244 
GENERAL INDEX. 
*Left-handness, Dr. P. H. Smith on, 
1870, 143 
-Dr. H. Muirhead on, 1878, 582 
Left-leggedness, VV. K. Sibley on, 1889, 
776 
Legendre's scale for calculating the first 
elliptic integral, Prof. F. W. Newman 
on the use of. 1876, 28 
Legge (Capt. W. Y.) on the ‘ drumming’ 
of the snipe, 1880, 604 
Legislation for England and Ireland, 
H. L. Jephson on the desirability of 
simultaneous and identical, 1878, 673 
* -on the extinction of animals, Eev. 
H. B. Tristram on the effect of, 1869, 
118 
Legislative protection to the birds of 
Europe, C. 0. Groom-Napier on, 1875, 
217 
Legitimacy, questioned, G. Seton on 
certain cases of, under the Scottish 
Registration Act, 1871, 217 
Leh, in Cashmere, explorations from, to 
Khotan in Chinese Tartary, by W. H. 
Johnson, 1866, m 
Leichhardt, Dr. F. Muller on M c Intyre’s 
journey across Australia, and discovery 
of traces of, 1865, 124 
-Sir R. I. Murchison on the reported 
discovery of the remains of, in Austra¬ 
lia, 1866, 114 
*Leitner (Prof.) on papers from Lahore, 
1866, 96 
* -[Dr.] on an ethnological and lingu¬ 
istic tour of discovery in Dardistan, &c., 
1875, 176 
*Le Marinel (Lieut.), the Congo below 
Stanley Pool, 1887, 798 
Le Mesurier (Col.) on the erosion of the 
coast at Sheerness, 1885, 441 
*Lemna arrhiza, W. Moggridge on the 
occurrence of, in Epping Forest, 1866, 
76 
Lemoine (G.) on the relation of forests 
to hydrology, 1872, 210 
Lemstrom’s recent auroral experiments 
in Lapland, J. R. Capron on, 1883, 439 
Lendenfeld (Dr. R. Yon), notes on 
Australian coelenterates, 1886, 709 ; on 
the nervous system of sponges, 710 ; 
on the function of nettle-cells, ib. 
Lendy (Captain) on the topograph, a 
new surveying instrument, 1865, 21 
Lenk (Baron), information on the appli¬ 
cation and manufacture of gun cotton, 
1863, 25 ; extracts from a report on his 
gun-cotton, 33 
|Lens, accuracy of focus necessary for 
sensibly perfect definition in a, Lord 
Rayleigh on the, 1885, 930 
-cylindrical, Dr. T. Anderson on a 
varying, 1886, 520 
-panoramic, Thomas Sutton on the, 
I 86 G 33 
Lenses, ellipsoidal, Rev. Thomas Furlong 
on the possibility of constructing, 
1864, 5 
-for the accurate correction of visual 
defect, Philip Braham on a set of, 
1871, 37 
*Lentil as an article of food, C. G. Mon- 
teith on the, 1864, 125 
Lepidodendron and Lepidophloios , W. 
Cash and J. Lomax on, 1890, 810 
Lcpidogaster bimaculatus and L. cornu- 
biensis, W. R. Hughes on specimens of, 
1865, 87 
Lepidophloios and Lepidodendron , W. 
Cash and J. Lomax on, 1890, 810 
*Lepidoptera, British, Dr. Jordan on the, 
with a view to investigate the origin 
of species, 1865, 89 
* -Irish, recent additions to the list of, 
R. H. Sinclair on, 1878, 572 
-of Great Britain, the relation of, to 
those of other countries, Capt. H. J. 
Elwes on, 1880, 604 
-E. Bircball on some hybrid Sphin- 
gidse and other, 1870, hi 
L epidopterous pupm, artificial production 
of a gilded appearance in certain, E.B. 
Poulton on the, 1886, 692 
Lepidosteus, the development of, F. M. 
Balfour and W. N. Parker on, 1880, 
599 
Lepper (C. H.), the question of an over¬ 
land route to China from India via 
Assam, with some remarks on the 
source of the Irrawaddi river, 1882, 
612 
Leprosy, H. J. Ker Porter on the preva¬ 
lence of, in the kingdom of Norway, 
1867, 144 
Leptodora hyalina , the occurrence of, in 
England, Sir J. Lubbock on, 1879, 369 
♦Lesley (J. P.) on the Coal-Measures of 
Sydney, Cape Breton, 1863, 82 
Leslie (B.), project for a Channel rail¬ 
way, 1880, 698 
- (Lieut.-* olonel Forbes) on mega- 
lithic circles, 1871, 154 ; on ancient 
hieroglyphic sculptures, 155 
——- (J.), description of a salmon-ladder, 
1871, 239 
Lesma^agow, Dr. J. Brown on the Upper 
Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills 
and, 1871, 93 
* -Dr. R. slimonon the Upper Silurian 
rocks of, 1876, 96 
+ Lesseps (F. de) on the Panama canal, 
1886, 736 
f-le canal la Panama, 1888. 738 
Lessor Antilles, botanical bibliography of 
the, by W H. Hemsley, 1888, 438 
- zoological bibliography of the, by D. 
Sharp, 1888, 438 
♦Letts (A. C.) on two new hydro¬ 
carbons from turpentine, 1876, 65 
