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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



science and hygiene, 495 ; surgery, 495 ; theory and prac- 

 lice of medicine, 495; diseases of the throat and lungs, 

 495; obstetrics, 495 ; anatomy and physiology, 495; law 

 and legal science, 496 ; education and educational science, 

 497; geography and travels, 497; essays, belles-lettres, 

 and criticism, 498 ; letters, lectures, and speeches, 498 ; 

 poetry and the drama, 499; music, 500; novels, 501; 

 juvenile works of adventure, history, and travel, 501; 

 religions juveniles, 502 ; elementary books for children, 

 602; fairy and legendary books for children, 502; de- 

 partment of art, 503; miscellaneous works, 503; Eng- 

 lish literature for the year, 504-508; general history, 

 504; historical and collective biography, 504; biographies 

 of single Individuals, 505; theological and religious lit- 

 erature, 505; intellectual and moral science, 505; anti- 

 quarianism, topography, and folk lore, 505; geography 

 and travel, 506 ; essays and works of criticism, 506 ; polit- 

 ical and social science, 507 ; financial science, 507 ; tech- 

 nology and mechanical science, 507; natural history, 507; 

 poetry, 607; fiction, 507; fairy fictions for children, 508; 

 illustrated books for children, 608 ; miscellaneous liter- 

 ature, 503. 



Louisiana. Government, 508 ; draft, 508 ; members of Con- 

 gress elected, 509 ; registration, 509 ; proclamation of act- 

 ing GOT. Wells, 609; resignation of Gov. Hahn, 610; 

 address of Gen. Hurlbut, 510 ; close of Gov. Allen's ad- 

 ministration, 510 ; address of Gov. Wells, 510 ; reorgani- 

 zation of parishes, 511 ; discussion as to the validity of 

 the State government, 611 ; State election ordered, 511 ; 

 qualification of voters, 511 ; Democratic Convention at 

 New Orleans, 511 ; resolutions, 512 ; extract from an ad- 

 dress of the National Conservative Union Party, 512 ; 

 platform, 512 ; nomination of Gov. Wells and ex-Gov. 

 Allen for Governor, 513 ; position of Gov. Wells, 513 ; 

 result of the November election, 518; resolutions of 

 Badical Republicans, 513 ; extra session of the Legisla- 

 ture, 514 ; majority and minority reports of a committeo 

 In relation to calling a constitutional convention, 514 ; 

 election of senators, 514 ; status of freedmen, 514 ; adop- 

 tion of the amendment to the Federal Constitution, 514, 

 515 ; labor system, 515 ; demoralization of the negroes, 

 615; freedmen's schools, 515; results of confiscation in 

 New Orleans, 515; sugar estates liable to confiscation, 

 515 ; letter of Chief Justice Chase to an assembly of 

 blacks, 515. 



Lubecfc. Government, 616; budget, 516; area and popula- 

 tion, 616; religious statistics, 516 ; army contingent, 516 ; 

 imports, 516 ; shipping, 516. 



Lutheran Church. Missionary periodicals, 616; theological 

 seminaries and colleges, 516 ; number of ministers, con- 

 gregations, and communicants, 516 ; dissolution of the 

 Synod of Kentucky, 616; loyalty, 516,617; resolutions 

 in relation to freedinen, 517. 



LYNCH, WILLIAM F. Birth, 517; explorations, 517; works, 

 517 ; death, 517. 



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MAGH:, DAVID. Birth, 517; labors, 518; death, 517. 



MAGNAN, BERNARD PIERRE. Birth, 513 ; military services, 

 518; death, 51 a 



Magnesium. Sonatadt's method of preparing, 518, 519 ; man- 

 ufacture cheapened, 519; quantity in the ocean, 519; 

 properties, 519 ; thermic equivalent, 520 ; qualities of its 

 light, 620 ; improved forma of lamps, 521 ; applications 

 of the light, 521 ; other applications, 522 ; utilization of 

 the chloride, 622. 



Maine. Measures recommended to the Legislature by Gov. 

 Cony, 622 ; debt and finances, 622 ; troops furnished, 522, 

 523 ; resolutions of the Republican and Democratic Con- 



ventions, 528 ; nominations for governor, 528 ; result of 

 the September election, 524 ; election of senator, 524. 



MALLOBY, EGBERT. Representative from Kentucky, 205; 

 on the amendment to the Constitution, 211. 



