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INDEX 



[Naiitre, D,c. i, li 



Marey (M.) : an Endless Tape Odograpb, 167 ; Attitudes of 

 Pigeons on the Wing, 192 ; Comparative Locomotion, 312 ; on 

 Photochronography applied to Dynamic Problem of Flight of 

 Birds, 480; Morphology of the Muscles, 504 



Marine Biological Association, 183, 207 



Marine Biology Station, Liverpool, on Puffin Island, Prof. W. 

 A. Herdman, 275 



Marine Shells, Pliocene Deposit of, near Lattakia, and a Similar 

 Deposit in the Island of Zante, Dr. Geo. E. Post, 245 



Marjalen See, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 612 



Marmots, Modification of the Surface of the Caspian Steppes, 

 by Prof. Mushk-itoff on, 541 



Marr (J. E.), some Effects of Pressure on the Sedimentary 

 Rocks of North Devon, 591 



Marriott (W.), Thermometrical Observations on Boston Church 

 Tower, 118 



Marshall (Prof. D. H.), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 102 



Martin (Dr. Sidney), the Proteids of the Seeds of Abrus pre- 

 catorius (Jequirity), 70 



Martins (Dr.), Researches on Movements of the Heart, 383 



Marylebone, Free Public Library in, 136 



Masamarhu Island, Capt. W.J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 413 



Mascart (M.). Obituary Notice of, Alfred Terquem, 336 ; Action 

 of Crystalline Plates on Light, 576; M. D. Colladon's Arti- 

 ficial Waterspout, 576 



Mass, Force, and Weight, 53 ; Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 4 ; 

 J. Lancaster, 102 ; Prof. D. H. Marshall, 102 ; Prof. A. G. 

 Greenhill, 196, 269; R. B. Hayward, F.R.S., 221; Rev. 

 John B. Lock, 174, 317; Prof. Alex. Macfarlane, 174 



Masson (Dr. Orme), Chemical Science in Melbourne University, 

 184 



Massowah, Map of District round, Prof. Guido Cora, 91 



Matabeleland and the Country between the Zambesi and the 

 Limpopo, Capt. C. E. Haynes, 595 



Material Progress, the Rate of, in England, Robert Giffen, 487 



Mathematics: Mathematical Society, 117, 191; M. d'Ocagne 

 on Numbers Symbolized by K^p, 262 ; Proposed Intro- 

 duction into Chinese Government Examinations of, 325. {See 

 also British Association, Section A, Mathematical and Physi- 

 cal Science.) 



Mathew (Murray A.), Capture of a Hare by a Hedgehog, 137 



Mathias (E.) and L. Cailletet, Density of Sulphurous Acid in 

 Liquid and Vapour State, 187 



Matrix of the Diamond, Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, 571 



Mauritius, Meteorological Society of, Final Report of the B. A. 

 Committee, 498 



Mauritius Observatory, 64 



Maver (A.), a New Mode of Geometrical Demonstration, with 

 Examples showing its Application to Lines and Angles, 

 Surfaces, and the Product of three or more Straight Lines, 

 602 



Maxwell (Sir Herbert Eustace), Studies in the Topography of 

 Galloway, Jos. Lucas, 337 



Mayall (J., Jun.), the History of the Microscope, 167 



May-bugs in Denmark, Ravages by, 63 



Measurements, Magnetic, Theory of, F. E. Nipher, 316 



Medicine, Lady Graduates in, no 



Medicine in McGill University, Prof. T. Wesley Mills, 198 



Medico -Botanical Glossary from the Bodleian Manuscript Selden 

 B 35, edited by J. L. G. Mowat, 529 



Medulla Oblongata", the Respiratory Centre in. Dr. Lcewy, 168 



Megnin (M.), Peculiar Disease among Hares in Alsace, 541 



Melbourne Observatory, 324 ; Annual Report of, 43 



Melting and Boiling-Point Tables, Thos. Carnelley, 411 



Mendeleef (Prof ), Alcohol and Water Combinations, 570 



Menschutkin (Prof,), Velocity of Formation of Acetic Ether, 

 569 



Mental Decay, Premature, Overwork and, H. F. Routh, 507 



Mental Development in Children, 483 



Mercadier (E.), a Simple Dynamic Method of Determining 

 Degree of Isotropy, 287 



Meridian Observations, Madras, 138 



Merrifield (Mrs. Mary P.), Classification of Algse, J. G. Agardh 

 313 ' 



Metal Plate Work, C. T. Millis, 340 



Metal, the Early Ages of, in South-East Spain, Henri and Louis 

 Siret, 599 



Metals, the Hall Effect manifested in Different, Von Ettingshausen 

 and Nemst, 185 



Meteorite (Grazac), Daubree and Meunier, 215 



Meteorite of March 19, 1884, at Jati-Pengilon, Java, Daubree, 



336 . . . _ . 



