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Morton, Mr., xxxix., 181, 284. 



Moseley,Mr.,243. 



Mosquito larvae as food for trout, 44S. 



Moths, distribution of California, 330. 



protection against, 502. 

 Motor for sewing-machines, a new, 53T. 



for small machines, 530. 

 Mould on gum mucilage prevented, 5S5. 

 Mouldings, material for, 572. 

 Moulds for electrotypes, 547. 

 Mount Lyell, 19S. 



IVl'Clure, 198. 



Meiggs, ascent of, 228. 

 Much, Dr. M., Ixxvi. 

 Mucilage, improved, 605. 

 Miihry, Prof., xxxii., xxxiv., S3, 86, 115. 

 Muir, Mr. John, 197. 

 Miilden, Mr., 405. 

 Miiller, Baron von, civ. 



Prof., civ., 293, 379. 

 Mummied heads of the Peruvian Indians, 



339. 

 Muntz, Mr., 360. 

 Muratori, Mr. C, 572. 

 Murray, Mr. Alexander, xciv. 



Mr. John, 243. 

 Museum of Cambridge, 316. 



of Yale College, 316. 

 Musophaga, 190. 

 Mycoderraa viui, 184. 

 Myer, Gen., xxviii., 75. 



N. 



Nachtigal, Dr., Ixxiv. 



news from, 230. 

 Nagy Kap, Hungarj', the diluvial skull of, 



2S0. 

 Nairne cylinder machine, 151. 

 Nares, Capt., Ivii., 243. 

 Nathorst, Mr., 341. 

 National Academy of Sciences, 657. 



Photographic Institute, 666. 

 Natural phosphates, 406. 

 Naumann, Prof. C. R, 684. 

 Naval College for officers, British*, 671. 

 Nealy,Mr. S.H., 251. 

 Nebula in Argus, 30. 

 Nebular theory, 38. 



Negative, reducing the intensity of a, 574. 

 Nelson, Mr., xxi. 

 Nell, Mr. Louis, 253, 

 Nerve force, origin of, 323. 

 Netherlands, Geographical Society of the, 



869. 

 Nettre, Dr. L. R., Ixviii., 261. 

 Neubauer, Prof., 482. 

 Neumayer, Dr., Ixv., 221. 

 New bone cave, 309. 

 New Guinea, explorations in, 230, 237. 

 New Jersey geology, 203. 

 New vertebrate fossils, 309. 

 New York Fish Commissioners' report for 

 1S72, 438. 

 Museum of Natural History, 



657. 

 Park, aquarium for the, 337. 

 Park Menagerie, 338. 

 School-ship, cruise of the, 64. 

 State Cabinet of Natural Histo- 

 ry, 657. 

 New Zealand, naturalization of trout in, 

 447. 

 transporting salmon eggs 

 to, 445. 



New Zealand, arrival of salmon eggs in, 



462. 

 Newberry, Dr. J. S., xlvi., xlviii., 205, 206, 

 208, 378. 

 Dr. C. J., 254. 

 Newcomb, Mr. Wesley, 516. 



Prof., 1, 17, 22, 674. 

 Newcomb's catalogue of fundamental 

 stars, 22. 

 tables of Uranus, xx. 

 Newfoundland lishery laws, 454. 



giant cuttle-fish, 296. 

 Newport, Mr., Ixxxviii. 

 Newton, Sir Isaac, 120. 



Prof. H. A., xxxiv., 104, 674. 

 Neyreneuf, Mr., 150. 

 Nicaragua, railroad in, 675. 

 Nickel replaced by manganese, 591. 

 Nickel-plated type, 547. 

 Nicotine in tobacco smoke, 628. 

 Niles, Prof., xxvi. 

 Nissen, Mr., 601. 

 Nitre in South America, 191. 

 Nitrite of amj'1,621. 

 Nitrites in the soil, production of, 382. 

 Nitrogen in fertilizers, 410. 

 Nitrous oxide, solidification of, 183. 

 Nitsche, Dr., xcvii. 

 Nobbe, Mr.,cviii. 

 Noel, Mr., 136. 

 Noonan, Mr. C. T., 251. 

 Nordenskiold,Prof.,lxii.,lxiv.,193,209,262. 

 Norfolk, Duke of, 671. 

 Norris, Dr. Edwin, 684. 

 North, Prof., 224. 

 Northern Boundary Survey, 257. 



Europe, the storms of, 87. 

 Norway fish guano, 387. 



oceanic currents and climate of,99. 

 Nototrema opisthodelphys, 290. 

 ISott, Dr. J. C, 084. 

 Nourse, Prof., 658. 



History of the United States 

 Naval Observatory, 657. 

 Nova Scotia storm, the, 97. 

 Nova Zembla, drift-wood in, 225. 

 Nowak,Mr.J.,627. 

 Nyren, Dr. M., xx., 28. 



O. 



Obermeier, Dr. Otto, 300, 684. 

 Object-glass, mending an, 175. 

 Observatories for regulating time, 16. 

 Observatory at Edinburgh,l;2. 



at Tapada, 57. 



at Tashkend, new, 17. 



Cincinnati, 15. 



new, in Cincinnati, 34. 



New Liverpool, 19. 



of Columbia College, 16. 



of Leydeu, annals of the, 62. 



United States Naval, 657. 

 Ocean-level, secular variation of the, 92. 

 Oceanic current and climate of Norway, 99. 

 Odling, Prof., 490. 

 Odontopteryx, new fossil bird, 349. 

 Oechsle's pyrometer, 143. 

 Oellacher, Dr., xc. 

 Ohio Fish Commission, 441. 



fishery and game laws, 457. 

 Geological Survey, 204. 

 Ohm, Prof., 156. 

 Oidtmanu, Dr., 495. 

 Oil color and varnish, quick-drying, 584. 



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