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INDEX 



XXI 



Maquenne, Perseite, 608 



Marambat (M.). Alcoholism and Criminality, 135 



Marcet (Dr. W. C, F.R.S.), on the Measurement of the 



Increase of Humidity in Rooms, 191 

 March Storms, H. C. Russell, F.R.S., 491 

 Marey (M.), Representation of the Attitudes of Human Locomo- 

 tion, 191 

 Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, 158 ; G. C. Bourne 



elected Director, 16; Opening of, 198, 236 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts, 348 

 Marine Biology and the Electric Light, 112; Prof. W. A. 



Herdman, 130 

 Marine Biology, Proposed Station at Ostend, 112 

 Marine Telephone, Experiments with, A. Banare, 464 

 Maritime (International) Conference, 553 

 Markham (Commander), on Hudson's Bay and Strait, 161 

 Marr (J. E.) and Prof. H. A. Nicholson, the Stockdale Shales, 



118 

 Mars: M. Perrotin, 95, 216, 258, 311 ; Study of, F. Terby, 

 119; Markings of, 185, 601 ; the Canals of, 239; 

 Satellites of, 432, 553 ; Physical Aspects of Mars during the 

 Opposition of 1888, L. Niesten, 511 

 Mascart (E), on the Rainbow, 168 



Mascart (E.) and J. Joubert, a Treatise on Electricity and Mag- 

 netism, 241 

 Mass of Titan, G. W. Hill, 350 

 Mass, Weight and, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 54; Rev. 



John B. Lock, 77 

 Massawa District, Prof. P. Durazzo's Map of, 161 

 Masters (Dr. Maxwell T.): elected Coresponding Member of the 

 Institute of France, 182 ; Alpine Strawberry, 327 ; Pflanzen- 

 Teratologie, 341 

 Mathematics : the Romance of Mathematics, P. Hampson, 

 28 ; Mathematical Society, 95, 214 ; Barlow's Tables of 

 Reciprocals, 114; American Journal of Mathematics, 164; 

 Plotting, or Graphic Mathematics, R. Wormell, 172 ; Com- 

 mercial Mathematics, 196 ; a Chapter in the Integral Cal- 

 culus, A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 218 ; a Treatise on Plane 

 Trigonometry, containing an Account of Hyperbolic Func- 

 tions, with Numerous Examples. John Casey, F.R. S., 218; 

 a Higher Arithmetic and Elementary Mensura'ion, P. 

 Goyen, 218 ; the Harpur Euclid, E. M. Langley and 

 W. S. Phillips, 218 ; Mathematical Drawing Instruments, 

 W. F. Stanley, 230 ; the Teaching of Mathematics in China, 

 Gundry, 485 ; Teon'a Elemental de las Determinantes y sus 

 Principales Applicaciones al Algebra y la Geometria, Felix 

 Amoretti and Carlos M. Morales, 537 

 Matthews (J. W. ), Incwadi Yama, or Twenty Years' Personal 



Experience in South Africa, 295 

 Maurel (Dr. E.), Anthropological Study of Cambodia, 463 

 Maury (Matthew Fontaine), Life of, E. Douglas Archibald, 339 

 Maxima and Minima, Further Use of Ptolemy's Theorem 



(Euclid VI. D) for a Problem in, E. M. Langley, 149 

 Maximum of Mira Ceti, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 621 

 Measurement of the Coefficients of Thermic Conductibility for 



Metals, M. Alphonse Berget, 359 

 Mechanics, Edward Aveling, 587 



Mechanics, Lessons in Elementary, W. H. Grieve, 244 

 Medimaremetcr, M. Ch. Lallemand, 191 

 Medusae, on New England, J. Welter Fewkes, 137 

 Mega/ops thrissoides, Note on the Tarpon or Silver King, 



Prof. W. C. Mcintosh, F.R.S., 309 

 Meikong River, Exploration of, 19 



Melbourne Life, Lights and Shadows of, John Freeman, 29 

 Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.) : Lamarkism versus Darwinism, 388 ; 

 Scent Organs of Male Moth, Herminia Tarsipennalis, 486 ; 

 on the Constitution of the Azonaphthol Compounds, 623 

 Meldrum's Rules, on, for Handling Ships in the Southern 

 Indian Ocean, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, R. H. Scott., F.R. S., 

 358 

 Meneh (River), Explored by Mr. Knutson, 136 

 Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie, 462 

 Memoirs of the Odessa Society of Naturalists, 140 

 Men, Pygmy Races of, Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 44, 66 

 Menges (J.), Possibility of Utilizing the African Elephant, 529 

 Mensuration, an Elementary Treatise on, E. T. Henchie, 490 

 Mercadier and Chaperon's Electro- chemical Radiophony, 305 

 Mercers' Company, Agricultural College projected by the, 

 598 



Mercier (Dr. Chas.), the Nervous System and the Mind, 7 

 Mercury and Glass, Compressibility of Water, Salt Water, and, 



Prof. P. G. Tait, 581 

 Mercury, the Specific Resistance of, 232 

 Mercury, Three New Sulpho-chlorides of, Poleck and Goercki r 



527 

 Mesozoic Mammalia, Structure and Classification of, II. F. 



