[l\ali,re, Junec), l8Sl 



Leipzig, Proposed Zoological Garden at, 253 



Level, Geological Changes of. Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 33 



Level of the Sea, on the Praciicability of Living at Great lileva- 



tions above the, Edward W hymper, 459 

 Leverrier and his Theory of Saiurn, 298 

 Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Colours of British Butterflies, 458 

 LeyJen-jar Discharge, Induction Current from, W. Larden, 529 

 Libya, the Languages of, 84 

 Libyan De^ert, I'r. Karl Zittel on, 19 

 "Life and her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the 



Amcelia to the Insects," Arabella B. Buckley, 123 

 Li^hr, Easy Lessons in, Mrs. W. Awdry, 32 

 Li;ht and Electriciiy, the Relation between. Dr. O. J. Lodge, 



302 

 Light and the Transpiration of Plants, 159 

 Ligtiihou^es, Lighting by Electricity, 296, 347 

 Lightning Conductors : Richard Anderson on, 296 ; on the 



Space protected by, Prof. J. Le Conte, 386 

 Li nmar, Dredgin;^ the Bed of the, 297 

 Lindsay (Dr. Laudei), Death < if, 131 

 Linnean Society, 71, 115, 330, 379, 426 

 Liquids : the Rapidity of the Evaporation of, 86 ; Viscosity of, 



397 

 Liquids and Solids at High Temperatures, John Aitken, 34 

 Li adia, Rusaan Imperial Yacht, 27; the Accident to, 63 

 Liveing (Prof. G. D., F. R.S.), on the Spectrum of Carbon, 



26s, 338 

 Liverp jol College of Chemistry, Re-opening of, 468 

 Living at Great Elevations ah jve the Level of the Sea, on the 



Practicability of, Edward VVhyniper, 459 

 Livingstone, Life of, by \V. Garden Blaikie, D.D., 238 

 Lizard, the Horned, of Australia, 402 

 Lliyd (Rev. HumphreyJ, Death of, 275; Obituary Notice of, 



292 

 Localisation of Sound, H. B. Jupp, 3S6 

 Lockyer (I. Norman, F.R.S.), on the Iron Lines Widened in 



Solar Spots, 425 

 Locust-, the Natural Enemies of, 561; 

 Lodge I Dr. Oliver J.), Dr. Carnelley's Hot Ice, 264, 504; the 



Relation betu'een Light and Electricity, 302 

 Logeman (W. G.), Gtometiical Optics, 125 

 Logic, Symbolical, Hugh iMacColl, 578 

 London, Smokeless, W. D. Scott Moncrieff, 151, 193; W. 



Mattieu Williams, 169 ; Average Height of Barometer in, 



184 ; Fo^sof, 165 

 London Mal-liematical Society, 577 



Lojmis (Prof.), .Storm Centres ni Tropical Regions, 322 

 Lophioniys Iiiihaiisi, Pr-if. H. H. Giglioli, 291 

 Lorenz (Prof.), en his Theory of "Refraction-Constants," 43 

 Low Temperature, Rev. S. |. Perry, F.R.S., 268 

 Lowe (E. J.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31, 348 

 Lovvenberg's "Geschichte dcr geographischen Entdeckungtreisen 



im Alterthum und Mittelalter," 481 

 Lubhock (Sir J., Bart., F.R.S.), Ob.-ervations on Ants, Bees, 



and Wasps, 255 

 Lunar Eclipses, 1810-S4, 114 

 Lunge (Prof. George), "Sulphuric Acid and Alkali," Prof. 



