246 
GENERAL INDEX. 
pressure-fluxion in Pennsylvania, 1885, 
1029 
Lewis (Prof. H. C.) comparative studies 
upon the glaciation of North America, 
Great Britain, and Ireland, 1886, 632 ; 
on a diamantiferous peridotite and the 
genesis of the diamond, 667 
-on the terminal moraines of the great 
glaciers of England, 1887, 691 ; on 
some important extra-morainic lakes 
in Central England, North America, 
and elsewhere, during the period of 
maximum glaciation, and on the origin 
of extra-morainic boulder-clay, 692 ; 
on the matrix of the diamond, 720 ; on 
the terminal moraine near Manchester, 
724 
-(J.) on an improved marine steam- 
boiler, 1867, 155 
-(Dr. W.) on the work of the Anthro¬ 
pometric Committee , 1878, 152 
* -(W. A.), a proposal for a modifica¬ 
tion of the strict law of priority in 
zoological nomenclature in certain 
cases, 1871, 133 
Lewkowitsch (Dr. J.), contributions to 
the analysis of fats, 1890, 787 
*Leyden jars with multiple fracture, ex¬ 
hibition of, by J. T. Bottomley and Sir 
A. Campbell, 1889, 515 
--jar discharges, the impedance of 
conductors to, Prof. 0. J. Lodge on, 
1888, 567 
L’Heureux (J.), notes on the astrono¬ 
mical customs and religious ideas of 
the Cliokitapia or Blackfeet Indians, 
1884, 921 ; notes on the Kekip sesoa- 
tors or ancient sacrificial stone of the 
N.W. territory of Canada, ib. 
Lias at Barrow-on-Soar, Rev. P. B. Brodie 
on the correlation of the, with the same 
strata in Warwick-, Worcester-, and 
Gloucester-shires, 1866, 51 
* -a census of the marine invertebrate 
fauna of the, by Ralph Tate, 1870, 88 
- of Dorsetshire, Dr. T. Wright on 
the White, 1864, 75 
-at Harbury, near Leamington, Rev. 
P. B. Brodie on a section of Lower, 
1865, 48 
* -Lincolnshire, Lower, F. M. Burton 
on the, 1867, 57 
-. Middle, at Ballycastle, G. Langtry 
on the occurrence of the, 1874, 88 
* - of Lyme Regis, E. C. H. Day on 
the Lower, 1865, 51 
-- C. Moore on the presence of naked 
Echinodermata in the Inferior Oolite 
and, 1872, 117 
- of Somersetshire, Henry B. Brady 
on the Foraminifera of the Middle and 
Upper, 1864, 50 
-South Warwickshire, Rev. P. Brodie 
on two outliers of, 1864, 52 
Lias, Upper, C. Moore on a specimen of 
Teleosanrus from the, 1869, 97 
-of Warwickshire, Rev. P. B. Brodie 
on two new species of corals in the, 
1865, 49 
- near Whitby, Yorkshire, Dr. A. 
Carte and W. H. Baily on a new species 
of Plesiosaurus from the, 1862, 68 
-Yorkshire, Rev. J. F. Blake on the, 
and the distribution of its Ammonites, 
1871, 90 
*Liassic sea, E. C. H. Day on the history 
of the Jurassic seas, as evidenced by 
the history of the first, 1865, 51 
-sections near Bridport, Dorset, J. F. 
Walker on, 1890, 799 
*Libbey (Prof.) on South-eastern Alaska, 
1887, 804 
^Libraries, free public, Miss Stamp on 
statistics of, 1875, 220 
- free public, James Hey wood on 
statistics of the, Nothing Hill, London, 
and Manchester, 1881, 769 ; 1883, 604 
Licences proposed to be transferred in 
aid of local expenditure, R. H. Inglis 
Palgrave on the distribution of, 1888, 
764 
Lichen, the action of a, on limestone, 
Prof. W. J. Sollas on, 1880, 586 
Lichen-growth, is it detrimental to forest 
and fruit-trees ? by Dr. W. L. Lindsay, 
1867, 87 
-to what extent is it a test of age ? 
by Dr. W. L. Lindsay, 1867, 88 
Lichens, Dr. W. Lauder Lindsay on the 
present uses of, as dye-stuffs, 1867 , 38 ; 
on polymorphism in the fructification 
of, 89 
Lick Observatory, California, design for 
working the equatorial and dome of, 
by hydraulic power, by H. Grubb, 1886, 
553 
Liddell (A. R.), ships for the carriage 
of petroleum, 1889, 738 
Lidston (T.) on Thomas Newcomen’s 
steam-engine (1712), 1877, 217 
^Liebig's extract of meat, Dr. Edward 
Smith on the economic and nutritive 
value of, 1872, 227 
*Life, Dr. Lionel S. Beale on, 1865, 101 
* -annuities, explanations of Mr. 
MUlintock’s method of finding the 
value of, by means of the gamma 
function, byT. B. Sprague, 1874, 19 
- bearings of ‘ the conservation of 
force’ on, P. Hallett on the, 1875, 169 
* - cycles of organisms represented 
diagrammatical^ and comparatively, 
D. McAlpine on, 1886, 708 
--on the earth in Archrean time, a re¬ 
view of the alleged evidence of, by 
Rev. A. Irving, 1888, 679 
* -European, Dr. F. J. Mouat on the 
value of, in India, 1S75, 217 
