. S.), L'Auro e Boreale, A. M. Gierke, 433 



Lenses: Magnifying, Flat on both Sides, 331 ; Value of the 

 New Apochromatic, 467 



Lenz (Dr. Oscar) : Exploration of the Upper Congo, 232 ; his 

 Arrival at Zanzibar, 283 ; his Map of the Congo, 354 ; Re- 

 turn of, from Zanzibar, 378 ; Letters from, 402, 520 



Lepidoptera, Best Method of capturing, Sydney T. Klein, 2S2 

 • Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Capt. H. J. Ehves, 503 



Lcpidoiiycn parado.xa. Prof. Heni7 H. Giglioli, 343 



Leprosy on the West Coast of Norway, 519 



Lesseps (M. de). Artesian Wells in Algeria, 287 



Lewis (A. L.), Stone Circles, 503 



Lewis (Prof. H. Carvill), Comparative Studies upon Glaciation 

 of North America, Great Britain, and Ireland, 89 



Ley (Rev. W. Clement) : the Recent Weather, 54 ; a Few of 

 our Weather Terms, 323 



Leyden Museum, 181 



Leyden Museum, Notes from the, 477 



Leyst (Herr), Remarkable Forms of Lightning- Flash, 85 

 Libraries of the United States, Statistics concerning, 519 

 Lice, Tree-, at Rodriguez, Ravages of, 179 

 Lieberkiihn (Dr. Nathaniel), Death of, 612 

 Liebreich (Prof.), Hydrate of Chloral, 264 

 Life, Herbert Spencer's Definition of, F. Howard Collins, 487 

 Life- Energy, or the Dynamics of Health and Disease, Surgeon- 

 Major Nathl. Alcock, 366 

 Light, Diffraction of, Hermann Struve, 423 

 Light, on the Absolute Wave-length of, Louis Bell, 524 

 Light, Peculiar Radiation of, Robert D. Gibney, 536 

 Light, Chemical Action of, on Mixed Hydrogen and Chlorine 



Gas, Dr. Pringsheim, 552 

 Light, Aberration of, Phenomena connected with, 575 

 Light, the Zirconia Oxyhydrogen, Lewis Wright, 583 

 Lighthouse Illuminants, A. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., 41, 60; 



T. and D. Stevenson, 63 

 Lightning, Effects of, in Schleswig-Holstein, 360 

 Lightning-Flash, Remarkable Form of, Herr Leyst, 85 

 Lightning-Flashes, Prof. John Le Conte, Antoine d'Abbadie, 



342 

 Lightning-Rods, Radius of the Circle of Protection of, Herr 



Schiller, 376 

 Lilley (H. T. ), Geometrical Drawing for Army Candidates, 28 

 Lime, Silicostannate of, Preparation of a, corresponding to 



Sphene, M. L. Bourgeois, 335 

 Linnteus, Through the Fields with, Mrs. Florence Caddy, 579 

 Linne.an Society, 70, 142, 166, 358, 381, 430, 478, 525, 623 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, 95 ; Annual General 



Meeting of, 519 

 Liquid Surfaces of Revolution, Critical Mean Curvature of. 



Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 143 

 Liquid and Gaseous States of Mattel', Preliminary Note on the 



Continuity of the, William Ramsay and Sydney Young, 262 

 Lisbon, Earthquake at, 612 

 I^iterature, Study of, John Morley, 422 

 LithophysEe, Nature and Origin of, and the Lamination of Acid 



Lavas, J. P. Iddings, 380 

 Liverpool Astronomical Society, 402 

 Liverpool Biological Society, 454 

 Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 546 

 Lives of the Electricians, W. T. Jeans, 270 

 Living : Phantasms of the, Edmund Gurney, Fred. W. H. 



Myers, and Frank Podmore, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 290, 



345 

 Lobley (Logan), Geology of Hampstead, 454 

 Local Scientific Societies, British Association and, 78 

 Localisation, Cerebral, Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R. S., 438, 464 

 Loch-buie Observatory, the, 58 

 Loch-buie Marine Institute, 205 

 Loch Creran, W. Alexander Sm'th, 484 

 Lochleven Trout, Dr. Day, 166 

 Lockhart(J. H. Stewart), Folk- Lore of China, 281 

 Lockwood (Samuel), Snowflakes, 414 



Lodge (Prof. Alf.), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 557 

 Lcewy (M.), New Method for the Determination of the Constant 



of Aberration, 263, 282, 407, 424, 431, 454, 479 

 Logarithms, Values of. Prof J. C. Adams, F.R.S. , 381 

 London Institution Lectuies, the, 84 

 London, University for, 505 



Long Lost Reefs, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 347 

 Longevity of Great Men, Joseph Jastrow, 10 

 Longitude of Rio, Prof C. A. Young, 172 

 Longitudes in Brazil, Admiral E. Mouchez, 100 

 Loo-Choo Islands, Collection of Reptiles and Batrachians from, 



the, 431 

 Lord Howe's Island, Australia, Preliminary Note on the Fossil 



Remains of a Chelonian Reptile, Ceralochdys sthenurus, 



from. Prof. Thos. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 615 

 Louisville, University of, Semi-Centennial Anniversary of, 545 

 Lowe (E. J., F. K.S.): Recent Gales, 150; Snowstorm of 



January 7, 1887, 271 

 Lu River of Tibet, General J. T. Walker, F.R.S., on the, 615 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.): the Forms of Seedlings - the 



Causes to which they are due, 235 ; Lecture on Savages, 255 ; 



Phytobiological Observations, 430; Habits of Ants, 518 

 Lucas (Felix), Entropy, 455 

 Lucasite, a New Variety of Vermicnlite, 141 

 Lumbar Curve in Man and .\pes. Prof Cunningham, 46 



