Natute, May 27, iS 



Lake Constance, Tidal Phenomenon in, Samuel J. Capper, 397 ; 

 Dr. F. A. Forel, 443 



Lakes, Italian and Tessin, Felagic Fauna of, 525 



Lnmlr(Horace), Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of the 

 Motion of Fluids, 342 



Land Shells of the Austral Islands, 10S 



Landauer's " Blowpipe Analysis," 392 



Landolt (Prof. H ) in the Chair of Chemistry at the New Agri- 

 cultural College of Berlin, 357 



Langley (J. N.), Pepsine-forming Glands, 169 



Lankester (Prof. E. Ray), " The Crayfi>h : an Introduction ot 

 the Study of Zoology," T. H. Huxley, F.K.S., 353; the 

 Medusa:, 413; the Destruction of Insect Pests, an Unforeseen 

 Application of the Results of Biological Investigation, 447 ; 

 an American Sea Side Laboratory, 497 ; Does Chlorophyll 

 Decompose Carbonic Acid ? 557 



" Law of Mutual Help," Prof. Kessler on. 285 



Layard (E. L.), the Papau, 201 ; Weaver Birds and Fire-Flies, 

 201 ; Meteors in New Caledonia, 397 ; Subject-Cataloguing, 



Leadville, a Glacier near, 574 



Leaves, Movement in the, of Conifers, 241 



LeConte (John), Bone-Sucking — a Habit of Cattle, 12 



Left Side and Ristht Side in Different Races, 262 



Legge (T»mes), "The Sacred Books of China," 77 



Legoff (Dr.), Death of, 408 



Lehmke, Archaeological Discovery near, 2S6 



Leibnitz's Long-Lost Calculating Machine, Recovery of, 214 



Leibnitz and Papin, Discovery of Original Letters by, 19 



Leidy (Dr. Joseph) Receives the Walker Prize, 451 ; his Mono- 

 graph on the Freshwater Rhizopods of North America, 523 



Lenz (Dr. Oscar), Letter from, 242 



Ijpidwn, Haloporphyrus (Kisso), Prof. Henry Hillyer Giglioli 

 on, 201 



Leprosy, a Cochin-China Remedy for, 19, 35 



Levasseur's (M. E.) "Tour du Monde," Geographical Game, 

 237 



Ley (Rev. Clement), Cloud Classification, 207 ; the TayBridge 

 Storm, 468 



Leyden Jars and "Toughened" Glass, 526 ; the Residual 

 Charge of, 526 



Lick O^ervatory, the, 47, 91 



Light : Cintolesi's Researches on, 21 ; Experimental Determina- 

 tion of the Velocity of, by Albert A. Michelson, 94, 120, 226 ; 

 a New Light Company, 115; a New Standard of, Louis 

 Schwendler, 158 ; the Intensity of, in Varying Colours, 189 ; 

 on a Mode ot Explaining the Transverse Vibrations of, S. 

 Tolver Preston, 256 ; Lewis Wright, 370 ; the Transverse 

 Propagation of, W. M. Hicks, 301 ; S. Tolver Preston, 369 ; 

 Solar Parallax from the Velocity of, D. P. Todd, 331 ; the 

 Reflection and Refraction of, 460; and Chemical Develop- 

 ment, 620 



Light and Colours, Hering's Theory of the Vision of, Dr. W. 

 Pole, F.R.S., 14 



Light of Webb's Planetary Nebula (DM. + 41°, 4O04),'_Prof. 

 Edward C. Pickering, 346 



Lighthouses : Distinguishing Lights for, Sir W. Thomson, 109 ; 

 Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 154; New Modes of Showing 

 Different Characteristics over Small Arcs in Azimuth from 

 the same Lighthouse Apparatus, T. Stevenson, 156 



" Lightning-conductors ; their History, Nature, and Mode of 

 Application," by Richard Anderson, 415 



Lindheimer (Ferdinand), Death of, 306 



Lindsay (Lord), a New Nebula, 80 ; to Astronomers, 106 



Lindsay (W. Lauder, M.D.), "Mind in the Lower Animals in 

 Health and Dt-ease," 8 



Linkages, J. D. C. De Roos, 441 



Linnean Society, 51, 123, 170, 219, 315, 411, 459, 483, 530, 

 603 



Lipari Islands, G. F. Rodwell, 400 



Liquids, the Magnetisation of, 576 



LUsauer's (Herr), Discovery of Unopened Graves in the "Reihen- 

 grauer," 382 



Literature and Science, Society for the Encouragement of, W. S. 

