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INDEX 



XV 



Mineral, a New, Prof. N. S. Maskehme, F.R.S., 426 

 Mineral Oil or Paraffin Wax, the Estimation of, when mixed 



with other Oils or Fat, Wm. Thomson, 473 

 Mineral Spring at Suhl, 706 

 Mineralogical Society, 238, 291 

 Minerals, on a New Method of Studying the Optical Characters 



of, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 684 

 Minor Planets, 307 

 Mira Ceti, 180 



Missouri Weather Service, Report of, 288 

 Mivart (St. George, F.R.S.), the Genesis of Limb?, 282, 309, 



331 

 Mobius (Prof.), the Movements of Flying-fish through the Air, 



373 

 Mohn (Prof. H.), Fall of Volcanic Ash from Iceland, 199 ; the 



Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 222, 368, 425, 589 

 Moncel (Comte du) on the Photograph, 553, 630; " Le Tele- 

 phone, le Microphone, et le Phonographe," 698 

 Monkeys : Fear of Snakes amongst, 227 ; Dental OperaliDn on 



a Monl<ey, 533 

 Monotremes, the Australian, 464 

 Monro (C. J.), In^de Out, Ii6 

 Monsters, Underground, 389 

 Mont Ventoux Observatory, 553 



Montigny (M.), Researches on the Scintillation of Star.^, 292 

 Montsouris Naval Observatory, 424 

 Monuments, Prehistoric, of Cornwall and Ireland, 478 

 Mook (Dr. F.), Excavations in Egypt, 372 

 Moon, Proposed Landscapes of the, 182 ; a New Crater on the 



Lunar Surface, 197, 220 ; Schmidt's Charte der Gebirge des 



Mondes, 501 ; see also Lunar 

 Morfologia Vegetale, Prof. D. Caruel, 666 

 Mormonism and Science, 502 

 Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 186, 584 

 Morphology? What is, Prof. W. K. Parker, F.R.S., 255 

 Morris (William), Underground Temperature, 93 

 Morrison (G. J.), Journey from Hankow to Canton, 228 

 Mortar, Pozzolana, and Pine Timber, General H. H, Maxwell, 19 

 Moscow, Anthropological Exhibition at, 632 

 Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), Wingless Insects of the Falkland 



Islands, 619 

 Moss (Dr.), Arctic Sea- Water and Ice, 135 

 Mosses : Geographical Distribution of, 682 ; London Catalogue 



of British, 682 

 Moths : how they Escape from their Cocoons, 226 ; Smell and 



Hearing in, 301 

 Mouchez (Capt.), Director of Paris Observatory, 261 

 Mount Caburn, Lewes, Excavations at, 470 

 Mount Etna, Proposed Observatory on, G. F. Rodwell, 587 

 Mount Hekla : on an Ascent of, and the Eruption of February 



27, 1878, G. F. Rodwell, 596 ; Height and Shape of, 641 

 Mount Vesuvius, 49, 533, 553, 574, 598, 63 1 , 653 ; the Threatened 



Eruption of, 598 ; Proposed Railway up, 598 

 Muir (M. M. Pattison), Gas as Fuel, 34; are the "Elements" 



Elementary ? 592, 625 

 Muir (Thomas), Circulating Decimal Fractions, 617 

 Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Ophrys 7?msd/era. 221 ; Alpine Flower.'^, 



519 

 Miiller (Dr. Hugo W., F.R.S.) and Dr. Warren De la Rue, 



F.R.S., on Electric Discharges in Gases, 525, 547 

 Munro (Dr. Robert), Discovery of a Scottish Crannog, 695 

 Murex hiiUoniT, a New Shell, 601 

 Museums, Opening of, on Sundays, 170, 194, 220 

 Musical Pitch, A. Cavaille-Coll on, 381 

 Myer (General Albert J.), the Weather Case, or Farmer's 



Weather Indicator, 621, 630 



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



533 

 Names, Historical National, and Scientific Terms, 479 

 Nares (Capt. Sir G. S., F.R'.S.), Narrative of the English 



Arctic Expedition, 118 

 Natal, the Meteorology of, 295 ; Notes on some Natal Plants, 



M. S. Evans, 543 

 National Water Supply, 121 

 Natural History Collections, the National, 21, 328, 353, 403, 



513, 588 

 Natural Science at Oxford, 65 r 

 Natural Science in Hungary for the last Ten Years, 582 



•'Naturkrafte, Die," 706 



Naval Architecture, a Manual of, by W. II. White, E. J. Reerl, 



C.B., F.R.S., 137 

 Naval Observatory, Washington, 372 

 Nebula, the Variable, in Taurus, 552 

 Nectar of Flowers, the Amount of Sugar in, 474 

 Neptune, the Satellites of, 359, 464 

 Netherlands Zoological Society, 343 

 New Britain, Volcanic Eruption m, 180 

 Newcomb (Prof. S., F.R.S. ), Award of Medal to, by Haarlem 



Society of Science, 132 ; "Astronomy," J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 



