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Lakes, the bathymetrical survey of French, E. Delebecque on, 712. Lamp, a ten-candle, for use in photometry, A. Vernon Harcourt on, 582. LANGLEY (Dr. J. N.) on the influence of previous fertilisation of the female on her subsequent offspring, and the effect of maternal impressions during pregnancy on the offspring, 346.

(Prof. J. W.) on the best method of establishing an international standard for the analysis of iron and steel, 237.

(Dr. S. P.) on recent researches in the infra-red spectrum, 465. Language, a common, between man and other animals, Miss A. G. Weld on the possibility of, 780.

LANKESTER (Prof. E. Ray) on the occupation of a table at the zoological station at Naples, 335.

— on investigations made at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, 345.

on chlorophyll in animals, 684. Larynx, an attempt to supply motor power from a new source to the muscles of the, Vet.-Capt. F. Smith on, 815.

LATHAM (Baldwin) on the climatological and hydrographical conditions of Tropical Africa, 348.

LAURIE (A. P.) on the diffusion of very dilute solutions of chlorine and iodine, 620.

(Malcolm) on the eurypterid-bearing deposits of the Pentland Hills, 302. *LAYARD (Miss N. F.) on a method of taking casts of the interiors of flowers, 696.

LAZARUS-BARLOW (Dr. W. S.) on lymph formation, 810.

LEA (Henry) and Robert BRAGGE on a special chronograph, 757.

LEBOUR (Prof. G. A.) on underground temperature, 107.

on earth tremors, 145.

on the circulation of underground waters, 283.

LEWES (Prof. Vivian B.) on the proximate chemical constituents of coal, 246. LEWIS (P. B.) and Dr. M. WILDERMANN on a method for accurately determining the freezing-point of aqueous solutions which freeze at temperatures just below 0° C., 567.

Lex Barbarorum of the Daghestan, Prof. Maxime Kovalevsky on the, 785. Leyden-jar, the discharge of a, through different branches of a divided current, preliminary experiments for comparing, by Lord Kelvin and A. Galt, 555. †Libyan desert, a journey in the, H. W. Blundell on, 716.

Light, the action of, upon dyed colours, report on, 238.

1894.

*Light, Clerk Maxwell's theory of, Prof. O. J. Lodge on experiments illustrating, 582, 814.

Lighthouse apparatus and lighthouse administration in 1894, J. Kenward on, 760.

Linear substitution, formulæ for, by Prof. E. B. Elliott, 581.

Linkage for the automatic description of regular polygons, Prof. J. D. Everett on a, 559.

Liquids, the viscosity of, and their chemical nature, Dr. T. E. Thorpe and J. W. Rodger on the relations between, 615.

LIVEING (Prof. G. D.) on wave-length tables of the spectra of the elements and compounds, 248.

Liver, the fats of the, D. Noel Paton on, 804.

LOBLEY (Prof. J. Logan) on the cause of earthquakes, 649

LOBRY DE BRUYN (Dr. C. A.) on some experiments with free hydroxylamine,

606.

LOCH (C. S.), statistics of comparative

general and old-age pauperism in England and Wales, 1831 to 1891, 732. LOCKYER (J. N.) on ware-length tables of the spectra of the elements and compounds, 248. LODGE (Dr. Oliver J.) on practical electrical standards, 117.

on photo-electric leakage, 556. on experiments illustrating Clerk Maxwell's theory of light, 582, 814. on an electrical theory of vision, 582, 815.

and Prof. F. GOTCH оn some physiological effects of the passage of rapidly alternating currents of great intensity through nerve, 818.

*LOHEST (Prof. Max) on the antiquity of man in Belgium, 784. London County Council, the 'economic heresies' of the, Sidney Webb on, 735. Loochooan language, Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain on the, 789.

LUBBOCK (Sir J.) on the legislative protection of wild birds' eggs, 347.

on the teaching of science in ele mentary schools, 359. Luminosity observed when a vacuum

bulb is broken, J. Burke on the, 585. LUMMER (0.) and E. PRINGSHEIM, a new determination of the ratio of the specific heats of certain gases, 565. Lymph formation, Dr. W. S. LazarusBarlow on, 810.

formation, the mechanical theory of, Dr. Starling on, 810. LYTTLE (Dr. J. Shaw) on the effects of after-damp, 817.

