Xll 



[Natiiie, Dec-. 2, iSSo 



Leyden Jars, Voltameters, &c.. Reduction of Observations on 



Libyan Desert, Geology of, 5S7 



Lick Observatoi-y, tlie I'roposcd, 515 



Light and Electricity, a New Relation between, 207 



Light, on a Mode of Explaining Transverse Vibrations of, J. W. 



Franldand, 317 

 Light, Transverjc Vibrations of, 363 

 "Light and Heat." Capt. W. yedgwick, 483 

 Light, Polarisation of, Experiment in, 595 

 Lighthouses, Migratory Birds at, 25 

 Lighthouses and the Migration of Birds, 477 

 Lighting our Coasts, present System of, 229 

 Lightning, the way Trees are struck by, 65 ; L. Gumming, 220 ; 



the Sorbonne struck by, 466 

 Lightning Ball, W. F. Smith, 267 

 Lightning Conductors, C. McBherson de Bremen, 3S2; W. IL 



Preece on the best Form of, 446; Richard Anderson on the 



Necessity for a Regular Inspection of Lightning Conductors, 



446 

 Linn (James), Cup-marked Stones, 122 

 Linnean Society, 39, 71, 115, 162, 210 

 Lions, Decrease of, in Algeria, 204 

 Liquids, the Cooling of, 2S0 

 Lissajous (M.), Deatli of, 299 

 " Livadia," Russian Imperial Yacht, 270 



Liveing and Dewar (Professors), On the Spectra of the Com- 

 pounds of Carbon with Hydrogen and Nitrogen, 620 

 Liverpool, Proposed University College at, 20S, 307, 519 

 Lloyd (W. A.), Death of, 274 ; Obituary Notice of, 299 

 "Loch Etive," and "The Sons of Uisnach," 2S9 

 Lochaber, Parallel Roads of— the Problem and its Solutions, 



W. Jolly, 6S 

 Locke (John), The Stone in the Swallow's Nest, 146 

 Lockyer(J. Norman, F.R.S.), On Multiple Spectra, 4, 309, 562 

 Locusts and Coffee-trees, Dr. A. Ernst, 40S 

 Logarithms, Four-Figure and Anti-Logarithms, 496 

 London Missionary Society, Exploration of East Central Africa, 



19 

 London Clay, Diatoms \a the, W. H. Shrubsole, 221 

 London University, Examinations and Women, 399 

 London, the Succession of Temperature and Rainfall in the 



Climate of, H. Courtenay Fox, 445 

 London, the Geology of, W. Whitaker, 48 1 

 London Mathematical Society, 71, 162, 614 

 Long (Herr), DifTusion of Salts in Aqueous Solution, 2S0 

 Longitude, Telegraphic Determination of, 496 

 Loomis (Prof.), on the Temper.ature of the United States, 594 

 Lozano (Don Eduardo), " Estudios Fisicos," 302 

 Lubbock (Sir John), on the Habits of Ants, 184 

 Ludlam (Henry), Death of, 203 

 Lud« ig (Prof. ), on the Decomposition of Organic Compounds by 



Zinc Powder, 89 

 Lunar Rainbows, Anne Gifford, 319 

 Lunn (Charles), "Vox Populi : Sequel to the Philosophy of 



Voice," 556 



MacCormack (Henry), Intellect in Brutes, 362 



Macfadzean (James), the Songs of Birds, 12 



McGill College, Montreal, the New Museum, 614 



Mackinlay Ranges, Expedition to, 570 



McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), "The Trichoptera of the European 



Fauna," 314; Fiosofisloma fnnctifrons, 460 

 McLeod (Prof. Herbert, F.R.S.), the Recent Gas Explosion, 



290. 337 

 McNally (C. J.), Temperature of the Breath, 534 

 Magic Mirrors of Japan, Experiments ou, 133 

 Magnet, on the Best Form of, for Magneto-Machines, W Ladd, 



446 

 Magnetic Experiment, a Pretty, 133 



Magnetic and Eaith-Current Disturbance, Wm. Ellis, 361 

 Magnetic Storms, Aurora Borealis and, 361 

 Magnetic Storm, G. M. Whipple, 55S 

 Magnetisation, Influence of, on Iron, Signor Piatzoli, 89 

 Magnetism, Terrestrial, Comparative Curves in. Rev. S. J. 



Perry, F.R.S., 120 ; J. Capello, 220 

 Magnetism, Terrestrial, on S jme Points Connected with, Warren 



De La Rue, F.R.S., and Hugo W. MiiUer, F.R.S., iCo: 



Prof. B. Stewart, F.R.S , 146, 202 



Magnetism and Electricity, a Physical Treatise on, J. E. H. 

