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[Nalun; May 30, 18S9 



Meridian of P'rance, Note on the New, Minister of War, 335 

 Merrifield (Mrs. Mary P.): Recent Works on Algae, 250; 



Death of, 255 

 Merrill (George P.), on the Ophiolite of Thurman, Warren 

 County, New York, with Remarks on the Eozoon canadense, 

 525 

 Merritt (Ernest), some Determinations of the Energy of the 



Light from Incandescent Lamps, 525 

 Mesenteries in Antipatharia and other Anthozoa, Preliminary 



Remarks on the Homologies of the, G. Brook, 335 

 Message- Sticks, A. W. Howitt on Australian, 215 

 Metabolism of Man during Starvation, Dr. Noel Paton and 



Dr. Ralph Stockman, 527 

 Metallurgy and Assaying, A. H, Hiorns, 221 

 Metallurgy of Gold, the, M. Eissler, Prof. W. C. Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R. S., 100 

 Metallurgy, a Text-book of Elementary, for the Use of 



Students, Arthur H. Hiorns, 388 

 Metals : on the Formulae of Chlorides of Aluminium and the 

 Allied Metals, Dr. Sydney Young, 198 ; Molecular Weights 

 of Metals, Prof. W. Ramsay, F. R. S., 597; Behaviour of 

 Metals to Light, Prof Kundt, 360 ; the Selective Reflecti )n 

 of Light by Metals, Dr. Rubens, 552 ; on some Curious Pro- 

 perties of Metals and Alloys, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 83 

 Meteoric Theory of Nehulre, &c., S. Tolver Preston, 436, 535 

 Meteorites, on the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of, Prof. 



G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 81, 105 

 Meteorites, Notes on, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 138, 233, 



400 

 Meteoritic Particle, Vapour or, 537 



Meteorology : Meteorological Society of Australasia, 17 ; the 

 Atlantic Weather Charts, 17, 112; Barometric Oscillations, 

 Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Captain Pelham Aldrich, 38 ; 

 Maxwell Hall on West Indian Cyclones, 40 ; Storm-warnings 

 on the Coasts of the Black Sea, 40 ; Report of the Forest 

 Stations of the German Empire, 41 ; Old Meteorological 

 Register, Rev. James Cowe, 58 ; Hurricanes in September, 

 59 ; Cyclones and Currents, S. R. Elson, 69 ; Meteorology 

 of the Red Sea and Cape Guardafui, General Strachey, 86 ; 

 Meteoroloj;ical Office of the Argentine Republic, 86 ; Phe- 

 nomena of English Thunderstorms, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 

 143 ; Meteorological Record of Royal Meteorological Society, 

 153 ; Movements of Cyclonic Areas, 154 ; Meteorology of the 

 Seine Basin, Lemoine and Renou, 156; Report of Indian 

 Meteorological Department, 185 ; Meteorology in Queens- 

 land, 208 ; Rainfall and Thunderstorms at Kremsmiinster, 

 Austria, 209; United States Rain Charts, 231 ; Missouri 

 Rainfall, 231; Dr. W. Marcet, F.R.S., on Fogs, 255; 

 Granular Snow and the Theory of the Formation of 

 Hail, Prof. Ferdinand Palagi, 262 ; Alpine Haze, 

 Rev. W. Clement Ley, 270 ; a Remarkable Rime, 

 Annie Ley, 270 ; Meteorological Weather Report, 281 : 

 Meteorological Congress at Paris, 257, 281 ; Snowfalls, Dr. \ 

 Less, 387 ; the Law of Storms in China, Dr. W. Doberck, i 

 301 ; P'og in London, G. C. Thomson, 305 ; Sunshine, G. J. 

 Symons, F.R.S., 305 ; Fogs, Dr. W. Marcet, F.R.S., 311 ; 

 Remarkable Rime and Mist, E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 319 ; Haze, 

 Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 323 ; on the Distribution of the 

 Aqueous Vapour in the Atmosphere, M. A. Crova, 335 ; 

 Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus and Methods, Cleveland 

 Abbe, 340 ; International Meteorological Conference at Mel- 

 bourne, 350 ; Meteorological Institute of Costa Rica, 350 ; 

 Climate of Siberia in the Mammoth Age, 365 ; Report of the 

 Meteorological Council. 376 ; the Drought in Australia, 377 ; 

 Progress of Meteorology in France, Renou, 396 ; Meteorology 

 of New South Wales, H. C. Russell, 396 ; Fiery Sunsets 

 in Central Asia due to Krakatab Dust, Prjevalsky, 398 ; the 

 New York Blizzard over the Ocean, Lieut. E. Hayden, 

 U.S.N., 418; Upper Wind Currents over the North 

 Atlantic Doldrums, Hon Ralph Abercromby 437 ; the 

 Darkness of London Air, W. Hargreaves Raffles, 441 ; 

 Average Velocities of Low-area Storms and Upper Air 

 Currents in the United States, General Greely, 447 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Reports for Bombay, 447 ; Meteorological Service in 

 France, A. L. Rotch, 447 ; Registers of Original Observations, 

 India, 466 ; Meteorology of South Russia, M. Klossovski, 

 466 ; Luminous Night Clouds, 468 ; Meteorology of Ceylon, 

 495 ; Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, William 

 Marriott, 523 ; Scottish Meteorological Society, 569; Distribu- 



tion of Storms round the Scottish Coasts, Dr. Buchan, 570 p 

 Temperature of Sea round East Coast of Scotland, 11. N. 

