INDEX 



\Naturty May 30, 1878 



Meldola (R.), Oxygen in the Sun, 161 



Meldrum (C, F.R.S.), Sun-spots and Rainfall, 448 



Mello (Joaquim Correa de), Death of, 309 



Melo-Piano, the, 453 



Memorie della Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 314 



Mercury, the Transit of, on May 6, 1878, 46, 69, 363, 370, 488 



Merriman (Mansfield), List of Writings on the Method of Least 

 Squares, 219 



Merten, Excavations at, 475 



Metallic Vapours, the Reversal of the Lines of the, Professors 

 Liveing and Dewar, 498 



Meteorites, see Meteors 



Meteorology: Meteorological Notes, 15, 248, 307, 362, 489; 

 Meteorological Society, 134, 235, 295, 356, 499; Meteorology 

 of New York, 15 ; Meteorology in Russia, 16; Prof. Monier 

 Williams on Indian, 53 ; Meteorological Phenomena, 82 ; 

 New Meteorological Observatory at Fiesole, no; Daily 

 Warnings in France, 133; French Meteorology, 170, 193; 

 Climatology of the Spanish Peninsula, 248 ; Climatology of 

 the Fiji Islands, 248 ; United States Volunteer Weather 

 Service, 248 ; Rainfall of India, 273 ; the Progress of Meteo- 

 rology, 313; Bulletin of the Montsouris Observatory, 362; 

 Meteorology of Western Australia, 363 ; Agricultural Weather 

 W^arnings in France, 371 ; Proposed French Institute of, 391 ; 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 440 ; Meteorology of Stony- 

 hurst, 489 ; Weekly Statistics of the Weather, 489 ; Missouri 

 Weather Reports, 490 ; Comparative Atmospheric Pressure 

 of New Zealand and Great Britain, 490 ; Popular Meteorology 

 in Switzerland, 492 



Meteors: 29, 94, 124, 221, 342, 425, 454, 467, 487; of 

 October 19, 1877, 10 ; Meteorite of July 20, i860, 104 ; 

 Meteorite of June 14, 1877, 150; of December 6, 1877, 152; 

 the Meteor of November 23, 1877, 94, 113, 183, 246; Meteor 

 in Virginia, 214 ; the Daylight Meteor of March 25, 467 



Method of Least Squares, Merriman's List of Writings Relating 

 to, 219 



Metrology, Flinders Petrie on Inductive, 357 



Metropolitan Sewage, 157 



Meudon Observatory, 392 



Mexico, New, Exploration of, 489 



Meyer (Dr. A, B.), Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen 

 Museum zu Dresden, 142 



Mice, Singing, II, 29 



Michaud (M. Narcisse), Death of, 474 



Michel (Gustav), " Die Buch der Katzen," 351 



Microscopical Society, see Royal 



Microscopical Journal, Decease of the, 152 



Midian, Capt. Burton's Exploration of, 53, 132 



" Midland Naturalist," 233, 438 



Millar (W, J.), a Telephone without Magnetism, 242 



Millepora, Effects of the Urticating Organs of, on the Tongue, 

 L. P. Pourtales, 27 



Mills (Prof., F.R.S.), Electrostriction, 235 



Miln (James), Archaeological Researches at Carnac, 379 



Mimicry in Birds, 361, 380, 478, 486, 507 



Minchin (G. M.), Potential Energy 27 



Mineral Oil in a Lava of Mount Etna, 150 



Mineralogical Society, 376 



Mines, Telegraphic Warnings in, 16; Explosions in, W. 

 Galloway, 21 



"Minhocao," the, 325 



Minor Planets, 36, 46, 63, 83, 210, 306, 344, 382, 488, 507 



Missouri : Geological Survey of. Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 431; 

 Weather Reports, 493 



Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen Museum zu Dresden 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer, 142 ' 



Mivart (Prof. St. G., F.R.S.), on the Fins of Elasmobranchs, 355 



Mohn (Dr. IL), Norwegian Deep-Sea Expeditions, 30; Meteoro- 

 logical Observations in the North Atlantic, 235 



Moll (J. W.), Researches on the Carbon of Plants, 344 



Molybdenum, 270 



Mongolia and Siberia, Exploration of, 435 



Monistic Philosophy, Prize for Treatise on, 70 



Monotremata of Australia, E. P. Ramsay, 401 



Monster, a New Underground, 325 



Monteiro (Joachim John), Death of, 391 ; Obituary Notice of 

 425 



Montsouns Park and Observatory, 132 ; Meteorological Bulletin 

 of, 362 



Monuments, George Smith's Ancient History from the, 119 



Moon, a Lunar Landscape, 469, 514 



Morning Dawn, the Expedition of the, 153 



Morphologische Jahrbuch, 39, 294, 478 



"Morphology of the Skull," Parker and Bettany's, 3 



Morse (Edward S.), Traces of Early Man in Japan, 89; the 



Structure of Lingula, 383 

 Moscow, Anthropological Exhibition in, 16, 171 

 Moscow and the Volga, Communication between, 91 

 Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), "Drowned by a Devil Fish," 27; 



