i879«1 index. 833 
Keates, Mr., and J. Bazalgette, report 
on the electric light on the 
Thames Embankment, 455 
Kerner, A., “Flowers and their Un- 
bidden Guests” (review), 137 
Keys of death, the, 209 
Kingzett, C. T., pine and eucalyptus, 
766 
Kjerulfine, Wagnerite identical with, 
269 
Kuhn, Prof., experiments on the eye, 
454 
Kunckel, M. J., nervous system of 
the diptera, 703 
L ACERDA, poison of serpents, 
262 
Lami, milking, 706 
Lamps, legends of sepulchral and per- 
petual, 715 
Langley, S. P., temperature of the 
sun, 654 
Latchinoff, M., electric light, 264 
Lavoisier, M., apparatus of, 587 
Law, physical, thoughts on our con- 
ception of, 276 
Lawrance, A., and E. Frankland, on 
stannic ethide, 200 
Le Doux, C., action of quinine upon 
silkworms, 765 
Lealand and Powell, Messrs., oil im- 
mersion objective, 456 
Leaves and their fundtions, 406 
Leeds, A. R., sanitary science in the 
United States, 49 
Lefebure, M., improvements in Bun- 
sen’s battery, 394 
Lemmon, J. G., age of the sequoias of 
California, 513 
Lepidoptera from the Amur river, 
452 
Lettuce, remedy for the Peronospora 
infesting the, 388 
Ley, W. C., inclination of the axes of 
cyclones, 385 
Lichtenstein, J., cochineal insedt 
living on the elms, 452 
— metamorphoses of the Spanish fly, 
764 
Lite, production and maintenance of, 
454 . . .. 
— saving stations in mid ocean, plan 
for, 341 
Light, adtion of on the colouration of 
the organic world, 650 
on plants, 784 
— and electricity, new relation be- 
tween, 318 
— electric, 207, 260, 264, 450, 587, 
644 
dioptic apparatus in lighthouses 
for the, 381 
Lights, different coloured, action of 
upon the development of animal 
ova and larvae, 204 
Lighthouse illumination, electric light 
applied to, 378 
Lighting, electric, contribution to the 
history of, 155 
by incandescence, 168 
— report on, 518 
“ Literary and Philosophical Society 
of Liverpool ” (review), 371 
Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Manchester, 324 
Live box, 297 
Liveing, G. D., note on the unknown 
chromospheric substance of 
Young, 377 
— spectroscopic papers, 575 
Lobster and octopus, blood of, 765 
— phosphorescence of the flesh of the, 
454 
Lochaber, origin of the parallel roads 
of, 497 
Lockyer, J. N., communication by 
Messrs. Liveing and Dewar, 505 
— researches on nature of chemical 
elements, 800 
— spectrum of sodium, 503 
Longevity, 734 
Lontin electric light, improvements 
in, 722 
Lowe, R. M., paradoxical phenomena 
in ice-caves, 525 
Lubbock, Sir J., “Scientific Lectures ” 
(review), 565 
Lucida camera, 265 
Luvini, G., preservation of silkworms’ 
eggs, 39i 
Lydekker, R., “ Memoirs of the Geo- 
logical Survey of India ” (review), 
120 
M ACALISTER, A., “ Introduction 
to Systematic Zoology and 
Morphology of Vertebrate Ani- 
mals ” (review), 368 
— “ Invertebrata ” (review), 122 
— “ Vertebrata ” (review), 123 
Mace, J., researches on colour-blind- 
ness, 822 
Magnetical observations, results of 
made by the officers of the Arctic 
Expedition, 445 
Magnetism, a new theory of terres- 
trial, 287 
“ Magnetism and Electricity ” (re- 
view), 1 14 
Magneto-electric machines, magnetic 
currents in, 817 
