XVI 
INDEX 
[Nature, Dec. 10, 1885 
Koch’s Microbe, on an Alkaloid extracted from Liquid used for 
Cultivation of, A. G. Pouchet, 432 
Koetschau, the Bo ing for Scientific Purposes at, 162 
Konig (Dr.), New Spectro-Photometer, 191 ; Measurement of 
the Modulus of Elasticity, 369 
“*Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,” 383 
Kopreinitz, Earthquake in, 23t 
Korea, Dr. Gottsche’s Exploration of, 164, 232 
Kossel (Dr.), Nucleine, 520 
Koubassoff, Transmission of Pathogenetic Microbes by Mother 
to Feetus and in Milk, 432 
Kowalewski (W.), on the Growth of Cereals, 234 
Kreischer (Prof. C. G.), Shot-Firing in Mines, 596 
Krakatao, Threatening State of, 161, 601 
“*Kryptogamen Flora von Schlesien,” Dr. J. Schroter, 76 
Kuldja, Dr. Henry Lansdell on, 194 
Kurile Islands, Prof. Milne, 209; Notes on the, Milne and 
Snow, 135 
Labour Exhibition at Paris, 401 
Lacquer, the Chemistry of Japanese, Hikorokure, Yoshida, 
190 
Lactic Acid in the Gastric Juice, Prof. Ewald, 24 
Lady Curator, a, E. L. Layard, 30 
Lagneau, Medieval Anesthetics, 301 
Laing (Jeanie M.), on the Modes of Grinding and Drying Corn 
in Old Times, 587 
Lake District, Flora of the English, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 
” 
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Lake-Dweliings, Ancient British, Dr. R. Munro on the Archxo- 
logical Importance of, 588 
Lake George, Rainfall of, 236 
Lamp, Gas, Frederick Siemens’s, 247 
Lancashire, Birds of, F. S. Mitchell, 241 
Landmark (Prof. ), the Capability of Salmon to Jump Waterfalls, 
329 
Langley (S. P.), Sunlight and the Earth’s Atmosphere, 17 
40 
language of Signs used by Oriental Traders, J. Menges, 231 
Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), Value of a Marine Labora- 
tory to the Development and Regulation of our Sea Fisheries, 
65; ‘‘Bronn’s Classen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs,” 
145 
Lansdell (Rev. Dr. Henry), Fauna of Russian Central Asia, 
56; ‘‘ Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, 
Khiva, and Merv,” 194 
Laos, M. P. Neis on, 166 
Lapps, the, Prof. A. H. Keane, 14; Dr. Garson and Prof. 
Keane, 168 
Lapworth (Chas.), on the Highland Controversy in British 
Geology—its Causes, Course, and Consequences, 558 
Larmor (J.), on Molecular Distances in Galvanic Polarisation, 
536 
Larve, Phytophagous, the Essential Nature of the Colouring of, 
I. L. Poulton, 94 
Larvee of Cerura vinula, Cyril B. Holman Hunt, 574 
].assars (Dr.), Preparations of Skin of Lichen Ruber Patients, 
’ 
544 
Last (J. T.), Projected New African Expedition, 184 
Latitude of Solar Macula, &c., Distribution in, Signor Tacchini, 
120 
Laurin (W. M.), Ocular Images and After-Images, 197 
Lava from Vesuvius, the New Outburst of, H. J. Johnston- 
Lavis, 55 
Lava Desert in Interior of Iceland, a, Th. Thoroddsen, 403, 
554 
Lawton’s Method of Preventing Collisions with Icebergs, 353 
Laws (Dr. Robert), on the Manners and Customs of the 
Bantu ‘Tribes of Lake Nyas a, 589 
Laws of Health, W. H. Corfield, 221 
Layard (FE. 1..), a Lady Curator, 30 
Tecan (\Villiam Scarnell), Recent Earthquakes, 17 
Lebanon, Expedition of Dr. Noetling to, 11 
Le Bon (Gustave), on Development of Cholera in India, 543 
J eboulleux (L.), ‘*Traité Elémentaire Déterminants,” 
4it 
Y.cbour (Prof. G. A.), on Some Recent Earthquakes on the 
Downham Coast and their Probable Causes, 559 
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Lectures (Science), at Victoria Hall, 514; Penny Science, 699 
Lehmann (F. C.), Return to America of, 514 : 
Lethnitz, Observations of the Temperature of the Sea and 
Air made during a Voyage from England to the River Plate 
in the s.s., J. Y. Buchanan, 126 
Leipzig, Proposed Grassi Museum at, 160 
Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 635 
“* Leitfaden bei zoologisch-zootomischen Prapaririibungen,” A. 
