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INDEX 



XXV 



Peripatus, Lilian Sheldon, 116; Cidaris papillata, Vxoi. III. 

 Duncan, 237 

 Middens, the Jutland, Captain Madsen, 108 

 Middle Lias of Northamptonshire, Beeby Thompson, 34I 

 Midland Union of Natural History Societies, 372, 549 

 Migration of Birds, Report to the British Association on the 

 Observations made at Lighthouses and Light-vessels, John 

 Cordeaux, 556 

 Milk, Quantitative Analysis of Bicarbonate of Soda in, L, Fade, 



336 

 Mill (Dr. Hugh Robert) : Report to the British Association on 

 the Seasonal Variations in the Temperature in Lakes, Rivers, 

 and Estuaries of the United Kingdom, 556 ; on the Physical 

 Basis of Commercial Geography, 629 

 Miller-Hauenfels (Albert R. von), Richtigstellung der in 

 bisheriger Fassung unrichtigen Mechanischen "Wiirmetheorie 

 und Grundziige einer Allgemeinen Theorie der Aether- 

 bewegungen, 244 

 Millosevich(Prof.) Comet 1889 /^ (Barnard, March 31), 255 

 Milne (Prof. John) : Ninth Report on the Earthquake and Vol- 

 canic Phenomena of Japan, 608 ; Seismological Work in 

 Japan, 656 

 Minchin (Prof.), the Vices of our Scientific Education, 126 

 Mineralogy .- the Mineralogical Magazine, 230 ; Cours de 

 Mineralogie, A. de Lapparent, 460 ; Petrographical Tables of 

 Rock-forming Minerals, an Aid to the Microscopic Determin- 

 ation of, Prof. II. Rosenbusch, Prof. John W. Judd, F.R.S., 

 313 

 Mming Appliances, Improvements in, Ralph Moore, 61 

 Mining Implements, Old, in India, Bosworth-Smith, 229 

 Minor Planet, New, 135, 424 ; Prof. Peters, 448 

 Minot and Allison the Mammalian Placenta and the Lateral 



Line System in Amia respectively, 419 

 Missions, French Government Scientific, 479 

 Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 62 

 Mitchell (C. Pitfield), Inheritance of Injuries, 391 

 Mitchell (Maria) : Death of, 253 ; Reminiscences of the late Sir 



John Herschel, 548 

 Mitchell (Prof O. H.), Death of, 208 

 Mites, F. T. Mott, 572 



Mites in South African Entomological Collections, 283 

 Mithradatism, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 149 

 Mivart (Dr. St. George), Anapophyses, 394 

 Mixter (William G.), an Elementary Text-book of Chemistry, 



389 

 Mohn (Dr.), the Barents Sea, 598 

 Molecules, Atoms and, the Organization of, Prof. A. E. Dol- 



bear, 419 

 Monaco Exhibit at the Paris Exhibition, 61 

 Monaco (Prince Albert of), Surface Currents of North Atlantic, 



167 

 Mond (Ludwig), New Dry Gas Battery, 211 

 Mondy (E. F.), Electrolysis of Potassium Iodide, 417 

 Monetary Standards, Report to the British Association on the 



Variations in the Value of. Prof. F. Y. Edgeworth, 553 

 Moniez (M.), Metamorphosis and Migration of a Free Nema- 

 tode, 563 

 Monument to late Mr. Dalgleish, Erection of, 595 

 Moon, Halo of the, and Formation of Peculiarly-shaped Clouds 



at Oxford, Otto V, Darbishire, 55 

 Moore (Ralph), Improvements in Mining Appliances, 61 

 Moore (Capf. W. U.), the Bore of the Tsien-Tang Kiang, 163 

 Moore (W. Usborne), Coral Reefs, 203, 271 

 Moraine, Ice-Blocks on a, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 391 

