INDEX II. 



257 



Lapworth (Charles) on the Graptolites 

 of the Gala group, 104. 



and James Wilson on the Silurian 



rocks of the counties of Roxburgh and 

 Selkirk, 103. 



Larynx, Sir D. Gibb on some abnormali- 

 ties of the, 139. 



Law of capital, W.Westgarth on the,223. 



Legitimacy, questioned, G. Seton on 

 certain cases of, imder the Scottish 

 Registration Act, 217. 



Lenses for the accurate correction of 

 visual defect, Philip Braham on a set 

 of, 37. 



Le Sette Communi, Dr. Charnock on, 

 a German colony in the neighbour- 

 hood of Vicenza, 148. 



Leslie (Lieut.-Colouel Forbes) on me- 

 galithic circles, 154 ; on ancient hiero- 

 glyphic sculptures, 155. 



Lesmahago, Dr. J. Brown on the Upper 

 Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills 

 and, 93. 



•Lewis (W. A.), a proposal for a modi- 

 fication of the strict law of priority in 

 zoological nomenclature in certain 

 cases, 133. 



Lias, Rev. J. F. Blake on the Yorkshire, 

 and the distribution of its ammonites, 

 90. 



*Life, origin of, Dr. Bastian on some 

 new experiments relating to the, 122. 



Life, protoplasmic, F. Crace-Calvert on, 

 123. 



Lighthouses, T. Stevenson on a parabo- 

 loidal reflector for, 37. 



Limestone, W. Carruthers on the vege- 

 table contents of masses of, occurring 

 in trappean rocks in Fifeshire, 94. 



Limpopo expedition, Capt. F. Elton on 

 the, 178. 



Lindsay (T. M.) and W. R. Smith on 

 Democritus and Lucretius, a question 

 of priority in the kiuetical theory of 

 matter, 30. 



Linear differential equations, W. H. L. 

 Russell on, 23. 



Local museums, T. B. Grierson on the 

 establishment of, 126. 



•Logarithms, Prof. Purser on Napier's 

 original method of, 23. 



Longevity, Sir D. Gibb on centenarian, 

 151. 



* of animals of diiferent species and 



of man, G. Harris on the compara- 

 tive, and the probable causes which 



■ mainly conduce to promote this dif- 

 ference, 153. 



•Lovett (Capt. B.) on the interior of 

 Mekran, 180. 



1871. 



Lowne (B. T.) on the ciliated condition 

 of the inner layer of the blastoderm 

 in the ova of birds, and in the om- 

 phalo-mesenteric vessels, 140. 242. 



Lucretius and Democritus, T. M. Lind- 

 say and W. R. Smith on, a question 

 of priority in the kinetical theory of 

 matter, 30. 



*Lutken (Dr. Christian) on some recent 

 additions to the arctic faima (a new 

 Antipathes and a new apodal Lo- 

 phioid), 133, 



*Macalister (Prof. A.) on the bearing of 

 muscular anomalies on the Darwinian 

 theory of the origin of species, 140. 



M'Bean (W.) on the Edinburgh Indus- 

 trial Home for fallen women, 212. 



*M'Oann (Rev. Dr. J.) on the origin of 

 the moral sense, 155. 



MacCullar^h's theorem, W. H. L. Rus- 

 sell on, 23. 



M'Farlane (Donald) on experiments to 

 determine the surface conductivity for 

 heat of a copper ball, 44. 



•M'Kendrick (Dr.) on a new form of 

 tetanometer, 140. 



Maclagan (Colonel R.) on the geogra- 

 phical distribution of petroleum and 

 allied products, 180. 



Madeira, the Rev. R. B. Watson on 

 dredging at, 137, 242. 



•Magnetic and diamagnetic properties of 

 the blood, Dr. A. Gamgee on the, 138. 



Mammalia, quaternary, W. Boyd Daw- 

 kins on the relation of the, to the gla- 

 cial period, 95. 



Mammouth, Prof, van Beneden sur les 

 Chauves-souris de I'^poque du, et de 

 I't^poque actuelle, 135. 



Man and the ape, C. S. Wake on, 162. 



and his faculties, Samuel Brown on 



the measurement of, 210. 



•Mann (Dr. R. J.) on the formation of 

 sand bars, 184. 



•Manphal (Pandit),report on Badakolan, 

 184. 



•Maranon, M. A. Wertherman on the 

 exploration of the headwaters of the, 

 190. 



Marcet (Dr. William) on the nutrition 

 of muscular and pulmonary tissue in 

 health and in phthisis, with remarks 

 on the colloid condition of matter, 

 140. 



Markham (Clements R.) on the eastern 

 Cordillera, and the navigation of the 

 river Madeira, 184; on the geogra- 

 phical position of the tribes which 

 lormed the empire of the Yncas, 185. 



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