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INDEX 



XI 



'^^-ver (John), the "Graham" Lecture and Medal, 254 

 ver (Dr. Robert Julius), Proposed Monumeat to, 59, 350 

 iical Endowments at Oxford, 20 

 ledicinal Plants," Bentley and Trimen's, 109 

 lusse, the Locomotor System of, G. J. Romanes, 282 

 ; bourne Observatory, 204 



dola (R.), Butterflies with Dissimilar Sexes, 586 

 uiorie della Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italian!, 22 

 ■cury. Transits of, 73 

 cury and Venus, Relative Brightness of, 23 



Meridian, Proposals for a New Initial, 247 



Merten, Excavations at, 327 



Merv, the Road to, from the Caspian, 271, 297 



Metallic Reflexion, Sir John Conroy on, 259 



Metallurgy, a New Process in, John Holloway, 410 



Metal Rods, Vibration of. Dr. F. Guthrie, F.R.i>., on, 331 



Metals, the Condensing of, 474 



Meteoric Steel, 61 



Meteorites : Relation of, to Comets, Prof. H. A. Newton, 315, 

 340; Speculations on the Source of. Prof. R. S. Ball, 493 



Meteorology: Meteorological Society of Mauritius, 17; Hyde 

 Clarke on Droughts, 53 ; Meteorological Society, 91, 210, 

 307, 403, 523, 595 ; the Publications of the Washington 

 Signal Corps Central Office, 159 ; in Russia, 159 ; 

 Meteorological Society Lectures, 177 ; Grant to the French 

 Bureau of, 206 ; a Scottish Mountain Observatory, 237, 255, 

 279, 342, 445 ; American Weather, E. D. Archibald, 266 ; 

 >feteorological Notes, 269, 419 ; Indian, 269, 293 ; Prof. 

 Loomis on Storms in the United States, 270 ; Proposed Ob- 

 servatory on the Top of Ventoux, 270, 423 ; International 

 Congress at Rome, 325 ; Curious Phenomenon in Switzerland, 

 326 ; the Russian " Repertorium fiir Meteorologie," 375 ; 

 Report of the Forest Meteorological Stations of Germany, 

 419 ; Missouri Weather Report, 420 ; Observations at Pola, 

 420 ; Proposed Observatory on Ballon de Servance, 423 ; 

 Weather Warnings in Switzerland, 446 ; Meteorological Office 

 and Reports on the Weather, 472, 543 ; Weather Report of 

 the U.S. Signal Service, 473 ; Meteorological Organisations, 

 514 ; Montsouris Observatory, 560 ; the International Con- 

 gress at Rome, 590 



Meteors, 131, 396; at Stanislas, Austria, 17; the expected 

 Meteor-Shower, W. F. Denning, 33 ; the Shower of January 

 2, W. F. Denning, 221; at Prague, 326 ; a Meteor with 

 Short Period of Revolution, 484 



Metschnikoff (E.), Researches on Geophilus, 342 



Meyer (A. B.), Capt. Cook's Collections, 409; on Herring 

 Culture, 469 ; Mittheilungen aus dem k, zoologischen Museum 

 zu Dresden, 553 



Miall (L. C), "Studies in Comparative Anatomy," I. and II., 



383 



Michigan State Board of Health, Report of, 518 



Microphone : New Form of, 60 ; for Military and Tonometric 

 Purposes, Lieut. George S. Clark, 72 ; as a Receiver, James 

 Blyth, 72 ; Thos. S. Tait on the, 146 ; and Volcanic Pheno- 

 mena, 207 ; Observations on the, Dr. L. Bleekrode, 221 ; Dr. 

 V. A. Julius on the, 266 



Microscopy : The American Quarterly Microscopical Journal, 

 145 ; the Postal Microscopical Society, 301 ; the Limits of 

 Microscopic Vision, 332 ; Microscopical Society, see Royal 



Microtelephone, Dr. Julian Ochovowicz, 482 



Microthermometer, the, J, B. Hannay, 378 



Middleton (R. Morton), Intellect in Brutes, 459; Distribution of 

 the Black Rat, 460 



" Midland Naturalist," 131 



Migration of Birds, 422 ; Col. J. F. D. Donnelly, 289 ; Dr. 

 Palmen, 433; Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 433, 580; Dr. 

