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Index 



Lawson (Andrew C), the California Earthquake of April iS, 



igob, lo 

 le Chatelier (H.), Lemons sur le Carbone, la Combustion, 



les Lois chimiques, 331 

 Lead Poisoning, K. Goadby, 472 

 Lead Poisoning, Experimental, K. Goadby, 436 

 Leake (H. Martin), the Experimental Breeding of Indian 



Cottons, Part ii., on Buds and Branching, 150 

 Leaves, the Colours of, George Abbott, 429 

 Lebedew (Prof.), the Apparent Dispersion of Light in Space, 



169 

 Lebois (C), Electricity Industrielle, 213 

 Leduc (A.), Molecular \'olumes. Densities, and Atomic 



Weights, 59 ; Calculation of Molecular Weights by Means 



of Vapour Densities, Toluene, 180 ; Internal Pressure in 



Gases, 449 

 Lef^vre (J.), Influence of Nutritive Media on Development 



of the Embryos of Pinus pinea, 480 

 Leffingwell (Dr. Albert), the Vivisection Controversy, 63 

 L^ger (Louis), Costiasis and its Treatment in Young Trout, 



389 ; the Signification of the Rhabdospora, Supposed 



Parasitic Sporozoa in Fishes, 480 

 Leipzig, a Course of Lectures Delivered in the University 



of. Mental Pathology in its Relation to Normal 



Psychology, Dr. Gustav Storring, 216 

 Leishman (Lieut.-Colonel W. B.), Transmission of Tick 



Fever, 349 

 Lematte (L.), Determination of Phj'sical Constants of the 



Peptones, 59 

 Length, a Wave-length Comparator for Standards of. Dr. 



A. E. H. Tutton, 477 ; the Use of Wave-length Rulings 



as Defining Lines on Standards of Length, Dr. A. E. H. 



Tutton, 478 

 Lepape (Adolphe), Radio-activity of the Thermal Springs of 



Bagn^res-de-Luchon, 180 

 Lepidoptera : the Genitalia of the Noctuid;e of the 



Lepidoptera of the British Islands, F. M. Pierce, 246 ; 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalsenae in the British 



Museum, Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 338 

 Levi-Civito (Prof.), the Rings of Saturn, 439 

 Levy (D. M.), the Bessemerising of Hardhead, 388 

 Lewis (A. L.), Stone Circles in Ireland, 359 

 Leyst (Dr. E.), Meteorological Observations made in 1907 



at Moscow Observatory, 258 

 Library of Natural Science, the Need of a Great Reference, 



in London, Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 427 

 Lieckfeld (G.), Oil Motors, 246 

 Light, the Apparent Dispersion of, in Space, Prof. Lebedew, 



169 

 Light, Dispersion of, in Interstellar Space, Dr. Ch. Nord- 



mann, 409 

 Lightning and the Churches, Alfred Hands, 228 

 Lignum Nephriticum, Fluorescence of, Charles E. Benham, 



i.Sg; Dr. O. Stapf, F.R.S., 218; John H. Shaxby, 248 

 Lillie (F. R.), the Development of the Chick, 271 

 Linnean Society, 87, 148, 269, 359, 44S, 478 ; Medal 



Awards, 375 

 Linnean Society, New South Wales, 479 

 Lister (J. J., F.R.S.), a Student's Text-book of Zoology, 



Vol. iii., the Introduction to Arthropoda, the Crustacea, 



and Xiphosura, 361 

 Lloyd (Captain R. E.), Rats of Calcutta, 499 

 Local Government Board, 1906-7, Thirty-sixth Annual 



Report of the, 203 

 Lockyer (Sir Norman, K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Botallek 



Circles, 97 ; the Uses and Dates of Ancient Temples, 340 

 Lockyer (Dr. William J. S.), Astronomische Ortsbestimm- 



ung im Ballon, Prof. Adolf Marcuse, 244; Cloud 



Photographs from a Balloon, 310 

 Locy (Prof. W. .A.), Biology and' its Makers, with Portraits 



and other Illustrations, 95 

 Lodge (Sir Oliver, F.R.S.), Suggested Effect of High- 

 tension Mains, 67 ; the Gravitaiive Pull upon the Moon, 



307 ; Selective Wireless Telegraphy, 381 

 London Institution, the, 283 



London Institution, the Royal Society of Arts and the, 100 

 London, the Need of a Great Reference Library of Natural 



Science in. Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 427 

 Long (Sydney H.), " Blowing " Wells, 339 

 Longman (Sybil), the " Dry-rot " of Potatoes, 148 



Loud (F. H.), Meteorological Statistics of the Colorado 



College Observatory for 1907, 49 

 Louis (Prof. Henry), Practical Coal Mining, 242 

 Love (Prof. A. E. H., F.R.S.), the Yielding of the Earth 



to Disturbing Forces, Lecture at Royal Society, 253 

 Lowe (Messrs. F. C, and Son), Artificial Dew- and Rain- 

 ponds made by, 437 

 Lowell (Prof. Percival), Mars as the Abode of Life, 212 ; 



the "Original" Canals of the Martian Doubles, 260; 



