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Electrolysis, to be held in Section B, at the British Associa- 
tion in Aberdeen, September, 1885, 458 
Loew (Dr. scar), a Chemical Difference between Livins and 
Dead Protoplasm, 563 
London, Teaching University for, 255 
London, University of, 289 
London Mathematical Society, 608 « 
Long (James), British Dairy Farming, Prof. John Wrightson, 
571 
Long Sight, A. Shaw Page, 103 
Love (E. F. J.), Spectra Produced in Glass by Scratching, 270 
Lovell (T.), Recent Earthquakes, 175 
Lowe (H. F.), Decomposition of Carbonic Acid by Electric 
Spark, 287 
Lowne (Mr.), on the Morphology of Insects’ Eyes, Dr. E. A. 
Schafer, F.R.S., 3 
Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), en Science, 11; Proposal for 
School of Forestry, 62; the Neglect of Science in Public 
Schouls, 552 
Lueas (Ir. Robert), Electrical Phenomenon in Mid-Lothian, 343 
Lumber Trade in America, 207 
Luminiferous Ether, on the Constitution of the, and the Vortex- 
Atom Theory, Prof. W. M. Hicks, 537 
Lummer (Dr.), Observations on Interference-Phenomena pro- 
duced by Glasses Parallel to the same Plane, 311 
Lumpenus limpetriformis and Gadiculus argenteus off Aberdeen, 
on the Occurrence of, Francis Day, 223 
Lund, University of, 112 
Lungs, Bacillary Phthisis of the, Germain Sée, 348 
Luvini, the Spheroidal State of Liquids, 635 
Lydekker (Richard), Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the 
British Museum, Part I., 53 
McCormick Observatory, the, 84 
McIntosh (Prof. W. C., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 
D (Biology), at the Meeting of the British Association, 476 ; on 
St. Andrews Marine Laboratory, 563 
M’Kendrick (Prof.), on the Action of Cold on Microphytes, 
561 
McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Chinese Insect Wax, 6; Sunsets, 437 
MecMunn (Dr.), on the Chromatology of Actiniz, 68; Entero- 
chlorophyll, 69 
McNabb (Prof. W. R., F.R.S.), International Botanical and 
Horticultural Congress, Antwerp, 1885, 416 
Macadam (W. Ivison), on Certain Diatomaceous Deposits 
(Diatomite) from the Peat of Aberdeenshire, 559 
Machine, Notes on the Action of the Wimshurst Induction, G, 
B. Buckton, F.R.S., 51 
Mackay (J. S.), ‘‘ Key to the Elements of Euclid,” 388 
Maclay (Mikluho), Reports of Outcome of his Travels, 35 
Macleay Fellowships at Sydney University, 230 
Macoun (John), Catalogue of Canadian Plants, 242 
Madan (H. G.) Iridescent Crystals of Potassium Chlorate, 102 ; 
on Cases of the Production of Ohm's (Langberg’s) Ellipses by 
Biaxial Crystals, 414; on the Behaviour of Stretched India- 
tubber, 625 
Madras, Meteorology in, 541 ; Profe-sorship of Biology at, 181 
Maznetisation, the Changes Produced in Length of Metal Rods 
by, Shelford Bidwell, 45, 167 
Magnetisation of Iron, Dr. John [fopkin on, F.R.S., 68 
Magnetism and Electricity, W. G. Baker, 340 
Malaga, Earthquake near, 329 
Malay Peninsula ; the ‘‘Sakei” Aboriginals, 428 
Maldanidz, Colouratisn of the Anterior Segments of the, Allen 
Harker, 564 
Male Sole is not Unknown, Francis Day, 78 
Mammalia, Fossil, inthe British Museum, Catalogue of, Part I., 
Richard Lydekker, 53; the Reviewer, 78 
pe cmoths an Old Drawing of a, Baron A. IE. Nordenskjold, 
22 
Man, Isle of, the Antiquities of, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 579 
Man, Tertiary, M. de Mortillet, 494 
Man, New, of Mentone, Thomas Wilson, 588 
Man: Prof. D. J. Cuningham on Certain Points of Compari- 
son between the Chimpanzee and, 588 
Man (Edward Horace), Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman 
Islands, 409 ; on the Nicobar Islands, 589 
INDEX 
xx 
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 46 
Manchester and District Association of Science and 
Teachers, 300 
Manchuria, Report on, Gardner, 428 
Maori Race, the, J. H. Kerry-Nicholls, 93 
Marey and Demeny, the Mechanism of the Jump, 432 
