INDEX II. 
Madeira, geology of, 118. 
Magnetic observatory of Munich, ac- 
count of the, 26. 
Mal d’Aleppe, disease known by the 
name of, 161. 
Manchester, temperature of the earth 
in the mines near, 17. 
Manchester Statistical Society, on the 
state of education in the borough of 
Kingston-upon-Hull, 177. 
Maps, relief, 122. 
Matias bark, chemical and medicinal 
properties of, 160. 
Mathematics, 1. 
Mc Farlane (P.) on a new construc- 
tion of barometer, 55. 
Mc Gregor (Mr.) on carbonic acid 
thrown off from the lungs, 87. 
Mechanical science, 186. 
Medical science, 149. 
Medulla oblongata, anatomy of the, 
154. 
Metals, true planes or surfaces on, 192. 
Meduse, 142. 
Meteorological observations in Ba- 
varia, statement of the system of, 27. 
at Trevandrum, 28. 
Miasms, 72. 
Microscope, improvement in the po- 
larizing, 10. 
Microscopic objects, method of illumi- 
nating, 9. 
Millar (Captain) on the state of crime 
within Glasgow, and city police ju- 
risdiction, 169. 
Miller (Capt.), comparative view of 
the state of crime in London, Dub- 
lin, and Glasgow, 173. 
Milne (Mr. J.) on a gas regulator, 
213. 
Milne (Mr.) on a high pressure filter 
. for domestic purposes, 211. 
Milne (D.) on earthquakes in Scotland, 
97 
Mineralogy and geology of Canada, 
114. 
Mitchell (Mr.) on timber bridges, with 
reference to their application to the 
ceconomical construction of railways, 
197. 
Mnmeonics, 157. 
Mohr (Dr.) on a new method of pre- 
paring morphia and its salts, 78. 
Mollusea, pelonaia a new genus of 
ascidian, 137. 
223 
Monocephalic human monster, double, 
from South America, 163. 
Moon’s orbit, mean apsidal angle of 
the, 1. 
Morphia and its salts, new method of 
preparing, 78. 
Munich, magnetic observatory of, ac- 
count of the, 26. 
Murchison (R. I.) on the fishes of the 
old red sandstone, 99. 
on geological maps of different 
parts of Germany, 124, 
, and E. de Verneuil, on the stra- 
tified deposits which occupy the 
northern and central regions of Rus- 
sia, 105. 
Murexide, new process for preparing, 
74. 
, preparation of, 74. 
Muscz volitantes, phenomena and 
cause of, 8. 
Nervous system, connection between 
the, and muscular contractibility, 
155. 
Newabbey, granite formations of, in 
Galloway, 95. 
Newbiggin (Dr. Patrick) on the the- 
rapeutic effect of croton oil in cer- 
tain nervous disorders, 156. 
New Brunswick, geography of, 121. 
, geological features of the river 
St. John in, 115. 
Nichol (Prof.) on the observatory 
erecting near Glasgow, 1. 
Nitric acid, action of, on the chlorates 
iodates, and bromates of potassa and 
soda, 79. 
Nitrogen, new mode of estimating, in 
organic analysis, 77. 
Normandy, ancient sea-cliffs and nee- 
dles in the chalk of the valley of the 
Seine in, 111. 
, two species of shells of the ge- 
nus Conus, in the lias or inferior 
oolite near Caen, in, 110. 
isophaeus, foreign bodies in the, 155. 
Old red sandstone, fishes of the, 99. 
Ovum, mammiferous, on the first 
changes consequent on fecundation 
in the, 129. 
Paterson (Rev. Dr.) on an improved 
life boat, 211. 