 August Weismann, 433, 579; E. H. Pringle, 481 



Mimas, the Satumian Satellite, 42 



Mineralogical Magazine, 181 



Mineralogical Society, 283 • 



Minor Planets, 14, 420, 437, 532, 556 ; Ismene, 42 ; Hilda, 510, 



583 

 Mira Ceti, 510 



Mirror Barometer, L. T. de Bort, 585 

 Mirror of Japan and its Magic Quality, 186, 539 

 Missouri Weather Service Report, 420 

 Mittheilungen aus der zoolc^ischen Station zu Neapel, 2 

 Molecular Mobility, W. C. Roberts, F.R.S., on, 291 

 Molecular Pressure, on the Illumination of Lines of, and the 



Trajectory of Molecules, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 137 



Molecular Vibration, 290 ; Wm. Chappell, 242 



Mollusc, the " Digger," 470 



Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde, Alfred Brown, 217 



Moncel (Comte du), " Le Telephone, le Microphone, et le 



Phonographe," 12, 56 

 Monckhoven (Dr. Van), End-on Vacuum Tubes in Spectroscopy, 



458 

 Mongh)rr, Lockwood's Work on the Natural History of, 337 

 Montigny (M.), Scintillation of Star , 233, 326 

 Montsouris Observatory, 207, 256, 560 



Moon : a Question raised by the Observed Absence of an At- 

 mosphere in the, S. Tolver Preston, 3 ; Prof. Newcomb's 



Researches on the Motions of the, 166 ; M. Flammarion on 



the Observation of the, 181 

 " Moore's Columbarium," 474 

 Morphologisches Jahrbnch, 186, 449 

 Morren's " Correspondance Botanique," 108 

 Morse (Prof. E, S.), on the Traces of an Elarly Race in Japan, 



278 

 Moscow : Anthropological Exhibition at, 280, 300, 375 ; Statistics 



of the University of, 378 

 Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), the Highest Tide on Record, 363; 



" Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger " 415 

 Motion and Colour, the Music of. Profs. Ayrton and Perry, loi 

 "Mound-Builders," the Age and Race of the American, 397 

 Mountains : the Formation of. Prof. Alphonse Favre on, 103 ; 



Alfred R. Wallace, 121, 244, 289 ; Arthur Ransom, 121 ; 



Rev. O. Fisher, 172, 266, 339; E. Hill, 289; G. H. Darwin, 



313 



Muir (Thomas), Text- Book of Arithmetic, 30; Leibnitz's Mathe- 

 matics, 482 



Muirhead (Henry), Intellect in Brutes, 409, 459 



Miiller (Fritz), on a Frog having Eggs on its Back — on the 

 Abortion of the Hairs on the Legs of Certain Caddis-Flies, 462 



Miiller (Johannes), Classification of Passeres, 525 



Munmiy from Erroob, 595 



Munich, New Botanical Society at, 130 



Munro (John), Leaf-Sheaths and the Growth of Plants, 147 



^lunro (Robert), the Ayrshire Crannog, 54 



Murphy (J. J.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 197 ; Habit and 

 Intelligence, 477 



Museum of Practical Geology, the Library of, 559 



Music : H. Berg's " Die Lust an der Musik," 578 



Music of Colour and Visible Motion, 59 ; Profs. Ayrton and 

 Perry on the, loi 



Musical Association, 223 



Musical Notes from Outflow of Water, 244 



Musters (Commander G. C), Death of, 297 



Muybridge's Method of Photographing Animals in Motion, 517 



Mycology: New Journal on, 301 ; Rev. M. J. Berkeley on, 514 



Myopia in Russia, 561 



Naccari and Bellati, on the Thermal Phenomena produced by 



the Passage of Electricity through Rarefied Gases, 21 

 Naples Zoological Station, Mittheilungen of the, 2 

 Nasmyth (James), Relative Brightness of Venus and Mercury, 



23 

 Natal and Zululand, Geology of, C. E. De Ranee, 467 

 Natural History, Prof. Martin Duncan's Popular, 345 

 "Natural History Journal," the, 45 

 Nebulas, Missing, 221 



Negretti and Zambra's Deep-Sea Thermometers, 412, 433 

 Nelson (A. B.), Leibnitz's Mathematics, 196 

 Neptune, the Trans-Neptunian Planet, 481 

 Netherlands Zoological Society, 107 ; the Zoological Station of, 



107 

 Neuf chatel. Lake of : Objects from the Lake-Dwellings, 1 7, 



543 ; Tidal Phenomenon on the, 446 

 New Caledonia : Nickel Mines in, 16 ; Guano in, 423 

 "New Commercial Plants," Christy's, 265 

 New Guinea: Exploration of, 15, 471 ; l/Albertis's Expedition 



up the Fly River, 43 ; Andrew Goldie's Exploration of, 43 ; 



Chalmer's Journeys in, 351 ; Colonisation of, 471, 542 ; Ex- 

 pedition from New Zealand to, 491 

 New South Wales, the Linnsean Society of, 281 

 New York, Reports of the Museum of Natural History, l8 

 New Zealand : Notes from, 21, 234 ; Discovery of a Seam of 



Coal in, 131; Discovery of Graphite at Wellington, 300; 



Wellington Philosophical Society, 308 