 Dallas, 107; Prof. St. George Mivart, F.K.S., 107 



Liveing (Prof. G. D., F.K.S.), on the Spectra of Sodium and 

 Potassium, 17a; on the Reversal of the Lines uf Metallic 

 Vapours, 193 



Lizard, Jasper Cargill, 81 



Lizard, Land, Remains of Gigantic, 626 



Lloyd (W. A.), the Zoological Station, or Aquarium, at Naples, 

 537 



Loanda, Arrival of Ivens and Capello at, 1 18 



Lockwood (Samuel), How Snakes Shed their Skins, 56 



Lockyer (J, Norman, F.K.S.), on the Necessity for a New 

 Departure in Spectrum Analysis, 5 



Loire, River, Ice in the, 286, 306 



London, the Temperature of, 48 



London Clay, Diatoms in, W. H.Shrubsole, 132, 444, 538; W. 

 H. Penning, 494 



London, Sewage of, 133 



Longitudes, Trans-Atlantic, C. P. Patterson, 467 



Loochoo Islands, 142 



Loomis (Prof.), Isobars for the United States, 503 ; on Stoim- 

 Centres in the United States, 503 



Lophiomys: on the "Habitat" of, Prof. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 

 201 ; Paul Henry Stokoe, 226 



Lubbock (Su- John, F.R.S.) and Science in Parliament, 547 



Lukuga Creek, 409 



Lumiuous Paint, Balmain's, 576 



Lunar Eclipses, 117 



Lunar Rings, Dr. George Berwick, 33, 155 



Lunar Tables, Errors of the, 141 



Lydekker (Richard), Nicholson's " Palaeontology," 536 



Lyman (Theodore), Ophiurida: and Astrophytida; of the Chal- 

 lenger Expedition, 513 



Lyons, Ice Blocks at, 330 



MacCarthy (M.) Nominated President of the Geographical Society 



of Algiers, 73 

 Macdougall (Alan), Anchor-Ice, 612 

 Mackennal (Alex.), Intellect in Brutes, 397 

 McLachlan (R.), Indian Entomology, 173 

 Maclay Coast, New Guinea : Notes on the Papuans of, V. Ball, 



251 ; Further Notes upon the Papuans of, J. C. Galton, 204, 



226 

 Maclear (Commander J. P.), Intellect in Brutes, 250 

 Maclellan (Rev. J. Brown), Elected Principal of the Agricultural 



College, Cirencester, 162 

 M'Leod (Herbert, F.R.S.), Electricity of the Blowpipe Flame, 



347 

 McNab (W. R.), Cryptogamic Flora of Silesia, 391 

 Madagascar : Publication of a New Work on, 23 ; Rev. James 



Sibree, jun. , on, 365 

 Magdeburg, Grand Agricultural Exhibition at, 163 

 Magnet, on a New Action of the, on Electric Currents, 361 ; 



Lines of Force due to a Small, J. Buchanan, 370, 445 

 Magnets, Cast-Iron, M. Carre's, 359 

 Magnetic Effects of Electric Convection, 359 

 Magnetic Gyroscope, De Fonvielle and Lontin, 573, 593 

 Magnetism, T. Murby, 106 

 Magneto-Electric Machine, De Meritens, and an Induction Coil, 



Effects produced with, Wru. SpottUwoode, P.R.S., 433 

 Magnus (Philip), appointed Director of City and Guilds of 



London Technical Institute, 524 

 Malakhoff on the Ural Crayfish, 454 

 Mallet (Robert, F.R.S. ), Death of Captain Cook, 275 

 Mammalia of Scotland, E. R. Alston, 609 

 Mammalian Remains in Four Bone Caves of Upper Franconia, 



264 

 Man : Osteology of, 222 ; Origin of, W. S. Duncan, 493 ; Pre- 

 historic, in Japan, Fred. V. Dickins, 350; S. Suguira, 371 

 Manchester, Literary and Philosophical Society, 196, 340 

 Manchuria, Lead and Copper in, 48 

 Map of the World, Stanford's New Library, 22 

 Map, how to Colour a, with Four Colours, A. B. Kempe, 399 

 Marangoui (Signor), on the Plasticity of Solid Substances, 21 

 Marat the Author of Several Essays on Electricity, 189 

 Marble, Pyrenees, 165 

 Marbre Griotte, Dr. Barrois on, 165 

 Marangoni's Theory of Crystallogenesis, 504 

 Marielte-Bey (M. ), on the proposed Excavations in Egypt, 115 

 Marine Animals, an Account of some met with en route to the 



Cape, Capt F. Proby Doughty, 32 

 Markham (Capt. A. II.), Comet observed by, 515 ; Paper on 



the Arctic Campaign, 1879, in the Barents Sea, 92 

 Marriott (\V.), the Frost .if December, 1879, 435 

 Mars : the Satellites of, 72 ; Planets of the Season — Mars, Rev. 



T. W. Webb, 212; Physical Observation! of Mars, 507 



