MERCER-MICROM 



GENERAL INDEX 



Mercer, Henrj^ C. (continued). 



illuminative writing, 36, 424. 



jasper and stalagmite quarried 



by Indians in the Wyandotte Cave, 



34, 396. 

 IMerovingian graveyard, 10, 3. 

 ^Merrick, J. Vaughan, obituary notice 



of Daniel R. Goodwin, 28, 227. 

 Merrick, Samuel Vaughan, obituary 



notice of, 11, 584. 

 Merriman, Mansfield, principle of 



least-work in mechanics, 42, 162. 

 -relation between the economic 



depth of a bridge truss and the 



depth that gives greatest stiffness, 



44, 164. 

 Mesozoic fault in New Jersey, the 



great, 31, 3i4- 



— ores, 16, 651. 



Metabolism, effect of preservatives 



on, 44, 66. 

 Metalline minerals, classification and 



nomerclature of, 25, 170. 

 Metalophodon, dentition of, 12, 542. 

 Metals, electrical spectra of, 14, 162. 



— measurement of the action of 

 water upon, 46, no. 



Metamorphism, 22, 161. 



Metazoa, morphology of the excre- 

 tory organs of, 47, 547- 



Meteor Crater, Arizona, 49, 4i- 



Meteoric fireballs in United States, 

 16, 590; 18, 239. 



— iron from New Mexico, 10, 330. 



— means, 12, 516. 



— rings, periodicity of, 11, 299. 

 Meteorites, arrangement of collec- 

 tions of, 43, 211. 



— possible existence of fireballs and, 

 in the stream of bielids, 24, 436. 



Meteorological methods, modern, 17, 

 278. 



— observations, 2, 178. 



__ — at U. S. military posts, 3, 158. 



on the Nile in 1873, 14, 632. 



stations for, li, 516. 



Meteorological (continued). 



— peculiarities of New England, 14, 

 154- 



— register at Bois-Chene, 11, 499. 

 Meteorology, 16, 198, 394. 



— and health, 14, 667. 



— remarks on Blasius' opinions in, 

 16, 205. 



Meteors, i, 261, 300; 2, 6"], 235, 267; 

 10, 335. 342, 353, 357, 539. 



— of January 2d, 1839, 13, 501. 



— of .March 15, 1841, 2, 45. 



— of Nov. 14, 1867, 10, 356. 



— and the comet of 1866, 22, 424. 



— as observed at Bloomington, Ind., 

 Nov. 13-14, 1868, 10, 541. 



— of Nov. 27-30, 1887, Biela's comet 

 and the large, 24, 242. 



— comets and, 11, 215. 



— influence of, on auroras, 12, 401. 



— latent heat of expansion in con- 

 nection with the luminosity of, 14, 

 114. 



• — ■ longitude determinations from cor- 

 responding observations of, i, 161. 

 — 'periodical, 2, 18. 

 Methulc, perchlorate of oxide of, 2, 



202. 

 Metric and English units, tables for 



interconversion of, 17, 536. 

 Metzger, John A., the Filipino; his 



customs and character, 44, 6. 

 Mexican Calendar Stone, Valentini's 



theory of the, 14, 663. 

 ^leyer. Otto, miocene invertebrates 



from \'irginia, 25, 135. 

 Miani, African exploration, 10, 95. 

 Michaux, Andre, journal of, 26, i. 

 Michaux, Frangois Andre, obituary 



notice of, 6, 223. 

 ]\Iichelson, A. A., form analysis, 45, 



no. 

 iNIicroconodon, Triassic mammals, 



Dromatherium and, 24, 109. 

 Micromalthus debilis. larva of, 17, 



666. 



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