H. E. Roscoe, F. R.S., 73 



MacColl (Hugh), Symbolical Logic, 578 



Mackay, the Town of, 492 



McLaurin (Dr. William), Temperature of the Breath, 244 



RLaclay (Dr. Miklukho), his Travels, 44 



MacLennan (D.), Primitive Marriage Customs, 5S4 



McLiod (Herbert, F.R.S.), Recent Gas Explosion, 8 



McXally (Dr. C. J.), Temperature of the Preath, 217, 244 



MacOwan (Prof.) appointed Director of the Botanic Garden, 



Cape Town, 231 

 Madagascar, Plants of, J. G. Baker, 125 

 Mag-llan .Straits, Post Office in, 254 

 "Magic Mirrors," French, 616 

 Magnetic Storms, Correspondence of Phenomena in, W. Ellis, 



33 

 Magnetic Storm of 1880, Augu.'jt, William Ellis, 4S2 

 Mngneiic Variation or Dec inatioii, on some Recent Charts aid 



M;ips of Curves of Equal, 314 

 Magnetic Survey of the .Missouri, Prof. Francis E. Nipber, 5S3 

 Magnetic Declination, Pr f. lalfour Slewait, F.R.S., 592 

 Ma.deren (M. van), Death of, 516 



Malleable Metals, Microscopic Structure of, J. Vincent Elsdcii, 



391 



Mammee Apples, Exportation of, 65 



Man, Palceolitbic, Worthington G. Smith, 604 



Manchester: Literary and Philosophical .Society, 236, 475 



Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, 370 



Maps, United States Weather, 1878, 39 



Mariette (M.), " Marielte Bey," Death of, 320 



Marine Isopods of New England, 543 



Markham (Albert H.), a Polar Reconnaissance, 455 



Marriage Customs, Primitive, D. MacLejnan, 584 



Marsden's " List of British Birds," 467 



Martineau (C. A.), Easy Lessons in Heat, 32 



Masters (Dr. Maxwell T.), Geological Climates, 266; Dimorphic 



Leaves of Conifers, 267 

 Mathematical Society, 71, 161, 283, 379, 474, 577, 594 

 Mathematico-Logical Memoirs, Recent, Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, 



F.R.S., 485 

 Maurii II-, Meteorological Observations at, for 1877, 322 

 Maurim.s, Zoological Results of Prof. K. Mobius's Visit to, 



H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 514 

 Maxim Electric Light, 131 



Mechanics, Class-Book of Elementary, William Plewitt, 53 

 Mechanics, Text-Book of, Eduard S. Dana, 552 

 Medical Catalogue, a, 28 

 Medical Etiquette in Paris, a Case of, 64 

 Medical Gymnasium, Paris, 297 

 Memdires de la Societe des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de 



Bordeaux, 433 

 Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 474 

 Memory, Unconscious, Samuel Butler, Geo. [. Romanes, 



F.R.S., 285; S. Butler, Dr. Ernst Krause, 288; S. Butler, 



312 ; Butler's, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., T. R. R. Stebbing, 



335 

 Memory, an Experiment on Inheritedj W. Mattieu Williams, 



508 

 Memphis, Discovery of Two Pyramids to the North of, 297 

 Mendeleef (Prof.), and the St. Peter-burg Academy, 156, 205 

 Mercadier's Researches on the Photophone, 366 

 Meredith (Louisa Anne), " Tasmanian P'rii nds and Foes: 



Feathered, Furred, and Finned," 143 

 Meteshkovsky (M.), Prehistoric Anthropology of the Crimea, 



63, 107 

 Mesembrianthemum, not Mesembryanthemum, 158 

 Messina, Tea Plantation Established near, 2-54 

 Metallurgy, Introductory Lecture to the Course of, at the Royal 



School of Mines, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 65 

 Melals, the Conduction of Electricity and Heat in, 44 

 Metals, Microscopic Structure of Malleable, J. Vincent Elsden, 



391 



Meteorology: Meteorological Society, 96, 211, 307, 427, 500, 

 620; Meteorological Notes, 183, 322,470; State of Meteoro- 

 logy in United States, 1S3 ; Aver.Tge Height of Barometer in 

 London, 184; E. Douglas Architald, 243; Prof. Loomis on 

 .Storm Centres in Tropical Regions, 322 ; Dr. Meldnim's 

 Observations at Mauiitius, 1877, 322 ; the Recent Severe 

 Weather, 329, 363, 411 ; Siberian Meteorology, Dr. A. 

 Woeikof, 437 ; Meteorology in Mexico, 4S9 ; Meteorological 

 Observatory at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 516, see also Barometer 



Meteors, 516; Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 34; M. A. Veeder, 

 147; November Meteors, (58 ; J. Parnell, 508 



Meteoric .Stone, Fall of, at Wiener Neust.Tdt, 297 



Metz Geological and Archasological Society, Details of the 

 Roman Antiquities found near Metz, 321 



Mexico, Meteorology in, 4S9 



Miao-tze Tribes of China, 518 



Microphone, M. Boudet's New, 278 



Microscopical Society, see Royal 



Microscopic Structure of Malleable Metal-', J. Vincent El- den, 



391 



" Midgets," Abnormal Dentition of the, 419 



Migration of the Wagtail, 529 ; Prof. E. W. Claypole, 3S7 ; 

 Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 411 



Migration of Birds, 4S4 



Mills (Dr. Edmund J., F.R.S.), Nature of the Chemical Ele- 

 ments, 193 



Milne-Edwards (M.), Medal presented to, S3, 564 



Mimas, Elongation of, 255 



Minchin (George M.), a General Theorem in Kinematics, 62, 170 



Mind in Animals, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 501 



