254 
GENERAL INDEX. 
London, the climate of, synchronism of 
mean temperature and rainfall in, H. 
C. Fox on, 1879, 277 ; supplement, 
1880, 493 
* - and other large towns, G. B. Gallo¬ 
way on improvements applicable to, to 
improve health and x>reserve life, 1865, 
150 
- industry, the insufficient earnings 
of, and specially of female laboui', 
W. Westgarth on, 1886, 781 
-reconstructing and rehousing, W. 
Westgarth on, 1886, 782 
-- the water supply of, F. J. Bramwell 
on, 1877, 173 
London (J. A.), the utilisation of fibrous 
peat for the manufacture of brown 
paper, wrappers, and millboards, 1889, 
737 
Long (J.) on an apparatus for cleaning 
filtering-sand, 1876, 232 
- (Prof. J.), agricultural education, 
1888, 776 
Long Mountain, on the Welsh borders, 
the geology of, W. W. Watts on the, 
1890, 817 
Longevity beyond seventy years, Sir 
Duncan Gibb on an obstacle to Euro¬ 
pean, 1869, 133 ; among the Jews, Sir 
G. D. Gibb on a cause of diminished, 
134 
- Sir G. D. Gibb on centenarian, 
1871, 151 
* -of animals of different species and 
of man, G. Harris on the comparative, 
and the probable causes which mainly 
conduce to promote this difference, 
1871, 153 
- at five score eleven years, Sir G. 
Duncan Gibb on, 1874, 152 
Longitude of the Radcliffe Observatory, 
Oxford, Rev. R. Main on the, as 
deduced from meridional observations 
of the moon made at Greenwich and 
Oxford, 1869, 18 
Longmynd Rocks of Sweden, Prof. Otto 
Torell on some new fossils from the, 
1868, 80 
Longstaff (G. B.), reasons for a quin¬ 
quennial census, 1888, 769 
Lonsdale (N. L.) on mechanical self¬ 
registering apparatus for barometer, 
thermometer, rain- and wund-gauges, 
1875, 260 
-on an improved rain-gauge, 1879 ,280 
Looshais, Archibald Campbell on the, 
1872, 176 
Lord (J. K.) on the Indians of Vancouver 
Island, 1866, 75 
*Lost House of Israel, A. L. Lewis on 
the pretended identification of the 
English nation with the, 1872, 190 
Lothian geology, recent advances in 
West, H. M. Cadell on, 1885, 1037 
Lothingland, notice of rare fishes occur¬ 
ring in Norfolk and, by X. E. Gunn, 
1868, 97 
Lotus corniculatus , the changes produced 
in, by cultivation, Prof. T. C. Archer 
on, 1870, 109 
Lough Lurgan, the traditionary, W. M. 
Williams on, 1878, 528 
— Neagh, Prof. Hodges on the petri¬ 
fied wood of, 1874, 58 
-Ireland, E. T. Hardman on the 
age and formation of, 1874, 79 
Loughor Castle, the antiquities of, B. 
Jones on, 1880, 620 
‘ Loughton ' or ‘ Cowper's ’ Camp, the 
ancient earthwork in Upping Forest 
known as the , report on, 1882, 274 ; 
1883, 243 
Louisiade and d’Entrecasteaux Islands, 
notes on the fauna of the, by B. H. 
Thomson, 1889, 615 
-the exploration of the, B. H. Thom¬ 
son on, 1889, 668 
Louisville and New Albanv cantilever 
V 
bridge, T. C. Clarke and C. Mac¬ 
donald on, 1886, 799 
Lovaine (Lord) on the recent discovery 
of lacustrine human habitations in 
Wigtonshire, 1863, 141 
Love (A. E. H.) on the oscillations of a 
rotating liquid spheroid and the genesis 
of the moon, 1888, 562 
-(James) on an overlapping spec¬ 
troscope, 1881, 564 ; on change of 
density at the melting point, ib. 
-(E. F. J.) on the desirability of com¬ 
bined actionfor the translation of foreign 
memoirs, 1887, 41 ; on electrolysis in its 
physical and chemical bearings , 1S87, 
336 ; 1888, 339 ; 1889, 223 ; 1890, 138 
— ■- and Prof. J. H. Pointing on the 
law of the propagation of light, 1886, 
5 21 
*Lovett (Capt. B.) on the interior of 
Mekran, 1871, 180 
*- [Major B.] on a visit to Koh- 
Khodja, 1873, 172 
- (W. J.) on an improved vacuum 
filter-pump, 1874, 65 
Low (W.) and Prof. J. A. Ewing on the 
magnetisation of iron in strong fields, 
1887, 586 ; on the magnetisation of 
Hadfield's' manganese steel in strong 
fields, 587 ; on the influence of a 
plane of transverse section on the mag¬ 
netic permeability of an iron bar, 609 
Lowe (E. J.) on the great cold of Christ¬ 
mas 1860, and its destructive effects. 
1861, 64 
- report on observations of luminous 
meteors , 1861, 1 ; 1880, 39 ; 1881, 290 
- on the hurricane near Newark of 
May 7, 1862, showing the force of the 
hailstones and the violence of the gale, 