Oregon, 302 ; Origin of Trachese in Arthropoda, 340 

 Mosquitos and Filarioe, 439 

 Mosses and Ferns, Ilofmeister's Work on, 344 

 Moths, Smell and Heaving in, 45, 62, 82 

 Mott (F. T.), Meteor, 467 

 Mount Etna, Mineral Oil in a Lava of, 150 

 Mount Tongariro, N.Z., 346 

 Moving Diagrams of Machinery, 158 



Moyobamba, the Rain-Tree of, Prof. Thiselton-Dyer, 349 

 Muir (M. M. Pattison), Proctor's "Spectroscope and its 



Work," 360 

 Miiller (Fritz) on Flowers and Insects, 78 

 Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Fertilisation in Thyme and Marjoram, 



127; Macrosilia chientius, 221 

 Munich, University Statistics, 275, 478 

 Miinster, University Intelligence, 354 

 Murphy (J. J.), Meteorological Phenomena, 82 

 Murray (Andrew), Obituary Notice of, 232 ; the Locust Plague 



in America, 377 

 Musaceae, Products of Assimilation in, 127 

 Muscular Action, the Evolution of Heat during. Prof. A. Fick, 



285 

 Museums, the Arrangement of, Gen. A. Lane Fox, F.R.S., 484 

 Music : Music a Science of Numbers, Wm. Chappell, 32 ; 



Musical Association, 331 ; Grove's Dictionary of Music, Dr. 



W. H. Stone, 422 ; an Organ-Piano, 453 ; State Aid to 



Music, Alan S. Cole, 474 

 Musk-deer, Discovery of a Skeleton of the Pre-historic, 455 

 Mussel, the Byssus in the, 289 

 Musters (Capt.) on Bolivia, 90 

 "Mycenae," Dr. Schhemann's, 397 

 Myopia in Germany, 310 

 " Myths and Marvels of Astronomy," R. A. Proctor, 180 



Naples, the Zoological Station at. Dr. Anton Dohrn, 329, 360 



Natural History, Cassell's, vol. i., 365 



Natural History Journal, 392 



Natural Phenomena, Electrical Analogies with, 226, 385 



Nautical Almanac for 1881 



Navicula (?), Mr. W. W. Wood on a Species of, 392, 437 



Neander Valley, the Collection of Remains from, 108 



Nebulae and Clusters, Literature of the, 288 



Nebulae, Variable, 306 



Nemirovich-Danchenko (M.), "The Land of Cold," 211 



"Nerthus," the, of Tacitus, 250 



Nerves, the Development of, 382 



Nettle, the Common, Experiments on the Fibre, 351 



Neumagen, Excavations at, 292 



Neumayer (Dr. G.), the Progress of Meteorology, 313 



New Guinea, 250, 383 ; Gould in, 408 ; Exploration of, 435 



New Mexico, Exploration of, 489 



New South Wales, Royal Society of. Proceeding's, 17 



New York, Meteorology of, 15; Proposed Zoological Garden 

 in, 192 ; Natural History Museum, 232 ; Survey of, 508 



New Zealand, Mount Tongariro, 346 ; Comparative Atmospheric 

 Pressure of, and Great Britain, 490 



Newcomb (Prof. S.), elected F.R.S., 150; Lunar Researches, 

 209 ; Theorems relating to Geometry of Three Dimensions, 

 240 



Newton (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Hartlaub's "Birds of Mada- 

 gascar," 9 ; No Butterflies in Iceland, 260 ; Mimicry in 

 Birds, 380, 507 



Niagara Falls, the Plorseshoe, 109 ; Curious Phenomenon at, 



454 

 Nias Island, 290 



Nickel, M. H. Wild's Researches on, 393 

 Nickel and Cobalt, lodates of, 150 

 Nicols (Arthur), Eucalyptus, 10, 342 

 Nicotin, Physiological Action of, 222 

 Nightingale, the, 487 

 Nitrification, R. Warington, 367, 40? 



