Nature, May 22, 1890] 



INDEX 



XXI 



Meyer (Dr. Hans), the Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 164, 572 



Meyrick (E.) : Osteolepidse, 342 ; Dr. J. A. H. Murray, 343 



Mica in Mourne Mountain Granite Geodes, Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., 

 469 



Michael (Major-General), Forestry, 348 



Michelson (A. A.), Measurement by Light-Waves, 405 



Micro-organism conferring Phosphorence on Crustaceans, Dis- 

 covery by Prof. Giard of, 137 



Micro-organisms of Fermentation practically considered, Alfred 

 Jorgensen, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339 



Microscopy : the Microscope as applied to Physiological Che- 

 mistry, Prof. Kossel, 23 ; Royal Microscopical Society, 93 ; 

 Ahrens's Polarizing Binocular Microscope, 93 ; Formation of 

 Scottish and Italian Microscopical Societies, 180 ; the Micro- 

 scope in the Brewery and Malt-house, Chas. Geo. Mathews and 

 Francis Edw. Lott, 246 ; Tercentenary of the Invention of 

 the Compound Microscope, 256 ; Zeiss's New Apochromatic 

 Objective Microscope, 494 ; Microseismic Vibration of the 

 Earth's Crust, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 248 



Middlesex Natural History and Scientific Society, 138 



Miers (H. A.), Crystals of Lime, 515, 560 



Mighei, the Meteorite of, Stanilas Meunier, 232 ; J. Rutherford 

 Hill, 298 



Milan, Discovery of Lake-Dwelling near, 67 



Millipede, a Marine, 104; Edward Parfitt, 153 ; R. I. Pocock, 

 176 



Mills (Dr. Edmund J., F.R.S.), Traite pratique de la Thermo- 

 metrie de precision, Ch. Ed. Guillaume, loo ; Exact Thermo- 

 metry, 227, 538 



Mills (John) and Barker North, Introductory Lessons in Quanti- 

 tative Analysis, 197 



Miner, Fall of a, without being killed, down a lOO-metre Shaft, 

 M. Reumeaux, 471 



Mineralogy t Mineralogical Magazine, 67 ; Statistics of Minera- 

 logy in Canada, 87 ; Great Find of Rare Minerals of Yttrium 

 and Thorium Groups in Texas, 162 ; Provincial Index of the 

 Minerals of India, Dr. W. King, 546 ; Mines at Bendigo, 

 Victoria, Report of School of, 209 ; Mining and Metallurgy, 

 Proposed International Exhibition of, 447 ; Mining and 

 Metallurgy, International Exhibition of, at the Crystal Palace, 

 592 



Minimum Sun-spot Period, M. Bruguiere, 68 



Minor Planet (12), Victoria, Dr. Gill, 139 



Minor Planets, Clorinde, 88 



Mint, Royal, the New Assistant Secretary at, T. Rose Kirke, 493 



Mirage in the South American Pampas, W. Larden, 69 



Mirages, Arthur E. Brown, 225 



Missouri Botanical Garden, 209 



Mist, Frequency of. Dr. Kremser, 215 



Mitchell (Sir Arthur), Influenza and the Weather, 596 



Mite of the Genus Tetranychus found infesting Lime Trees in 

 the Leicester Museum Grounds, on the, F. R. Rowley, 31 



Mivart (Dr. St. George, F.R.S.), Prof. Weismann's Essays, 

 38; Galls, 174 



Modern Views of Electricity, 102 



Modigliani's Exploration of Nias Island, Prof. Giglioli, 587 



Moebius (Prof.), Drumming Fish {Balistes aculeatus), 263 



Moissan (Henri) : a New Method of Preparing Fluorine, 117 ; 

 the Anhydrous Platinous Fluorine, 119; Perfected Mode of 

 Preparing Fluorine, 138 ; Colour and Spectrum of Fluorine, 

 214 ; Phosphorus Trifluoride, 349 ; Two Gaseous Fluorides of 

 Carbon, 373 



Mole, the Eye of the, Carl Hess, 373 



Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of Iron and Steel, 

 Carl Barus, 369 



Molecular Structure, the Relation between Atomic Volumes of 

 Elements present in Iron, and their Influence on its, Prof. 

