748 INDEX. 



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McGuire, Josepli D. , archeological gifts from 26 



])aper bj' 115 



McKeau, W., cheniifal researches by 389 



McKinley, William, member of Smithsonian Establishment ix, 2 



Mechanical energy converted to electricity 329 



flight, possibilities of 191 



precision, researches in 411 



Mechanistic doctrine of life 474 



Medal, Smithsonian, awarded to James Dewar xiv 



Medical discoveries, Hertwig on 471 



Medicine, preventive, progress in 642 



progress in, during 1 9th century 637-644 



Melvill, Thomas, kite observations by 223 



Mendenhall, C. E., bolometric Mork by 104, 149, 151 



Mendenhall, T. C, on progress in physics 315-331 



Mensch, P. C, at Naples Station ■ 14 



Merriam, C. Hart, on Alaskan expedition 55 



Mesopotamia, discoveries in, Delitzsch on 535-549 



Meteorite from Allegan, Mich 54 



Meteoritic nature of Saturn's rings 143 



Meteorological observations with balloons 190 



with kites 10,223-231 



Meteors, progress in study of 143 



Mexic(j, proposed absorption of 117 



Meyer, Victor, chemical researches by ". 242 



Michelson, Professor, echelon spectroscope invented by 326 



researches by 324 



Micro-organisms, diseases caused liy 637 



Miller, Frank Hayden, paper by 117 



Miller, (Territ S., jr., papers by 58, 116 



Mineral additions to National ^Museum 55 



Mississippi Hiver, exploration of 427 



Mitchison, J. , letter from 12 



Mohr, Charles, plants from 53 



Moissan, Henri, electric-furnace researches by 353 



Molecular complexity of gases 243 



theory of gases 158 



Molecules and electrical phenomena 376 



biological study of 476 



continuous motion of 385 



ions and 374 



liquid, complexity of 244 



progress in study of 240 



structure of, Ramsay on 247 



variation in movement of 325 



Mollusks added to Museum collection 53 



Montauban, General, in command of French army in China 601 



Montmartre, vertebrate fossils from 480 



Moon, maps of 141 



origin of the, Sollas on 293 



temperature of 107 



theories of motion of 138 



Mooney, James, Indian studies by 68 



