INDEX. 



495 



Knight (T. A.) on the hereditary in- 

 stinctive propensities of animals, 

 476. 



Kropalschek(M.), welt mechanik, 413. 



Lardner (Dr.) on the lunar theory, 25. 



• on the properties of vapour, 159. 



on the theory of railways, 385. 



Larynx, its functions as one of the or- 

 gans of voice, 103. 



Lawrence (Sir T.), notice of, 10. 



Lawson (H.) on the solar spots, as seen 

 May 1836, 397. 



Lax (Rev. W.), notice of, 438. 



Leach (Dr.), notice of the late, 439. 



Lead, equivalent number for, 197. 



Lee (Dr.) on the human placenta and 

 its connexion with the uterus, 75. 



Leech, on the suction of the, 198 ; on 

 the respiratory organs of the, 206. 



LeGendre (A. M.), notice of the life 

 and works of, 230. 



Leas, crystalline, of animals, 194, 

 366, 478. 



, crystalline, doubly refracting 



structures in the, 478. 



, fluid, for telescopes, 13. 



, negative achromatic, 284. 



Lepades, the second type of the Cir- 

 ripedes, metamorphoses of the, 325. 



Life, on the laws of in reference to 

 disease, 134. 



, on the powers of, 401. 



— — , insect, on their capability of sup- 

 porting it, 404. 



, animal and organic, on the mus- 

 cular fibre of, 462, 484. 



Light, absorption of, 322 ; on the phe- 

 nomena of the absorption of by co- 

 loured media, 475. 



, experiments on, 298. 



, its action on plants, 364. 



, on the inflexion of, 72. 



, refracted and diffracted, 281. 



, theory of the dispersion of, 281, 



326, 362," 459. 



, electric, duration of, 299. 



, white, primary colours of, 284. 



,undulatory theory of, 73, 89, 362. 



Light-houses, on illuminating, 474. 



Limnoria terebrans, on, 291. 



Linear measures, British standards of, 

 352. 



Lister (J. J.) on tubular and cellular 



Polypi and Ascidiae, 268. 

 Liver, anatomv, and phvsiologv of the, 



211. 



Liverpool, on tide observations made 



at, 338, 368. 



, phenomena of the tides at, 346. 



, solar and diurnal inequality of 



the tides at, 377. 

 Llovd (J. A.), survey of the river 



Thames, 30. 

 on meteorological deductions 



from observations made at Port 



Louis, 477. 

 Locomotive engines, on railways, 385, 



390. 



London, port of, on the tides in, 62, 137, 

 256, 399. 



Longitude, formulas for computing, 

 332 ; deduced from the moon's 

 right ascension, 107 ; on obtaining 

 the inequalities of, 16. 



Lubbock (J. W.), researches in phy- 

 sical astronomy, 16, 51, 5 9, 75, 101, 

 121, 128, 137. 



on meteorological observations 



made at the Royal Society, 42. 



on the theory of the moon, 52, 



75, 128, 253, 270. 



on the precession of the equi- 

 noxes, 16, 52. 



on determining the planetary in- 

 equalities, 60. 



on the tides in the port of Lon- 

 don, 62, 137, 399. 



on the tides, 75, 178, 265, 466. 



, report on Prof. Airy's paper on 



an inequality of long period in the 

 motions of the Earth and Venus, 108. 



on the determination of the terms 



in the disturbing function of the 

 fourth order, 301. 



, the Royal medal awarded to,306. 



on the elements of Halley's co- 

 met in 1759, 332. 



on tide observations made at Li- 

 verpool, 338, 368. 



on the fluctuations of the height 



of high- water, 485. 



Lunar theory, on the, 25, 52, 75, 128, 

 253, 270." 



Lyell (C), the Royal medal awarded 

 to, 306. 



on the rising of the land in 



Sweden, 313. 

 Lyon (Capt.), notice of the late, 228. 



Macdonald (Lt.-Col.), notice of the 

 late, 83. 



Mackintosh (Sir J.), notice of the life 

 and works of, 147. 



