516 



mode of exhibiting Stereoscopic 

 Pictures, 455. 



Maclaren (Charles). Notice of ancient 

 Jloraines in the parishes of Strachur 

 and Kilmun, Argyleshire, 279. 



Magnetic declination, 318. 



Magnetism of oxygen gas and of the 

 atmosphere, 20. 



Maps, collection of, 477. 



Maxwell (J. C). Experiments on Co- 

 lour as perceived by the Eye, with 

 remarks on Colour-Blindness, 299. 



on a Dynamical Top, for ex- 

 hibiting the phenomena of the mo- 

 tion of a system of invariable form 

 about a fi.xed point ; with some sug- 

 gestions as to the earth's motion, 

 503. 



Mechanical action of heat, 223, 287. 



Mechanical action of radiant heat or 

 light, 108. 



Mechanical effect, sources available to 

 man for the production of, 112. 



Mechanical energy, on the quantities 

 of, contained in a fluid mass, in dif- 

 ferent states, as to temperatui'e and 

 density, 90. 



Mechanical energy, on a universal 

 tendency in nature to the dissipa- 

 tion of, 131. 



Mechanical theory of heat, 162. 



Meconic Acid, 99. 



Meconic and Comenic Acids, Ethers 

 and Amides of, 277. 



Medicine Stamp, notice of a Roman 

 practitioner's, found near Tranent, 9. 



Mer de Glace, on the movement of, 

 down to 1850, 14. 



Meteor, account of one seen on 30th 

 Sept. 1853, 220. 



Meteoric Stone alleged to have fallen 

 in Hampshire in September 1852, 

 147. 



Meteorological observations, Confer- 

 ence for establishing a uniform sys- 

 tem of, 218. 



Mont Blanc, geological relations of the 

 Secondary and Primary Rocks of, 

 348. 



Moon's parallax, 292. 



Moon"s surface, on the extent of our 

 knowledge respecting, 274. 



Moraines, ancient, in Strachur and 

 Kilmun, 279. 



Mull, Tertiary Fossiliferous Deposit 

 in, underlying Basalt, 21. 



Murray (Andrew) on Insect-Vision 

 and Blind Insects, 487. 



iluscular Tissue (involuntary), on the 

 minute structure of, 413. 



Muspratt (Dr Sheridan). Analysis of 

 the Mineral Waters of Baden-Ba- 

 den, 22. 



Muspratt (Dr Sheridan and Mr Dan- 

 son) on CarmufeUic Acid, 65. 



Narcotine, behaviour of. with Iodide 

 of Ethyl, 245. 



Natrolite, 123. 



Nautical Astrononiy,onsome improve- 

 ments in the instruments of, 114. 



Needle, Diurnal Variation of, 20. 



Nitric Acid, a source of the Nitrogen 

 found in plants, 189. 



Nitrogen in organic compounds, on 

 a modification of the process for the 

 determination of, 12o. 



Numbers, on a property of, 390. 



Observatory, Royal, on the stability 



of instruments of, 229. 

 O'Connor (Colonel Luke Smyth), C.B., 



on the Races of the Western Coast 



of Africa, 429. 

 Ojibbeway Pottery, analysis of, 506. 

 Old Red Sandstone Sea of the Central 



District of Scotland, 334. 

 Opium, crystalline constituents of, 



132, 215, 244. 

 Ordeal Bean of Old Calabar, 280. 

 Ordnance Survey in Scotland, histori- 

 cal notice of the progress of, 31. 

 Oxygen and Azote, relations between, 



263. 



Papaverine, behaviour of, with Iodide 

 of Ethyl, 245. 



Parthenogenesis in Moths and Bees, 

 454. 



Pectolite, 122. 



Pedicellina, structure of 486. 



Petrie (W.) Theoretical investiga- 

 tions into the thermotic effect of the 

 compression of air, 28. 



Photographs, Note on the method of 

 obtaining very rapid, 116. 



Photometer, description of, 355. 



Plague. On the occurrences of the 

 Plague in Scotland during the six- 

 teenth and seventeenth centuries, 

 326. 



Planta (Dr A. Von) on the constitu- 

 tion of Bebeerine, 2. 



Platinum Salts of the organic Alka- 

 lies, decompositions of, 309. 



Pliocene Shells in the Arctic Seas, 

 201. 



Poisoning by Lead in the Horse, 119. 



Poles of the Atmosphere, on the place 

 of, 101. 



