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INDEX 



[Nahtrt, May II, 1876 



Light, Lommel's Nature of, 62 



Light, Mechanical Action of, 347 



"Light Mills," Dr. Geisler's, 479 



Lightning-conductors, 357, 494 



Lightning on Trees, Effects of, 1 20 



Lindsay (Dr. W. Lauder), the True Nature of Lichens, 247 



Linen and Caterpillars, 54 



Linkages, 69 



Linnaean Society, 39, 98, 112, 118, 134, 178, 298, 317, 359, 



418, 458, 499 ; Transactions, 216 

 Lion, Remains of a British Species of, 396 

 Lippich (M.), the Luminiferous Ether, 494 

 Lisbon Academy of Science, 296 

 Lisbon Magnetic Observations, 301, 448 

 Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 16 

 Livingstone's African Expeditions, 197 

 Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 



315. 349, 375, 413, 455, 47°, 474, 503 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R. S. ), Recent Methods of Spectroscopy, 



239 

 Locomotives, Compressed Air, 489 

 Lodge (O. J.), the Flow of Electricity in a Plate, 459 

 Lohse (Dr. O. ), Bothkamp Sun Observations, 402 

 Lommel's " Nature of Light," 62 ; Optics, 87 

 Lorrain (Dr.), Death of, 16 

 Loudon's *' Algebra for Beginners," 404" 

 Lubbock (Sir J., F.R.S.), Bees, Wasps, and Ants, 37; on 



Ants, 359 

 Luminiferous Ether, the, 494 



Macleay's Expedition to New Guinea, 94, 153 



M 'Nab (Prof. ) on Penicillium glaucu7/i, 36 ; Pfeffer's " Periodic 

 Movements of Leaf-organs," 24 



Macrurous Crustacea, some new, 57 



Madagascar, Dr. Hartlaub's work on the Birds of, 272 ; Natural 

 History, 308 



Magnetic Observations at Lisbon, 301, 448 



"Magnetism and Electricity," Dr. Guthrie's, 261 



Magnetism, the Early History of, 523 



Magnus (P.), School Examinations and the University of Lon- 

 don, 286 



" Maladies which are special to Mystics," 95 



Mallett (R.), Prismatic Basalt, 7 



Mammalia, Prof. Flower's Hunterian Lectures 011 the 307, 327, 



350, 387, 409, 449, 487, 513 



Mammaio of Yarkand, 109 



Man, Traces of, in the Glacial Coal-beds of Switzerland, 130 



Manchester Aquarium, additions to, 77 ; Saville Kent's Guide- 

 book to, 85 ; Literary and Philosophical Society, 118, 178, 219, 

 259, 399 ; Science Lectures, 82 ; Scientific Students' Asso- 

 ciation, 40 



"Mandalay to Momien," Dr. J. Anderson, 422 



Manilla, Hurricane in, 175 



Maoiis of New Zealand, 239 



Map-drawing, C. Bird's Twelve Maps for, 7 



Maps, at French Railway Stations, 77 ; of India, Catalogue of, 

 413; Stanford's Orographical, 396 



Marey's " Physiologic Experimentale," I44, 182 



Marine Algje of the United States, 38 



Marine Aquai'iums, 208 



Markham (C. R.), Memoir of Commodore Goodenough, 185 



Marine Deposits, A. Tylor, 199 



Mars, the Equator of, 449 



Marsden's " Numismata Orientalia," Part II., 302 



Marsh (Prof. O. C. ) on the Dinoceratse, 374 



Mason (Sir Josiah), College at Birmingham, 174 



"Mass" and "Weight," the Use of the Words, 325, 385, 405, 

 446, 466, 484 



Matches, Safety, 208, 469, 512 



Mathematical Science, C. Pine's Further Researches in, 6 



Mathematical Society, 57, 138, 238, 317, 399, 534 



Mathematical Tables, Dr, H, Evers, 494 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), Tait's "Recent Advances in 

 Physical Science," 461 



Mayo (Earl 01), Sport in Abyssinia, 384 



Mechanical Action of Light, 347 



Medical, International, Congress, 77 



Medusse, Abnormal Multiplication and Abortion of Parts in, 

 G. J. Romanes, 496 



Melbourne, The Observatory, 173 ; Rocks and Minerals in the 

 Museum at, 165 



Melde (Dr. Franz), Theorie und Praxis der Astronomischen 

 Zeitbestimmung, 88 



Meldola (R.), Crace-Calveri's Dyeing and Calico-printing, 283 ; 

