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KEPORT — 1865. 



Lactic series, Dr. Frankland on the con- 

 stitution of the acids of the, 30. 



Lake country, Prof. Harkness and H. 

 Nicholson on the geology of the, 57. 



Land Societies of Birmingham, G. J. 

 Johnson on the Benefit Building and 

 Freehold, 154. 



Language and ethnology, Rev. F. W. 

 Farrar on, 120. 



Lankester (E. Ray) on the British 

 species of Cephalaspis and the Scotch 

 Pteraspis, 65; on annelida from Guern- 

 sey, ib. 



*Laplace's discussion of the figure of the 

 earth and precession and nutation, 

 Prof. A. H. Curtis on certain theorems 

 of, 6. 



La Touche (Rev. J. D.) on the nodules 

 in the limestone of Wenlock Edge, 

 76. 



Laverna, H. T. Stainton on the extra- 

 ordinary partiality shown by insects 

 of the genus, for plants of the order 

 Onagracese, 93. 



Lead, Dr. D. S. Price on the action of 

 light upon sulphide of, and its bearing 

 upon the preservation of paintings in 

 picture galleries, 34. 



*Leaf forms, &c, W. S. Mitchell on 

 hitherto unrecorded, from Alum Bay, 

 Isle of Wight, 68. 



Leichhardt, Dr. F.Mueller on MTntyre's 

 journey across Australia, and discovery 

 of traces of, 124. 



Lendy (Captain) on the topograph, a 

 new surveying instrument, 21. 



Lepidogaster bimaculatus and L. cornu- 

 biensis, W. R. Hughes on specimens 

 of, 87. 



*Lepidoptera, British, Dr. Jordan on 

 the, with a view to investigate the 

 origin of species, 89. 



Levi (Prof. Leone) on the statistical 

 data in relation to the representation 

 of the people, 162. 



Levick (T.) on machinery for compres- 

 sing air, and the applicability of such 

 compressed air for working coal-cut- 

 ting and other underground machi- 

 nery, 185. 



Lias at Harbury, near Leamington, Rev. 

 P. B. Brodie^on a section of lower, 48. 



of Warwickshire, Rev. P. B. 



Brodie on two new species of corals 

 in the, 49. 



of Lyme Regis, E. C. H. Day on 



the lower, 51. 

 *Liassic sea, E. C. H. Day on the his- 

 tory of the Jurassic seas, as evidenced 

 by the history of the first, 51. 



*Life, Dr. Lionel S. Beale on, 101. 



* , G. B. Galloway on the means of 



saving, from buildings which may be 



on fire, 150. 

 Light, David Forbes on the colour of 



gold as seen by transmitted, 30. 

 , Dr. D. S. Price on the action of, 



upon sulphide of lead, and its bearing 



upon the preservation of paintings in 



picture galleries, 34. 

 Lightbody (Dr. W. H.) on the vascular 



arrangements of the cornea, 108. 

 Lilleshall, Salop, C. J. Woodward on a 



deposit near, containing recent marine 



shells, 79. 

 Limestone of Wenlock Edge, Rev. J. T. 



La Touche on the nodules in the, 76. 

 Lindsay (Dr. W. Lauder) on the rela- 

 tions of the southern to the northern 



flora of New Zealand, 82. 

 Llangollen, W. Mattieu Williams on 



the ancient glaciers north and east of, 



78. 

 *London and other large towns, G. B. 



Galloway on improvements applicable 



to, to improve health and preserve 



life, 150. 

 *Lowe (E. J.) on the propagation of 



ferns by means of spores, 83. 

 Lubbock (Sir John, Bart.) on the trans- 

 formations of Chloeon (Ephemera) 



dimidiatum, 89; on the flints of 



Pressigny le Grand, 129. 

 *Lumbricus terrestris, Dr. Rolleston on 



certain points in the anatomy of, 110. 

 "Lyme Regis, E. C. H. Day on the 



lower lias of, 51. 



Macadam (Dr. Stevenson) on the results 

 of agricultural experiments made in 

 1864, 31 ; on Esparto fibre, or Spa- 

 nish grass, and its employment in the 

 manufacture of paper, 33. 



Macdonald (Prof.) on the development 

 of the vascular system of the foetus in 

 the vertebiata, 108. 



Mackenzie (Miss) on the characteristics 

 of the South Sclavonic race, 90. 



Mackintosh (D.) on the relative extent 

 of atmospheric and oceanic denuda- 

 tion, with a particular reference to 

 certain rocks and valleys in Yorkshire 

 and Derbyshire, 65 ; on the compara- 

 tive anthropology of England and 

 Wales, 122. 



*Madreporaria, Aporose, Dr. Duncan on 

 two new species of, from Guernsey, 86. 



Magnetic storm of the beginning of 

 August 1865, as recorded by the self- 

 recording rnagnetographs at the Kew 



