INDEX. 



785 



Luminiferous ether, theory of. ii. 18 ; 

 69, 70. 



Lunar theory, i. 329. 



Liiroth, on von Staudt, ii. 669 ; and 

 Shepp, translation of Dini's work, 

 704. 



Luther, educational work of, i. 255. 



Lyell, Sir Chas., i. 229 ; quoted on 

 British Association, 240 ; ' Travels in 

 North America,' 263; 'Principles of 

 Geology,' 291, ii. 277, 317 ; on Cuvier 

 and the fixity of species, 256 ; 291 ; 

 " uniformitarian " school ot geology, 

 292 ; beginnings of the genetic view, 

 293 ; quoted, 296, 559 ; genesis of the 

 cosmos, 320 ; 327 ; genetic view in 

 geology, 330 ; 335, 608. 



M'Aulay, A., on directional calculus, ii. 

 656. 



Macaulay eulogises Bacon, i. 93. 



M'Cormack, Thomas, translation of 

 Prof. E. Mach's Works, i. 318: ii. 

 183. 



M'Cosh, James, ii. 513. 



M'Cullagh, James, i. 274 ; properties of 

 ether, ii. 31 ; analytical method of, 45 ; 

 referred to, 54 ; contribution to vortex 

 theory, 63 ; 195. 



MacCulloch, J. R., ' Statistical Account 

 of the British Empire,' ii. 563. 



Macfarlane on diiectional calculus, ii. 

 656. 



Mach, Prof. Ernst, ' Mechanik in 

 ihrer Entwickelung ' quoted, i. 318, 

 383, ii. 97, 100 ; ' Die Geschichte und 

 die Wurzel des Satzes von der 

 Erhaltung der Arbeit,' 97 ; ' Prin- 

 cipien der Warmelehre,' 102, 106, 

 109, 111, 175 ; popularisation of 

 Fourier's heat theory, 121 ; criticism 

 of mechanical view, IS3 ; 185, 737. 



Machiavelli, a model historian, i. 7. 



M'Kendrick on Helmholtz, ii. 396, 485 ; 

 quoted, 490. 



Maclauriu, Colin, tribute by Playfair 

 to, i. 232; "Treatise on Fluxions,' 

 &c., 270; 272; series of, ii. 646; 

 theorem of, 670. 



MacMahon, Major, Address to Mathe- 

 matical Section of British Association, 

 Glasgow, ii. 140 ; on combinational 

 analysis, 643 ; 679. 



Madrin despaired of Newton's theory of 

 gravitation, i. 334. 



Magendie, Bell's theorem, i. 293 ; ex- 

 perimental school of, ii. 384 ; 385 ; 

 experimental or vivisectional school, 

 406 ; experiments, 481. 



VOL. II. 



Magnus, Gustav, chemist, i. 188 ; 205 ; 

 chemical researches of, 208. 



Mairan, referred to by Voltaire, i. 106. 



Malpighi used the term " cell," i. 195 ; 

 embryological work of, ii. 227, 260 ; 

 (see De Candolle), 261; " epigenesis," 

 278. 



Malthus, ' Principles of Population,' i. 

 84, ii. 331 et sea. ; conflict in nature. 

 431. 



Malus, polarisation of light discovered, 

 i. 83; introduced the word "polar- 

 ity," ii. 22; "polarity" acquired by 

 light by reflexion, 23 ; on polarisa- 

 tion, ib. ; referred to by Young, 27. 



Man, and brute, the dividing line, ii. 

 541 ; the "mean, "580. 



Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, i. 265. 



Manifold, ii. 713. 



Mansell, Dean, ' On the Limits of Re- 

 ligious Thought,' ii. 326. 



Mantegazza, physiognomy, ii. 477. 



Mantell, G., ii. 318. 



Marat, i. 107. 



Maria Theresa, i. 256. 



Marine laboratories, ii. 232. 



Marinini, animal electricity, ii. 475. 



Marion, ' Grande Encyclopedic,' quoted, 

 ii. 495. 



Mariotte, Boyle's law of pressures, i. 

 425 ; 427 ; experimental formulas of, 

 436. 



Markgraf, Andreas Sigismund, i. 175. 



Martin, Charles, Lamarck's views, ii. 

 310 ; "Introduction Biographique " of 

 Lamarck, 311. 



Maser, H., edition of Abel and Galois, 

 ii. 686. 



Maskelyne, N., i. 177 ; scientific work 

 of, 229 ; not member of any uni- 

 versity, 238 ; measurement of force of 

 gravitation, 320 ; personal equation 

 unknown to, 325 ; discoveries of, 354. 



Maskelyne, Story, ' The Morphology 

 of Crystals,' ii. 222. 



Mass, weight and, i. 336. 



Massieu, mathematical formulae of "free 

 energy," ii. 173. 



Mathematical methods, Continental, in- 

 troduced into England by Babbage 

 and others, i. 18. 



Mathematical, spirit, i. 314 ; first intro- 

 duced into science, 317 ; formulae, 

 focalisiug effect of, 332 ; definition of 

 matter and force, 334. 



Mathematicians, Konigsberg school of, 

 i. 186 ; ancient, catalogue of, ii. 633. 



Mathematics, Continental, methods in, 



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