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Index 



Linnean Society, 23, 81, 190 



Lippmann's Colour Photography with (M)liquely Incident Light, 

 Lord Kelvin, I-". U.S., 12 



Lippmann's Colour Photographs, Becquercl and, I'rof. R. 

 Meldola, F.R.S., 28 ; C. H. Bothamly, 77 



Liquation of certain Alloys of tJold, on the, Edward Matthey, 

 256 



Liquid, on the Motion of a Heterogeneous, commencing from 

 Rest with a given Motion of its Boundary, Lord Kelvin, 

 F.R.S.,250 



Liquids : Experiments on Transparency of Liquids. W. Spring, 

 136; Relation between Viscosity and Chemical Nature of 

 Liquids, Dr. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., and J. W. Rodger, 213 ; 

 .Apparatus for Rapid Determination of .Surface Tension of 

 Liquids, C. E. Linebarger, 383 



Lister (Sir Joseph, F.R.S.), Scientific Worthies, Prof. H. Till- 

 manns, I ; Inaugural Address at the Meeting of the British 

 Association at Liverpool, 463 



Literature, the Colour-sense in, Havelock Ellis, 41 



Literature, Technical, the Organisation of, M. W. Brown, 622 



Litmus, Dr. T. Bradshaw on the Behaviour of, in Amphoteric 

 Solutions, 584 



Liver]X)ol : Mr. 11. C. Beasley on Footprints from the Trias 

 in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool, 586 ; on the Evidence of 

 Land Oscillation near Liverpool, Mellard Reade, 587 ; the 

 British Association Meeting in Liverpool, Local Arrange- 

 ments, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R..S., 199 ; Liverpool 

 Meeting of the British Association, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 

 F.R.S., 367, 416, 462, 492, 549 ; Inaugural Address by Sir 

 Joseph Lister, P. R.S. , President, 463 



Liveing (Prof.), Photography of Whole Length of Spectrum at 

 once, 94 



Livingstone Tree, the, E. J. Glave, 454 



Lizards, Three Australian, A. H. S. Lucas and C. Frost, 544 



Lizards' Eggs, Hatching, Mrs. H. A. Ross, 55 



Loader (James Henry), a Cosmographical Review of the 

 Universal Law of the Affinities of Atoms, 268 



Lobachevsky, Monument to, 524 



Lobster Fishery in United States, Decline of, Prof. V. II. 

 Herrick, 108 



Local Societies, the Work of, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 114 



Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Photograph of Coronal Spectrum 

 Rings in Total Solar Eclip.se of April 16, 1893, 36, 46 ; Photo- 

 graphic Spectra of o Cygni, y Cygni, and Arcturus, 36 ; the 

 Total Solar Eclipse of August 9, 1896, 197, 395, 418, 441 ; 

 Unknown Lines in certain Mineral Spectra, 261 



Lockyer (Dr. W. J. S.), Percival Lowell on Mars, 625 



Locomotion, Power, on Highway, Rhys Jenkins, 365 



Lodge (Alfred), Mensuration, 620 



Lodge (Dr. Oliver J., F.R.S.), How Rontgen Rays discharge 

 Electrified Surface, 402 ; Extension of Visible Spectrum, 622 



Logarithms, Computation Rules and, Prof. Silas W. Holman, 

 76 



Lomas (Mr.), on the tilacial Phenomena of the Clwyd \'alley, 

 586 



London: the Paloeontographical Society of London, 484; Post- 

 Cirailuate .Study in London, 173; the University of London, 

 236 ; London University Commission Bill, 284, 306 



London (M.), Influence of Sodium Bicarbonate on Bactericidal 

 Properties of Blood, 432 



Loring (F. H.), an (Jptical Illusion, 248 



Lortet (M.), Effect ol Rontgen Rays on Tuberculosis, 255 



Low Temperature Research, Prof. J. Dewar, 584 



Lowell (Percival) on Mars, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 625 ; 

 Planetary Notes, 633 



Lubbock (Right Hon. Sir John, F.R.S.), the Scenery of 

 Switzerland, 439, 547 



Lucas {A. H. S ), Three Australian Lizards, 544 



Lucium, a New Element, P. Barriere, 598 



Luminous Clouds, the Height of, 31 



Lunar Photographs, Prof. VVeinck, 374 



Lungo (Dr. C. del), the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 298 



Lunt (Joseph), Determination of the General Brightness of the 

 Corona, 17 ; Stellar Photography with Small Telescopes with- 

 out Driving Clocks, 84 ; Dr. Klein's Microorganisms and 

 Disease. 490 



Lydekker(R., F.R.S.), the Extinct Vertebrates of Argentina, 

 86 ; Geographical History of Mammals, 457 



Lynn (W. T. ), the Astronomy of Milton's "Paradise Lost," 