 Gordon, 263 



Magnetographs, on the Comparison of Declination, at Various 

 Places, Prof. W. G. Adams, 447 



Magnetometer, the Bifilar, Modification of, 544 



Mallet (J. W., F.R.S. ), "Revision of the Atomic Weight and 

 Valence of Aluminium," 21 ; Artificial Diamonds, 192 ; 

 Geolngy of the Henry Mountains, 266 



Mallory Screw, a New Vessel Propelled by, 252 



Malvern Hills, Camps on the, 211 



Mammoth Skull, Discovery of, at Posen, 66 



Man, Comparative Anatomy of. Prof. Flower, F R S , 59, 

 78, 97 



Man, Primitive, 82 



Manchester, Victoria University, 274 



Manila, Earthquake at, 276, 300 



Mann (C), Meteorology of South Australi.-i, 120 



Maoris, the Colour Sense of, 494 



Map of Existing and Projected Railways in the Provin-es of 

 Rio de Janeiro, Minas, and San Paulo, 205 



Maps, Fresh, in the British Museum, 184 



Marble, Coloured, Discovery of, in Japan, 88 



Marine-Zoology Class, Alfred C. Haddon, 560 



Mariotte's Law, Variations from, 61 



Mars, Polar Compression of, 112 



Marsh (Prof. O. C), Toothed Birds of Kansas, 457 



Maskelyne (N. Storey, F.R.S., M.P.), Obituary Notice of Prof. 

 W. Miller, 247 



Mason College, Birmingham, 514 ; Prof. Huxley's Address, 

 545 



Mathematical Society, 71, 162, 614 



Mathematical Journals, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., 73 



Mathematics, American Journal of, 276 ^ 



Mathematics, Pure and Applied, Synopsis of Elementary Results 

 in, G. S. Carr, 582 



Matter, a Fourth State of, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 153; Duke of 

 Argyll, 16S ; S. Tolver Preston, 192 ; E. Douglas Archibald, 

 218 ; George E. Newton, 240 



Matter, Experiments on the States of, J. B. Hannay. 483 



IMatter in the Liquid State, Conditions Necessary for the Exist- 

 ence of, Thomas Carnelley, 434 



Maximum and Minimum Energy in Vortex Motion, Sir William 

 Thomson, F.R.S., 618 



Maya History, the Katunes of, 442 



Meat, Tinned, Reported Poisoning by, 567 



Medical Congress, International, 275 



Medusa, Freshwater, a New, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 

 147, 177, 190, 241, 316, 361 ; Prof. G. J. AUman, F.R.S., 

 177, 21S, 290; G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 177 



Mechanics, Elementsry Applied, T. Alexander, 265 



" Mechanism of the Human Voice," Emil Behnke, 239 



Melanesia, the Religious Beliefs of, 211 



Melun Base Line, 329 



Memory, Reversals by. Rev. Geo. Henslow, 241 ; Feat of, 252 



Menhaden, the, G. Browne Goode, 335 



Mensurational Spectroscopy, Three Years' Experimenting iin. 

 Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 193, 222 



Mercurial Air-Pump, a New, 543 



Mercury, Transit of, 67 ; Visibility of, to the Naked Eye, T. 

 D. Simonton, 119 



Mercury, the Surface Tension of. Experiment illustrating, 157 



Meredith (Mrs. L. A.), " Tasmanian Friends and Foes, 

 Feathered, Furred, and Finned," 300 



Messer (F. A.), " A New and Easy Method of Studying British 

 Wild Flow ers by Natural Analysis," 532 



Metalloid--, on the Spectra of the, Dr. A. Schuster, F.R.S., 444 



Metals, New, Prof. T. S. Humpidge, 232 



Metamorphic Rocks, Ireland, G. H. Kinahan, 606 



Meteorology : Meeting of the International Congre:s of Meteor- 

 ology at Vienna, 16; Meteorological Society, 23, 139, 235; 

 Climatological Stations of, 594; U.S. Weather Maps, 36, 

 ICO, 249, 372, 516; Proposed Alteration in the Hour for 

 Simultaneous Observations, 86 ; Meteorology of the Italian 

 Mountains, Rev. Prof. F. Denza on, 87 ; Meteorology o£ 

 South Australia, C. Mann, 120 ; C. Todd, 120 ; Intercolonial 

 Meteorological Conference at Sydney, lOo; Meteorological 

 Observatory, Siintis Mountain, 131 ; Meteorological Notes, 

 132, 253, 594; Missouri Weather Report, 253 ; Meteorology 

 of a Guano Island, W. A. Dixon, 254; Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 275; International Meteorology, 307, 471, 



