240 
GENERAL INDEX. 
vanadium upon the intrinsic nervous 
mechanism of the frog’s heart, 1876, 
151 
Larmutii (L.), Prof. Gamgee, and J. 
Priestley on the action of pyrophos- 
phoric acid on the circulation, 1876, 152 
Larva, H. T. Stainton on a new leaf 
mining, recently discovered, 1861, 159 
Larvae of Microlepidoptera, H. T. Stainton 
on the generic characters furnished by 
the different modes of mining leaves 
adopted by the, 1863, 106 
Laryngoscope, Dr. George D. Gibb on the 
normal position of the epiglottis as 
determined by the, 1862, 128 
Larynx of the negro and that of the 
white man, Dr. G. D. Gibb on the dif¬ 
ference between the, 1864, 94 
- ■ Sir G. D. Gibb on some abnormalities 
of the, 1871, 139 
Lasaulx (Dr. von) on some new minerals, 
and on doubly-refracting garnets, 187 6 , 
92 
Lassell (William) on a brilliant elliptic 
ring in the planetary nebula, At20°56', 
NP.D. 101° 56', 1862, 14 
Lastrea rigida, George Maw on the oc¬ 
currence of, in North Wales, 1868, 105 
'•'■Latent heat of gases, J. Dewar on the, 
1874, 22 
*—*— heat of liquefied gases, J. Dewar 
on the, 1874, 57 
Latham (Baldwin) on the importance of 
hydrogeological surveys from a sanitary 
point of view, 1876, 226 
-on the interception of rainfall from 
sewers, 1877, 207 ; on indications of 
the movement of subterranean water 
in the Chalk formation, ib. 
-experiments on the influence of the 
angle of the lip of rain-gauges on the 
quantity of water collected, 1879, 278 ; 
on the temperature of town water sup¬ 
plies, 499 ; 1880, 696 
-on the influence of barometric pres¬ 
sure on the discharge of water from 
springs, 1881, 614 ; 1883, 495 
- proportional mortality, 1886, 780 ; 
automatic pumping of sewage by high- 
pressure water, 810 
-(Dr. R. G.), Yassin and the Ivajunah 
district, 1883, 566 ; on the words ‘ Celt,’ 
‘ German,’ and ‘ Slavonian,’ their mis¬ 
interpretation and its results, 567 
*Lathes, heavy, A. Greenwood on, 1890, 
959 
Laticiferous canals in fruit of Limno- 
charis Plumieri, Prof. A. Dickson on, 
1876, 144 
La Touche (Rev. J. D.) on the nodules 
in the limestone of Wenlock Edge, 
1865, 76 
_ an (stimate of the quantity of 
sedimentary deposit in the Onny, 1869, 
93 ; on spheroidal structure in Silurian 
rocks, 95 
La Touche (Rev. J. D.) on the sedimentary 
deposits of the river Onny , 1870, 11 
—— on the sounds known as the * Barisfil 
Guns,’ occurring in the Gangetic delta, 
1890, 800 
*Lauder (G.) on frictional screw mo¬ 
tions, 1870, 219 
Laughton fj. K.) on the great currents 
of the atmosphere, 1870, 170 
-—— on Mr. E. J. Lome's project of esta¬ 
blishing a meteorological observatory, 
near Chepstow, 1884, 33 ; 1885, 64 : 
1886, 139 ; 1887,39 
Laurentian amphibolites, notes on the 
microscopic characters of some, by 
F. D. Adams, 1884, 717 
*- rocks in Canada, Sir W. Logan. 
Dr. Dawson, and Dr. Sterry Hunt on 
organic remains in, 1864, 58 
-rocks in Ireland, G. H. Kinaban on 
the, 1881, 609 
-beds of Donegal and of other parts 
of Ireland, Prof. E. Hull on the, 1881, 
609 
—— rocks, Irish and other, C. Moore on 
life in, 1881, 610 
- rocks of North Uist, Scotland, J. 
Thomson on a conglomerate with 
boulders in the, 1883, 498 
Laurie (A. P.), the composition of 
copper-tin alloys. 1888, 637 
- on artists’ colours, 1889, 541 
- (Maj.-Gen.) on the agricultural 
resources of Nova Scotia, 1884, 849 
Laurium (Greece), some ores and mine¬ 
rals from, H. Stopes on, 1881, 650 
Lava, G. vom Rath on leucite, 1872, 79 ; 
on a remarkable block of, ejected by 
Vesuvius at the great eruption, April 
1872, which proves the formation of 
silicates through sublimation, 120 
Lavas, the natural history of, as illus¬ 
trated by the materials ejected from. 
Krakatoa, Prof. J. W. Judd on, 1887, 
711 
Lavatera sylvestris, Brot., the recent oc¬ 
currence of, in the Scilly Islands, H. 
Trimen on, 1877, 106 
Laveleye (E. de) on land laws, 1884, S 62 
Lavender (R.) on a new form of lamp, 
1876, 229 
Laverna, H. T. Stainton on the extra¬ 
ordinary partiality shown by insects 
of the genus, for plants of the order 
Onagracere, 1865, 93 
Lavoisier (M.), Letters from, to Dr. 
Black, 1871, 189 
Law, courts of, report of committee on 
technical and scientific evidence in, 
1862 , 373 ; I860, 456 * 
-of facility, a modification of the. 
D. M'Alister on, 1879, 267 