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MAAS (Dr. Otto) on temperature as a factor in the distribution of marine animals, 687.

MACALISTER (Prof. A.) on anthropometric work in schools, 439.

, the heredity of acquired characters,

778. MCINTOSH (Prof. W. C.) on marine fish-hatching and the Dunbar establishment of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 688.

MCKENDRICK (Prof. J. G.) on a model of the Cochlea, 793.

on some physiological applications of the phonograph, 794. MCLAREN (Lord) on meteorological observations on Ben Nevis, 108. MACLEAN (M.), Lord KELVIN, and A. GALT, preliminary experiments to find if subtraction of water from air electrifies it, 554.

MCLEOD (Prof. H.) on the best methods of recording the direct intensity of solar radiation, 106.

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on the bibliography of solution, 246. on Schuller's yellow modification

of arsenic, 615. *MACMAHON (Major P. A.) on the in

variant ground-forms of the binary quantic of unlimited order, 579. MADAN (H. G.) on the bibliography of spectroscopy, 161.

Magelona, the blood of, Dr. W. B. Benham on, 696.

Magnetic force on the surface of the earth, the results of a new analytical representation of, the distribution of the, Ad. Schmidt on, 570. Magnetisation in nickel tubes, the volume changes which accompany, Prof. C. G. Knott on, 576.

Magnetism, mirrors of, Prof. S. P. Thompson on, 574.

terrestrial, a suggested explanation of the secular variation of, by Prof. A. Schuster, 571.

MAGNUS (Sir P.) on the teaching of science in elementary schools, 359. *MAITLAND (Miss) on women's industries, 731.

*MALLOCK (A.) on the behaviour of a rotating cylinder in a steady current, 557.

Mammalia, the didermic blastocyst of the, Prof. A. A. W. Hubrecht on, 681. Mammalian heart, the structure and function of the, report on, 464. *Man, the antiquity of, in Belgium, Prof. Max Lohest on, 784.

MANDELLO (Dr. J.) on Stock Exchange taxation, 729.

*MANN (Dr. Gustav) on the changes in

nerve-cells due to functional activity 809. MANOUVRIER (Prof. L.) on the brain of a young Fuegian, 787.

on the valuation of proportional differences in the description of the brain, 788.

MANSION (Prof. P.) sur les principes fondamentaux de la géométrie noneuclidienne de Riemann, 579. Marine animals, temperature as a factor in the distribution of, Dr. Otto Maas on, 687.

organisms, the geographical and bathymetrical distribution of, Dr. J. Murray on, 717.

zoology of the Irish Sea, second report on the, 318. MARKHAM (Clements R.) on making geographical, meteorological, and natural history observations in South Georgia or other Antarctic island, 358. †MARKOFF (Dr. A.) on Russian Armenia,

711.

*MARSH (J. E.) and J. A. GARDNER on some derivatives of camphene, 629. MARSHALL (Dr. Hugh) on the electrolytic methods of quantitative analysis, 160.

(Prof. A. Milnes) on the occupation of a table at the zoological station at Naples, 335.

MARTEN (E. B.) on the circulation of underground waters, 283.

MASKELYNE (Prof. N. Story) on the teaching of science in elementary schools,

359.

Maternal impressions during pregnancy, the effect of, on the offspring, and the influence of previous fertilisation of the female on her subsequent offspring, interim report on, 346.

Mathematical and Physical Section, Address by Prof. A. W. Rücker to the, 543.

theory of international trade, Prof. F. Y. Edgeworth on the, 729. MAUDSLAY (Alfred P.) on the Maya Indians of Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, 789. *MAXIM (H. S.) on flight, 557. Maxwell's law of partition of energy, G. H. Bryan on, 98.

theory of light, experiments illustrating, Prof. O. J. Lodge on, 582.

method of deriving the equations of hydrodynamics from the kinetic theory of gases, Prof. L. Boltzmann on, 579. Maya Indians of Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Alfred P. Maudslay on the, 789. MAYER (Prof. Alfred M.) on the production of beat-tones from two vibrating bodies whose frequencies are so great as to be separately inaudible, 573.

on the variation of the modulus of elasticity with change of temperature

as determined by the transverse vibration of bars at various temperatures, 573.

