252 
GENERAL INDEX. 
♦Loading of ships, W. E. Hall on the, 
1880, 699 
♦Loans and savings companies, W. A. 
Douglass on, 1884, 835 
Loblet (J. Logan) on the range and 
distribution of the British fossil Bra- 
chiopoda, 1868, 71 ; on the topography 
of Vesuvius, with an account of the 
recent eruption, 137 
- on the distribution of the British 
fossil Lamellibranchiata, 1869, 96 
♦ -on the stratigraphical distribution 
of the British fossil Gasteropoda, 1870, 
78 
-on the British Palaeozoic Arcadas, 
1873, 84 
- on the causes of volcanic action, 
1888, 670 
-on the origin of gold, 1890, 824 
Local Government Bill, amendments 
founded on experience submitted for 
the, E. Chadwick on, 1888, 779 
--names, proposition for a census of, 
by Hyde Clarke, 1870, 189 
- Scientific Societies Committee , re¬ 
port of the, 1883, 318 
- see •' Corresponding Societies.’ 
-- science societies and the minor 
pre-historic remains of Britain, by R. 
Meldola, 1883, 571 
-taxation, 0. Williams on, 1870, 207 
Lochaber, the parallel roads of, by J. 
Melvin, 1885, 1305 
Loch Katrine, Dr. Wallace on the com¬ 
position and properties of the water of, 
1861 , 94 
-Tarbert, East and West, John Ram¬ 
say on the proposal to form a ship 
canal between, 1861, 197 
Lockyer (J. Norman) on mapping the 
surface of the moon, 1865, 286 ; 1866, 
214 ; 1867, 1 ; 1868, 1 
♦ - on the recent and coming solar 
eclipses, 1871, 34 
- an interim report on the results 
obtained by the British Association 
Eclipse Expedition of 1871, 1872, 330 
- on constructing and printing cata¬ 
logues of spectral rays arranged upon 
a scale of mare-numbers, 1872, 53 ; 
1873, 249 ; 1874, 241 
- on science lectures and organisation , 
18"3 : 495; 5°7 
♦ -on the results of some recent solar 
investigations, 1873, 35 ; ♦on the 
Draper-Rutherford diffraction-grating, 
38 ; *on the elements in the sun, 
65 
- on the teaching of physics in 
schools, 1874, 71 
♦ -on Coggia’s comet, 1874, 20 ; *011 
a new map of the solar spectrum, ib. 
♦ -- on the oscillation-freguencies of 
solar rays, 1878, 37 
Lockyer (J. Xorman) on recent spectral 
observations, 1879, 317 
—— on the proposed publication by the 
Meteorological Society of the Mauritius 
of daily synoptic charts of the Indian 
Ocean from the year 1861, 1882, 38 ; 
1883, 118 ; 1884, 32 ; 1885, 60 ; 1887, 4 a 
- on the preparation of a nem series 
of tables of mare-lengtlis of the spectra 
of the elements . 1882, 144 ; 1884, 351 ; 
1885, 288 ; 1886, 167 ; 1890, 224 
* -the spectra of meteorites compared 
with the solar spectrum, 1888, 576 
Locomotive engineering, English, A. 
McDonnell and J. A. F. Aspinall on. 
1884, 890 
-engines, balanced, T. R. Crampton 
on, 1886, 819 
—— engines, compound, F. W. Webb on, 
1883, 647 
* -engines, construction of, for the 
London, Brighton, and South Coast 
Railway, W. Stroudley on the, 1884. 
890 
-engines, economical improvements 
in the construction of, R. Eaton on 
certain, 1872, 243 
-fireless, Leon Francq’s, C. Bergeron 
on, 1879, 501 
♦ Locomotives and railways of the 
districts adjoining the rivers Tees, 
Tyne, and Wear, J. F. Tone on the, 
1863, 192 
♦ -R. Eaton on the working of, with 
heated air and steam, 1873, 213 
Locusts in Cyprus, S. Brown on, 1888, 
716 
Lodge (A.), note on a simple method of 
solving the general equation of the 
fourth degree, 1883, 408 
- diagrammatic representation of 
moments of inertia in a plane area, 
1886, 543 
- on the desirability of introducing 
a uniform nomenclature for the fun¬ 
damental units of mechanics, 1888, 27 
- on the ptossibility of calculating 
tables of certain mathematical func¬ 
tions, 1889, 28 
-(Oliver J.) on a mechanical illustra¬ 
tion of electric induction and conduc¬ 
tion, 1876, 42 ; on a mechanical illustra¬ 
tion of thermoelectric phenomena, 43 
-- on a simplification of graphic 
formulas, 1878, 516 
- *on a hypothesis concerning the 
ether in connection with Maxwell’s 
theory of electricity, 1879, 258 ; *on 
a new electrometer key, ib. 
- on derising and constructing an 
improved form of high insulation hey 
for electrometer mork, 1880, 29 ; on 
accurately measuring the specific in¬ 
ductive capacity of a good Sprengel 
