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INDEX 



[Nature, Juiie T , li 



Minot (Dr. C. S.)> and Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, 



492 

 Minusinsk Museum, 65 

 Mist, the Shadow of a, W. Fawcett, 224 ; Rev, Henry Bernard, 



392 

 Mist-Bow, Albert Bonus, 273 ; Thomas Kay, 273 ; C. O. Budd, 



273 



Mitchell (A. Crichton), on the Thermal Conductivity of Iron, 

 Copper, and German Silver, 328 



Mitchell (P. Chalmers), Duration of Life, 541 



Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 596 



Mittheilungen of Hamburg Geographical Society, 303 



Mittheilungen of the Vienna Geographical Society, 37 



Mivart (Dr. St. George, F.R.S.), Reason and Language, 364; 

 Language = Reason, 412 



Mobangi and the Welle, Lieut. Van Gele, 496 



Model of an Earthquake, Prof. Sekiya, 297 



Models illustrating the Modification of the Arterial Arches in 

 Vertebrates, by Prof. W. N. Parker, 499 



Modern Views of Electricity, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F. R. S., 8, 

 105, 322, 344, 366 



Modigliani (E.), on Nias, 17 



Mohn (Dr. H.), Fog Bow and UUoa's Ring, 391 



Mohn and Hildebrandsson (MM,), Thunderstorms of Scan- 

 dinavia, 614 



Moissan (M.), New Fluorides of Potassium, 422 



Molecular Forces, the Range of, Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 



405 

 Molecular Weights of Substances, Prof. Victor Meyer, 443 

 Mollusca and Arthropoda, the Coelom and the Vascular System 



of. Prof. Ray Lankester, F,R.S., 498 

 Monck (W. H, S.), a New Historic Comet? 393 

 Mongolian Epics of Hesser-Khan, Discovery of a Manuscript 



containing a Tibetan Version of the, 209 

 Monian System, the, by Rev. J. F. Blake, 526 

 Monkey's Brain : Functions of the. Dr. Sanger Brown and Prof. 

 E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 214; on Electrical Excitation of, 

 Prof. Schafer, F.R.S., 574 

 Monocotyledonous Products, Museum of, 470 

 Monsoons, by Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 469 

 Mookerjee (Nidhiram), and Pisciculture in Bengal, 494 

 Moon, Total Eclipse of the, 286, 306, 333, 495 ; Otto Boedicker, 



318 

 Moonlight, Vegetation and, D. E. Hutchins, 275 

 Morality and Utility, Geo. Payne Best, Prof. Geo. J. Romanes, 



290 

 Morgan (C. Lloyd), on Animal Biology, 484 

 Morison (John), Untimely Insect Development, 321 

 Morphological Changes in Blood during Coagulation, Prof. 



Haycraft and Dr, Carlier, 527 

 Morphology, Vertebrate, a Study in. Dr. J. Beard, 224 

 Morris (D.) : Alexipharmic Plants, 257; the Dispersion of 



Seeds and Plants, 466 

 Mors, in Denmark, Farm struck by Lightning at, 64 

 Morse (Samuel F. B.) and Thomas A. Edison, Van Buren 



Denslow and Jane M. Parker, 199 

 Morton (G, H.), Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves, 32 

 Moths of India, Catalogue of the, E. C. Cotes and Colonel C. 



Swinhoe, H. J. Elwes, 386 

 Mott (F. T.), on Foreign Plants available for Acclimatization in 



England, 35. 

 Mound- Exploration, Cyrus Thomas, 615 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, Dr. H. Meyer's Ascent of, 354 

 Mount Loa Craters, History of the Changes in the, 163 ; James 



D. Dana, 5(X) 



Mount Obree, Height of, 354 



Mount Vernon, Illinois, Cyclone at, 399 



Mountain Building, Experimeats in, Henry M. Cadell, 488 



Moureaux (Th.), a New Magnetic Survey of France, Prof. T. 



E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 247 



Mouth, the Old, and the New, a Study in Vertebrate Morpho- 

 logy, Dr. J. Beard, 224 



Muir (M. M. Pattison) : Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Chemie, 