Mars. Polar compression, 524 ; " opposition," 524 ; rednest 

 of light, 524 ; appearances, 524, 525 ; climate, 525 ; proba 

 bly habitable, 526. 



Maryland. Registration act, 626; classes excluded from 

 the right of suffrage, 526 ; questions to persons applying 

 for registration, 526; opposition to the registration act, 

 626, 527 ; opinions of Montgomery Blair, 527 ; constitu- 

 tionality of the act, 527; remarks of Gov. Swann, 527: 

 other acts of the Legislature, 528 ; finances, 528 ; real and 

 personal property in the State, 628 ; proposed reassess- 

 ment, 528 ; State penitentiary, 529 ; colored schools, 529 ; 

 colored convention, 529 ; Gov. Swann on the laws relat- 

 ing to negroes, 529 ; negro suffrage, 530 ; election in 

 November, 530. 



MARVIN, WILLIAM. Appointed Provisional Governor of 

 Florida, 359 ; proclamations, 860 ; message, 862 ; despatch 

 to President Johnson, 863; chosen senator, 363 ; relieved 

 by Gov. Walker, 863; on the condition of affairs in 

 Florida, 864. 



Massachusetts. Legislative aetion, 630 ; finances, 530, 631 ; 

 number of men furnished to the army and navy, 531 ; 

 militia, 532 ; banks, 532 ; public schools, 532 ; Harvard 

 University, 582 ; charitable and correctional institutions, 

 532 ; railroad statistics, 532 ; Hoosac Mountain tunnel, 

 632 ; paper manufacture, 533 ; salmon in the Connecticut 

 and Mcrrimac, 633; surplus female population, 588; 

 births, marriages, and deaths, 533, 584 ; liquor sales, etc., 

 684 ; conflict between liquor dealers and the State, 534 ; 

 resolutions of the Republican Convention, 584 ; A. H. 

 Bullock nominated for Governor, 584 ; resolutions of the 

 Democratic Committee, 535 ; D. N. Couch nominated for 

 Governor, 535 ; result of the elections, 585. 



MAXIMILIAN, Emperor. Proceedings in Mexico, 22. 



MCALLISTER, MATTHEW HALL. Birth, 635; professional 

 labors, 535 ; judicial career, 536 ; works, 586 ; death, 535. 



McCALL, WILKINSON. Senator from Florida, 863. 



McCARTEE, ROBERT. Birth, 586; ministerial labors, 537; 

 death, 536. 



McCLirRE, ALEXANDEB WILSON. Birth, 537; ministerial 

 labors, 537; works, 588; death, .537. 



MEDILL, WILLIAM. Birth, 538 ; career, 538 ; death, 58S. 



MEEK, ALEXANDER BEAUFORT. Birth, 538 ; professional and 

 political career, 638 ; works, 588, 589 ; death, 588. 



Metals. Iron of remarkable purity, 539; exceedingly hard 

 iron, 539; cast-iron and steel hardened with tungsten, 

 689 ; economical production of metallic tungsten, 589 ; 

 iron from titaniferons ores, 589 ; gases contained in molt- 

 en lead and steel, 540 ; reduction of certain metals by 

 zinc, 540 ; new smelting furnace for copper, etc., 540 ; 

 utilization of copper smoke, 540, 541 ; Spence's copper 

 ore calcining furnace, 541 ; Gerstenhofcr's copper fur- 

 nace, 541 ; saving from slag of copper furnaces, 542 ; non- 

 metallic impurities of refined copper, 642 ; coppering of 

 cast-iron, 642; new processes for coating metals with 

 other metals, 548 ; new method of preparing aluminium, 

 544 ; supposed passive state of metals, 544. 



Meteors and Meteorites. Shooting stars, 644; November 

 period, 544, 545 ; August period, 645 ; other periods, 545 ; 

 tables of meteors and question of altitudes, 546; incan- 

 descence and dissipation of meteors, 646, 647 ; Novem- 

 ber period due to a heliocentric meteoroidal ring, 547 ; 

 shooting stars from other radiants, 547 ; vast number of 

 meteors and mctcoroids, 648; question of other rings, 

 648 ; recent meteorites, 543 ; composition of meteorites, 

 649 ; structure of meteorites, 649 ; classification of mt- 

 teorites, 550. 



