616 Index. 
Meteors, Observations of a Detonating, 
on Noy, 21, 1865, 391. 
— Spectra of, 526. 
Micrometer, Airey’s Double Image, 389. 
Micro-spectroscope, Use of, in Medico- 
legal Investigations, 297. 
Mus, Dr., on Nitro-compounds, 90. 
Millstone Grit, its Fossils, &c., 102. 
Mineralogical Papers, List of, 431. 
Mineralogy (Chronicles), 113, 289, 425, 
595. 
— Literature of, 293. 
Mineral, a New Phosphatic, 113. 
Minerals, New Cornish, 89, 115. 
Mining (Chronicles), 108, 285, 421, 592. 
American, 423. 
Miocene Flora of North Greenland, 537. 
Mirscuerticu, Professor, Detection of 
Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine, by 
Spectrum Analysis, 117. 
Mollusca, Proposed New Classification 
of, 128. 
Mollusks, Food of Terrestrial, in, Ex- 
treme Drought, 129. 
Monreomerte, Captain, the Geographi- 
eal Position of Yarkund and other 
places in Central Asia, 411. 
Moon, Acceleration of the Motion of 
the, 512, 515. 
Map of the, 527. 
Observations of Partial Eclipse of 
the, October 4, 1865, 78. 
Morcu, Dr., Proposed New Classifica- 
tion of Mollusca, 128. 
Moronolite, 427. 
Mortality, Rate of, in our largest 
Towns, 496. 
Mountain Ash Murder, the, 347. 
Mud Volcano on the Flanks of Etna, 
536. 
Murcuison, Sir R. I., on the various 
Tracts of England and Wales, in 
which no productive Beds of Coal 
can reasonably be looked for, 534. 
Muscular Contraction, best Way of 
Studying, 131. 
Nature of, 601. 
Museum, British, Herbarium of, 574. 
Mousprart, Dr. Analysis of Harrogate 
Water, 264. 
N. 
Natal, Physical Geography of, 557. 
Navpn, M., Unity of Origin of Species, 
85. 
Nebula, Notice of the Great, in Orion, 
390. 
Nematode Worms, Reproduction and 
Development of, 443. 
Nervation of Leaves, Types of, 399. 
[Oct., 
Newsy, Mr. E. H., Method of Increas- 
ing the Strength of Iron, 294. 
Nicxirs, M. J., on the Effects of 
Coloration, and the Extinetion of 
Colours by Artificial Lights, 296. 
Nile, Sources of the, 97. 
Nitro-compounds, 90. 
Nitrogen, Spectrum of, 123. 
Nitro-glycerine, Explosion of Frozen, 
289, 
Nitro-prussides, their Composition and 
Manufacture, 405. 
Norium, Non-existence of, 576. 
North Wales, Geology of, 583, 
O. 
Occultafions, Reduction of, 80. 
Okenite, Composition of, 291. 
Oligocene, Upper, Fauna of, 101. 
Oligoclase, Labradorite, &c., Composi- 
tion of, 290. 
OrIGINAL ARTICLES :— 
Teneriffe. By R. E, Alison, 1. 
The Cattle Plague, 24. 
On the Recurrence of Species in 
Geological Formations. By A. 
C. Ramsay, F.R.S., 33. 
Synthetical Chemistry, 34. 
Anthropology, 43. 
The Progress of Zoology, 47. 
The Origin and Antiquity of Man, 
54, 
Hofmann and Modern Chemistry, 
61. 
Darwin and his Teachings, 151. 
Considerations on the Loss of the 
‘London, ByW. Fairbairn, C.E., 
E.RBS., &., 177. } 
Sewage and Sewerage, 180. 
On the Antiquity of the Volcanos 
of Auvergne. By C. Daubeny, 
M.D., F.RB.S., &., 199. 
On the Laryngoscope, and some 
of its Physiological Revelations. 
By C. B. Fox, M.D., 217. 
Comparative Philology, as indi- 
cating the Antiquity of Man. 
By David Parkes, 224. 
On Cell Life. By Dr. A. Fick, 235. 
The Mortality of Liverpool, and its 
National Danger, 311. 
The New Iron Fields of England. 
By Ed. Hull, B.A., F.G.S., 323. 
On the Habits and Conditions of 
the Two Earliest Known Races 
of Men. By W. B. Dawkins, 
M.A., 333. 
Science and Crime, 347. 
British Volcanic Rocks. 
By A. 
Geikie, F.R.S., 351. 
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