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INDEX ir. 



Mechanical Section, 162. 



Mercantile vessels, on the management 

 of, 165. 



Mercurial minimum thermometer, on 

 Negretti and Zambra's, 40. 



Mersey iron-works, on the manufacture 

 of the large wroughl-iron gun and 

 other masses of iron made at the, 162, 



Meteorology, 31. 



Meteors seen at Cheltenham, 47. 



Methuen (R.) on the management of 

 mercantile vessels, 164. 



Mica-schist, on the microscopical struc- 

 ture of, 78. 



Michelsen (Dr.) on the flora of the Crimea, 

 90 ; on the geography of breadstuffs, 

 ih. 



Microscope, on the appearance of carbon 

 imder the, 50. 



Microtherium, on the genus, 72. 



Milnes (R. Monckton), concluding ad- 

 dress at the Statistical Section, 161. 



Mineral collections, on a series of de- 

 scriptive labels for, 57. 



Minerals from the isle of St. Thomas, on 

 some, 66. 



Mitchell (Rev. W.) on a series of descrip- 

 tive labels for mineral collections in 

 public institutions, 57. 



Moggridge (M.) on the time required for 

 the formation of " Rolled stones," 69. 



Money of this country, plan for simplify- 

 ing and improving the, 146. 



MonimiaWhiteana, on a new crustacean, 

 91. 



Moon, on phsenomena recently discovered 

 in the, 31. 



Moon's motion, on the reasons for de- 

 scribing the, as a motion about her 

 axis, ih. 



Moore (Charles) on the skin and food of 

 Ichthyosauri and Teleosauri, 69 ; on 

 the middle and upper lias of the West of 

 England, 70. 



Moselle, on some fossil fishes from the 

 strata of the, 69. 



MouraviefF (General), an original letter 

 from, 113. 



Mull, on the lignites of the isle of, 66. 



Murchison (Sir R. I.) on the bone-beds of 

 the upper Ludlow rocks and base of the 

 old red sandstone, 70. 



Mushet (Robert) description of an an- 

 cient miner's axe recently discovered 

 in the Forest of Dean, 71. 



Musk-ox, additional evidence of the, from 

 the Wiltshire drift, 72. 



Nasmyth (James) on the form of light- 

 ning, 14 ; on the plastic origin of the 



cuneiform character, and its relation 

 to our own alphabet, 118. 



Negretti and Zambra's mercurial mini- 

 mum thermometer, on, 40. 



Nervous system in the annulose and ver- 

 tebrate types of organization, on the 

 morphological relations of the, 93. 



Newmarch (William) on the credit mo- 

 bilier and other recent credit institu- 

 tions in France, 146 ; on the former 

 and present plans of disposing of the 

 waste lands in the Australian colonies, 

 146. 



Nitro-glycerine, on, 52. 



North American and British Palaeozoic 

 strata, on the correlation of the, 75. 



Norway, census of Lapps and Finns in, 

 in 1845 and 1855, 138. 



Noui-se (W. E. C.) on ascertaining the 

 causes of death in birds and animals, 

 97 ; on the medical indications of 

 poisoning, ib. 



Nova Scotia, on the tides of, 23. 



Nux vomica, on a new method of ex- 

 tracting strychnia and brucia from, 

 without alkaloids, 54. 



Odling (Professor William) on the alka- 

 line emanations from sewers and cess- 

 pools, 57 ; on the detection of antimony 

 for medico-legal purposes, ib. 



Oil, on improved mechanical means 

 for the extraction of, from fish, 164. 



Old Red Sandstone, on the bone-beds of 

 the, 70. 



Oolite, on the basement beds of the, 64 ; 

 on a new species of Pollicipes in the 

 inferior, near Stroud, in Gloucester- 

 shire, ib. ; on the occurrence of upper 

 lias ammonites in the (so-called) base- 

 ment beds of the, 80. 



Oolitic formation, on the south-easterly 

 attenuation of the, 67. 



Organization, on the morphological rela- 

 tions of the nervous system in the an- 

 nulose and vertebrate types of, 93. 



Oscillatorise, on the movements of, 88. 



Owen (Prof) on a new species of ano- 

 plotherioid mammal (Dichobune ovi- 

 num, Ow.) from the upper eocene of 

 Hordwell, with remarks on the genera 

 Dichobune, Xiphodon, and Microthe- 

 rium, 72 ; additional evidence of the 

 fossil musk-ox (Bubalus moschatus) 

 from the Wiltshire drift, ib. ; on the 

 Dichodon cuspidatus, from the upper 

 eocene of the Isle of Wight and Hord- 

 well, Hants, ib. ; on the Scelidotherium 

 leptocephalum, a megatherioid quad- 

 ruped from La Plata, 73 ; on a fossil 



