672 iNDEX. 



Page. 



Lanthanum, use of 240 



Laplace, astronomical work of 90 



Laputans, Swift on the 120 



Latitude, periodic variations of 95 



Lea, Carey, discoveries by 209 



Leche, Wilhelm 3 ^changes with 31 



Leibnitz's consi^' entior status ;j50 



Lenard's experiments with cathode rays 111. 165 



Lepsius, Eichard, on geography 385 



Leptocephili, life history of 492 



L'Hyperchimie, study of 211 



Libraries and literature of North Carolina 80 



Library of Congress, decorations asked for xv 



new building for 14 



building, description of, by Bernard E. Green 625 



relations of Smithsonian to 78 



Smithsonian rooms in 629 



Smithsonian, Dr. Adler's report on 69 



increase of 69 



in Library of Congress 14 



Secretary's report on 13 



Lick Observatory, work accomplished by 93 



Life history studies of animals, Miall on 483 



origin of, on the earth 356 



plasma, development of 453 



Light, acetylene 284 



and its artificial production, by Lummer 273 



artificial, early methods of producing 274 



economic question of 277 



astral, in modern hermetism 214 



electric 127, 277, 285, 298 



fluorescent, researches in 139 



from the stars 274 



measurement of power of 276 



natural causes of 273 



nature of kinds of 278 



physiological, Dubois on 75, 76 



radiation of 287 



sources of, physical basis of 296 



substances transmitting 252 



Welsbach 283 



Lightning, velocity of 274 



Linear energy, definition of 256 



Linell, M. L., death of 30 



Linguistics, Indian, researches in 20, 34, 41 



Linnemann's discovery of austrium . 240 



Locke, astronomical work of 91 



Lockyer, Norman, cited 208 



Logia, leaf of the, discovery of 574 



Long, John D., member of "Establishment'' ix, 1 



Loomis, Elias, observatory of 91 



L'Ordre Martiniste 210 



Lorges, Sieur de, bravery of 508 



Louis XI, and the Eoyal Menagerie 509 



Louyet, researches by 263, 264 



