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INDEX 



{^Nature, Nov. 2i, i5 



Manatee at Westminster Aquarium, ^38, 394 



Manchester : Literary and Philosophical Society, 375, 428 ; 



Owens College University Scheme, 53 

 Manganese Nodules in Loch F}ne, J. Y. Buchanan, 628 

 Manganese Tetrachloride, 679 

 Mann (J.Nixon), Improved Method for Projecting Lissajou.' 



Figures on the Screen, 24 

 Maoris, Arrow Propulsion of the, 27 

 Maple, ReJ, Sexual Conditions in the, 387 

 Maps : Old Maps of Africa, 149, 617 ; some New Maps, 33S ; 



Map of France, 496 

 Markham (Capt. A. IL), " The Great Frozen Sea," 201 

 Marmot, Fossil Remains of the, 104 

 Mars : Occultation of, 67 ; the Satellites of, 618 

 Mascart (M. E.), a New Insulating Stand, 44 

 Maskelyne (Prof. N. S., F.R.S.), a New Mineral, 426 

 Mastodon, Discovery of the Incisor of, 373 

 Mathematics': Mathematical Society, 55, 83, 294, 651 ; Recent 

 Mathematical Works, 247 ; American Journal of, 316, 484; 

 Report of the British Association Committee on Mathematical 

 Tables, 505 

 Mauritius Meteorological Report, 288 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), on Stresses in Rarefied Gases 

 Arising from Inequalities of Temperatm'e, 54 ; the Tele- 

 phone (Rede Lecture), 159 

 Maxwell (Gen. H. H.), Pozzolana Mortar and Pine Timber, 19 

 Mayer (Prof. A. M.), Floating Magnets, 258 ; on the Nature 



of Vibratory Motions, 571, 594, 648 

 Mayer (Dr. Robert von). Death of, 104 

 Measuring Scales for Pocket Spectroscopes, Prof. A. S. 



Herschel, 300 

 Mechanics : Crofton's Elements of Applied, 247 ; Lardner's 



Mechanics, 247 

 " Mechanical Chameleon," 47 

 Medical Faculties, the, 610 



Mediterranean and Southern Hemisphere, the Tides of the, 

 Capt. Evans, F.R.S., and Sir William Thomson, F. R.S., 

 670 

 Meehan (Thomas) Vaiying Experiences, 334 ; " Native Flowers 



and Ferns of the United States, 615 

 Megaphone, Edison's, 676 

 Meldrum (C.), Sun-Spots and Rainfall, 564 

 Melted and Solid Materials, the Relative Specific Gravities of, 



397. 464 , ^ 



Memorie della Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 214 

 Mendeleeff (Prof.), Visit to Western Europe, 434 

 Menziesia ccerulea : Alex. Craig Christie, 66; G. C. Druce, n6 

 "Mercator," Memorial of, 496; Derivation of his Name, 588 

 Mercury : Transits of, 19 ; the Recent Transit of, 46, 130, 147 ; 



the Transit of, 186?, 179; Estimation of, 679 

 Mercury;, Specific Heats of, and Iron, 679 

 Merlin (C. L. W.), a Hunting Wasp, 311 

 Merrifield (Mary P.), Gulf- Weed, 708 

 Merriman (Mansfield), " Method of Le?st Squares," 299 

 Metal, Floating of Solid on Molten, W. J. Millar, 397, 464 

 Metallic Vapours, the Reversal of the Lines of. Professors 



Liveing and Dewar, 109, 321 

 Metals, the Physical Properties of, Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, 69 

 Meteorite, a, J. Harris Stone, 464 

 Meteorites, Prof. Nordenskjold on the Composition and Common 



Origin of Certain, 510 

 Meteorology: Mete; rological Notes, 198, 287, 335, 680; 

 Meteorological Society, 83, 135, 295 ; Lectures, 423, 681 ; 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 262 ; Jerome J. CoUins on 

 American Storm Warnings, 4, 31, 61 ; Dr. Woeikof on 

 American Storm Warnings, 517; Cmrious Meteorological 

 Phenomenon, 50; the Reduction of Meteorological Ob- 

 servations, 83 ; Organisation of French, 96 ; Cosmic, 

 J. Allan Broun, F.R.S. , 126, 151 ; French Congress of, 132; 

 423; the French Meteorological Service, 134; the Obser- 

 vatory at Upsala, 157; the French Central Meteorological 

 Bureau, 158, 372, 435, 601 ; of the Bombay Presidency in 

 1876, 199 ; Rainfall of Europe, 287 ; Prague Observations on 

 the Wind, 287 ; Swedish Weather Maps, 287 ; Ley's Weather 

 Maps, 287 ; Missouri Weather Service Report, 288 ; Mauri- 

 tius Meteorological Report, 288 ; Prof. Loomis on Storms, 

 288; Dr. Woeikof's Isobaric Charts, 288; Catalogue of 

 Works on, 346 ; the Climate of Cyprus, 335 : the Bulletin of 

 the Paris Observatory, 393 ; French Meteorological Com- 

 missions, 424 ; the Vaucluse Meteorological Commission, 



435 ; Prof. Nipher's Magnetic Survey of Washington, 466 ; 

