Nature, May 30, 1SS9] 



INDEX 



Minima of Variables, Observation of Faint, S. Chandler, 41 



Minimum, Sun-spot, Prof. Ricco, 567 



Mineralogy : Mineralogical Society, 47, 326, 383, 446 ; Ro;k- 



forming Minerals, Frank Rutley, 78 ; the Renaissance of 



British Mineralogy, 223; L. Fletcher, 115; Prof. W. N. 



Hartley, F.R.S., 149; Mineral )gical Magazine, 257, 496; 



Mining Manual, \V. R. Skinner, 257 ; Pyrargyrite and 



I'roustile, Contributions to the Study of, H. A. Miers, 258 ; 



Minerals of New York County, B. B. Chamberlain, 258 ; 



Some Recent Advances in the Theory of Crystal-Structure, 



H. A, Miers, 277; Sperrylite, 281 ; Beryllonite, Edward S. 



Dana and Horace Wells, 310 ; Tron Ores, the, of the Fenokee- 



Ciogebic Series of Michigan and Wisconsin, C. R. Van Hise, 



310; the Microscopical Study of Minerals in Rocks, 315; 



Mineraux des Roches, A. Michel-Levy et Alf. Lacroix, 



315 ; Daviesite, 326 ; Mineral Resources of the United States, 



David T. Hay, 496 ; New Dry Method of Separating Denser 



Minerals from Sand, C. Carus- Wilson, 591 

 Minor Planets, New, Herr Palisa, 41 ; M. Charlois, 352, 378 

 Missouri Rainfall, 231 

 Mist and Rime, Miss Annie Ley, 270, 342 ; M. H. Maw, 295 ; 



Remarkable, E. J. Lowe, F. R. S.. 319 ; E. Brown, 342 

 Mittheilungen of German Asiatic Society of Japan, 157 

 Mivart (Dr. St. George, F.R.S.), Natural Selection and Useless 



Structures, 127 

 Mock Suns, Halo and, James C. McConnel, 557 

 Models, Physico- Geometrical, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 



406 

 Modern Perversion of Education, the Great, Hon. Auberon 



Herbert, 102 

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



10, 319 

 .Moebius (Prof.): Movements of Flying-Fish, 479; Nests of 



Marine Stickleback, 168 

 Moissan (M. H.), Fluoride of Ethyl, 239 



Moissan and Meslans (MM.), Gaseous Fluoride of Methyl, 256 

 M^lecular Formula of Aluminium Compounds, Dr. Sydney 



Young, 536 

 Molecular Physics, an Attempt at a Comprehensive Dynamical 



Treatment of Physical and Chemical Forces, Prof. F. 



Lindemann, G. W. de Tunzelmann, 63 

 Miiller (Dr. J.), on the Singular Points of the Common Algebraic 



Differential Equations, 456 

 Molloy (Gerald), Gleanings in Science, 534 

 MoUusca, Coloration of, 263 

 Molybdic Acid, Salts of, Coloriano, 60 

 Monaco (Prince Albert of), the Fourth Hirondelle Expedition, 



144 

 Monazite, O. A. Derby, 429 

 Monck (W. H. G.), Detonating Meteor, 390 

 Monckman (James), Thermo-Electric Properties of Graphites, 



Carbon, &c., and Effect of Occluded Ga-es thereon; 94 

 Monochloracetoacetic Ethers a and 7, Synthesis of Citric Acid, 



MM. A. Hallerand A. Held, 504 

 Montelius (Oscar), the Civilization of Sweden in Heathen Times, 



270 

 Moon-culminating Stars, 1889, M. Loewy, 497 

 Moore (Captain), Bore in Hangchow Bay, 469 

 Moore (Spencer), on Apiocystis, 262 



More (A. G.), Duloniedes fimbriatus, Clerck, at Killarney, 511 

 Morbihan, the Menhirs of, Gaillard, 405 

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

 Moritz (Dr. E. R.), Lectures on the Science of Brewing, 231 

 Morley (Right Hon. John, M.P.), on Government Grants for 



Science, 39 

 Morris (D.), Characteristics of Eiythroxylon boca and E. novo- 



granaleuse, 262 ; a Jamaica Drift- fruit, 322 

 Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, 



Studies from the, 338 

 Morphology of Birds, Dr. H. Gadow, 150, 177 

 Morphology, the Journal, of, 252 

 Moscow, Flora of, S. Milutin, 477 



Moscow, Socitfte des Naturalistes, Annual Report of, 39 

 Mosses, British, F. E, Tripp, 434 

 Moth [Halias prasinana). Strange Sound made by, late H. J. 