Measures, systematic, a nomenclature for very much facilitating the use of, Dr. G. J. Stoney on, 587.

Mechanical Science, Address by Prof. A.

B. W. Kennedy to the Section of, 739. †Mediterranean and North Atlantic, researches in the, by the Prince of Monaco, during the summer of 1894, J. Y. Buchanan on, 717.

MELDOLA (Prof. R.) on the work of the Corresponding Societies Committee,

19.

on the application of photography to the elucidation of meteorological phenomena, 143.

on earth tremors, 145.

on the action of light upon dyed colours, 238.

on an ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom, 419.

MELSOME (Dr. W. S.) and Louis COB-
BETT on local immunity, 807.
Memory, experiments on, by Dr. W. G.
Smith, 817.

Mersenne's numbers, Lt.-Col. Allan Cunningham on, 563.

Meteorological, geographical, and natural

history observations in South Georgia or other Antarctic island, report of the Committee for making, 358.

- observations on Ben Nevis, report on, 108.

phenomena, the application of photography to the elucidation of, fourth report on, 143.

Mexico, the Sierra Madre of, explorations in, O. H. Howarth on, 715. MEYERHOFFER (Dr. W.) on certain phenomena occurring during the evaporation of salt solutions, 628.

MIALL (Prof. L. C.) on the Calf Hole Cave, 272.

MIERS (H A.) on a new method of measuring crystals, and its application to the measurement of the octahedron angles of potash alum and ammonia alum, 654.

Migration of birds, interim report of the Committee for making a digest of the observations on the, 348.

Milk, the chemical action of a new bacterium in, A. Bernstein on, 608. MILL (Dr. H. R.) on the climatological and hydrographical conditions of "Tropical Africa, 348

on making geographical, meteorological, and natural history observations in South Georgia or other Antarctic island, 358.

on a bathymetrical survey of the English lakes, 713.

Mimetic characters, the relation of, to the original form, Dr. F. A. Dixey on, 692. Mind and body, the relations between, as expressed in early languages, customs, and myths, by Rev. G. Hartwell Jones, 779.

Mines, suffocation in, the causes and prevention of, Dr. J. S. Haldane on, 816. *Mirror writing, Prof. F. J. Allen on, 793. Mirrors of magnetism, Prof. S. P. Thompson on, 574.

MITTAG-LEFFLER (Prof.) on the addition theorem, 561.

on Fuchsian functions, 577. Mixtures and compounds, the distinction between, P. J. Hartog on, 618. Molecular distribution in the atmosphere of a rotating planet, the law of, G. H. Bryan on, 100.

Molecules, the electrification of, and chemical change, H. Brereton Baker on, 493.

+Monaco (the Prince of), researches by, in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean during the summer of 1894, J. Y. Buchanan on, 717.

MOND (Ludwig) on the proximate chemical constituents of coal, 246. *MONTEFIORE (A.) on the JacksonHarmsworth Arctic expedition, 717. Montenegro, W. H. Cozens-Hardy on, 711. Moon, the heat of the, J. Park Harrison on, and on lunar curves of mean temperature at Greenwich, 593. MOORE (Harold) on co-operation in agriculture, 736.

(J. E. S.) on the reduction division' in the cartilaginous fishes, 338.

MORTON (G. H.) on the circulation of underground waters, 283.

MUIRHEAD (Dr. A.) on practical electrical standards, 117.

MUNRO (Dr. Robert) on the lake village at Glastonbury, 431.

on ancient bone skates, 784. MURRAY (George) on the present state of our knowledge of the zoology and botany of the West India Islands, 344.

