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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. l8, 1875 



Meteorologists, Congress of, at Poitiers, 502 

 Meteorology of Austro- Hungarian Arctic Expedition, 134 ; of 

 Canada, Report on, 299 ; Charts of the Swedish Institute, 

 426; in France, 154; International, 493, 560; in Mauritius, 

 Letter by C. Meldruro, 16; of United Slates, 34, 76; of 

 West Cornwall and Scilly, by W. P. Dymond, 250 

 Meteors : the August, 313, 477 ; M. Leverrier's organisation for 

 observing, 319; of November 14, Daniel Kirkwood, 85; in 

 various places, 460 

 Metrical System ot Weights and Measures, 76 ; in Egypt, 279' 

 Mexico, Gulf of. Latitude and Longitude of Places in, 54 

 Meyer (A.), Calculus of Probabilities, 359 

 Meyer (Dr. A. B.) on "Lawson's New Guinea, 153; Living 



Birds of Paradise, in Europe, 434 

 Mice and Rats, Tails of, G. J. Romanes, 515 

 Micro-Photographs, some New, 417 . 

 Microscope : Dr. Abbe's paper on, 262 ; J. Phin's Hints on the 



selection and use of the, 513 

 Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 16'; Society, 60, 



119,528; Societies in United States, 77 

 Migration of Species, W. L. Distant, 86 

 Miklucho-Maclay (Dr.), Zoological Stations abroad, 332 

 Mills (Dr.) on Fusion Point and.Thermometry, 99 

 ^Millstone Grit of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, 407 

 "Mineralogy, Brush's Determinative," 183 

 Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon, 219 

 Mines and Ironworks in the United States, by I. Lowthian 



Bell, 29 

 Mines, Royal School of, 220 

 Mining, Mr. G. L. ]5asset's Prizes in, 460 

 Minor Planets, 48, 113, 127, 168, 213, 272, 313, 367, 477, 497, 



435. 555 

 Mira Ceti, the Variable Star, 398 



Mirage at Sea, Dr. J. Janssen on, 405 ; on Snowdon, 292 

 " Mirk Monday," the. Eclipse 1652, 147 

 Missouri River, Ornithology of, 241 

 Mitchell (Dr. A.) on Weather and Epidemics of Scarlet Fever 



in London during the past Thirty-five Years, 320 

 " Mittheilungen," Petermann's (See Petermann) 

 Mivart (Prof., F.R.S.) on Kangaroos, 129 

 Moa Bones from New Zealand, Dr. Hector on, 441 

 Mouchez (Capt.), election of, at Paris Academy, 240 

 Moffat (Dr.), Sunspots, Ozone, Rain and Force of Wind, 374 

 Mohammed (Abdallah ben). Obituary Notice of, 135 

 Mohn (Dr.) and Norwegian Scientific Expedition, 115 

 Mohr (Prof.), Internal Heat of the Earth, 545 

 Mohr (Von E.), Nach den Victoriaf alien des Zambesi, 231 

 Moller (J. T.), Process of Preparing Diatomacere, 174 

 MoUusca, Woodward's Manual of, 494 

 " Molten Globe, Green's Vestiges of the," 85 

 " Mommsen's Jahreszeiten " on the Birds of Greece, 193 

 Mont Blanc, Body preserved by Ice, found near, 76 

 Montsouris, School of Astronomy at, 298, 502 

 Morant (Capt. J. F.}, " Game Preservers and Bird Preservers," 



395 

 Morgan (Hon. L. H.), Ethnical Periods and the Arts of Sub- 

 sistence, 444 

 Morgan (Lewis H.), Systems of Consanguinity, 86, 124, 311 

 Morphological Causation, His on, 328 

 " Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 115 

 Morphology at the British Association, 442 ; Dr. Gotte's Work 



on, 152 

 Morren (Prof Ed.), Biography of C. de I'Escluse, 527; Experi- 

 ments on Insectivorous Plants, 503 

 Morse (Prof. E. S.), Bones of Embryo Birds, 443 ; Fertilisation 



of Flowers, 444 

 Mort-Het (M. G. de). Lectures on Prehistoric Times, 96 

 Moscow. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale de Naturalistes, 359 

 Movs (Richard J.), Properties of Selenium, 291 

 Mouchez (M.) and School of Astronomy at Montsouris, 298 

 Mouchot (M.), Application of Solar Heat, 548 

 Mountain Climbing, Temperature of the Bodyduring, 132, 165,186 

 Mueller (Baron), Report on Botany in Victoria, 33 ; Supplement 



to List of Plants for Culture in Victoria, 426 

 Mullens (Rev. Joseph), People of Madagascar, 40 

 Miiller (Hermann), Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, 50, 190; 



Flowering of the Hazel, 26 

 Mullcr (F.) on Teimite-s hy Lady Lubbock, 218 

 Mulsint (M . E. ), his " Hisloire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches," 

 319 



Mundy (D. L.), " Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New 

 Zealand," 532 



Murcenopsis tridadyla at the Manchester Aquarium, 69 ; P. L. 