 Thomas N. Orchard, 26 ; Remarkable Eclipses, 76 ; Leap 



Years and their occasional Omission, 126; the Indian 

 Calendar, 219 ; the Last Day and Year of the Century, Re- 

 marks on Time-Reckoning, 438 



Lyra, the Ring Nebula in. Prof. Barnard, 108 



Lytham, on the Occurrence of the Pelagic Ova of the Anchovv 

 off, 296 



Macallum (Prof.), on a Meansof detecting the difference between 



Organic and Inorganic Salts of Iron, 633 

 MacBride (E. W.), on the Ancestry of the Vertebrates, 606 ; 



on the Value of the Morphological Method in Zoology, 606 

 MacCarlhy (Samuel), Electric Welding of Steam Pipes, 20 

 McClean (Dr. F. ), Photographs of Stellar Spectra, 15S 

 McClelland (J. A.), the Selective Absorption of Rontgen Rays, 



354 

 McColl (Hector), Unusual Corrosion of Marine Machinery, 



328 

 McEvoy (Margaret), a Curious Connection, 248 

 Mcllhiney (P. C), Action of Ferric Chloride on Metallic Gold 



639 

 Mcllwraith (Thos.), the Birds of Ontario, 58 

 Macintyre (Dr. John), an Advance in Rontgen Photography, 



29; New Results with X-Rays, 71; Attempt to Polarise 



Rontgen Rays, 109; Rontgen Photographs, 159 

 McKendrick (Prof.), Electro-physiological Effect of X-Rays, 



71 ; on the Application of the Phonograph to Sound-Analysis, 



633 

 Mackenzie (J. E.), Dimethyldiphenylmethane and its Homo- 



logues, 143 

 Mackenzie (Thomas), Practical Mechanics for Sailors, Rev. F. C. 



Stebbing, 364 

 McLachlan (Mr.), Prevention of Extinction of British Butter- 

 flies, 93 

 Maclean (Magnus), Physical Units, loi ; Communication of 



Electricity from Electrified Steam to Air, 622 

 McLeod (H.), Liberation of Chlorine during heating of Mixed 



Potassic Chlorate and Manganic Peroxide, 408 

 McMillan (Walter G.), the Electrical Resistance of Alloys, 171 

 Macpherson (A. H.), the Note of the Cuckoo, 526 

 Madagascar, Return of Dr. Forsyth Major from, 446 

 Magazines, Science in the, 41, 117, 260 

 Maggi (Gian Antonio), Principii della Teoria Matematica del 



Movimento dei Corpi, 124 

 Magic and Sorcery, Babylonian, L. W. King, 489 

 Magical Growth of Plants, W. R. M. Semple, 8 

 Maginnis (A. J.). Coal Consumption in British North Atlantic 



Mail Service, 608 

 Magnetism : Action of Powerful Field on Kathodic Rays in 



Crcokes' or Hittorfs Tubes, Kr. Birkeland, 16 : Apparatus 



for measuring Permeability of Iron or Steel, Prof. Ewing, 



F. R.S. , 36 ; Iron Sphere in Homogeneous Field, O. Grotian, 

 45 ; Magnetising and Hysteresis of various kinds of Steel and 

 Iron, Dr. du Bois, 95 ; Magnetic Torsion of Soft Iron Wire, 



G. Moreau, 119; Small Dynamo for measuring Permeability 

 and Hysteresis of Iron, Prof. W. E. Ayrton and T. Mather, 



159; Hysteresis of Iron in Rotating Magnetic Field, 

 F. G. Baily, 237 ; Magnetic Irregularity and Anneal- 

 ing of Iron and Steel, A. Ebeling and E. Schmidt, 2S5 ; the 

 Roasting of Iron and Steel Ores with a \'iew to their Magnetic 

 Concentration, Prof. H. Wedding, 515 ; Elements of the 

 Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, |. J. 

 Thomson, F. R.S. , Prof. A. Gray, 97; Elementary Treatise 

 on Electricity and Magnetism, founded on Joubert's Traite 

 Elementaire d'Electricite, G. C. Foster, F. R.S., Prof. A. 

 (jray, 97 ; Halley's Chart of Magnetic Declinations, Chas. L. 

 Clarke, 126 ; Thos. Ward, 196 ; Magnetic Observations at 

 Greenwich Observatory, 140 ; Rontgen Rays influenced by. 

 Profs. Cox and Callendar, 141 ; Magnetic Rotatory Power, 

 W. H. Perkin, 190 ; Non-isotropic Magnetisation of Crystal- 

 lised Magnetite, Pierre Weiss, 192 ; Slagnetic Anomaly in 

 Russia, M. Moureaux, 215 ; Measurement of Elements in 

 South Russia, M. Moureaux, 254 ; Surprising Perturbations 

 observed by M. Moureaux, 483 ; Effect of Strong Magnetic 

 Field on Electric Discharges in Vacuo, A. A. C. Swinton, 

 238 ; Rev. Walter Sidgreaves, 367 ; a Magnetic Detector 

 of Electrical Waves, E. Rutherford, 239 ; Loss of Energy 

 in Magnetisation by Oscillatory Condenser Discharges, 

 Ignatz Klemencic, 285 ; Magnetisation of Liquids, J. S. 

 Townsend, 311; Effect on Electromotive Force of, A. II. 



