INDEX II. 
185 
Laycock (Dr.) on the physiology of cells 
in relation to consciousness and adap¬ 
tive movements, 110. 
Lead, on the presence of, in hydrochloric 
and nitric acids, 72. 
Leaf-venation and ramification oftlic- plant, 
usitlie correspondence between the, 100. 
Leasowc, on the submarine forest of, 81. 
L*c(Dr.) on photographic drawings of 
meteorological instruments adopted by 
the Council of the British Meteorolo¬ 
gical Society, 47. 
l«ch, on the medicinal, 113. 
kiis. on a stereoscopic cofimoramic, 70. 
“ ns «, on a method of manufacturing 
cylindrical, 47. 
Lewis (Rev. T. T.) on a slab of old red 
sandstone from Puddles!one, near Leo¬ 
minster, 91. 
^ght, 2; on an apparatus for elliptically- 
polarizcd, 9; on measuring the nbsorp- 
‘ton of polarized, in doubly refracting 
cfystuls, 10 ; on an apparatus for sliow- 
ln 8 all the phenomena of, ib .; on 
errors which may bo occasioned by dis¬ 
carding the influence of solar or arti- 
Cla ‘> 011 magnets, 12 ; on mechanical 
.antecedents of, 59. 
'^g n ‘ n 8 conductor for chimney?, on a, 
borate of, 75. 
'■icutone, on the decomposition of, at 
I [° swor ‘li, OG ; on Carboniferous, at 
' ystnen and Pen moon Rlios, near 
uJS*’ i *>n fossil remains of 
wohI f r°r m tko carbonfferoua, of Tort- 
0TI BO,ne experiments 
a „ a . ll '°8 ra ph for communicating 
int. - ri i Vers an< * seas i without employ- 
Linufa! bmcr 8 cd cable, 157. 
alwftln* 011 a , mct bod of computing the 
tides*5, 63 Ume ° f thu ultimn,c P nr - 
nufenepa? ** ‘) cvialion of ‘be mug. 
Hcii". d e P^culinv to. 12 ; on several 
on recent'*i . nf “'obbourhood of, 87; 
of, loo. additions to the muscology 
^ ra pln r cal°rp,? e . faU,m , of ’ 107 5 bydro- 
of t) le “ n J, wk * 011 the improvement 
and uncR« 2 *» ° n ‘be hazardous 
of, 126 . " “PPfoaches to the port 
district „> tL. et *® olo ?y of ‘be 
,,lc l"»or ’i n U no 0n lhe education of 
..railway f Qr ,u I !l h, 8 h lovcl 
Wi -‘8non erV , dock8 °‘> b' 1 - 
boauda on S' 00 tke orrivftl of ’ ®t 
Ho; l 0 ’n‘’ ‘ hc "Ml coast of Africa, 
Inan > from i the Rev * Arthur Tid- 
’ 0m Sekele ‘u, Linyanti, 121. 
Lonnda, on the west coast of Africa, on 
the arrival of I)r. Livingston at, 110. 
Longevity, on literary and philosophical 
pursuits as conducive to, 114. 
Loom, on n new kind of power, 156. 
Lunar surface, on micrometrical and pho¬ 
tographic drawings of the, 23. 
Lunnr volcanic craters, on the structure 
of, 91- . . 
Lycopodium, on the occurrence »n coni ot 
peculiar vegetable orgnnisms resem¬ 
bling the sporangia of, 97. 
Macadam (Stevenson) on the distribution 
of iodine in the mineral, vegetable and 
animal kingdoms, 72; on the presence 
of lead in hydrochloric and nitric acids, 
ib. : on the cause of the phenomena 
exhibited by the Geysers of Iceland, 
Magnetic field, on some peculiarities of 
the, 1G. . 
Magnetic needle, on the deviation of the, 
peculiar to Liverpool, 12. 
Magnetism, 2. 
Magneto-electricity, and underground 
wires, on, 8. 
Magnets, on errors which may be occa¬ 
sioned by disregarding the influence of 
solar or artificial light in, 12. 
Maps, on Babinct’s homalographic, 2. 
Marratt (F. P.) on some new mosses, 
and on recent additions to the musco¬ 
logy of Liverpool, 102. 
Masters (Maxwell T.) on the arrange¬ 
ment of tho air-canals in the Nym- 
pha*acc£c (water-lilies), 102. 
Mathematics, 1. 
Muzatlnu, on four hundred and forty 
species of shells front, 107. 
M'Cosh (llcv. Prof.) on the morphology 
of pines and fits, 99; on the corre¬ 
spondence between the leaf-venation 
and ramification of the plant, 100; on 
some traces of harmonious colours in 
plants and the plumage of birds, 101. 
MeDermott (Mr.) on a new mil way 
brake, 157- 
McNemey (Mr.), statistics of poor relief 
and movement of population in the 
“commercial district" in the hundred 
of Wjrral, Cheshire, 142. 
Meat, on the results of experiments on 
the preservation of fresh, 69. 
Mechanics, 147. 
Meconine, on the constitution of, G4. 
M i.'tlin, on indices of the refraction of 
transparent, included between two 
parallel faces, 2. 
Mersey, and its approaches, diagrams 