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Mythical beliefs, the diffusion of, as evidence in the history of culture, Dr. E. B. Tylor, 774.

pygmy races, Prof. B. Windle on, 781.

NAGEL (D. H.) on the bibliography of spectroscopy, 161.

on the electrolytic methods of quantitative analysis, 160. Naphthalene derivatives, eighth report on the investigation of isomeric, 268. Native tribes between the Zambezi and Uganda, Lionel Decle on the, 785. Natural history, geographical, and meteorological observations in South Georgia or other Antarctic island, report of the Committee for making, 358. Nebulæ, spiral and elliptic, photographs of, Dr. I. Roberts on, 569. Negritoes, the alleged presence of, in Borneo, H. Ling Roth on, 780. Neolithic settlements, three, in North Kent, Mrs. Stopes on, 785.

Nephridial duct of Owenia, Prof. G. Gilson on the, 693.

*Nerve cells, the changes in, due to functional activity, Dr. Gustav Mann on, 809.

, physiological effects of the passage of rapidly alternating currents of great Intensity through, Profs. O. J. Lodge and F. Gotch on some, 818. Nervous system, experimental inquiry upon the different tracts of the central, Dr. F. W. Nutt on an, 809.

system, some trophic changes in the, Prof. J. Gaule on, 794. New Guinea, British, some of the natives of, H. Bellyse Baildon on, 788.

British, a visit to, Miss F. Baildon on, 716. NEWTON (Prof. A.) on the present state of our knowledge of the zoology of the Sandwich Islands, 343.

on our knowledge of the zoology and botany of the West India Islands, 344. on the legislative protection of wild birds' eggs, 347.

on making a digest of the observations on the migration of birds, 348. NICHOLSON (Prof. J. Shield) on the me

thods of economic training in this and other countries, 365.

Nickel tubes, volume changes which accompany magnetisation in, Prof. C. G. Knott on the, 576.

NICOL (Dr. W. W. J.) on the bibliography of solution, 246.

Nicolaier, observations made with the horizontal pendulum at, Prof. S. Kortazzi on, 145.

OBLE (Sir Andrew) on methods that

have been adopted for measuring pressures in the bores of guns, 523. NOELTING (Prof. E.) on ortho-dinitroso derivatives of the aromatic series, 620.

on the formation of indazol derivatives from aromatic diazo-compounds, 622. Nomenclature for very much facilitating the use of systematic measures, Dr. G. J. Stoney on a, 587.

+North Atlantic and Mediterranean, researches in the, by the Prince of Monaco during the summer of 1894, J. Y. Buchanan on, 717.

North Sea and the Faeröe-Shetland Channel, the currents of the, H. N. Dickson on, 713.

North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada, ninth report on the, 453. *Notochord, the origin and morphological

signification of the, Prof. E. van Beneden on, 684.

Nubia, Lower, S. Clarke on the geography of, 718.

Nucleus, the function of, Prof. E. Zach

arias on, 696.

NUTT (Dr. F. W.), experimental inquiry upon the different tracts of the central nervous system, 809.

Ohm, the international, a determination of, in absolute measure, Prof. J. Virians Jones on, 123.

standards of the Board of Trade, comparison of certain, by J. Rennie, 130.

standard coils, belonging to the Indian Government, the values of, E. 0. Walker on, 131.

Old Red Sandstone of Elginshire, a new fossil fish from the, Dr. R. H. Traquair on, 656. *Oldbury Hill, explorations at, report on the, 775.

OLDHAM (H. Y.), a new light on the dis

covery of America, 715.

*OLIVIER (Dr. L.) on typhoid bacilli in water, 818. Ophioglosseæ, the germination of the spores of the, Prof. D. H. Campbell on, 695.

Optical instruments, the correction of, for individual eyes, Dr. Tempest Anderson on, 586.

*Orchids, the hybridisation of, Dr. J. Clark on, 687.