Meteorology : Contributions to, Elias Loomis, i ; 1 eisserenc de 

 Bort's Cloud-Charts, 15 ; Remarkable Display of Shooting 

 Stars at Patagones, 15 ; Analogy between Whirlwinds and 

 Waterspouts, and Cyclones or Tornadoes, Faye on CoUadon, 

 23 ; Meteorological Observations during Eclipses of the Sun, 

 Prof. Upton, 24 ; Statistics of Snowfall in Central Germany, 

 42 ; Observations on the Luminous Solar Rays, Giovanni 

 Cantoni, 45 ; a Method of recording the Calorific Intensity of 

 the Solar Rays, A. Crova, 72 ; Observations taken on Board 

 the Habicht at the Cameroons, 88 ; New Series of Daily 

 Synoptic Weather-Charts of North Atlantic, 88 ; Remarkable 

 Auroras Boreales at Trondhjem and New York, 89 ; the United 

 States Monthly Weather Review, no ; Meteorology in United 

 States, 324, 375 ; the Storm and Low Barometer of December 

 8 and 9, 1886, C. Harding, 118 ; Contrast between the Popular 

 Names and Real Nature of Meteorological Phenomena, Dr. 

 Schultz, 119; in Chili, 136; Annual Visitation of the Royal 

 Observatory, 139; Meteorology of India, 164; Atlantic 

 Weather Charts, 178; Meteorology in France, 183; in 

 Queensland, 184 ; Observations Internationales Polaires, 

 1882-83, 194 ; German Meteorological Office, J. S. Harding, 

 205 ; Meteorology of the North Ocean, Prof. H. Mohn, 208 ; 

 Ben Nevis Observatory, 254 ; Report of the B.A. Committee 

 on Ben Nevis Meteorological Observations, 498 ; Smithsonian 

 Institution Papers on Meteorology, 255 ; Tornado Photo- 

 graphs, 255 ; Meteorology in United States, 255 ; Remarkable 

 Weather in Scandinavia, 256 ; Meteorology in the Argentine 

 Republic, 283 ; Quarterly Weather Report of the Meteoro- 

 logical Office, 306 ; Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 306; Meteoro- 

 logiske Institut at Upsala, and Cloud Measurements, Hon. 

 Ralph Abercromby, 319 ; Meteorology in Baden, 324 ; in 

 Russia, 324, 399 ; in Victoria, 324 ; Meteorology of the 

 Australian Alps, Dr. von Lendenfeld, 348 ; Hourly Readings 

 of Self-recording Instruments at Observatories in Connection 

 with the Meteorological Office, 348 ; Meteorology in Denmark, 

 375 ; Meteorologisk Aarbog of the Danish Meteorological In- 

 stitute, 375 ; Popular Errors in Meteorology, Prof Cleveland 

 Abbe, 375 ; Thunderstorm in London, Chas. Harding, 

 397 ; Norway's Part in Meteorological Organization, 399 ; 

 Meteorology in the Punjab, 399 ; Fourth Report of the B.A. 

 Committee on Project of establishing a Meteorological Obser- 

 vatory at Chepstow, 498 ; Final Report of the B. A. Com- 

 mittee on the Meteorological Society of the Mauritius, 498 ; 

 Meteorological Notes, 565, 617; Results of Meteorological 

 and Magnetical Observations made at Stonyhurst College, 

 565 ; Report of the Meteorological Commission of Cape 

 Colony, 565 ; Typhoons of the China Seas, Capt. D. Ruete, 

 565 ; International Meteorological Committee, Meeting of, at 

 Pai-is, 566 ; Meteorological Observations made in New South 

 Wales, 566 ; Regulations for the Establishment of Meteoro- 

 logical Observatories in Japan, 586 ; Meetings of the Geo- 

 dynamical Committee of the Italian Meteorological Society at 

 Aquila, 614 ; Storm Signals, 617 ; Law of Storms, 617 ; Pilot 

 Charts, 617 ; Rainfall in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, Dr. 

 W. Koppen, 617 ; Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen 

 Meteorologie, 617; Symons's Monthly Meteorological Maga- 

 zine, 617 ; Deficiency of Rainfall this Year, 617 ; Moon and 

 the Weather, J. W. Oliver, 618 



Meteors, 63 ; Capt. H. King, 198 ; Arthur Nicols, Maures 

 Horner, Isabel Fry, 30 ; Dr. F. Porro, 154 ; R. Brough 

 Smyth, 93 ; W. F. Denning, 68, 407, 437 ; Dr. John William 

 Moore, 508 



Meters, Differential Gravity, Report of the B.A. Committee 

 on, 499 



Methylene Blue and Methylene Red, Prof Bernthsen, 569 



Metre, a Plea for the, E. G. Ravenstein, 597 



Meudon Observatory, Note on Work carried out at, J. Janssen, 

 408 



Meunier and Daubree, the Grazac Meteorite, 215 



Mexico, Earthquakes in, no, 159, 431; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 



151 



Meyer (Prof. V.), Molecular Condition of Phosphorus, Arsenic, 



and Antimony, 231 

 Meyer (M.), Reported Ascent of Kilimanjaro by, 563 

 Meyrick, Insect Fauna of Australia, 215 

 Micro-Organisms, Dr. Crookshank, 239 

 Micro-Organisms in Air, a New Method for determining. Prof. 



Carnelley and Thos. Wilson, 570 