Development of Martian Canals, 288 ; Mars, 353 ; Jupiter, 



353 

 Lucas (F. A.), Length of Skeletons of Great Whales, 104 

 Ludendorff (Dr.), Common Motions of the Principal Ursae 



Majoris Stars, 141 

 Luders (L.), MuUer's Ostracod Crutacean Gigantocypris 



agassizi, 174 

 Ludgate (Percy E.), Proposed Analytical Machine, 89 

 Lugard (Major and Mrs. E. J.), Flora of Ngamiland, 351 

 Lunar Eclipse, June 3, the Recent, MM. Borrelly and 



Coggia, 502 ; J. H. Elgie, 503 

 Luplau-Janssen (Herr), Measures for Double Stars, 200 

 Lushington (A. W.), Rate of Growth of Palms, 351 

 Lydekker (R.), Rock-engravings in South Africa, Corr., 438 

 Lyle (Prof.), Theory of the Alternate-current Generator, 328 

 Lyra, the Gases of the Ring Nebula in. Prof. Bohuslav 



Brauner, 158 



McAdie (Prof. A. G.), Suggestion for Reform of Meteoro- 

 logical Methods, 227 

 MacClintock (W.), the Blackfeet Indians of Montana, 298 

 M'Conachie (William), Close to Nature's Heart, 129 

 Macdonald (Mr.), Rainfall Conditions of the Transvaal, 198 

 McDougall (Arthur), the Imperial Side of the Fuel Question, 



309 

 McDougall (William), an Introduction to Social Psychology, 



24s 

 MacDowall (Alex. B), the Dryness of Winter (1908-9), 40; 



the Greenwich Winter of 1908-9, 218 

 Macfadyen (Allan), the Cell as the Unit of Life, and Other 

 Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, 

 1899-1902, an Introduction to Biology, 123 

 Macfarlane (J. M.), das Pflanzenreich, Sarraceniaceee, 424 ; 



Nepenthacese, 424 

 McGlone (B.), Origin of the Lung of Ampullaria, 382 

 Mclntire (A. L.), the Production of " Sal " Shorea robusta, 



317 

 McKendrick (Prof. John G., F.R.S.), a Winter Retreat, 8; 

 Are the Senses ever Vicarious? 38; The Gramophone as 

 a Phonautograph, 188 

 Mackenzie (Dr. A. P.), Strophanthus sarmentosus, its 

 Pharmacological Action and Use as an Arrow-poison, 328 

 Mackenzie (Dr. Duncan), the Nuraghi of Sardinia, 226 

 McLennan (Evan), the Gravitative Strain upon the Moon, 



276 

 McLennan (Prof. J. C), on the Relation of " Recoil " 

 Phenomena to the Final Radio-active Product of Radium, 

 490 

 Magnesium in Hydrogen, Spectrum of, E. E. Brooks, 410 

 Magnetism : Rotation of the Electric Arc in a Radial Mag- 

 netic Field, J. Nicol, 27 ; an Electromagnetic Problem, 

 Prof. D. F. Comstock, 39 ; Norman R. Campbell, 39 ; 

 Is there a Vertical Magnetic Force in a Cyclone? J. R. 

 Ashworth, 40 ; Magnetic Properties of Certain Copper 

 Alloys, A. D. Ross and R. C. Gray, 59 ; Low-temperature 

 Experiments in Magnetism, J. G. Gray and Hugh 

 Higgins, 59 ; New Vessel to Continue the Magnetic 

 Survey of the World, 78 ; Magnetic Rays, 80 ; Self- 

 demagnetising Factor of Bar Magnets, Prof. S. P. 

 Thompson and E. W. Moss, 87 ; Lieut. Shackleton's 

 Antarctic Expedition, the South Magnetic Pole, Dr. C. 

 Chree, F.R.S., 130; Electromotive Forces of Magnetisa- 

 tion, V. Posejpal, 149 ; Magneto-kathode Rays, M. Gouy, 

 149; Integration of the Equations of Motion of an Elec- 

 tron Describing an Orbit about an Ion in a Magnetic 

 Field, Prof. Augusto Righi, 168; Meteorological and 

 Magnetical Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society, 287 ; Department of Commerce and Labour, 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States Magnetic Tables 

 and Magnetic Charts for 1905, L. A. Bauer, Dr. C. 