7 ; Instructions for Observing the Solar Eclipse of July 29, 181 

 New Guinea : Exploration of, 46, 132, 289 ; Scientific Results 



of D'Albertis' last Expedition to, 72; Specimens from, 132 

 Newton (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Zoological Geography — Didus and 



Didunculus, 251, 331 

 New York, Geographical Society, 46 ; see also United States, &c. 

 New Zealand : Wellington Philosophical Society, 27, III ; the 



Ornithology of, ill; Coal-Fields, 112; Education in, 305; 



Buchanan's Work on the Grasses of, 534 ; the Laboratory at 



Canterbury College, 601' 

 Nez Perces, the Tribe of, 632 

 Niagara, P'alls of. Utilisation of, 393 

 Nicholson's "Manual of Zoology," 49 

 Nicol (James), on some New Fossils, "ErtboHia Mackayi " 



from the Quartzites of Lake Eribol, 477 

 Nicomedia, Earthquake at, 77 

 Nineveh, Hormuzd Rassam's Explorations of, 653 

 Nipher (Prof. Francis E.), Lecture Experiment, 94 ; Magnetic 



Survey of Washington, 466; Observations on a " Da^t- 



Whirl," 488 

 Nitroprussides, the Action of Chlorine upon, Dr. E. W. Daw, 



473 

 Nitrous Oxide, Preparation of Salts of, 679 

 Noble (W. J.), Secondary Lunar Rainbow, 67 

 Nolan (Joseph), on the Metamorphic and Intrusive Rocks of 



Tyrone, 477 

 Noll (Ferdinand), Decimal Clock, 133 

 " Nomenclator Stratigraphicu«," G. A. Lebour's, 344 

 Nomenclature, Scientific, Unifonnity of (" Divide et Impera"), 



142 

 Nordenskjold (Prof.), on the Composition and Common Origin 



of Certain Meteorites, 510; North-East Passage Expedition, 



308, 631, 680 

 Normnl-Temperature Heat Energy, on the Availability of, S. 



Tolver Prciton, 92 

 North America, British, Fisheries of, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, 



F.R.S., 170, 232 

 Northampton Sands, Fossils from the, 476 

 North Atlantic, the Norwegian Expedition, 222, 368, 425, 



568. 589 

 NorthEast Passage Expedition, 308, 631, 680 

 Norton (Lord), on Science Teaching, 705 

 Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 222, 368, 425, 589 ; J. 



Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 568 

 Notizblatt des Vcreins fiir Erdkunde zu Darmstadt, 186 



Ob, the, in Siberia, 551 



Obach (Eugen), a New Galvanometer for Strong Currents, 707 



Ober (F. A.), Scientific Collections from the West Indian 



Islands, 503 ; Exploration of the West Indian Islands, 647 

 Object-Glass, Carl Zeiss's New "Oil Immersion," 240 ; Rev. 



W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., on, 65 

 Observatories : Anr.ual Report of the Royal Observatory, 



Greenwich, 183 ; Cincinnati, 103 ; Jena, 392 ; the Lyons, 



553 ; Meudon, 157; Oxford University, 103; Pari^, 25, 284, 



372, 393. 532 ; Pavlovsk, 316 ; Pulkova, 502 ; the Wajhingtou 



Naval Observatory, 372 

 Ocean, Average Depth of the, 450 

 "Ocean and Her Rulers," Alfred Ehve.-, 3S0 

 Ocean Currents, M. Zoppritz on, 321 

 Oderberg, Discovery of Pile-Structures at, 505 

 Official Rank Hereditary in China, 424 

 Ogowe Expedition, the French, 180, 359 

 "Oil Immersion" Object-glass, Carl Zeiss's New, 240; Rev. 



W. II. Dallinger, F.R.S., on, 65 

 Oil, Mineral, or Parrafin Wax, the Estimation of, when mixe I 



with other Oils or Fat, Wm. Thomson, 473 

 Oizowo, Discovery of Guano near, 106 