 Dr. Wilh. Ostwald, 241 ; and Douglas Carnegie, Practical 

 Chemistry, 265, 318 ; and Charles Slater, Elementary 



'■ Chemistry, 265 ; the Teaching of Elementary Chemistry, 

 466 



Muir (Thos.), an Incorrect Footnote and its Consequences, 

 246, 438 



Miiller (Prof. F. Max), Language = Reason, 323, 412 



Miiller-Erzbach (Dr. ), on Determination of Mean Temperature, 

 528 



Multicellular Plants, on the Growth and Origin of, Geo. Massee, 

 163 



Munro and Jamieson, Electrical Rules and Tables, 443 



Murray (Donald), Periodic Law, 247 



Murray (John) : Height and Volume of the Dry Land and the 

 Depth and Volume of the Ocean, 239, 286 ; Coral Formations, 

 414, 438 ; Temperature and Currents in Scottish Lochs, 479 



Muscle, Striped and Unstriped in the Animal Kingdom, 

 Structure and Distribution of, C. F. Marshall, 23 



Museum, Colonial, of New Zealand, 568 



Museum, Dublin Science and Art, 186 



Museum of Mineralogy at Redruth, Proposed, 299 



Music in Nature, W. F. Goodwin, 151 



Mussels, Dr. Rawitz on the Eyes of, 480 



Mussulman Women, Consulting Hospiial for, at Tashkend, 64 



Muzzling of Oysters, W. Mattieu Williams, 585 



Myers (A,T.), Index-Catalogue to the Library of the Surgeon- 

 General's Office, United States Army, 292 



Myxinoid Fishes, the Teeth of. Dr. J. Beard, 499 



Nadir, New Mercury-Bath for the Observation of the, 551 

 Naegeli (Prof. Carl), and Prof. S. Schwendener, the Microscope 



in Theory and Practice, Dr. W, H. Dalhnger, F.R. S., 171 

 Nansen (Dr. Fridtjof), Proposal to cross the Interior of Green- 

 land on " Ski" = Snow-runners, 138, 423 

 Naphtha Spring near Balachany, 88 

 Naphthalene Derivatives, New, Leon Roux, 156 

 Naphthol as an Antiseptic, Ch. Bouchard, 24 

 Natal Observatory Report for 1886, 158 

 National Smoke Abatement Institution, 356 

 Natural Gas, Paper by J. D. Weeks, issued by the U.S. 



Geological Survey, 422 

 Natural History Museum, Interesting Collection presented to, 



by F. J, Jackson, 33 

 Natural History : H. N. Ridley's Natural History Collection in 

 Fernando Noronha, 119; Natural History CollecHon from 

 Central Africa at the British Museum, 207 ; Catalogue of the 

 Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, Richard Lydekker, 

 461 ; Prize for Researches in Natural History, 348 ; the Nest 

 of the Flamingo, E. J. Dunn, 465 ; Egg of Great Auk {Alca 

 impennis), 474; Pinus sylvestris, by J. Clayton, 474; 

 Photographing Flight of Birds, M. Marey, 474 ; Butterfly, 

 Summer, 492 ; Mango Weevil, 492 ; Natural History in 

 Southern Germany, by E. E. Austen, 519 ; Report of Rugby 

 School Society, 519; in Southern Germany, 519; Natural 

 History of Victoria, 533 

 Natural Law of Relation between Rainfall and Vegetable Life 



and its Application to Australia, F. A. Velschow, 519 

 Natural Philosophy, Class Experiments, Magnus Maclean, 612 

 Natural Science and the Woolwich Examinations, Rev. A. 



Irving, 389 ; Henry Palin Gurney, 415 

 Nature, Music in, W. L. Goodwin, 151 

 Nautical Almanac Office, American, Prof. Newcomb, 381 

 Navelle (M.), Account by, of a Journey in Annam, 16 

 Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, W. R. Martin, 582 

 Nebulae, New, discovered in the Pleiades by means of Photo- 

 graphy, 551 

 Needles, Instability of Freshly-Magnetized, Prof. Francis E. 

 Nipher, 77, 392; Prof. Arthur W, Riicker, F.R.S., 77; G. 

 M, Whipple, 128 

 Nef (Dr. J. U.), Carboxy-derivatives of Quinone, 551 

 Nelson (E. M.), Recent Improvements in Microscopy, 166 

 Nerves, Sawyer's Experiments as to Existence of Separation of 



Irritability and Conducting Power in, Prof. Gad, 576 

 Nervous System and the Mind, a Treatise on the Dynamics of 



the Human Organism, Charles Mercier, 578 

 Nest of the Antennarius marmoratus, on the, M. L. Vaillant, 



208 

 New England Marine Biological Laboratory, the Proposed, 379 

 New Guinea : Exploration in, 38 ; Mr. Strachan's Explorations 



of, 302 

 New South Wales: Tebbutt's Observatory, Windsor, 400; 



Report on Fisheries of, 494 

 New York Academy of Sciences, 494 

 New York, the. Agricultural Station, 524 

 New York, Teachers employed in the State of, 398 

 New Zealand, Museum of, 568 



