GENERAL INDEX. 
257 
*Lyme Regis, E. C. H. Day on the Lower 
Lias of, 1865, 51 
Lymphatic system , the physiology of the , 
report o?i, 1887, 145 ; 1888, 363 ; 1889, 
128 
Lymphatics, Drs. G. and F. E. Hoggan 
on the origin of the, 1875, 165 
-in the liver of man and the pig, Dr. 
L. T. A. Carter on the, 1864, 119 
Lynam (J.) on the river Shannon drain¬ 
age and navigation, 1874, 226 
-on the river Shannon : its present 
state, and the means of improving 
the navigation and the drainage, 1878, 
699 
Lynch (H. F. B.), new trade routes into 
Persia, 1890, 889 
Lyons (Lord), letter from Capt. Maury 
to, on the importance of an expedition 
to the Antarctic regions for meteorologi¬ 
cal and other scientific purposes, 1861, 
65 
*Lyte (F. Maxwell) on some of the dif¬ 
ficulties arising in the practice of 
photography, and the means of remov¬ 
ing them, 1862, 195 
*-on an apparatus for the preserva¬ 
tion or disengagement of sulphuretted 
hydrogen, carbonic acid, or other gases, 
1864, 32 
-on the use of sodium or other soluble 
aluminates for softening and purifying 
hard and impure water and deodorising 
and precipitating sewage, waste water 
from factories, &c., 1885, 984 
Macadam (Dr. Stevenson) *on the pro¬ 
portion of tin present in tea-lead, 1861, 
85 ; on the proportion of arsenic pre¬ 
sent in paper-hangings, 86 ; *on an 
economical mode of boiling rags, &c., 
with alkaline ley, it). 
- * 0 n the analysis of Chinese iron, 
1863, 191 ; *on the manufacture of 
superphosphates and dissolved bones, 
ih. 
- on the pollution of rivers by the 
sewage of towns, 1864, 32 
--on the results of agricultural expe¬ 
riments made in 1864, 1865, 31 ; on 
Esparto fibre, or Spanish grass, and 
its employment in the manufacture of 
paper, 33 
-on the poisonous nature of crude 
paraffin oil, and the products of its 
rectification upon fish, 1866, 41 
-on the economic distillation of gas 
from cannel coal, 1869, 69 
-on the production of permanent gas 
from paraffin oils, 1884, 680 
-(W. Ivison) on the chemical com¬ 
position of a nodule of ozokerite found 
at Kinghorn-ness, 1879, 309 
Macadam (W. Ivison) on experiments 
with manures on the barley crop of 
1881, 1881, 602 
-on certain diatomaceous deposits 
(diatomite) from the peat of Aber¬ 
deenshire, 1885, 1017 
* -and T. Wallace, description of a 
new mineral from Loch Bhruithaich, 
Inverness-shire, 1885, 977 
-and J. S. G. Wilson on deposits of 
diatomite in Skye, 1886, 678 
Macalister (Alexander) on the homo¬ 
logies and comparative anatomy of the 
atlas and axis, 1868, 117 
* -[Prof. A.] exhibition of a sketch 
of some varieties of the Pronator quad¬ 
ratic, 1870, 142 
*—-— on the bearing of muscular anoma¬ 
lies on the Darwinian theory of the 
origin of species, 1871, 140 
* -on two new species of Pentastoma , 
1871, 137 ; *on the specimen of Selache 
maximus lately caught at Innisboffin, 
ih. ; *on the tongue of the Great Ant- 
eater, 143 ; *on some anomalous forms 
of the human periorbital bones, ih. 
-Address to the Department of Ana¬ 
tomy and Physiology, 1877, 87 
- on the exploration of the Fermanagh 
Caves , 1878, 183 
- on the gill skeleton of Selache 
maxima, 1878, 600 
- on the facial characteristics of the 
races and principal crosses in the 
British Isles, 1884, 294 
-*on the morphology of the human 
arterial system, 1885, 1068 ; *exhibi- 
tion of the skeleton of a strandlouper 
from South Africa, 1228 
-*on rudimentary structures relating 
to the human coracoid process, 1886, 
687 ; *on the brain of an aboriginal 
Australian, 692 ; *on the anatomy of 
aboriginal Australians, 845 
- on racial photographs from the 
ancient Egyptian pictures and sculp¬ 
tures, 1887, 439 
-(Donald) on a modification of the 
law of facility, 1879, 267 
* -communication from the Grenada 
eclipse expedition, 1886, 518 
McAlpine (D.), ^lifecycles of organisms- 
represented diagrammatically and 
comparatively, 1886, 708 ; *a rearrange- 
ment of the divisions of biolog} T , ih. 
McAn drew (R.) on the testaceous Mol- 
lusca obtained during a dredging ex¬ 
cursion in the Gulf of Suez, 1870, 120 
M‘Bean (W.) on the Edinburgh Indus¬ 
trial Home for fallen women, 1871, 
212 
*M‘Cann (Rev. Dr. J.), philosophical ob¬ 
jection to Darwinism or evolution. 
1869, 151 
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