Marine Algze, Notes on, Edw. Batters, ror 
Marine Biological Association, the, 61; State Aid to, 278 
Marine Fish-Culture, 609 
Marine Laboratory, Value of a, to the Development and 
Regulation of our Sea Fisheries, Prof. E. Kay Lankester, 
F.R.S., 65 
Marine Station, Scottish, J. P. Cunningham, 176 
Marine Zoology: Proposed Exploration of the Indian Seas, 
Art 
35 
Marion (M.) and M. Saporta, ‘‘ L’ Evolution du Régne Véyétal— 
Les Phanérogames,” J. Starkie Gardner, 289 
Markings on Jupiter, Recurrence of, W. F. Denning, 196 
Marlborough College, Science at, 401 
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, W. F. Denning, 548 
Marsh (Prof. O. C.), ‘* Deinocerata, a Monograph of an 
Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals,” Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 
973; Size of the Brain in Extinct Animals, 562 
Marshall (John, F.R.S.), ‘‘ Hunterian Oration,” 51 
Martin (Sidney), Digestion of Proveids in Plants, 563 
Mason (Sir Josiah), Statue ef the late, 552 
Mason (Prof. O. T.), Summary of Anthropological Work for 
1884, 355 
Mason Science College, Birmingham, 427 
Massari’s Italian African Expedition, Rumoured Massacre of, 
493 
Massowah, Erection of Meteorological Station of, 11 
Materia Medica, Text-Book of Pharmacology, Therapeutics, 
&e., Dr. T. Lauder Brunt in, F.R.S., Prof. Arthur Gamgee, 
E.R. S.5. 337, 
Mathematics : a Short History of Greek, James Gow, 1; The 
late Prof. Clifford’s Papers on Mathematics, 4; Sir William 
TVhomson’s ‘‘Mathemitical and Physical Papers,” Prof. 
Helmholtz, F.R.S., 25; Five Mathematical lKarities, 30; 
Mathematical Society, 70, 118, 167; Terminology of the 
Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, W. J. Ibbetson, 76; 
William Sutherland, 391 ; Henry Muirhead, 439 ; a General 
The ry of Mathematical Form, A. B. Kempe, F.R.S., 237 ; 
Higher Mathematics, 302 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 
Pure and Applied, 364; Address on, at the British Associa- 
tion, by Prof. G. Chrystal, M.A., F.R.S.E., 446; Prof. 
Crum Brown, on the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 533; Sir 
Willian ‘thomson, on Constant Gravitational Instruments, 
535; Prof. Osborne Reynolds, on the Dilatancy of Media 
Composed of Rigid Particles in Contact, 535; Prof. Pirie, on 
Calculating the Surface-lensions of Liquids by Means of 
Cylindrical Drops or Bubbles, 536; Prof. Pirie, on the 
Surface-Tension of Water which contains a Gas dissolved in 
it, 536; Lord Rayleigh, on the Thermodynamic Efficiency 
of Thermopiles, 536; J. Larmor, on Molecular Distances in 
Galvanic Polarisation, 536; J. T. Bottomley, on Cooling of 
Wires in Air and Vacuum, 536; Major A. W. Baird, on 
Levelling Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of 
India, 536; Mr. A. Buchan, on the Rainfall of the British 
Islands, 536; W. H. Preece, on a Remarkable Occurrence 
during the Thunderstorm of August 6, 1885, 536; A. Buchan, 
on the Meteorolozy of Ben Nevis, 536; Dr. Courteney Fox, 
on the Sequence of Mean Temperature and Rainfall in the 
Climate of London, 536; W. H. Preece, on Domestic 
Electric Lighting, 537; Discussion on Standards of White 
Light, 537; A. Vernon Harcourt, on Photometry with the 
Pentane Standard, 537; Prof. W. M. Hicks, on the Consti- 
tution of the Luminiferous Ether on the Vortex Atom Theory, 
537; J. Joly, on a Photometer made with Translucent Prisms, 
5373 Kk. I. Glazebrook, on a Point in the Theory of Double 
Refraction, 538; Prof. W. F. Barrett, on a New and Simple 
Form of Calorimeter, 538; Vuibert’s Journal de Mathé- 
matiques Elementaires, 609 
Matter, Properties of, Prof. Tait’s, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S , 
314 
Maxim Gun, 21 
Maxwell’s, Sir William Thomson and, Electro-Magn ic. cory 
of Light, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, 4 
Measure of Fidget, 174 