Ortho-dinitroso derivatives of the aro

matic series, Prof. E. Noelting on, 620. *OSBORN (Prof. H. F.) on certain principles of progressively adaptive variation observed in fossil series, 693. Ostwald's law of dilution, the determination of, Dr. Meyer Wildermann on, 616

Owenia, the nephridial duct of, Prof. G. Gilson on, 693. Oxford, the geology of the neighbourhood of, some points of special interest in, Prof. A. H. Green on, 644. Oxfordshire, North, the terraced hill slopes of, E. A. Walford on, 645. Oxidation, the rate of, of phosphorus, sulphur, and aidehyde, Dr. T. Ewan on, 609.

*Pachytheca, G. Murray on, 698. *Paddy cultivation, the ceremonies observed by the Kandyans in, B. P. Kehlpannala on, 787.

Pantheon of the Fijians, Basil Thomson on the, 786.

PARKER (Thomas), continuous current distribution of electricity at high voltage at Oxford, 756.

PATON (D. Noel) on the fats of the liver, 804.

Pauperism, comparative general and oldage, in England and Wales, 1831-1891, statistics of, C. S. Loch on, 732. Pebbles in the Trias of Budleigh Salter

ton and of Cannock Chase, a comparison of the, by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 655. PEEK (Cuthbert E.) on the work of the Corresponding Societies Committee,

19.

PEMBREY (M. S.), the response of animals to changes of temperature, 791. Pendulum, bifilar, Mr. H. Darwin's, C. Davison am, 145.

at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Prof. R. Copeland on, 158. PENGELLY (W.) on the care at Elbolton, 270.

Pentland Hills, the eurypterid-bearing

deposits of the, second report on, 302. PERKIN (Dr. W. H.) on the action of light upon dyed colours, 238.

Permian strata of the north of the Isle of Man, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins on the, 662.

PERRY (Prof. John) on practical electrical standards, 117.

*PERTZ (Miss D.) on the hygroscopic dispersal of fruits in certain labiates, 687. *PFEFFER (Prof. W.) on the sensitive. ness of the root-tip, 689. PHELPS (Rev. L. R.), popular attitude towards economics, 738. *PHILLIPS (H.) on the development of the cystocarp in Polisiphonia nigrescens, 684. Phonograph, some physiological applications of the, Prof. J. G. McKendrick on, 794.

Phosphorus, sulphur, and aldehyde, the rate of oxidation of, Dr. T. Ewan on, 609.

*Photo-electric leakage, Prof. O. J. Lodge on, 556.

Photographs of geological interest in the United Kingdom, fifth report on the collection, preservation, and systematic registration of, 274.

of spiral and elliptic nebulæ, Dr. I. Roberts on, 569. Photography, the application of, to the elucidation of meteorological phenomena, fourth report on, 143.

geographical, John Thomson on,

714. Photometric measures of the corona of April 1893, Prof. H. H. Turner on some, 568. Photometry, a ten-candle lamp for use in, A. Vernon Harcourt on, 582. Phyllopoda of the Paleozoic rocks, eleventh report on, 271.

Physical and Mathematical Section, Address by Prof. A. W. Rücker to the, 543.

and mental deviations from the normal among children in schools, report on the, 434. Appendix:-

1. Certificate as to a child requiring special educational training, 437.

II. Statistical report

50,000 children, 437.

concerning

III. Distribution of the cases seen as to standards; 438.

Physiological Section, Address by Prof. E. A. Schäfer to the, 795.

PICKERING (S. U.) on the bibliography of solution, 246.

Picts, the distribution of, in Britain, as indicated by place-names, G. G. Chisholm on, 787.

'Pigeons' milk,' Prof. E. Waymouth Reid on, 812.

*Pigment, skin, and hair, notes on, by Prof. A. Thomson, 778.

*PITT-RIVERS (Gen.), on an ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom,

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on the lake village at Glastonbury, 431.

exploration of British camps and a long barrow near Rushmore, 784. on a new craniometer, 784. Place-names, the best method of aiming at uniformity in the spelling of, G. G. Chisholm on, 717.

the distribution of the Picts in Britain as indicated by, J. Gray on, 787.

Planet, atmosphere of a rotating, the law of molecular distribution, G. H. Bryan mm, 100. Planimeters, report on, by Prof. O. Hen rici, 496.

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