 New Society at St. Petersburg, 503 ; French Meteorological 

 Telegrams, 553 ; the United States Signal Service, 553 ; the 

 Mont Ventoux Observatory, 553 ; in Chili, 600 ; Secchi's 

 " Meteorologica Romano," 601 ; the Magnetic Storm of May 

 14, 1878, 617, 641; W. H. Preece, 668; the Farmers' 

 Weather Indicator, 621, 630; Capt. Hoffmeyer on Atmo- 

 spheric Pressure over the North Atlantic, &c., 680 ; Report of 

 the Meteorological Institute of Prussia, 680 ; Dr. Hellmann's 

 Observations on Cloud, 680; Observations of the Upper 

 Currents of the Atmosphere, 680 ; Weather- Warning at the 

 Paris Exhibition, 682 



Meteors: 23, 77, 105, 170; the Meteor of May 12, 105, 142; 

 the Meteor of June 7, 1878, 185 ; at Privat, Ardeche, 318 ; 

 the Meteor Shower of Aquarids (July), 356, 384; the 

 August, 385; in Hesse, 504; Report of the B.A. Com- 

 mittee on Luminous Meteors, 505 ; Sydney Evershead on, 

 519; Meteor Shower of Andromedes I., W. F. Denning, 

 568 ; the Meteor of December 24, 1873, 570; in Germany on 

 September 6, 575 ; at Montpelier, 575 ; near Cambridge, 

 O. P. Fisher, 643 



"Method of Least Squares," Mansfield Merriman, 299 



Methyl Chloride, Use of, for the Production of Low Tempera- 

 tures, 337 



Metric System : the Paris Congress of Weights, Measures, and 

 Coins, 504, 532 



Metrology, Inductive, W. M. Flinders Petrie, no 



MeudoUj Proposed Observatory at, 157 



Meux and Co.'s Artesian Well, 350 



Mexico, Grasses of, 534 



Mexico and Central America, Proposed New Work on the 

 Botany of, 466 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Earthquakes on the Philippines, 265 



Meyer (Prof, Victor), his New Laboratory, 503 



Miall (L. C), Anatomical Preparations for Museum and Clafs 

 Purposes, 312 



Michelson (Albert A.), Velocity of Light, 195 



" Micrographie der Glasbasalte von Hawaii; petrographische 

 Untersuchung," 248 



Micrometer, a New, 688 



Microphone, the : 20, 57, 323, 392 ; Dr. C. W. Siemens-, 

 F.R.S., 129; G. M. Seabroke, 129; F. J. M. Page, 130; in 

 Surgery, Sir Henry Thompson on, 157; James Blyth on, 

 172, 181; New Form of Microphone Receiving Instrument, 

 W, J. Millar, 194 ; W. H. Preece on, 207 ; Prof. Hughes on 

 the Physical Action of, 239 ; Prof. McKendrick on, 240 ; 

 Prof. Hughes' Telephone and, 277 ; the Organ of Hearing iu 

 Relation to Prof. Hughes' Microphone, 285 ; Sir William 

 Thomson, F.R.S., 355 ; Prof. W. F. Barrett, 356 ; Sir Chas 

 Wheatstone's Microphone, 356 ; Prof. Wm. Leroy Broun, 

 383 ; Gerald B. Francis, 383 ; in Indirect Circuit, 464 ; 

 Thomas Rowney on, 519; and Earthquakes, 533; S. T. 

 Barrett on, 540 ; as a Receiver, V. A. Julius, 642 ; and 

 Insects, 652 



Microscopy : Hints to Workers with the Microscope, 141, 195 ; 

 New Invention for Showing Slides, 159; Microscopical So- 

 ciety, see Royal ; Translation of Naegeli and Schwendener's 

 " Das Mikroskop," 533 ; an American Microscopical Con- 

 gress, 601 ; Microscopical Society at Highbury, 631 ; the 

 Immersion Paraboloid, Dr. J. Edmunds, 278 ; John Mayall, 

 jun., 331 



Middleton (R. Morton), Sense of Fear in Chamseleons, 696 



Midgley (James IL), Earth Pillars, 569 



Midian : Capt. R. F. Burton's Exploration of, 76; the Tribe; 

 of, Capt. R. F. Burton, 480 



Midland Union of Natural History Societies, 158 



"Mikroskop, Das," Naegeli and Schwendener's, Translation of, 



533 

 Military Ballooning, H. Baden Pritchard, 491 

 Millar (J. B.), Elements of Descriptive Geometry, 277 

 Millar (W. J.), Transmission of Vocal and other Sounds by 



Wires, 12 ; New Form of Microphone Receiving Instrument, 



194 ; Floating of Solid on Molten Metal, 397, 464 ; " Studies 



in Physical Science," 693 

 Miller (S. H.) and S. B. H. Skertchly, "The Fenland, Past 



and Present," 514 

 Miller's Chemistry, 614 

 Mimas, the Saturnian Satellite, 520, 696 

 Mimicry in Birds, William E. Armit, 643 

 Minchin (G. M.), " A Treatise on Statics," 247 



