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INDEX 



xl 



Macfarlane (Dr. A.), on the Algebra of Logic, 446 



MacGregor (Col. C. M.), " Journey through Khorassan and on 

 the North-West Frontier of Afghanistan," 453 



Mackerel, New Genus of Fishes Approximating to, 535 



Mackenzie (Prof. John James), Peath of, 133 



McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), I'id Fliwers Exist during the Car- 

 boniferous Epoch? 5; Glow-Worms c. Snails, 219; Science 

 in the Argentine Republic, 358 



Maclear (Sir Thomas, F.R.S.), Death of, 352 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 365 

 Madagascar, the Physical Geography and Geology of, Rev, 



James Sibree, jun., 368 

 Maderia, Atmospheric Electricity in, 444 

 Madrid Observatory, Annual of, 629 



Magnac (M. De), his New Nautical Instrument Navisphere, 41 

 Magnetical Observations of the Arctic Expedition 1875-6, 136 

 Magnetism, Terrestrial, Prof. Rowland on, 282 

 Mallock (A.), Showers of Rain and Gusts of Wind, 56; Electric 



Lighting, 314 

 Man : Aniiquity of. Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 571 ; Comparative 



Anatomy of, Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 222, 244,267; Existence 



of, during Palaeolithic Period, 489 

 Manchester Magazine, 209 

 Manche-ter, Proposed University at, 22 

 Manchester Scientific Students Association, 374 

 Manchuria, Colonisation of, 64 

 Manila, Thunderstorm at, 353 

 Mannheim, Observatory of, 83 



Mantis, Leaping Power of. Consul E. L. Layard, 481 

 Manures, Artificial, Georges Ville, 216 

 Mapleton (Rev. G.), Solar Halo, 530 

 Maps of Old Geological Coast Lines, &c., 76 

 Maps : how to Colour, 275 ; Dr. C. P. Daly on, 582 

 Marie-Davy on Meteorological Registers, 320 

 Marine Copepoda, 196 

 Mariner's Compas-, New F"orm of, 233 



Markham (Clements R., C.B., F.R.S.), Opening Address in 

 . Section E of the British Association, 472 

 Mars : the Satellites of, 425, 559, 603 ; the Outer Satellite of, 



481. 513 



Marsh (Prof. O. C), History and Methods of Palzeontological 

 Discovery, 494, 515 



Masson (Victor), Notices of the Late, 460 



Mastodon, Discjvery of Remains of a, 183 



Mathematical Problems, 74 



Mathematical Society, 71, 186 



Mathematical Society of Lehigh, 127 



Mathematical Tables, B.A. Report on, 444 



Matter, Formation of, 17 



Maudsiey's " Pathology of Mind," 333 



Mauritius, Forests of, 25; 



Maxwell, the Sorting Demon of. Sir William Thomson, LI,D., 

 F.R.S., 126 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), " Thomson and Tait's Natural 

 Philosophy," 213 

 'Maxwell-Stiiart," Topaz, 305 



Mechanical Difficulty in Growth of Plants and Animals, H. P. 

 Knapton, 290 



Mechanical Theory of Earth-IIeat, J. P. Lesley, 16S 



Mechanics, Elementary, Dr. O. J. Lodge, 623 



Medlicott and Blanford's Geology of India, 191 



Memory; Inherited, 77 ; James Ellis, 122; in Birds, J. Sinclair 

 Holden, 266 



Mercury and Venns, their Relative Power of Light Reflection, 41 



Mercury Sulphate, on Large Crystals of, Philip Braham, 46S 



ifetals. Action of Pleat in Vacuo on, T. A. Edison, 545 



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

 Liveing and Dewar, 46 



Meteorology : Proposed Observatory on Mount Ventoux, 18 ; 

 Meteorological Congress at Rome, 57 ; Newspaper Weather 

 Maps, 1 10 ; Meteorological Society, 116, 283 ; the Weather in 

 New Caledonia, 147 ; the Cold Weather of last Winter and 

 Spring, 151 ; General Myer's Visit to London, 231 ; the 

 Meridian for Synoptic Weather Charts, 231 ; Meteorological 

 Notes, 270 ; Prof. Loomis on Storms, 270 ; Stonyhurst 

 College Observations, 270 ; Rainfall of New South Wales, 

 271 ; Scottish Meteorological Society, 303 ; the Recent 

 Weather, Wm. Ellis, 313 ; Marie-Davy on Meteorological 

 Registers, 320; "Modern Meteorology," 359; Weather 

 Charts for the Northern Hemisphere, 381 ; the French 



Academy of Meteorological Ascents, 401 ; Conference at 



Hamburgh, 423 ; Meteorology in Italy, 434 ; Greenwich 



Meteorological Observations, 525, 576, 602, 624 

 Meteorites, Prof. Rammelsberg on, 616 

 Meteors : April, W. F. Denning, 29 ; a Remarkable, Robert J. 