Osborn, 611 

 Metallurgy, Application of Manganese to, 90 

 Metals, Effects of Different Positive, upon the Changes of 



Potential of Voltaic Couples, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335 

 Meteorites : Diamantiferous Meteorite, Analysis of, MM. Iero- 

 feieff and Latchinoff, 192 : Lagrange's Hypothesis on Meteor- 

 ites and Comets, M. H. haye, 215 ; on the Orbits of 

 Aerolites, H. A. Newton, 250 ; the Meteoric Season, W. F. 

 Denning, 276 ; the Bahia or Bendego Meteorite, 349 ; Notes 

 on Meteorites, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 424, 456, 530, 

 556, 602 ; on the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of 

 Meteorites, and on Theories of Cosmogony, Prof. G. H. 

 Darwin, F.R.S., 573 

 Meteorology : Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, 16, 86, 

 204, 303, 422, 574 ; Storms in the Philippine Archipelago, 

 16; Meteorological Observatory established in Brazil, 42; 

 Meteorology in France, 42 ; French Meteorological Office, 

 159, 599 ; the Dacca Tornado, 42 ; Phenomenal Storms, 

 in India, 42 ; M. Coumbary on Climatology of Con- 

 stantinople, 133 ; India, 133 ; Meteorology in the North-West 

 Provinces of India and Oudh, 278 ; Meteorology in Italy, 63 ; 

 Meeting of the Italian Meteorological Society, 183 ; Anti- 

 cyclones in Europe, Dr. Brounow, 63 : the Relations of the 

 Diurnal Barometric Maxima to Conditions of Temperature, 

 Cloud, and Rainfall, H. F. Blanford, F.R.S., 70; on the 

 Rainfall and Temperature at Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, Dr. 

 W. C. Doberck, 78 ; Meteorology of South-East China, Dr. 

 W. C. Doberck, 118; Thermo-dynamics of the Atmosphere, 

 Prof, von Bezold, 144 ; M. Faye's Theory of Storms, E. 

 Douglas Archibald, 149 ; the Incurvature of the Winds in. 

 Tropical Cyclones, Henry F. Blanford, F. R. S., 181 ; Storm- 

 Signals, 183 ; New York Blizzard, 204 ; Waterspouts, Grosses- 

 Haffand Dammausch,205; Observatory in Heligoland, 205; M. 

 Brassard's Rain-Gauge, 205 ; Ice Wall at Kerschkaranza, 205 ; 

 a Meteorologist at the Royal Academy, Hon. Ralph Aber- 

 cromby, 225 ; Prizes for Essays on Tornadoes, 229 ; the 

 United States Weather Bureau, 229 ; Report of the Hong 

 Kong Observatory for 1887, 229 ; Dr. Hellmann on the Rain- 

 fall of the Iberian Peninsula, 229 ; Reply to Mr. Douglas; 

 Archibald's Strictures on the Storm Laws, H. Fayc, 263 ; Re- 

 port of the Berlin Society of, 278; Temperature of 1887- 88,. 

 C. Harding, 238 ; the Weather in the Doldrums, Hon. Ralph 

 Abercromby, 238 ; Royal Meteorological Society, 238 ; Does 

 Precipitation influence the Movement of Cyclones ?, H. Helm. 

 Clayton, 301 ; Wragge's Daily Weather Charts for Australia, 

 303 ; International Meteorological Committee, 326 ; American 

 Meteorological Journal, 326 ; Trans-Mississippi Rainfall, 326 - r 

 Year-book of the Magdeburg Journal, 348 ; Annuaire of the 

 Municipal Observatory of Montsouris, 348 ; Dr. E. Bruckner, 

 Observations at Kingua Fjord (Cumberland Sound), 374 ; Dr. 

 Buys Ballot on the Distribution of Temperature over the 

 Surface of the Earth, 374 ; Portuguese Government, Meteoro- 

 logical Signals, 396 ; Winter Temperature of Werchojansk, 

 Siberia, 303 ; on a Recent Change in the Views of Meteoro- 

 logists regarding Gyratory Movements, M. H. Faye, 408 ; 

 Storm Warnings, M. de Bort, 419 ; American Meteorological 

 Magazine, July, 422 ; Symons's Monthly Meteorological 

 Magazine, August, 422 ; Climate of the British Empire, 422 ; 

 Meteorological Stations in the United States, Loftiness of, 

 453 ; the Central Meteorological Observatory of Mexico, 454 ' r 

 Meteorological Service of Cape of Good Hope, 454 ; 

 Meteorologische Beobachtungen in Deutschland, 486 ; 

 Meteorology of St. Helena, 486 ; the March Storms, H. C 

 Russell, F.R. S., 491 ; International Meteorology, Robert 

 II. Scott, F.R.S., 491 ; Meteorological Report for Bengal, 

 574 ; Meteorological Reports of Straits Settlements, 599 ; 

 the Chinook Wind, C. S. McCaul, 502 ; Torrential Rainfall 

 in Germany, Dr. G. Hellmann, 502 ; Hand-book of Meteoro- 

 logical Tables, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 527 ; Bibliography of 

 Meteorology, C. J. Sawyer's, 574 ; G. Rollin on Synoptic 

 Charts, 575 ; Meteorological Observations made in Russia and 

 Siberia during the Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887, 