 Tissandier's Photography, 204 



Memorie della Societi degli Spettroscopisti Italian!, 137, 497 



Mercury, the Visibility of, 427 



Merk (Conrad), Excavations at the Kesslerloch, 401 



Metachromism, 298, 347, 385, 426, 467 



Meteors, 113, 187, 207, 287, '467 



Meteorolite at Wolverhampton, 531 



Meteorological Congress at Poitiers, 94 



Meteorological Society, 79, 158, 279, 340, 440, 536 ; Journal ot 

 the, 436, 531 



Meteorological Society of Paris, 196 



Meteorological Society of Scotland, 100, 135 



Meteorological Stations in France, 336 



Meteorology, Algerian, 217 ; Atlas Meteorologique de I'Obser- 

 vatoire de Paris, 375 ; in Baden, 25 ; of Bengal, W. G. 

 Willson, 66 ; Bulletm of the Pyrenees-Oricntales, 113 ; Charts 

 of the United States, 53 ; Congress in Italy, 356 ; Congress 

 at Poitiers, 35 ; of Copenhagen, 197 ; in France, 356 ; at 

 Havana, 224; Dr. Hellmann on Atmospheric Strata, 137 ; 

 Hoffmeyer's Synoptic Weather Charts, 85 ; in Iceland, 493 ; 

 in India, 340 ; Italian, 436 ; Italian Commission, 234 ; M. 

 Leverrier on Weather Forecasts, 296 ; New Office of, m Paris, 

 54; of Norway, 154; " Notizblatt der Vereins," 136; 

 Observatories, 413 ; Poitiers Congress, 77 ; in the Pyrenees, 

 135 ; the Rainfall of India, 86 ; Weather Maps of the U.S., 

 95 ; Weather Reports of the U.S., 397 



Metric Commission at Paris, H. VV. Chisholm, 452 



Mexico, New, Lieut. Wheeler's Expedition to, 76 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), the Dresden "Gorilla," 166; Saw-fish in- 

 habiting Fresh Water, 167 



Michelet (Jules), " The Sea," 106 



Michigan, A. J. Cook's Injurious Insects of, 424 



Michigan State Medical Society, Transactions of, 35 



Microscope and Molecules of Matter, Relation between, H. C. 

 Sorby, F.R.S., 332 



Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 257 



Microscopical Society, 39, 118, 159, 219, 299, 384, 399, 499 



Microscopy, American Journal of, 297 



]\Iiddle-class Education in Holland, 528 



Mietzsch (Dr. H.), "Geologic der Kohlenlager," 166 



Migration of Species, Rev. M. Dasent, 367 



MiUepora, the Animal of, Prof. Martin Duncan, F.R. S., 465 



Miller (Mrs. Hugh), Death of, 414 



Millington (Sir Thomas) and the Sexuality of Plants, 85, 127, 

 166, 185 



Miniature Physical Geography, 310 



"Mind," 477 



Mineralogical Society, 274, 357 



Minerals, Collection of, in United States, 77 



Minerals of New South Wales, 382 



Minor Planets, 27, 47, 69, 87, 109, 150, 208, 227, 268, 307, 326, 



349, 407, 513 



Mirage in Upper Thibet, 67 



Misti and its Cloud, A. Agassiz, 107 



Mitchell (R. U. S.), Observations on Fish, 107 



Moa Bones, Discovery of, in New Zealand, 273 



Mohn (Prof.), Meteorology of Norway, 154 



Mohr (E.), " Victoria Falls of Zambesi, 384 



Molecules of Matter and Microscope, Relation between, II. C. 

 Sorby, F.R.S., 332 



Molluscs, Freshwater and Land, Prof. Nordenskjold, 284 



Momien and Mandalay, Dr. Anderson's Work on, 422 



Mont Blanc, Ascent of, by a Lady, 315, 336 ; Temperature on, 

 296 



Monteiro (J. J.), "Angola and the River Congo," 161 



Montsouris Physical Observatory, 217, 255 



Morell's "Euclid Simplified," 202, 405, 427 



Moresby (Capt. J.), "New Guinea and Polynesia," 235, 2>(>t, 



Morocco and the Moors, Dr. A. Leared, 206 



Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 20, 176 



Mosso (Dr.), Flethysmograph, 336 



Mott (F. T.), a New Palmistry, 68 



Muir (Thomas), Early History of Continued Fractions, 448 



Muir (M. M. Pattison), Routledge's " Discoveries and Inven- 

 tions," 45 ; Dr. Youman's " Class-book ^of Chemistry,'* 424 



