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INDEX. 



Marine animals, phosphorescence of, 2S9. 

 zoology of the Bay of Fundy, 201. 

 Markham, Lieutenant, 160. 

 Mr., 142, 144, 186. 

 Marking whiteiish, 435. 

 Marquette, Natural History Society of, 614. 

 Marsh, Professor, 153, 1ST, 253, 254, 256, 257, 



25S, 305, 311, 336, 337. 

 Marshall, Lieutenant W. L.,174. 

 Marvaud, Dr., 2S3. 

 Maryland, report of fish commissioner of, 



433. 

 Mascarene Islands, fossil birds in, 251. 

 Maskelyne on meteorites, 23. 

 Professor, 116, 132. 

 Mason, Mr. Josiah, 600. 

 Masonry, cement for, 526. 

 Massachusetts and European fauna, 304. 

 Board -of Health, 554. 

 insects, report on, 377. 

 prizes for fish-culture, 406. 

 Massenat, Mr., 227. 

 Massey apparatus, 71. 

 Mastodon, new American, 242. 



obscurus, 243. 

 Matches, safety, 449. 



Materia medica, therapeutics, and hygi- 

 ene, 549. 

 Mathematics and astronomy, 1. 

 Maturity iu American salmon, 439. 

 Mauch, Mr. Carl, 162. 

 Maurer, Mr. Franz, 621. 

 Mauritius, venomous fish in, 263. 

 Maxwell, Mr. J. C, 34. 

 Maydell,Mr., 243. 

 Mayer, Professor, 492. 



Professor A. M., 605. 

 Professor Julius Robert, 616. 

 Maynard & Dean, Messrs., 311. 



Mr. C. J., 320. 

 Measles and scarlet fever, 560. 

 Meat extracts, 551. 



juice, prepared, 456. 

 new mode of preserving, 457. 

 new pickle for, 463. 

 Mechanics and engineering, 473. 

 Medical books, American, 617. 

 Mediterranean, tunny fisheries in, 442. 

 Medium, resisting, in space, 7. 

 Medusae and potato blight, 303. 

 Meek, Professor, 127, 129, 201. 

 Megaptera bellicosa, 247. 

 Mehay, Mr.,364. 

 Meidinger, Professor, 450, 463. 

 Meissner, Mr., 553. 

 Melbourne Observatory, 24. 

 Meldrum, Mr., 25, 69. 

 Mellitic acid, artificial, 94. 

 Melolontha vulgaris, 96. 

 Melolouthine, 96. 

 Menagerie of Wombwell sold, 217. 

 Menhaden, spawning of, 425. 

 Menobrancnus, destructive to the spawn 

 of the whitefish, 421. 

 lateralis, 421. 

 Meusbrngghe's law in physics, 101. 

 Mensel, Mr., 492. 

 Mental characteristics of lower animals, 



288. 

 Mentone, human skeleton from, 229. 

 Menzzer, Dr., 72. 

 Mercier, Mr., 49S. 



Mercurial photographic prints, 524. 

 vapor on iridium, etc., 102. 



Mercurial vapors, safety against, 52S. 

 Mercuro-typy, 103. 

 Mercury, production of, 110. 

 Merget, Professor A., 102, 524, 52S. 

 Meridian for geographical reference, 15S. 

 Metal, joining with rubber, 506. 

 Metallurgy and chemistry, S3. 

 Metaloptiodon, the armed, 30S. 

 Metals, acted on by nitric acid, 91. 



coating with coal varnish, 505. 

 production of certain, in 1866, 110. 

 Meteoric origin of South African dia- 

 monds, 118. 

 sand, analysis of, 119. 

 Meteorites from Greenland, new, 115. 

 Maskelyne on, 23. 

 solar origin of, 22. 

 Meteorological office, British, 45, 46. 

 Meteorology and terrestrial physics, 41. 



of the future, 6S. 

 Meteors, nature of, 19. 

 Meyer, Dr. A. B.,16S. 

 Dr. H. A., 1S9. 

 Dr. Sigmund, 559. 

 Mr., 105. 

 Micrococci in measles and scarlet fever, 



560. 

 Microscopic forms in Chicago Avater, 292. 

 Microscopical composition of slate, 119. 

 Middendorff, Mr., 148. 

 Middleton, Carman, & Co., Messrs., 414. 

 Mikania gnaco, 340,355. 

 Milan, sewerage system in, 576. 

 Mildew in grain, prevention of, 394. 

 Milk, cold, for infants, 595. 

 of diseased cattle, 56S. 

 preserved by borax, 463. 

 sugar from vegetable juices, 98. 

 woman's, relation to food, 282. 

 Millepora limestone, US. 

 Milne-Edwards, Mr., 216, 250, 251. 

 Milner, Mr.,610. 

 Mineral cotton, 496. 



matter in plants, 351. 

 phosphates, 134. 

 sperm-oil, 536. 

 works at Stassfurt, 108. 

 Mineralogy and geology, 115. 

 Minerals, new, 116, 117, 140. 

 Mirrors without mercury, 540. 

 Miscarriage in cattle, 387. 

 Miscellaneous, 597. 

 Missouri insects, report on, 37S. 

 Mitchell, Captain, 621. 



Governor Robert B., 295. 

 Mivart, Mr., 292. 

 Mixture, new detonating, 4S2. 

 Moa, comparative antiquity of, 326. 



eggs of, 253. 

 Moller, Professor, S. 

 Mohn, Professor, 59, 65. 

 Moigno, Abbe, 505. 



Moisture, absorption of, by leaves, 346. 

 Mole, sensibility of its snout, 2S0. 

 Mollien, Mr. Gaspard, 621. 

 Mollusks, Gill's arrangement of, 269. 

 Mongoose and cobra, fight of, 255. 

 Monkey from Ifcily, fossil, 239. 

 Monster cod, 264. 

 Montaigne, Mr., 38. 

 Montevideo, glacial action near, 124. 

 Montreal, Logan chair of geology at, 616. 

 Monument at Avebury, preservation of, 

 224. 



