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INDEX 



XXlll 



Madan (H. G.), "Heat," 436 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 374 



Madsen (Captain), the Jutland Midden>, 108 



Magne (L.), Manufacture of Old Red Glasses for Windows, 

 539 



Magnetism : the Magnetic Disturbing Forces in British Isles, 

 Riicker and Thorpe, 66 ; on the lustruments used in the 

 Recent Magnetic Survey of France, Prof. A. W. Riicker, 

 F. R.S. , 584; on the Relation between the Geological Con- 

 stitution and the Magnetic State of the United Kingdom, 

 Profs. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., and T, E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 

 585, 609 ; Effect of Heat on Magnetic Susceptibility of 

 Nickel, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 70; on the Magnetic 

 Viscosity of Iron, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 584; Fifth 

 Report to the British Association on the Best Means of Com- 

 paring and Reducing Magnetic Observation?, Prof. W. Grylls 

 Adams, F.R.S., 554 



Magnus (Sir Philip), Industrial Education, 245 



Mahaffy (J. P.) and J. H. Bernard, Kant's Critical Philosophy 

 for English Readers, W. L. Courtney, 362 



Maiden (J. II.) : Spinifex Resin, 595 ; Eucalyptus Kinos, 635 



Maier (Julius) and William Henry Preece, the Telephone, Prof. 



A. Gray, 200 



Major's (Dr. C. Forsyth) Discoveries in the Isle of Samos, 400 



Make-believe, Prof. Marcus M. Hartog, 299 



Malarce (De), Extension of the Metric System of Weights and 

 Mi-a-ures, 164 



Malltt (M.), Balls of almost Perfect Sphericity produced by 

 Mechanical Movement, 351 



Mammoth Deposit in Moravia, the Great, Prof. Steenstrun, 229 



Man, on the Occasional Eighth True Rib in. Prof. D. J. 

 Cunningham, 632 



Manchester : Owens College, 207 ; Local Lectures of the 

 Victoria University, 253 ; Manchester Technical School, 445, 

 577 



Manfred, the Land of, Janet Ross, 413 



Mango Bee, the, 654 



Mansion House Meeting in Aid of the Pasteur Institute, 177 



Manures, a Treatise on, by Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 99 



Manville (Edward) Series Electric Traction, Norlhfleet Tram- 

 ways, 630 



Maori Folk-Lore, William Colenso, 596 



Maoris, the. Brown, 634 



Maquenne (M.), New Relations between Sugars and Furfuric 

 Compounds, 636 



Marcano (Dr. V.) : the Formation of Nitrogenous Earths, 48 ; 

 Proportion of Nitrates in Tropical Rains, 119; Pre- 

 Columbian Ethnography of Venezuela, 142 



Marey (M.), Effects of an Intermittent Wind in Sor^ring, 612 



Marijottet (J.), Simultaneous Synthesis of Water and Hydro- 

 chloric Acid, 659 



Marine Biological Association, i28 ; S. F. Harmer, 593 



Marine Biology, Liverpool, Committee's Easter Dredging Cruise, 

 Prof. \V. A. Herdman, 47 



Marine Biology in the United States, 281 



Marine Boiler Incrustations, on the Formation of. Prof. Vivian 



B. Lewes, 19 



Marine Food Fish, the Life- History of a, Prof. W. C. Mcintosh, 



F.R.S., 130, 156 

 Marine and Fresh-water Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and 



of North-Western Europe, Monograph of the, Dr. G. S. 



Brady and Rev. A. M. Norman, 364 

 Marine Zoology, the Private Laboratory of, at Rapallo, Dr. L. 