 Sclater on, 87 



Murchison (Sir Roderick I.), Prof. Geikie's Life of, i, 21 



Murphy (J. J.), Equilibrium in Gases, 26; Glacier and other 

 Ice, 167 ; on the Polar Ice Cap, 223 ; Primroses and Cows- 

 lips, 34 ; Scarcity of Birds, 272 ; Theories of Cyclones, 187 



Muscle, F. E. Nipher on the Mechanical Work done in exhauiting 

 a, 271 



Muscular Action, Law of, by F. E. Nipher, 47 



Musk-deer, Prof. Flower's Monograph on, 461 



Mythology, paper on by Mon:ure D. Conway, 59 



Nachrichten von der Konigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenscha'ten, 

 Gottingen, 222, 488 



Nachtigal (Dr. ), Banquet to, 75, 117; Description of Dar Fur, 

 241 



Nancy, Archseological Congress at, 319 



Nantes, French Association at, 219, 358, 424 



Naoles Observatory, Removal of Mr. Bishop's Instruments to, 

 526 



Naples Zoological Station, Inauguration of, 11 ; Report on, 

 372 ; Students at, 55 



"Naturalist," The, 320 



" Naturforscher, Der," 58, 77, 97, 198, 323, 359, 566 



" Nautical Almanack," Use of French Tables for, 460 



Nebulse, 292, 496 



Neilgherry Loranthaceous Parasitical Plants Destructive to 

 Exotic Trees, by Geo. Bidie, M.B., 453 



Neptune and Uranus, the SatelHtes of, 496 



Neptunian and Uranian Systems, Newcomb on the, 515 



Nerve Fibres in the Spinal Cord, Dr. Bowditch on, 460 



Newberry (Prof J. S.), Some Fossil Fishes, 444 



Ntw California, Physical Geography of, 299 



Newcastle College of Physical Science, appointment of Mr. G. 

 S. Brady, 298 ; Proposed Natural History Collection for, 298 ; 

 Natural History Society, 298 



Newcomb on the Uranian and Neptunian Systems, 515 



Newfoundland, Beothuc^ and Stone Implements of, 99 



New Guinea: Exploration of, 53, 76, 134; Captain Lawson's 

 Wanderings in, 83, 153 ; Mr. Macleay's Expedition to, 526 



New Jersey : Flint Scalping-knives in, by Chas. C. Abbott, 368 ; 

 the Occurrence of a Stone Mask in, by Chas. C. Abbott, 49 



New South Wales, Vine Culture in, 15 



Newton (E. Tulley), "Introduction to Animal Physiology," 474 



New York; Mercantile Library Association, 447 



New Zealand : Arrival of Salmon Ova, 195 ; Bibliography of 

 the Zoology of, 412; Humble Bees sent to, 527; D. L. 

 Mundy's Boiling Springs of, 532 ; Museum at Dunedin, 117 ; 

 Wellington Philosophical Society, 90 



Newton (Prof F.R.S. ), Ornithological Investigation, 412 



Nichols (R.C.), Equilibrium of Gases, 67, 107 



Nicholson (H.A.) on the Gasteropoda, 223 



Nile, Prof Wanklyn on the Water of the, 541 



Nipher (F. E.), Law of Muscular Action, 47 ; on the Mechanical 

 Work done in Exhausting a Muscle, 271 ; Optical Experi- 

 ment, 502 



Nitrate of Silver, Mr. Gatehouse on, 463 



Noad's (H.M.), Edition of Normandy's Handbook of Chemical 

 Analysis, 65 



"Nomenclator Botanicus," Dr. L. Pfeiffer, 503 



Nordenskjold's Arctic Expedition, 53, 154, 460, 556 



Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Transactions of, 221 



Normandy (A.), " Commercial Handbook of Chemical Ana- 

 lysis," 65 



North America : Bibliography of the Zoology of, 381 ; Butter- 

 flies of, 300 ; and Australian Vermin Hooks, 554 ; Indians, 

 Feet of, 7 ; Insects, Prof. A. R. Grote on the distribution of, 



443 

 North Polar Map, Mr. Stanford's, 35 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, Annual Report, 211 

 Norton (H.), Meteorological Phenomena, 188 

 Noi-way, Government Scientific Expedition, 115 

 " Notizblatt des Vereins fiir Erdkunde zu Darmstadt," 428 

 Novaya Zemlya, Swedish Arctic Expedition to, 53, 154 

 Noxious Insects and Tobacco Meal, 154 

 Numerals : in American Indian Languages, by Dr. Trumbull, 



106 ; Origin of the, 476, 496, 534 



