894 



NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Lake Erie, water level, 311 ; water 

 supply of Buffalo, 858 ; wind 

 action. 313. 



Lake Ontario and Seneca Lake 

 Navigation Co., 532. 



Lake Ontario Water Co., 854. 



Lakes of central New York, how 

 they tend to reduce floods, 113 ; 

 fluctuations, 112; list, 216. 



Lanier, Charles, 652. 



Larocque, Joseph, 652. 



Lattimore, S. A., 846, 850, 854, 855. 



Lawes, Sir J. B., 137. 



Ledoux, J. W., 854. 



Litigations, Canal Appraisers vs the 

 People, 533; Keinpshall vs Com- 

 missioners of Canal Fund, 535 ; 

 People vs Canal Appraisers, 534; 

 People vs Tibbetts, 533; Stacey, 

 Richard M. vs City of Syracuse, 

 547 ; Waller vs State of New 

 York, 551. 



Little, W. P., 655. 



Livingston, Robert R., 728. 



Lockport, economic statistics, 673 ; 

 rental for waterpower, 673; re- 

 sult of building canal, 671 ; water 

 supply, 714; water yield in 

 vicinity, 715 ; wells, 715. 



Lockport Hydraulic Power Co., 671, 

 836. 



Lockport Paper Co., 672. 



Long Island, legal principles apply 



to the taking of water from sands, 



291; length and width, 683; 



natural reservoirs, 693 ; relation 



of geology to water supplies, 6S4 ; 



streams, 292; watershed, 6S3 ; 



water yield of sands, 291, 693. 

 Long Island Water Supply Co., 678, 



679. 



Lovelace, E. L., 655. 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, 315. 



McAlpine, William J., 462. 

 McClintock, J. Y., 820. 

 McEchron, William, 711. 

 McElroy, Samuel, 462. 

 McFarlane, Wallace, 742, 743. 



McKinstry, John, 536. 

 McLouth, Charles, 575. 

 Manhattan Water Supply Co., 676. 

 Manufacturing, encouragement, 567 ; 

 discouraged, 873 ; value of 

 water in New York. 775. 



Ballston Springs, 559. 



Cohoes, 559. 



Connecticut, 561. 



Eighteenmile creek, 672. 



Fishkill creek, 712. 



Fort Edward, 559. 



Fort Miller, 559. 



Glens Falls, 558. 



Hadley, 559. 



Lansingburg, 559. 



Lockport, 671. 



Massachusetts, 561. 



Mechanicville, 559. 



New York, 561. 



Palmers Falls, 559. 



Rhode Island, 561. * 



Sandy Hill, 558. 



Saratoga Springs, 559. 



Schenectady, 559. 



Schuylerville, 559. 



Seneca river, 538. 



Troy, 559. 



Wappinger creek, 712. 



Waterford, 559. 



Watervliet, 559. 

 Marichal, Arthur, 330. 

 Marsh, Daniel, 182, 494, 852. 

 Mascart, E., 653. 



Medina Business Men's Association, 

 675. 



Meteorological bureau, when organ- 

 ized, 46 ; work, 47. 



Mill acts, effect on population, 563; 

 states in which laws have been 

 enacted, 529 ; New England, 529. 



Mills, Darius O., 652, 655. 



Mills, F. C, 441, 732, 826. 



Minimum flow, Genesee river, de- 

 crease, 495 ; importance of, 491 ; 

 Long Island streams, 688; Morris 

 river, 496; Oswego, Mohawk and 

 Hudson rivers, 39; tendency to 

 lixed rate, 496. 



