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INDEX 



^Nature, May lo, 1877 



Liebig, Monuments to, 147, 325 ; Prof. Hofmann on the Work 

 of, 193 



"Life of a Scottish Naturalist; Thomas Edward, A.L.S.," by 

 Samuel Smiles, 349 



Life-Histories of Animals, A. S. Packard, Jun., 271 



Light, the Physiological Action of, Prof. Dewar, 433, 453 



Lighting of Rooms and the Human System, 247 



Lightning, Protectionof Buildings from, 88 ; Ball Lightning, 539 



Lindsay (Lord), List of Double Stars, 381 



].innDpan Society, 91, in, 150, 267, 327, 386, 420, 442, 562 



Linnseus, Monument to, 147 



Littrow (Dr. Ch. de), Carl Jelinek, 115 



Lizards, Fossil, in the Royal Cabinet of Natural History, Stutt- 

 gart, 245 



Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 188, 207, 459, 490 



Lobster, Sagacity of a, 415 



Local MuseuTis, 61 



Locusts, Commission on, 539 



]>omonosoff, Memorial to, at Moscow, 383 



London Industrial University, 5 19 



Longmynd Rocks, Charles Gallaway, 313 



" Lost Atlantis " and the Challenger Soundings, 553 



Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), Parhelia and Parase-enje seen on March 

 20, 1877, 508 



Lowest Temperature, Rev. R. Abbay, 471 



Lubbock (Sir John, F.R S), McLennan's "Primitive Mar- 

 riage," 133 ; The Southern Tendencies of PeninsuUs, 273 ; 

 on Ants, 386 



Lucas (Louis A.), Death of, 127 



Luminous Flame", the Theory of, 521 



Lund, the Climate of, 187 



Lyra, a. Spectrum of the Star, 307 



M'Laclilan (Robert), Sense of Hearing in Birds and Inserts, 



254 ; Number of Species of Insects, 275 

 Maclagan (Dr. T.), "The Germ Theory Applied t> the Ex- 

 planation of the Phenomena of Disease," 446 511 

 Maclay (Dr.), Journey through the Malay Peninsula, 169 

 McLennan (J. F.), Studies in Ancient History, comprising a 



Reprint of " Primitive Marriage," .Sir J. Lubbock, F.R. S, 133 

 MacMunn (Dr. C. A.), Method for Measuring Spectra, 18 

 McNab (Prof. W. R.), Sexuality in Plants, 5ti 

 McNeill (Sir John), Hibernation of Birds, 527 

 Madrid, Free University in, 68 



Main (P. T.), Newton on Force, 8 ; on the Word " Force," 96 

 Malloch (Arnulph), Measurement of the Height of Clouds, 313 ; 



Halo round Shadow, 375 

 Mamma, the Development of the, 66 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 151, 192, 248, 



484, 523, 544 

 Manitoba, the Climate of, 49 



Manganiferous Muds, the Deep-sea, E. T. Hardman, 57 

 Manifoldness of Two Dimensions, the Simplest Continuous, F. 



W. Frankland, 515 

 Mantchuria, Russian, Geography of, 209 

 Manucodia, the Windpipe in, 127 

 Manufacturing, British, Industries, 54, 445 

 Marine Mosses, M. Gisard on, 15 

 Marine Sounder, New Form of, 383 

 " Mariotte's Law," Prjf. Mendeleeff's Researches on, 69, 455, 



498 

 Marriage, Primitive, McLennan's, 133 

 Mars, the Opposition of, 147, 519; Expedition to Measure the 



Parallax of, 533 

 Marseilles, Geographical Society at, 440 

 Mathematical Science, the Present State of, Prof. H. T. S. 



Smith, F.R.S., 79 

 Mathematical Society : 90, 191, 267, 347, 463, 563 ; Proceedings 



of, 527 

 Mauritius, Meteorology of, 458 

 Maxwell (Prof, Clerk, F.R.S.), the Protection of Buildings 



from Lightning, 88 ; Notice of Prof, Hermann L. F, Helm- 



holtz {with Portrait), 389 

 Meat, Frozen, from Brazil, 128 

 Medical Microscopical Society, 388 

 Meehan (Thomas), Self-Fertilisation in Flowers, 13S 

 Meek (F. B.), Death of, 245, 363 

 Melbourne Observatory, 244 



Melos, the Obsidian Cutlers of. Rev, Gerald S. Davies, 332 

 Memoria della Societi degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 171, 419 



Mendeleeff (Prof.), Researches on Mariotte's Law, 69, 455, 498 

 Menton, Swallows and Cuckoo at, Douglas A. Spalding, 488, 



528 

 Mercury Rheostat, a New, 325 

 Merget (M.), Gas Synthesis in Plants, 71 

 Merlon Island, the Flora of, ill 



Merrifield (C. W., F.R.S.), Cayley's Elliptic Functions, 252 

 Metalloids, Researches on the Spectra of, 401, 447 

 Metals, Pitch of Sounds given by, 481 ; Ilmemum anl Neptu- 

 nium, 520 

 Meteorites: Structure and Origin of, H. C. Sot^y, F. R. S. 



