GENERAL INDEX. 
241 
Law (H.) on the discharge of sewage in 
tidal rivers, 1878, 695 
-—— (R.) and J. Horsfall, an account 
of small Hint instruments found be¬ 
neath peat on the Pennine chain, 1884, 
924 
-and J. Horsfall on the discovery 
of Carboniferous fossils in a conglo¬ 
merate at Houghton Fell, near Settle, 
Yorkshire, 1887, 690 
La WES (J. B.) on some points in connec¬ 
tion with the exhaustion of soils, 1861, 
84 
-on the effects of different manures 
on the mixed herbage of grass land, 
1862, 191 
-on the accumulation of the nitrogen 
of manure in the soil, 1866, 40 ; on the 
sources of the fat of the animal body, 
41 , *92 
- and Dr. Gilbert on the composition 
of wheat grown for twenty years in 
succession on the same land, 1867, 36 
-[Sir J. B.] and Dr. J. H. Gilbert 
on some points in the composition of 
soils, with results illustrating the 
sources of fertility of Manitoba prairie 
soils, 1884, 686 
-and Prof. J. H. Gilbert on the 
present aspect of the question of the 
sources of the nitrogen of vegetation, 
1887, 660 
-(Rev. W. G.), three ymars in South¬ 
east New Guinea, 1880, 658 
Lawrence (Rev. F.) on the survey of 
Eastern Palestine , 1882, 296 ; 1883, 
308 ; 1884, 272 ; 1885, 691 
-(H. N.) and Dr. A. Harries, alter¬ 
nating versus continuous currents in 
relation to the human body, 1890, 
95 7 
Laws (E.) on the proposed exploration 
of certain caves in the neighbourhood 
of Tenby, 1877, 118 ; see 1878, 209 
- (J. P.) and F. Gotch on the blood 
of Limulus polyphemus, 1884, 774 
-(Dr. R.), notes on some of the Bantu 
tribes living round Lake Nyassa in 
Eastern Central Africa, 1885, 1227 
* Laws of Thought,’ Boole’s, R. Leslie 
Ellis on, 1870, 12 
-Rev. R. Harley on, 1870, 14 
^Lawson (Prof. G.), notes of the ana¬ 
lyses of gold coins of Columbia, New 
Granada, Chili, and Bolivia; with 
some account of the operations of 
gold-mining in Nova Scotia, 1867, 37 
-on food-plants used by the North- 
American Indians, 1884, 918 
-(Prof. M. A.) on the flora of Skye, 
1868, 103 ; on the discovery of Bux- 
haumia aphylla near London, 104 
- on physiological experimentation, 
1871, 144 
Lawson (Prof. M. A.) on some speci¬ 
mens of Tortula inelinata, 1872, 129 
* -on plants collected by the voyager 
Dampier, 1873, 105 ; *on a course of 
practical instruction in botany, ib. 
* - on structural peculiarities of the 
Ampelidese, 1874, 134 
-notes on liibes spicatum, 1870, 120 
* - on a spore-producing Glceocapsa, 
from the great conservatory at Chats- 
worth, 1879, 377 
- Address to the Department of 
Zoology and Botany, 1882, 580 
-- (Inspector-General) on the work of 
the Anthropometric Committee , 1878, 
152 ; 1883, 253 
- on the testing of eyesight, 1881, 261 
’’"'Lawyer’s marine pocket case, Captain 
B. Pirn on the, 1881, 781 
Layard (Miss N. F.) on reversion, 1890, 
973 
Laycock (Dr. T.) on the antagonism be - 
tween the action of active substances, 
1872, 124 
Lea, valley of the river, H. Woodward 
on the fresh-water deposits of the, 
1869, 103 
*Lea (A. S.) on the alkaline fermentation 
of urine, 1880, 644 
-(Archdeacon W.), the results of an 
experiment in fruit farming, 1886, 
757 
Leach (Lieut.-Colonel) on the treatment 
and utilisation of sewage , 1871, 166 ; 
1872, 135 
Lead, action of dilute saline solutions 
upon, M. M. P. Muir on the, 1876, 66 
* -the action of water on, A. H. Allen 
on, 1885, 993 
-and antimony, Thomas Richardson 
on the separation of, 1863, 52 
* -bromide of, Dr. G. D. Gibb on the 
action of the, 1864, 123 
- and copper, Dr. T. L. Phipson on 
the solubility of, in pure and impure 
water, 1869, 73 
- chloride, the electrical properties 
of beeswax and, Profs. J. Perry and 
W. E. Ayrton on, 1878, 497 
-copper, tin, zinc, and other metals, 
the alloys of, with manganese, J. F. 
Allen on, 1870, 50 
* -desilverising by the zinc process, 
J. E. Stoddart on, 1876, 69 
-estimation of, T. Fairley on a pro¬ 
posed process for the, 1875, 42 
- formiate of, W. J. Hurst on the 
sulphur compound formed by the ac¬ 
tion of sulphuretted hydrogen on, 1861, 
82 
-fume, A. French on, with a descrip¬ 
tion of a new process of fume-con¬ 
densing, 1879, 301 
-impurities contained in, and their 
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