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REPORT 1861. 



Kidd (Dr. Charles) on chloroform acci- 

 dents, and some new physiological 

 facts as to their explanation and re- 

 moval, 167. 



Kirkraan (Rev. T. P.) on the roots of sub- 

 stitutions, 4. 



Knockshigowna in Tipperarj', A. B. 

 Wynne on the geology of, 135. 



Lancashire coal-field, A. H. Green on the 

 faults of a portion of the, 113. 



Language, John Crawfurd on the anti- 

 quity of man from the evidence of, 191. 



Larva, H. T. Stainton on a new mining, 

 recently discovered, 159. 



Lawes (J. B.) on some points in connexion 

 with the exhaustion of soils, 84. 



Lead, formiate of, W. J. Hurst on the 

 sulphur compound formed by the action 

 of sulphuretted hydrogen on, 82. 



Leaves, Maxwell T. Masters on the rela- 

 tion between pinnate and palmate, 148. 



Lens, panoramic, Thomas Sutton on the, 

 33. 



Light, on the emission and absorption of 

 rays of, by certain gases, by Dr. J, H. 

 Gladstone, 79. 



Lightning figures, Charles Tomlinson on, 

 48. 



Lime, Dr. John Da\y on the action of, 

 on animal and vegetable substances, 

 165. 



Limestone, carboniferous, Mr. Richard- 

 son on the details of the, as laid open 

 by the railway cutting and tunnel near 

 Almondsbury, 130. 



Liverpool, G. H. Morton on the pleisto- 

 cene deposits of the district around, 120. 



, Rev. A. Hume on the condition 



of national schools in, as compared 

 ■with the population, 1861, 223. 



Liquids, Charles Tomlinson on the cohe- 

 sion-figures of, 93. 



Liver, Dr. Rolleston on the homologies 

 of the lobes of the, in mammalia, 174. 



Livsey (Peter J.) on a mercurial baro- 

 meter invented by R. Howson, 64. 



Lloyd ( Dr. J. H.) on purifying towns from 

 sewage by means of dry cloacae, S5. 



Lloyd (Rev. H.) on the secular changes 

 of terrestrial magnetism, and their con- 

 nexion with disturbances, 41. 



Loch Katrine, Dr. Wallace on the com- 

 position and properties of the water of, 

 94. 



Tarbert, East and West, John Ram- 

 say on the proposal to form a ship 

 canal between, 197. 



Lowe (E. J.) on the great cold of Christ- 

 mas 1 860, and its destructive effects, 64. 



Lustre, binocular, Sir David Brewster on, 

 29. 



Lyons (Lord), letter from Capt. Maury to, 

 on the importance of an expedition to 

 the antarctic regions for meteorological 

 and other scientific purposes, 65. 



Macadam (Dr. S.) on the proportion of 

 tin present in tea-lead, 85 ; on the pro- 

 portion of arsenic present in paper- 

 hangings, 86 ; on an economical mode 

 of boiling rags, &c. with alkaline lej', 

 86. 



Macfie (R. A.) on patents considered in- 

 ternationally, 263. 



Macqueen (C. E.) on the true principles 

 of taxation, 225. 



Magnetic dip and declination, Prof. Hen- 

 nessy on a probable cause of the diurnal 

 variation of, 39. 



effect of the sun or moon on instru- 

 ments at the earth's surface, G. John- 

 stone Stoney on the amount of the di- 

 rect, 47. 



force, ten-estrial, on the laws of the 



principal inequalities, solar and lunar, 

 of, by the Astronomer Royal, 36. 



force, on the supposed connexion 



between meteorological phenomena and 

 the variations of the earth's, by John 

 Allan Broun, 49. 



storm of the end of August and be- 



ginning of September 1859, B. Stewart 

 on the photographic records given at 

 the Kew observatory of the great, 47. 



Magnetism, terrestrial. Rev. H. Lloyd on 

 the secular changes of, and their con- 

 nexion with disturbances, 41. 



Malay peninsula. H. Wise on a proposed 

 railway across the, 201. 



Mammalia, R. Garner on the encephalon 

 of, 166. 



, Dr. Rolleston on the homologies of 



the lobes of the liver in, 174. 



Man, John Crawfurd on the antiquity of, 

 from the evidence of language, 191. 



Manchester, E. W. Binney on the geolo- 

 gical features of the neighbourhood of, 

 109. 



, L. H. Grindon on the flora of, 145. 



■, on the progress of, from 1640-60, 



David Chad wick on, 209. 

 • gas-works, John Shuttleworth on the, 



240. 



Marriott (W.) on the separation of am- 

 monia from coal-gas, 86. 



Marshall (J. G.) on the relation of the 

 Eskdale granite at Bootle to the schis- 

 tose rocks, with remarks on the general 

 metamorphic origin of granite, 117. . 



