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INDEX II. 



Maclagaii (Dr.) on the composition of 

 bread, 66. 



Maclaren (C.) on the excavation of cer- 

 tain river channels in Scotland, 83. 



Macvicar (Rev. J. G.) on the possibility 

 of representing by diagrams the prin- 

 cipal functions of the molecules of 

 bodies, 66. 



Magnet, on the heat produced by the in- 

 fluence of the, upon bodiesin motion, 11. 



Magnetism, 7 ; elucidations of the, of 

 iron ships, and its changes, 12. 



Magnets, on the making and magnetizing 

 of steel, 10, 



Mair (Robert) on an application of gal- 

 vanic power to machinery, 208. 



Malcolm (Dr.) on the influence of factory 

 life on the health of the operative, as 

 founded upon the medical statistics of 

 this class at Belfast, 171. 



Mammals, on the Fornix cerebri in, 133. 



Man, on the Antrum pylori in, 132; on 

 the Fornix cerebri in, 133. 



Manatus Senegalensis, skull of a, 116. 



March (Dr.) on a screw-vent for turning 

 spiked guns into use, 208. 



Marine aerated freshwater apparatus, on 

 the, 68. 



Matter, on the absorption of, by the sur- 

 faces of bodies, 9. 



Matthiessen (A.) on the metals of the 

 alkaline earths, C6. 



Maury's pilot-charts, on the wind-charts 

 of the Atlantic compiled from, 39. 



Measures of this country, on a plan for 

 simplifying and improving the, 184. 



Meat dietary, on the use of phosphate of 

 potash in a salt, 63. 



Mechanical science, 201. 



Medical science, on the application of 

 statistics to questions of, 155. 



Medina, account of a visit to, from Suez, 

 by way of Jambo, 147. 



Medusae, on sea, 117. 



Meriones, on the species of, found in 

 Nova Scotia, 110. 



Mersey shore, on the titaniferous iron of 

 the, 61. 



Messina, on transparent fishes from, 111. 



Metals, on the effects of mechanical strain 

 on the thermo-electric qualities of, 17; 

 on some organic compounds containing, 

 62 ; on the extraction of, from the ore 

 of platinum, 63 ; on the, of the alka- 

 line earths, 66. 



Metamorphic rocks of Scotland, on the 

 subdivisions of the, 92. 



Meteorology, SO ; of the United Slates 

 and Canada, 42. 



Meteors, 25. 



Metra, on the, 207. 



Mica, on the existence of Acari in, 9. 



Michelson (Dr.) on the flowers and vege- 

 tation of the Crimea, 106. 



Microscope, on new forms of, 12. 



Mid-Lothian, on sections of fossils from 

 the coal-formation of, 80. 



Miles (Rev. C. P. M.) on the fauna of the 

 Clyde, and on the vivaria now ex- 

 hibited in the City Hall, Glasgow, 114. 



Miller (Hugh) on the less-known fossil 

 floras of Scotland, 83. 



Miller (John), fossil plants of the old red 

 sandstone of Caithness, 85. 



Mills (George) on manoeuvring steamers, 

 208. 



Mineral substances, on the composition 

 of two, employed as pigments, 70. 



Moffat (Dr. Thomas) on the action of 

 the carbo-azotic acid and the carbo- 

 azotates on the human body, 121. 



Molecular elaboration in organized bodies, 

 on the law of, 119. 



Molecules of bodies, on the possibility of 

 representing by diagrams the principal 

 functions of the, 66. 



Mollusca observed on the coast of Nor- 

 way, 113. 



Momentum engine, on a, 206. 



Monies of this country, on a plan for 

 simplifying and improving the, 184. 



Monographic projections of the world, on 

 improved, 148. 



Mont Blanc, account of the ascent of, by 

 a new route from the side of Italy, 150. 



Moon, on the chronology of the formation 

 of the, 28. 



Mortality, on the physiological law of, 

 and on certain deviations from it, 1 60 ; 

 on the progressive rates of, as occurring 

 in all ages, 186. 



Mortars without touch-hole, on the struc- 

 ture of sliell, to be discharged by gal- 

 vanic circuit, 207. 



Mossotti (Prof.) on the calculation of an 

 observed eclipse or occultation of a 

 star, 26. 



Mounsey (J. C.) on a singular iridescent 

 phaenomenon seen on Windermere 

 Lake, Oct. 24, 1851,41. 



Murchison (Sir R. L) on the relations of 

 the crystalline rocks of the North High- 

 lands to the old red sandstone of that 

 region, and on the recent discoveries 

 of fossils in the former by Mr. C. Peach, 

 85 ; new geological map of Europe, 88. 



Murray (Andrew) on the recent addi- 

 tions to our knowledge of the zoology 

 of Western Africa, 1 14. 



Muscles, on the mode of action of gal- 