 W. C. Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 420 



Molucca Islands, Count Salvadori on the Birds of, 85 



Monck (Dr. W. H. S.) : Satellite of Algol, 198; the Distances 

 of the Stars, 392 



Monkey, the Barbados, Colonel H. W. Feilden, 349 



Monkey, Bonnet, Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of Internal 

 Capsule of, Beevor and Horsley, 166 



Monkeys, African, in the West Indies, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S., 368 



Montigny (Prof. C. M. V.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 497 



Montpellier University, Proposed Commemoration of Founding 

 of, 447 



Montsouris Observatory, the Effect of Railways on Instruments 

 in, 592 



Moon in London, the. Rev. T. R. R. Slebbing, 586 



Moore (John Murray), New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid, 



and Tourist, 342 

 Moore (Spencer) : True Nature of Callus, 478 ; Nessler's 



Ammonia Test as a Micro-chemical Reagent for Tannin, 



Morea, Rock -sepulchre at Vaphio, S. Remach, 500 



Morgan (Prof. C. LI.), the Pebidian Volcanic Series of St. 



David's, 311 

 Morley Memorial College and the Royal Victoria Hall, 343 

 Morocco, Travels in, Walter B. Harris, 270 

 Morris (D.) : Seeding of Sugar-cane, 478 ; the Native Ebony of 



St. Helena, 519 

 Morris (Dr. G. H.), Identity of Cerebrose and Galactose, 



262 

 Mortillet (M. de), the Dog, 332 

 Morton (Rev. T. W.), Meteor, 249 

 Moscow Archaeological Congress, 283 

 Moser (James), Electrical Oscillations in Rarefied Air, 431 

 Moss (F. J.), Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South 



Sea, 151 

 Moss, Hygrometric Club, from Mexico, 401 

 Mount Hamilton, Longitude of, 211 

 Mount Vesuvius, J. Logan Lobley, 195 

 Mouse- Hunt, a Kind of Weasel, E. B. Titchener, 394 

 Mozambique, Arrival of Captain Trivier at, 165 

 Muirhead (B. A.), Ten and Tenth Notation, 344 

 Muirhead(Geo.), the Birds of Berwickshire, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



169 

 MUller (Prof. Max) : Necessity of a School for Modem Oriental 



Studies, 255 ; Thought and Breathing, 317 

 Multiple Resonance obtained in Hertz's Vibrators, Prof. Geo. 



Eras. Fitzgerald, 295 ; Fred T. Trouton, 295 

 Munk (Dr.) : Absorption of Fats and Fatty Acids in Absence of 



Bile in Intestine, 119; the Cortical Visual Areas, 407; 



Fat the only Food leaving Intestines by Lacteals, 504 

 Munro's Wind-measuring Instruments, 492 

 Murchison, Sedgwick and, Cambrian and Silurian, Prof. James 



D. Dana, 421 

 Murphy (Joseph John) : the Permanence of Continents and 



Oceans, 175; Luminous Clouds, 298 

 Murray (Dr. John), Coral Reefs in Recent Seas, 167 

 Murray-Aynsley (Mrs. J. C), Thought and Breathing, 441 

 Museums: Opening of the Berlin National Science, 112; 



Suofgestions for the Formation and Arrangement of a Museum 



of Natural History in Connection with a Public School, Prof. 



W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 177; Cambridge Archaeological, 



324; Annual Meeting of Museums Association, 591 

 Music on Animals, Effect of, R. E. C. Stearns, 470 

 Music, Dogs and, 372 



Music, Visualized Images produced by, Geo. E. Newton, 417 

 Musical Sounds, the Effect of, on Animals, R. E. C. Stearns, 



593 

 Muthmann (Dr.), Crystalline Allotropic Forms of Sulphur, 449 

 Muzzling Regulations, the New, 241 



Nansen's (Dr.) Plan for North Pole Expedition, 374 



Naphthalene, Constitution of Tri-derivatives of, Armstrong and 

 Wynne, 454 



Natality of Paimpol, M. Dumont, 332 



National Union of Teachers, 545 



Native Colonists, French, in Paris, 427 



Natural Evidence of High Thermal Conductivity in Flints, Prof. 

 A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 175 



Natural History : Suggestions for the Formation and Arrange- 

 ment of a Museum of Natural History in connection with a 

 Public School, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 177 ; Catalogue 

 of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum, 

 Richard Lydekker, 534 ; on some Needless Difficulties in the 

 Study of Natural History, Dr. C. T. Hudson, F.R.S., 375 'r 

 Glimpses of Animal Life, W. Jones, 409 ; Toilers in the Sea, 

 M. C. Cooke, 409 ; Les Industries des Animaux, F. Houssay, 

 409 ; Natural Selection, Lamarck versus Weismann, Prof. £. 

 D. Cope, 79; Prof. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., on the Forma- 

 tion of Galls, 80 ; Naturalist in North Celebes, Sydney J. 

 Hickson, Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard, 457 ; the Physician as 

 Naturalist, W. T. Gairdner, 436 ; Naturalistic Photography, 

 P. H. Emerson, 366 



Naturf, Progress of, during Twenty Years, I 



Navigation, der Kompass an Bord, Dr. Neumayer, 412 