Mojsisovics Edlen von Mojsvar, 171 
Lena, the Delta of the, 16; Record of Temperature at the 
Polar Station, 16 
Lenape Stone ; orthe Indian and the Mammoth, H. C. Mercer, 
Dr. E. B. Tylor, F.R:S., 593 
Lendenfeld (Dr. R. von), the Glacial Period in Australia, 69 ; 
the Phoriaspongix, 119 ; the Auleninz, 639 
Lenz (Dr. Oscar), his African @xpedition, 357 
Leo (Dr.), on the Formation and Conveyance of Fat in Phos- 
phorus-Poisoning, 120 
J.epidoptera of Great Britain and Japan compared, H. Pryer, 427 
Lesley (Prof. J. P.), Address to the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, 511 
Leslie (Robt. C.), Sky-Glows, 245 
Less (Dr.), the Markings of the Barograph during Thunder- 
storms, 72 
Lesseps (Ferdinand ce), on the Water-Supply of the Desert 
Tracts of Southern Tunis, 281 
Lewis (Prof. H. Carvill), on the Direction of Glaciation as 
Ascertained by the Form of the Striz, 557; on Some 
Examples of Pressure-Fluxion in Pennsylvania, 559 
Lewis (T. C.), Artificial Earthquakes, 295 ; Tertiary Rainbow 
523, 626 : 
Libraries, Colonial Public, J. R. Boosé, 183 
Lichen Ruber Patient, Dr. Lassar’s Preparations of Skin of, 
544 
Lick Observatory, the, 320 
Life of Aquatic Animals at High Pressure, 399 ; 
Light : Sir Wm. Thomson and Maxwell’s tlectro-Magnetic 
Theory of, Prof. Geo, Fras. Fitzgerald, 4; M. Wolf's Mod-fi- 
cation of Foucault’s Apparatus for the Measurement of the 
Velocity of, Albert A. Michelson, 6: the Action of, in dimin- 
ishing the Electrical Resistance of Selenium, Shelford Bidwell, 
167; as a Means of Investigation; Prof. G. G. Stokes on, 
Prof. P. G. Tait, 361; Radiant Light and Heat, Prof. 
Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 322, 389, 394, 413, 422, 550; B. A. 
Report on Standards ef White Light, 529; a Standard of 
Light, J. Frowbridge, 568 
Lightning, Ocular After-Images and, Shelford Bidwell, ror ; 
A. S. Davis, 126 
Lightning Flashes, Photographs of, Dr. Kayser, 111 
Lightning, Trees struck by, in Richmond Park, 460 
Lightning, Causes of Liability of Certain Trees to be struck by, 
Percy Smith, 494 
Lime-trees, Dead Humble bees under, Edward Saunders, 427 
Lindsay (Miss Beatrice), on the Development of the Sternum in 
Birds, 540 : 
Linnzus, the Statue of, 110 
Linnean Society of New South Wales, 70, 119, 287, 615, 639 
Linnean and Old Herbaria, Application of Anatomical Method 
to the Determination of the Materials of the, Prof. L. 
Radlkofer, 563 
Little Knott, the Diorite of, Prof. T, G. Bonney, F.R.S., 189 
Lipporwans, the, Dr. Polek, 429 
Liquids, Dilatation of, Prof. Mendeléet on Formule of, Syee 
Liquids, Determination of Some Co-efficients of Friction, &c., 
18 
Liquids, the Spheroidal State of, Luvini, 635 
Liquid Films, Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 210 
Liquefying Oxygen, New Process of, M. L. Cailletet, 584 
Liverpool Na‘uralists’ Field Club, 231 
Lizards in the British Museum, Catalogue of, George Albert 
Boulenger, 49 . : 
Lloyd (J. U.), Spreading of Various Saline Solu'ions on Filter 
Paper, 87 
Lockhart’s (Col.) Oxus Expedition, 429 
Locomotion, IIuman: Mechanism of the Jump, Marey anl 
Demeny, 432 ; 
Locomotion of Animals, the, Dr. Mullenhoff, 496 
Locomotive, the Compound, 197 : 
Lodge (Prof. Oliver), Notes for the Opening of a Discussion on 