 Dickson, 570 ; the Weather Lore of Scottish Fishermen, 570 ; 

 the Connection betv\een Cosmic and Meteorological Pheno- 

 mena, Dr. Wagner, 575 ; the Meteorological Condition of the 

 Aruwhimi Forest Tract, Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 582 ; 

 Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments at Boston, U.S.A., 

 591 ; French Polar Expedition Meteorological Observations, 

 591 ; the ?>bb and Flow of the Tide, Prof Bcirnstein, 600; 

 Meteorological Society, 600 ; Diurnal Range of Barometer, F. 

 C. Bayard, 623 ; Meteorological Observations in Labrador and 

 Walfisch Bay, 613 



Meteors: at Christiansand, 184; Detonating Meteor, Maxwell 

 Hall, 368 ; at Stavanger, Norway, 446 ; at Hampstead, B. 

 Woodd Smith, 462 ; the Leonid Mete ^r-shower, 1888, W. F. 

 Denning, 84 ; Detonating Meteor, W. H. G. Monck, 390 ; 

 Remarkable Meteors in Scandinavia, 566 



Methyl Fluoride, Note on, Dr. N. Collie, 4.54 



Metre, the Nature of Harmony and, Moritz Hauptmann, Dr 

 W. Pole, F.R.S., 97 



Meunier (J.) : Benzoic Acetals of Mannite, 167 ; Combination of" 

 Mannite with the Aldehydes of the Fatty Serie-, Ethylic 

 Acetal, 456 



Meunier (M. Stanislas) : Artificial Reproduction of Chromi- 

 ferous Iron, 263 ; Carboniferous Rocks containing Bacillarites, 

 Stur, 479 



Mexico : Desiccated Human Remains discovered in, 36 ; Eth- 

 nography of, Carl Breker, 232 ; a Relic of Ancient Mexico, 

 262 



Meyer (Dr.), African Explorations, 259 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.) : Pallas's Sand-Grouse, Syrrhaptes para- 

 doxus, 9 ; the Tamarao, from Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 

 9 ; are there Negritos in Celebes ?, 30 ; the Nephrite Ques- 

 tion, 60 ; Amber, 105 



Meyer (Prof. E. von). New Polymers of Methyl and Ethyl 

 Cyanides, 17 • 



Meyer (Prof Victor) : Geometrical Isomers, Monoxims of 

 Benzil, 518 ; Vapour-Density Determinations of Bismuth, 

 Arsenic, and Thallium at Extraordinarily High Temperatures,.. 



544 



Meyer (Dr. W. M,), Editor of Himmel und Erde, 494 



Michael (A. D.), Internal Anatomy of Uropoda krameri, 359 



Michaelis, Journeys in China, 63 



Michel-Levy (A.) et Alf. Lacroix, Les Mineraux des Roches, 315" 



Michelson (Dr.), Combustion of Explosive Mixtures of Gases, 

 480 



Microbes, Pathogenic, Infectious Properties of, M. A. Chau- 

 veau, 455 



Micro-organisms, Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 528 



Micro-organisms, Influence of Gases on Development of. Prof. 

 P. F. Frankland, 357 



Micro-Petrology, Primer of, W. Mawer, 125 



Microscopy : Prof. R. A. Anderson's Apparatus for the Micro- 

 scope, 262 ; Two New Types of Actinaria, Dr. G. H. Fowler, 

 164 ; IDevelopment of Fat-Bodies in Ratta temporaria, A. 

 E. Giles, 164 ; Improved Polarizing Apparatus, Dr. S. P. 

 Thompson, 189 ; the Microscopical Study of Minerals in 

 Rocks, 315 ; Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making 

 Minerals, H. Rosenbusch, Joseph P. Iddings, 315 ; New 

 Organ and Structure of Hypodermis in Periplaneta orientalis, 

 E. A. Minchin, 357 ; Internal Anatomy of Uropoda krameri, 

 A. D. Michael, 359 ; Practical Microscopy, G. E. Davis, 377 ; 

 Tercentenary Microscope Exhibition, 544 



Miers (H. A.), some Recent Advances in the Theory of Crystal- 

 structure, 277 



Milk, the Nature of, A. Bechamp, 96 



Milk-fed Children, the Bacteria occurring in Fceces of, Dr. 

 Baginski, 407 



Mill (Dr. Hugh Robert), Temperature Observations in Rivers, 

 412 



Miller (J. B,), Derivatives of o-Pyrocresole, 190 



Miller (W. J.), the Clyde from its Sources to the Sea, 365 



Mills (Edmund ].), Formation of Ledges on Hill-sides, 460 



Milutin (S.), Flora of Moscow, 477 



Minary (E.), Shooting- Stars, 432 



Minchin (Prof. George M.) : the Vices of our Scientific Educa- 

 tion, 304 ; General Equations of Fluid Motion, 452 



Mind in Man and Brute, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 313 



Mindoro, Philippine Islands, the Tamarao from. Dr. A. B.. 

 Meyer, 9 



