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INDEX. 



Johnson (Prof. A.) on promoting tidal 

 observations in Canada, 150. 



Johnson (H.) on the extension and 

 probable duration of the South Staf- 

 fordshire coal-field, 636. 



Johnston-Lavis (Dr. H. J.) on the volcanic 

 phenomena of Vesuvius and its neigh- 

 bourhood, 226. 



Jones (Prof. T. E.) on the fossil phyl- 

 lopoda of the palaeozoic rocks, 229 ; 

 on the coal deposits of South Africa, 

 641. 



Judd (Prof. J. W.) on the fossil plants 

 of the tertiary and secondary beds of 

 the United Kingdom, 241 ; note ac- 

 companying a series of photographs 

 prepared by J. Martin, Esq., to illus- 

 trate the scene of the recent volcanic 

 eruption in New Zealand, 644. 



Jukes-Brown (A. J.), note on a bed of 

 red chalk in the lower chalk of Suffolk, 

 664. 



Kempe (H. Pv.) and W. H. Preece en a 

 new scale for tangent galvanometer, 

 546. 



Kennedy (Prof. A. B. W.) on the endu- 

 rance of metals under repeated and 

 varying stresses, and the proper work- 

 ing stresses on railway bridges, «S:c., 

 284. 



Eerosine shale of Mount Victoria, New 

 South Wales, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins 

 on the, 6iH. 



Kimberley, West Australia, the geology 

 of the newly discovered goldtields in, 

 E. T. Hardman on, 64.5. 



, notes on natives of, by E. T. 



Hardman, 835. 

 -, observations on four crania from. 



by Dr. P. S. Abraham, 836. 



Tving (B.), co-operative farming, 757. 



Kohlrausch (Prof. F.), ueberdasleitungs- 

 vermogen einiger electrolj'te in iius- 

 serst verdiinter wasseriger losung, 334; 

 remarks thereon, b}^ E. Bouty, 339 ; 

 letter from, 341. 



Konig (Dr. A.), the modern development 

 of Thomas Young's theory of colour- 

 vision, 431. 



*Kund (Lieut. E.), recent explorations in 

 the Southern Congo basin, 736. 



La6tte process of welding metals, W. 



Anderson on the, 800. 

 Laisser falre, the economic exceptions 



to, Prof. Sidgwick on, 764. 

 Lankester (Prof. Pvay) on the occupation 



of a table at the zoological station at 



Naples, 254. 

 *Lannoy de Bissy (Major E. de), recent 



French explorations in the Ogowai- 



Congo region, 736. 



Lapraik (W.) and W. J. Eussell on the 

 absorption spectra of uranium salts, 

 576. 



Lapworth (Prof. C.) on the geology of 

 the Birmingham district, 621 ; the 

 Cambrian rocks of the Midlands, 622 ; 

 the ordovician rocks of Shropshire, 

 661. 



Larmor (J.) on electrolysis in its physical 

 and chemical bearings, 308. 



Latham (B.),proportionalmortality, 780 ; 

 automatic pumping of sewage by 

 high-pressure water, 810. 



Laughton (J. K.) on Mr. E. J. Lowe's 

 project of establishing a meteorological 

 observatory near Chepstow, 139. 



Lea (Ven. Archdeacon), the results of an 

 experiment in fruit farming, 757. 



Lebour (Prof. G. A.) on the circulation 

 of underground waters, 235 ; on the 

 stratigraphical position of the salt 

 measures of South Durham, 673. 



Lee (J. E.) on the erratic blocks of Eng- 

 land, Wales, and Ireland, 223. 



Lefroy (Gen. Sir J. H.) on the best means 

 of comparing and reducing magnetic 

 observations, 64, 69 ; on the work of 

 the Differential Gravity Meter Com- 

 mittee, 141 ; on the depth of the perma- 

 nently frozen soil in the Polar regions, 

 271 ; on the combination of the Ord- 

 nance and Admiralty surveys, and the 

 production of a bathy-hj'psographical 

 map of the British Isles, 277 ; on the 

 North-western tribes of the dominion 

 of Canada, 285. 



Lendenfeld (Dr. E. Von), notes on Aus- 

 tralian coelenterates, 709; the nervous 

 system of sponges, 710; the function 

 of nettle-cells, ib. 



*Lesseps (F. de), the Panama canal, 736. 



Lewis (Prof. H. C), comparative studies 

 upon the glaciation of North America, 

 Great Britain, and Ireland, 632 ; on a 

 diamantiferous peridotite and the 

 genesis of the diamond, 667. 



Lick Observatory, California, design for 

 working the equatorial and dome of, 

 by hj'draulic power, by H. Grubb, 553. 



*Life cycles of organisms represented 

 diagrammaticallv and comparativelj', 

 by D. McAlpine" 708. 



Light, a note on some observations of 

 the loss suffered by, in passing through 

 glass, by Sir J. Conroj-, 527. 



, standards of, second report on, 39. 



, the law of the propagation of. Prof. 



J. H. Poynting and E. F. J. Love on, 

 521. 



Lighthouse illumination, a new method 

 of burning oil for, by J. E. Wigham, 

 809. 



Lighthouses, a new form of light for, by 

 J. E. Wigham, 809. 



