Light-houses, ix, 199. ----, lighted by means of lime, _T. Drummond_, xxi, 366. Lighting by gas, see _Gas_. ---- of apartments, new method in Venice, x, 385. Lightning, cure of asthma by, vi, 329. ----, a case of paralytic affection cured by, iii, 100. ----, effect of a stroke of, xvii, 193; xlvi, 215. ----, effects of a stroke of, in Wethersfield, Ct., xi, 359. ----, ---- ----, _J. H. Linsley_, xlii, 393. ----, ---- ----, upon the packet ship New York, _C. Rich_, xxxvii, 321. ----, ---- ----, on three ships, xxxviii, 112. ----, several strokes of, from the same explosion, v, 125. ----, passage of, _E. Kellogg_, ix, 84. ----, protection of steamboats from, _A. Jones_, xxii, 106. ----, wet or damp clothes, good conductors of, v, 121.^f ----, heat, xix, 187. ----, conductors in ships, utility of, _W. S. Harris_, xxi, 347. ---- rods, _R. Hare_ on, xiii, 322. ---- ----, _J. Murray_, xix, 186. ---- ----, observations on, _J. Van Rensselaer_, ix, 331. ---- ----, on the action of, xxxiv, 8, 18. ---- ----, mode of adjusting, xviii, 361. ---- tubes in sand, see _Fulgurite_. Lignite, at Auteuil, in France, ii, 351. ----, on the carbonization of, xviii, 371. ---- of the ferruginous sand formation, U. States, xviii, 246. ----, in North Carolina, v, 407; xiv, 250. ---- of the McKenzie river and northern America, xvii, 4. ----, in Texas, xxxvii, 216. Ligustrum vulgare, x, 258. Lilium canadense, xi, 177. ---- Catesbæi, xi, 177. Lime, intense light produced by means of, xiii, 188; xiv, 385; xxi, 366. ----, quantity used in Baltimore in 1832, xxvii, 17. ----, chloride of, x, 386; xv, 391; xvi, 387; xix, 166. ----, ----, used in psora, xvi, 395. ----, ----, use of, in the navy, xix, 164. ----, ----, action of, in alcohol, _E. Soubeiran_, xxiii, 134. ----, ----, manufacture of, at Glasgow, _T. Thomson_, xli, 48. ----, ----, ----, _G. W. Carpenter_, xvi, 177. ----, ----, estimation of the bleaching power of, xvii, 170; xxii, 354. ----, ----, disinfecting power of, xix, 177. ----, ----, disinfection at the Morgue, in Paris, xxi, 149. ----, common and hydraulic, iv, 373. ----, nitrate of, i, 133. ----, phosphate of, see _Apatite_. ----, sulphate of, from steam boilers, _J. F. W. Johnston_, xxxv, 300. ----, ----, and not carbonate in the waters of Pyrmont, xv, 185. ----, ----, used with the oxy-hydrogen flame for light-houses, xxviii, 355. ----, ----, see _Gypsum_.