 Moral Order and Progress, an Analysis of Ethical Conceptions, 



S. Alexander, 169 

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

 Morley Memorial College for Working Men and Women, 653 

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



Morphology : Some New Facts about the Hirudinea, 419 ; the 

 Organization of Atoms and Molecules, Prof A. E, Dolbear, 

 419 ; Minot and Allis on the Mammalian Placenta and the 

 Lateral Line in Amia respectively, 419 ; the Journal of 

 Morphology, a Record of Progress, 419 ; Prof Burdon- Sander- 

 son, F. R.S., on Morphology, 521 

 Morris (D.): Sideroxylon dulcijicum, 238; Report to the 

 British Association on the Zoology and Botany of the West 

 India I--lands, 553 

 Morris (Dr. G. H.) : Amylo-dextrin, 214; Determination of 

 Molecular Weights of Carbohydrates, 214 



Morse and White, an Extreme Case of "Mass" or Catalytic 



Action, 328 

 Motion, our Sensations of. Prof. A. Crum Brown, 449 

 Mott (F. T.) : Meteor, 174 ; on Mites, 572 

 Mountain of the Bell, a New, H, Carrington Bolton, 35 

 Mounting Dried Plants, Method of. Dr. John Wilson, 438 

 MUhlenfels (Captain R. von). Experiments on Storing Fish, 



402 

 Munro (Charles), on the Explosiveness of the Celluloids, 558 

 Miintz (A.) : the Formation of Nitrogenous Earths, 48 ; Propor- 

 tion of Nitrates in Tropical Rains, 119 

 Murray (Geo.) and Alfred W. Bennett, a Hand-book of Crypto- 



gamic Botany, 217 

 Murray (Dr. John) : Coral Reefs, 222, 294 ; the Three Cruises 



of the Blake, Alexander Agassiz, 361 

 Muscle, Experiments on Mechanical Latent Period of, Dr. 



Cowl, 408 

 Muscles, Influence of Temperature upon Working Power of. 



Prof Gad, 288 

 Muscular Sense, the. Dr. Goldschneider, 119 

 Museum, National Science, 3 

 Museum, Paris Natural History, 326 

 Museums, Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., F.R.S., on, 463 

 Music, Important Discovery in the Theory of, Rudolph Koenig, 



479 

 Musical Instruments and their Homes, Mary E. Brown and W. 



Adams Brown, 436 

 Mussel-poiboning, French Report on, 178 

 Muy bridge Photographs, Prof E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 78, 



126 

 Mysore, Capture by Superintendent Sanderson of Herd of 100 



Wild Elephants in, 282 

 Mysticism, Philosophy of, Carl du Prel, 28 

 Mytilene, Earthquake at, 653 



Nadaroff (Colonel), the South Usuri Region, 165 



Name for Unit of Self-induction, Prof Oliver J. Lodge, F. R.S., 



II 

 Nansen (Dr. Fridtjof) : Return of, 84; his Journey across 



Greenland, 103, 210, 479 ; on the Geology of Greenland, 



608 ; on the Esquimaux, 633 

 Naphtha as Fuel in Middle Russia, 163 

 Naphthalene, Nomenclature of, 370 

 Natal Observatory, 655 

 Nathorst(Dr. A. G.), on the Geological History of the Prehistoric 



Flora of Sweden, 453 

 National Home- Reading Union, 421 

 National Science Museum, 3 



Natural History : Bird Life of the Borders, Abel Chapman, 147 

 Natural History of the Friendly Islands and other Islands in the 



Pacific, Report to the British Association on, 556 

 Natural History Gardens in Boston, Proposed, 577 

 Natural History Museum : South Kensington, 13 ; Paris, 326 

 Natural Inheritance, Francis Galton on, Hiram M. Stanley, 642 

 Natural Philosophy, an Attempt to Apply to Chemistry one of 



the Principles of Newton's, Prof D. Mendeleeff, 354 

 Natural Science, a Graduated Course of, Benjamin Loewy, 271 

 Nature, Haunts of, H. W. S. Worsley-Benison, 173 

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

 Nematode, Metamorphosis and Migration of a Free, Moniez, 



563 

 Neolithic Objects discovered at Ranchi, 230 

 ; Netto's (Dr.) Process for the Manufacture of Aluminium from 

 j CryoHte, Prof. Bedson, 587 



I Neville (F. H.) and C. T. Heycockon Raoult's Method applied 

 I to Alloys, 587 



! Neville and Heycock on Alloys, 628 

 New Code and Science Teaching, the, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 



F.R.S., I 

 New England, Meteorology in, 595 



New Guinea : Ascent of Summits of Owen Stanley Range by 

 Dr. Macgregor, 308, 449, 551 ; Signor Lorie's Scientific 

 Investigations in, 445 

 New South Wales : Proposed Exploration of Interior of, 182 ; 

 Records of the Geological Survey of, 254 ; Royal Society of, 

 263 

 New Zealand : Meteorological Report for, 14 ; Volcanic Activity 

 in. Mount Ruapehu, 179; the Forest Flora of, T. Kirk, 

 W, Botting Hemsley, F.K.S., 388 



