532 



INDKX. 



LAND, 368; Chinese and Japan- 

 ese, 365. 



Matuku Island, 253. 



McKellar, Mr., ostrich farm of, 130. 



Meangis Islands, 372 ; dredgings 

 off, 511. 



Medicine, Chinese, 366; old English, 

 368; flesh of strange animals 

 used as, 84. 



Medusce in fresh water, 236 ; up- 

 turned, 349. 



Migapociius, eggs of, 34S ; tumulus, 



304, 314- 



Mclococtus, 14. 



Mclastoiitaccft, 82. 



Melbourne, 222. 



Melville Island, 195. 



Mcnibrain'pora, 492. 



Mcrops ornalits, 305, 314. 



Mesoplodon Layardii, 1 35. 



Messier Channel, the, 477. 



Meirosideros, 452 ; Kobusta and 

 Florida, 241. 



Migration, of animals in the deep 

 sea, 507; of birds to Bermuda, 

 21 ; of birds of the Sandwich 

 Islands, 433 ; of birds, Torres 

 Straits, 314; ofpenguins, turtles, 

 and seals, 1 15. 



Mice, at Fernando Noronha, 

 69 ; at Tristan da Cunha, 98 ; 

 at Marion and St. Paul's Is- 

 lands, 157. 



Mikloucho Maclay, 338; at Ad- 

 miralty Islands, 389, 397. 



Microglossitm aterriinniii, 303. 



Miers, Mr. E. J., Crustacea of 

 Kerguelen's Land, 186. 



Mill, women at the, in the Azores, 



3°. 

 Millepora, nodosa, structure of, 456; 



swinging of, 335; raiiiosa, 24. 

 Milleporida', 265, 456. 

 Milviis korschiini, 49. 

 Milne Edwards, M.A , on Rhiyto- 



pithecus, 370. 

 Mindonao, 341. 

 Misodendron, 474. 

 Missionaries, at Fiji, 272, 277, 285, 



288 ; at Tonga, 247, 248. 

 Mitten, Mr. W., mosses of Marion 



Island, 145; mosses of Tristan 



DA Cunha, 117. 

 Mistletoe, 78; leafless on cactus, 



47 ^ ; variable on Australian trees, 



474- 



MoBius, Dr. K., on the flight of 



Flying-fish, 495 ; on deep-sea 



animals, 504. 

 Mole, the Golden, 127; the Sand, 



habits of, 125 ; true, and Rodent 



compared, 125. 

 Mollusca, shells of, composing rock, 



17- 

 Mollymauk, iii ; nests of, 112. 

 Monasteries, Chinese, 363. 

 Monkeys, at St. Jago Island, 52 ; 



figures of, in Chinese books, 370. 

 Montia fontaita, 166. 

 Moraines at Heard Island, 190; 



at Kerguelen's Land, 172. 

 Mormon Jratercnla, Celtic name of, 



III. 

 Morunga elephantina, 98. 

 Moros, the, 342. 



MosELEY, Rev. Canon, on the de- 

 scent of glaciers, 212. 

 MosELEY, Mount, 161. 

 Moss, Staff-Surgeon, R.N., on Arctic 



ice, 208. 

 Mosses at Marion Island, 142; at 



Heard Island, 195. 

 Mound-birds, 304, 314; eggs of, 



348- 



Mud-springs, Azores, 33. 



Mule, and horse as mountaineers, 

 compared, 477 ; load of, in Bra- 

 zil, 84; riding in Brazil, 81. 



MiJLLER, Baron von, on Eucalyptus, 

 225. 



Mullet, Gray, 235. 



Miircena, 64, 253. 



Murray, Mr. John, at Elizabeth 

 Island, 4S0 ; at Humboldt Bay, 

 382 ; on sharks, 8 ; use of tow- 

 net in deep water, by, 499. 



Miisa, textilis, 355 ; iiranoscopns, 

 448. 



Museums, origin and development 

 of, 3- 



Musschenbroek, Mr. S. C. J. W. 

 Van, on Trigonia, 239; at Ter- 

 nate, 337. 



Music, origin of, 287 ; instruments 

 of, in the Admiralty Islands, 

 407 ; knowledge of, by modern 

 Hawaiians, 431. 



Miis rattus, 515. 



Mya truncata eaten by seals, 178. 



Mycedium fragile, 24. 



Myrica faya, 30. 



Myrmecodia arniata, 336; 



