242 ALPHABETICAL INDEX 



Matter, continuous vibratory movement of — L. Magrini. (R. 1868) 224 



Matteucci, C. — 



Electrical currents of the earth. (R. 1807; R. 1869) 215, 228 



Lectures on electro-physiology. (R. 1865) . 209 



Life and scientific labors of Stefano Marianini. (R. 1869) 228 



Mauvaises Torres, expedition to the upper Missouri and the — T. A. Culbert- 



SON. (R. 1850) 28 



Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska, extinct mammalia and chelonia from the — J. 



Leidy 58 



Maxwell, J. C. ; Helmholtz, H. Later views of connection of electricity 



and magnetism, (li. 1873) 275 



Maya sculpture, remarks on ancient relic of — A. Schott. (R. 1871) 249 



Mayberry, S. p. Gradual approach of sea upon land. (R. 1867) 215 



Mayberry, S. p. Shell heaps at mouth of St. John's river, Florida. (R. 



1877) 323 



Mayer, A. M. Henry as a discoverer. Memorial address 356, 417 



May'er, a. M., translation by, of Delaunay's essay on velocity of light. (R. 



1864) 188, 354 



Mayer, B. Observations on Mexican historj- and archaeology 86 



Mazatlan, descriptions of new fishes from — D. S. Jordan ; C. H. Gilbert. 



(P. 1881) 467 



Meacham, J. Minority report of Committee of Regents on distribution of 



Smithson income. (R. 1853) 67 



Meads, O. Memorial of Joseph Henry 356 



Means available for correcting measures of sun's distance — G. B. Airy. (R. 



1859) _. 110 



Means of destroying the grasshopper — V. Motschulsky. (R. 1858) 109 



Measurements, anthropological, table of — Scherzer; Schwarz. (R. 1866) __ 214 



Measurements, mountain — A. Guyot. (R. 1862) 150 



Measures — 



and weights, English and French, tables of. (R. 1863; R. 1864) __. 187, 188 

 and weights, metric system of, with tables — H. A. Newton. (R. 1865. ) 209, 371 

 and weights, new system of, with 8 as the metrical number — G. H. 



Knight. (R. 1867) 215 



of sun's distance — G. B. Airy. (R. 1859) 110 



Measuring instrument, use of galvanometer as — J. C. Poggendorff. (R. 1859.) 110 

 Mechanics and artisans, scientific education of — A. P. Peabody. (R. 1872.) 271,380 



Mechanism of fever, studj' of. Toner lecture No. iv — H. C. Wood 282 



Medal to Von Martins— W. Haidinger. (R. 1863) 187 



Medical practice, relation of food to work and its bearing on — S. Haughton. 



(R. 1870) -. 244 



Medicines, classification of forms in which drugs and, appear and are adminis- 

 tered— J. M. Flint. (P. 1881) 467, 451 



Medulla oblongata and" trapezium, gray substance of the — J. Dean 173 



