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Mexican Antiquities 79 



Mexico, Ancient, The Metal Art of 519 



Microbe, The, of Malaria 141 



Microscope, The, in Geology 716 



Milk, Stale, Ptomaines in 714 



Mississippi, The Falls of the 474 



Monuments, Megalithic 39 



Moon, The, and the Sun 478 



Morgan, Appleton 145 



Morris, George P 608 



Morse, Professor Edward S 804 



Mountain Air, Virtues of. 859 



Nadaillac, M. de 39 



Natural History Studies in Boston 713 



Naturalists, The American Society of 138 



Natural, The, versus the Supernatural 1 



Nipperdey, H 801 



Noble, The Oldest, of them all 743 



Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 863 



Nussbaum, Dr. von 681 



Occupations, Healthy and Unhealthy 861 



Odors, An TJndulatory Theory of 430 



Orthodoxy, Scientific 559 



Over-Education, Modern 401 



Palaeolithic Art, Specimens of. 429 



Panama Canal, The 323 



Pasteur's (M.) Hydrophobia Inoculations, Value of. 718 



Petroleum Products as Fuel 284 



Philosophy, Some Ancient 574 



Philpott, Henry J 45, 228, 612, 735 



Photography of the Stars 282 



Photography, Stellar, Progress of 572 



Physical Culture and Moral Reform 561 



Physics, Teaching, in the Public Schools 860 



Pictures, Appearance and Reality in 249 



Plant-Growth, An Anomaly in 700 



Playfair, Sir Lyon 663 



Plumber's Art, the, Importance of 142 



Pollock, Sir Frederick 661 



Popular Miscellany 136, 281, 423, 570, 713, 858 



Poverty, The Fight against , 413 



Prairie- Flowers of Early Spring 84 



Proctor, Professor Richard A 50 



Progress, The, of Science from 1836 to 1886 503 



Ptomaines in Stale Milk 714 



Railroads, Are, Public Enemies ? 145 



Railroad-Ties, Wood and Metal for 573 