Harding, 544 

 Moths in New Zealand, G. V. Hudson on, 39 

 Motion, Planetary, Theory of. Dr. Otto Dziobek, 134 

 Motions of the Solar System, Ormond Stone, 162 



Mount Ararat, M. Eugene Markow, 307 



Mountain of the Bell, a New, H. Carrington Bolton, 607 



Mountain-slopes and Hill-sides, the Formation of Ledges on,^ 



Dr. A. Ernst, 415 

 Movable Zoological Station, 416 

 Movements of Cyclonic Areas, 154 

 Mucous Membrane, Conversion of, into Cuticular Tissue, Dr. 



Posner, 479 

 Muir (M. M. P.), a Cubical Form of Bismuthous Oxide, 358 

 Muir (Dr. Thomas) : Differentiation of any Scalar Power of a 



Quaternion, 455 ; Relation between the Mutual Distances of 



Five Points in Space, 527 

 Multiple Star f Cancri, 398 



Mummery (A. F.), Ascent of Koshtantau, Caucasus, 519 

 Munich Chemical Society, 325 

 Munk (Prof.), Physiology of Thyroid Gland, 168 

 Muntz (A.), the Dark Waters of the Equatorial Regions, 167 

 Murphy (Joseph John), Weather Charts and Storm Warnings, 



149 

 Murray (Dr. John), Structure, Origin, and Distribution of Cor sL 



Reefs and Islands, 424 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Prof. A.. 



Agassiz, 595 

 Museum of the Emperor Augustus, M. S. Reinach, 499 

 Museum, National, at Costa Rica, 16 



Mushketoff (Prof.), Photographs of Earthquake at Vyernyi, 327 

 Mushroom, Researches on the Saccharine Substances contained 



in certain Species of, Em. Bourquelot, 528 

 Musings on a Meadow, 181 



Mussel living in the Branchire of a Crab, W. R. Pidgeon, 127 

 Mutual Influence of Electrized Bodies, A. Stepanoff, 334 

 Muybridge (E.), the Science of Animal Locomotion in its Rela- 

 tion to Design in Art, 446 

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



Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, 387 

 Myoxus avellatmrius. Hazel-mouse, Denmark, 306 

 Myriopoda, Indian-Australian, Dr. Erich Haase, 257 

 Myths, Chinese Zoological, 615 



Nadaillac (De), the Origin of Cannibalism, 70 



Nama Land and Herero Land, South- West Africa, Dr. A. 



Schenck, 450 

 Nansen's (Dr.) Greenland Expedition, 62, 88, 184; the Return. 



of> 395 ; Herr Gamel on, 446 

 Naphthalene, Determination of Constitution of Heteronucleal 



afi- and /8j8-di-derivatives of, Armstrong and Wynne, 598 

 Naphtoe Acids, Dr. Ekstrand, 456 

 Naples, Earthquake at, 396 



National Association for Promotion of Technical Education, 565. 

 National Geo.'raphic Society of the United Slates, 308 

 National Smoke Abatement Institution, Report of, 25, 34 

 National Union of Elementary Teachers, 612 

 Native Life in Distant Lands, Pictures of, H. Leutemann, 148 

 Natural History : Ccrcyonis alope and tiephele, Samuel H. 



Sciidder, 319 ; Natural History in the Field, Rev. W. Linton^ 



Wilson, 368 ; Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata 



in the Collection of the British Museum, Oldfield Thomas,. 



435 ; the Giant Earthworm of Gippsland, Prof. James W. H. 



Trail, 437 ; Natural History and Scientific Book Circular, 



W. Wesley and Son, 496 ; Natural History Museum, Vienna^ 



517 ; Catalogue of the Fos>il Cephalopoda in the Britislv 



Museum, 530 

 Natural Inheritance, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 603 

 Natural Science, M. B. Loewy, 305 

 Natural Selection and the Origin of Species, Prof. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 173 

 Natural Selection and Useless Structures, Dr. St. George Mivart,. 



F.R S., 127 

 Naturalist, Opportunity for a, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 341 

 Naturalist, a Playtime, Dr. J. E. Taylor, 365 

 Natura'ists, American Society of, 327 

 Nature, the Constants of, Frank W. Clarke, 29 

 Nature, the Invisible Powers of, E. M. Caillard, 257 

 Nature's Hygiene, C. T. Kingsett, 604 

 Naval Observatory, United States, 186 

 Nebula' : Method for Enumerating Photographed, 282 ; Growth 



of our Knowledge of the Nebulce, 353 ; Meteoric Theory of 



