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INDEX. 



Maryland Academy of Sciences, 5S9. 

 Mascart, Mr., 176. 

 Maskeleyne's observations, 18. 

 Maskelyne, Prof., lxvii. 

 Massachusetts, new survey of, xc, 573. 

 Material for dye-stuffs, new, 538. 

 for modeling, new, 494. 

 Mathematical theory of the winds, 123. 

 Mathematicians, lady, 605. 

 Mathematics, xix. 



and astronomy, 1. 

 Mather & Anderson, Messrs., clxix. 

 Matthiesen, Mr., 164. 

 Matthieu & Urbain, Messrs., lix. 

 Mat-work from linden-bark, 410. 

 Mauritius hurricane, the recent, 120. 

 weather predictions at, 86. 

 Maury, Mr. Alfred, 602. 

 Mauser, Josef von, 464. 

 Mauvaises Terres, lxxxviii. 

 Maw, Henry Lister, 614. 

 Maximowicz, Mr., clix., clx. 

 Maxwell, Mr., xxxvii., 130. 



Prof. J. Clerk, 598. 

 May-bugs, destroying, 394. 

 Maydell, Mr., xxxv. 



Lieut. Baron, 76. 

 Mayer, Dr., clxviii. 



Prof. A. M., xxxix., xliii. 



experiments of, on 

 sound, cl., 175, 177, 

 1S1, 1S9, 192, 196, 

 579. 

 Maynard, Ixxxvii., 422. 



Mr. C.J.,clvi., 30S. 

 Mazzola, Prof., 22. 



Measurement of galvanic currents, 165. 

 Meat biscuit, 44S. 



flour as food for pigs, 417. 

 in compressed air, 572. 

 Japanese mode of preserving, 455. 

 new method of preserving, 436. 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, xli., 116. 



of the sound-wave, 

 176, 1S9. 

 perfection of the human heart, 

 2S5. 

 Mechanics and engineering, 459. 

 Mechanism of audition, 177. 

 Mediterranean, absence of animal life in 



the, 2S4. 

 Meek, Prof., 233. 

 Megatherium in the Jardin dcs Plantes, 



302. 

 Meldrum, Mr., xxxvi., SI, S6, 90, 121. 

 Mellichamp, Dr., clx., clii., 365. 

 Melsens, Mr., xlix., Ixiii., 206. 

 Melting a great mass of platinum, 



211. 

 Mephitis libyca, 323. 

 Meneville, M. Guerin, 396. 

 Mennier, M. Louis-Francis, 614. 

 Men ten, Father, xxiv., 35. 

 Mentone, caves of, cxx. 

 skeleton, 224. 

 the fossil man of, 20S. 

 Mercadier, Mr., 135. 

 Mercury, reflecting powers of, xxviii. 

 Mericourt, Mr., 570. 

 Merk & Joos, Messrs., cxxi. 

 Mermet, Mr., xlv. 

 Merrill, Prof. Selah B., cxxiv. 

 Merz & Mahler, Messrs., xxiii. 

 Merz's telescope, 21. 



Metallic films, optical properties of thin, 

 176. 

 vapors as conductors for electric- 

 ity, 165. 

 Metallurgy and chemistry, 199. 

 Metals, artificial coloration of, 537. 



under stress, clxxix. 

 Metamerism in inorganic chemistry, 204. 

 Meteor, explosion of a, 2S. 



orbit of a, 42. 

 Meteoric iron, structure of, 219. 

 Meteorograph, universal, 105. 

 Meteoroids, xxix. 

 Meteorological Congress in Vienna, 62. 



Institute of Copenhagen, 



116. 

 Institute of the Nether- 

 lands, 62. 

 office in Cordova, 38. 

 system, Chinese, 72. 

 Meteorology, xxxiv. 



and sun-spots, 79, 80. 

 in Bengal, 74. 

 in Japan, 115, 116. 

 in Russia, 85. 



in the Argentine Confeder- 

 acy, 68. 

 maritime, 70, 87, 115. 

 of St. Paul's Island, S3, 

 of the United States, 81. 

 Method of lithographic transfers, new, 486. 

 Methyl violet on wool, 499. 

 Metschnikoff, Mr., cliii. 



& Nitsche, Drs., cxlvi. 

 Mexico, bird.s of Northwestern, 341. 

 Meyer, Dr. A. B., xciv., cxxxii., 249, 341. 

 Mr., Ixxxi. 

 Mr. Victor, li. 

 Miani, Mr., cxxxi., 614. 

 Michaelis & Wagner, Messrs., xlvi. 

 Michelet, M. Jules, 614. 

 Miclucho Maclay, xciii. 

 Microscopic lenses, limit of power of, 278. 



slides by sand-blast, 279. 

 Microscopical examination of air, 277. 



of milk, 569. 

 Journal, Quarterly, xcix. 

 Microscopy, xcviii. 

 Miescher, Mr., lx. 

 Milk, detecting starch in, 212. 



improved mode of condensing, 444. 

 microscopic examination of adulter* 



ated, 569. 

 preparation of condensed, 399. 

 reaction of fresh, lix. 

 spreading typhoid fever, 560. 

 testing, 457. 

 Miller. Mr. F.Scott, 232. 

 Milne-Edwards, Prof., 301, 306. 

 Mineral butter, 227. 

 Mineralogy, lxv. 



and geology, 219. 

 Minerals and antiquities, sale of, 594. 



new, 235. 

 Minnesota, endowment of an observatory 



in, 33. 

 Miscellaneous, 573. 

 Mitchell, Dr., 2SS. 

 Mixture of liquids with exclusion of air, 



202. 

 Moa bones in New Zealand, 305. 

 Moabite pottery, cxxiv. 

 Mode of growing potatoes, improved, 

 404. 



