788 INDEX. 



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Madeira as a Health-Resort 652 



Magneto-Electric Illumination. (Illustrated.) 584 



Man, Antiquity of 255 



Matter, The Constitution of 547 



" Mechanism of the Ossicles of the Ear " (by Helmholtz), Notice of. 249 



Mental Science and Sociology 676 



Meteorological Observations in the Upper Atmosphere 520 



Meteors 123 



Mill, John Stuart, his Life and Character. (Portrait.) 367 



" Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada " (by Walton.) 515 



Mines, Ancient Egyptian 526 



Mistletoe, The 397 



Mommsen's History Ill 



Monkeys, Fossil 519 



Moon, The 756 



Moon, Temperature of 448 



Morbid Effects of Heat 497 



Mortality, Infant 782 



"Mystery of Matter " (by Picton), Notice of 775 



" Myths and Myth-Makers " (by Fiske), Notice of 772 



Natural Selection 22 



National University 689 



Nature and Influence of Foods 441 



Nature and Origin of the Drift-Deposits of the Northwest 286 



Nebula, The Great, in Orion 564 



Nebulae, Constitution of. (Illustrated.) 129 



Niagara, Observations on 210 



Normal Schools, Scientific 113 



Notes 128, 255, 399, 527, 655, 783 



Observations on Niagara 210 



Ocean-Cables 38 



Old Continents 573 



Orientals at Vienna 493 



Orion, The Great Nebula in 564 



Overwork, Heart-Disease and 779 



Oxygen, Poisoning by 782 



Parthenogenesis in Shrimps 399 



Physical Science, its Primary Concepts 705 



Physiology of Death 270 



Plants, The Battle of Life among 75 



Plants and Animals, Freezing of 96 



Poisonous Volcanic Gases 780 



Poisoning by Oxygen 782 



Political Bias 172 



Politics, Natural Selection in 230 



" Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects," by Helmholtz 513 



Porpoise, Habits of the 522 



Powers, The Intellectual, of Birds 614 