Ellery, I2I ; at Herford, 134 ; in Noumea, E. L. Layard, 



147 ; near Geneva, 183 ; at Bath, Carl Armbruster, 197 ; on 



two observed in Sweden in 1S77, 306 ; in Saxony, 374 ; B.A. 



Report on Luminous, 444 ; the August Perseids, 457 

 Metre, Comparison of Wave-Lengths with the, 99 

 Meudon Observatory, 1 10 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Distribution of the Black Rat, 29, 95 

 Mice and Beetles, W. Worby Beaumont, 29 

 Micronesia, Dr. Otto Finsch's Tour to, 560 

 Microphone : Theory and Laws of the. Prof. Ochorowicz, 361 ; 



Crossley's Modification of Hughes's, 503 

 Microscope, a New, for Students, Frank Rutley, 13 

 Midland Union of Natural History Societies, 17, ill 

 Miers (John, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 614 

 Migration of Birds, E. H. Pringle, 6 ; H. Gatke, 97 ; Charles 



Dixon, 219 

 Miles (Chas. Popham, M.D., F.L.S.), Intellect in Brutes, 220, 



580 

 Millar (W. J.), the Standing Stones of Callanish, 127 

 Mills (Dr. E. J., F.R.S.), and J. J. Smith on Nickelous and 



Cobaltons Sulphates, 234 

 Milne's Crystallography, 73 



Mimas and Hyperion, the Satellites, 363, 560, 629 

 Mineralogical Society, 88, 164, 400 

 Mineral Waters of Hungary, J. Bernath, 551 

 Minor Planets, 83, 363, 513, 604 

 Mint, Annual Report of the Deputy-Master, 184 

 Miocene Flora of the North of Ireland, 441 

 Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 186 

 Mivart (Prof. St. George, F.K.S.), Opening Address in Section 



D at the British Association Meeting at Shefiield, 393 ; Tails, 



508, S37 ; E. H. Pringle, 528 ; Arthur Nicols, 528 

 Moebius (Prof.), on the Eozoon Question, 272, 297 

 Mohr (Dr. Karl Friedrich), Death of, 562 ; Obituary Notice of, 



585 ; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 628 

 Moighs (Abbe), and Les Mundes, 231 

 Mojrvar (Edm. M. von), "Die Dolorait-Rifle von Sud-Tirol 



und Venetien," 167 

 Molecular Physics in High Vacua, W. Crookes, F'.R.S., 22S, 



250 

 Mollusc, Boring, Dr. P. H. Stokoe, 428 

 Molothrus fecoris. Enormous Flights of, in Mexico, 88 

 Monatschrift fiir den Orient, 87, 206 

 Moncel (Comte Th. du), " L'Eclairage Electrique," 165 

 Moncreiffe (Sir Thomas), Death of, 400 

 Moniteur Scientifique, 186 

 Monro (C. J ), Unobserved Impressions, 426 

 Montgolfier, Mademoiselle Adelaide, 16 

 Montigny (M.), Scintillation of Stars and Weather Forecasts, 



435 



Moon, New Craters in, 462 



Moore (David, Ph.D.), Death of, 159; Obituary Notice of, 

 198 



Moravia, Anthropological Discoveries in, 278, 305 



Morgan (E. Delmar), his Translation of Prjvalsky's "From 

 Kulja, Across the Tian .Shan to Lob-Nor," 4 



Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 234, 619 



Morris (William), Did Flowers lixist during the Carboniferous 

 Epoch ? 404 ; Fonts in the Rocks of Brook Courses, 430 



Morris (D. ), Coffee-Leaf Disease of Ceylon, 557 



Moscow Anthropological Exhibition, 45, 134; Moscow Archaeo- 

 logical I'^xhibition, 514 



Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), the Structure of the Stylasteridae, 

 339 ; Polar Ice, 573 



Moss (E. L.), Phenomenon observed at Sea, 428 



Mount Etna : Eruption of. III, 133; Earthquakes near, 326 



Muir (M. M. Pattison), Thermo-Chemical Investigation, 8; 

 Chemical Action, 530 



Muir (Wm.), Mr. Preston on General Temperature-Equili- 

 brium, 6 



Mules, Intellect in, 21 



Muller and De La Rue on the Electric Discharge with the 

 Chloride of Silver Battery, 174, 199 



Muller (Fritz), Bud-Variations in Bananas, 146 



Muller (Dr. Hermann), Fertilisation of Erica camm, lift 