Camerano, M. G. Peracca, and D. Rosa, 302 

 Marion (Dr.), a New Conifer, 61 



Marquardt (Dr. ), New Aromatic Compounds of Bismuth, 134 

 Marriott (W.), the Recent Thunderstorms; 238 

 Mars, a Journey to the Planet, Hugh MacColl, R. A. Gregory, 



291 

 Marshall (F. E.), and J. W. Welsford, Longmans' School 



Arithmetic, 52 

 Mart el (E. A.), Avens, 636 



Marth (Albert), Two Remarkable Conjunctions, 180 

 Martin (M.). the Old-Slate Formation of Borneo, 120 

 Martin (Dr. Sidney), Toxic Action of Albumose from Seeds of 



Ahriis prccatorius, Wj 

 Martiniere (H. M. P. de la), Morocco, 202 

 Martin?, Hibernation of, in the Argentine Republic, Tommaso 



Salvador!, 223 



Marvin (Prof. C. F.) : Anemometry, 189 ; on Anemometer Ex- 

 periments, 383 



Mashonaland, F. C. Selous, 16 



Mason Science College, Birmingham, 13 



Massachusetts, Earthquake in, 162 



Ma^sart (M.), Penetration of Sperm atozoids into Egg of Frog^ 

 635 



Masses in Astronomy, on the Determination of, R, A. Gregory, 

 80 



Masters (Dr.), Comparative Morphology of the Coniferse, 22 



Mastodons found at Tournan, A. Gaudry, 239 



Mathematics and Physics : Dr. Griin wald's Mathematical 3pectrun> 

 Analysis, J seph S. Ames, 19 ; Solutions of the Examples in a 

 Treatise on Algebra, by Chas. Smith, 31 ; Klein's Ikosahedron, 

 35 ; Mathematical Society, 95, 191 ; Dupuis' Elementary and 

 Synthetic Geometry, 100 ; the Va'ue of a Finite Continuous 

 and Purely Periodical Fraction, Prof. Sylvester, 192 ; Mathe- 

 matical Method in Political Economy, Rudolf Auspiiz and 

 Richard Lieben, 242 ; Woolwich Mathematical Papers, 

 J 880-88, 317 ; Mathematical Theory of Political Economy, 

 Leon Walras, 434 ; on the Use of the Word Anliparallel, E. 

 M. Langley, 4610; Key to Higher Algebra, H. S. Hall and 

 S. R. Knight, 460 ; a History of the Study of Mathematics 

 at Cambridge, W. W. Rouse Ball, 458 ; Opening Address 

 by Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., F. R. S., President of 

 Section A at the British Association, 469 ; Prof. Sir 

 William Thomson, F. R. S , on Boscovich's Theory, 545; 

 Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., on Cometic Nebula, 583; 

 Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, on Re-examination of the Spectra 

 of Twenty-three (ias-Vacuum End-on Tubes after Six 

 to Ten Years of Existence and Use, 548 ; Lord Ray- 

 leigh, Sec.R. S., on the Tones of Bells, 584; Captain 

 Abney, F. K.S., on the Quantity of Deposit of Silver 

 Produced by the Development on a Photographic Plate in 

 Terms of the Intensity of Light Acting, 584 ; Lord Ray- 

 Icigh, Sec. R.S. , on Pin-hole Photography, 584; Prof. O. 

 J. Lodge, F.R.S., and R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., on the 

 Determination of v by Means of Electric Oscillations, 584 ; 

 Prof. A. W. Riicker, F. R. S., on the Instruments Used in 

 the Recent Magnetic Survey of France, 584 ; Prof. J. A. 

 Ewing, F.R.S., on the Magnetic Viscosity of Iron, 584; 

 Prof. Everett, F. R.S., on the Relation between Brachisto- 

 chrones and Ray-paths, 584; Prof. J. A. Ewing, F. R. S., 

 on Hysteresis in the Relation of St ain to Stress, 584 ; 

 Prof. Henry Stroud, on the E.M. P". Pioduced by an Abrupt 

 Variation of Temperature at the Point of Contact of Two 

 Portions of the same Metal, 585; Prof. McLeod, F. R. S., 

 on the Black-bulb Thermometer in vacuo, 585 ; Sir \V. 

 Thomson, F. R.S., on Electrification of Air by Combustion, 

 585 ; Prof. C. Michie Smith, on Atmospheric Electricity, 

 and the Use of Sir W. Thomson's Portable Electrometer, 

 585 ; A. W. Clayden, on Dark Flashes of Lightning, 585 ;. 

 Pruf. Cleveland Abbe, on the Determination of the Amount 

 of Rainfall, 585 ; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, on Hygrometry 

 in the Meteorological Journal, 585 ; F. T. Trouton, on 

 some Experiments on Radiation with Prof. Hertz's- 

 Mirrors, 585; Profs. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., and 

 T. E. Thorpe, F. R.S., on the Relation between the 

 Geological Constitution and the Magnetic State of the United' 

 Kingdom, 585 ; Prof. Arthur Schuster, F. R. S., on the 

 Passage of Electricity through Gases, 585 ; Prof. Oliver J. 

 Lodge, F.R.S., on the Failure of Metal Sheets to Screen off 

 the Electrostatic Effect of Moving or Varying Charges, 586 ; 

 Prof. James Blyih, on a New Form of Current- Weigher, 586; 

 Prof. S. P. 'I hompson, on a Phenomenon in the Electro- 

 Chemical Solution of Metals, 586 ; J. Wilson Swan, on 

 Chromic Acid as a Depolarizer in Bunsen's Battery, 586 ; 

 Prof. Perry, F. R.S., on a Variable Standard of Self-induc- 

 tion, 586; Prof. Perry, F.R.S., on a Hot Twisted Strip- 

 Voltmeter, 586; W. H. Preece, F.R.S., on the Relative 

 Effects of Steady and Alternate Currents on Different Con- 

 ductors, 586; Prof. G. Forbes, F.R.S., and W. H. Preece, 

 F.R.S. on a New Thermometric Scale, 587; Prof. S. P. 

 Thomjison on Sparkless Electro-Magnets, 587 ; W. W. Hal- 

 dane Gee and Dr. Arthur Harden on Stereometry, 587 ; W. 

 W. Haldane Gee and Hubert L. Terry, on the Specific Heat 

 of Caoutchouc, 587 ; Y. T. Trouton, on the Temporary 

 1 hermo-Currents in Iron, 587 ; the Peruvian Arc, 558 ; 

 the Method of C^uarter Squares, Joseph Blater, J. W. L. 