495 ; H. N. Moseley, 547 

 Meteorology : Meteorological Note=;, 49, 107, 126, 186, 244, 

 263, 342, 343, 457, 538 ; Continental, 17 ; Fall of Tempera- 

 ture in October, 1876, 50 ; Prof. Balfoor Stewart on Meteoro- 

 logical Research, 76 ; Great Storm of Wind at Sydney, 107; 

 the Sudden Cold in November, 1876, no; Meteorological 

 Society, III, 210, 287, 421, 504; Observatory on Monte 

 Cavo, 126; on Pic du Midi, 147; in France, 149; Climate 

 of Geneva, 152 ; Stations at Hautes-Alpes, 190 ; Report of 

 Meteorological Commission, 363 ; Proposed Italian Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 363 ; Report on the Government Meteorolo- 

 gical Grant, 399, 425, 448 ; Greenwich as a Meteorological 

 Station, Alex, Buchan, 450 ; Exploring Balloons for Meteoro- 

 logical Purposes, 458 ; Meteorology of Mauritius 458 ; 

 Meteorology in France, 460 ; Meteorology of the Bomoay 

 Presidency, 482 ; Greenwich as a Meteorological Observa- 

 tory, 489, 528 ; Is Meteorology a Science? 510 

 Meteors: 59, 79, 178, 207, 275, 375, 399, 451, 460, 471, 549 ; 

 The November, 48 ; Telescopic, 125; at Blackwater, 170; 

 of January 7, 1877, 244, 295, 335 

 Metric Standard of Length, Alloy of Platinum and Iridiasn for, 



W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 336 

 Meyer (C. J. A.), Sense of Hearing In Birds and In-ects, 354 

 Miansaroff (M. ), " Bibliographia Caucasica et Transcaucasica," 71 

 Microscopical Investigation of Sands and Clays, H, C. Sorby, 



F.R.S., 356 

 Microscopical Society. See Royal 

 Migration of Birds, Palmen on the, 465 

 Millett (F. W.), "Towering" of Birds, 158 

 Mimicry, Protective, among Bats, G. E. Dobson, 354 

 Miniature Physical Geology, C. Lloyd Morgan, 410 

 Mind and Matter : Wm. S. Duncan, 78, 295 ; J. L. Tapper 



217. 374 



Mlneralogical Society, 483 



Minerals of Canada, Catalogue of, 272 



Minimum Thermometers, Thomas Fawcett, 97 



Minor Planets, 166, 303, 342 



Missouri, Annual Report on the Insects of, 84 



Mitchell's " Sidereal Messenger," 49 



Mitchell (W. S.), " Lost Atlantis " and the Challenger Sound- 

 ings, 553 



Mock Suns, 384 



Mohr (Eduard), Exploration of Africa, 18; Death of, 325 



Molecular Volumes of Sulphates and Selenates, 521 



Molluccan and Papuan Islands, 69 



Mollusca, Development of, 559 



Mongolia, Exploration of, 149 



Monkeys, Sexual Selection in Relation to, Charles Dar.vin, 

 F.R.S., 18 



Monotreme, New, from New Guinea, 257 



Monro (C. J.), Postulates and Axioms, 353 



Monte Cavo, Meteorological Observatory on, 126 



Moonlight, Tints and Polarisation of. In Eclipse, 398 



Moraine Drift, Hummocky, G. H, Kinahan, 379 



Morgan (C. Lloyd), Miniature Physical Geology, 410 



Morphologisches Jahrbuch, in, 191, 385, 419 



Morphology of "Selaglnella," 489, 548 



Morren (Prof, E.), "La Digestion Vegetale, 373 



Moseley (H. N.), Peripatus N. Zealandur, 96 ; l"lora of Marlon's 

 Island, III ; Structure and Origin of Meteorites, 547 



"Mosses of Europe," Schlmper's, 3 



Mosses, Marine, M. Gisard on, 15 



Moths, Geometrld, of the United States, Dr, A. S. Packard, 75 



Motion of Projectiles, the Resistance of the Air to the, 60 



Mott (A. J.), Meteor, 399 



Mouillefert (Prof.), Piiylloxera Insecticide, 200 



Muds, Deep-Sea, John Murray, 319, 340 



Mulrhead (Dr. Henry), Sense of Hearing in Insects and Birds, 

 294 ; Proposed Gift to Glasgow University, 326 



