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INDEX 



XXV 



Microbe of Indigo, E. Alvarez, 360 



Microbi, Fermenti e, Prof. Giglioli, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 316 

 Micrometric Measures of Jupiter and Saturn, Dr. Doberck, 65 

 Microscopy : Microscopic Structure of Caucasian Rocks, Prof, 

 T. G. Bonney, F. R. S., 70; Journal of the Royal Microsco- 

 pical Society, Retrospective and Prospective, 78 ; Sections of 

 Brugmansia Lcrwii, Deby, 167 ; the History of the Micro- 

 scope, J. Mayall, Jun., 167; My Microscope, 364; Elemen- 

 tary Microscopical Technolo-jy, Frank L. James, 481 

 Middlemiss (C. S.), Remarkable Hailstones, 44 

 Middlesex Natural History and Science Society, 83, 160 

 Miethe and Goedecke, New Discovery in Connection with In- 

 stantaneous Photography, 144 

 liligration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels, Report of 

 B.A, Committee for the Purpose of obtaining Observations 

 on the, 516 

 Migrations of Pre-Glacial Man, 24S ; Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., 



269, 599 

 Mill (Dr. Hugh Robert), Temperature of the Clyde Sea- Area, 



37, 56 

 Miller (Hugh), Comparative Study of the Till or Lower 

 Boulder-Clay in several of the Glaciated Countries of Europe, 



573 

 Millis (C. T.), Metal Plate Work, 340 

 Mills (T. Wesley) : Outlines of Lectures on Physiology, 28 ; 



Medicine in McGill University, 198 

 Milne (Prof. ) : the Protection of Buildings from Earthquakes, 89 ; 



Effect of Earthquakes upon Lower Animals, 350 

 Mineralogy : Artificial Crystallization of Magnetite, Alex. 



Gorgeu, 43 ; Zircon and other Minerals con'ained in Sand, 



Allan B. Dick, 91 ; Mineralogical Society, 143 ; Minerals at 

 \ the American Exhibition, 381 ; Mineralogical Constitution of 



Calcareous Organisms, Vaughan Cornish and Percy F. 



Kendall, 571 ; Mineral Wealth of the United States, Dr. A. 



E. Foote, 619 

 Mines, Relation of Coal-Dust to Explosives in, Arthur Watts, 



221 

 Mining Industry of New Zealand, Report on the, 265 ; 



Hand-book of New Zealand Mines, 265 

 Mining Industries of the United States, Report on the, R. 



Pumpelly, 315 

 Minor Planets : New, 90, 161 ; Herr Palisa, 527 ; Dr. Peters, 



588 ; Dr. Knorre, 616 ; Minor Planet No. 266, 138 ; Minor 



Planet No. 297, 455 ; Orbit of the Minor Planet Eucharis, 



Dr. W. Valentiner, 77 

 Mirage, Dr. Chas. O. Trechmann, 197 

 Miryeks or Stone Men of Corea, Prof, de Lacouperie, 615 

 Mislawsky, Electric Excitement of Liver, 408 

 Mitteilungen of the German African Society, 91 

 Modern Views of Electricity, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R. S., 532, 



559> 582 



VIohn (Prof. H.) Meteorology of the North Ocean, 208 

 Molecular Condition of Phosphorus, Arsenic, and Antimony, 



Prof. V. Meyer, 231 

 Moloney (Alfred), Forestry of West Africa, 387 

 VIonatsbericht der Deutschen Seewarte, 159 

 donkeys opening Oysters, Alfred Carpenter, 53 

 Ponographs of United States Geological Survey, 256 

 Vionsoon Rainfall in Ceylon, G. J. Waring, 214 

 ^lont Blanc, Centenary of First Ascent of, 453 

 klontessus (M. de). Note on the Method of Research for 



Correlation between Two Orders of Facts, 23 

 kloon, Influence of the, upon Vegetation, 586 

 vioon and the Weather, J. W. Oliver on, 618 

 »Ioore (Dr. John William), a Meteor's Flash and Explosion, 



508 



tloorshedabad. Technical Education in the, 614 

 kloraines, Terminal, of the Great Glaciers of England, Prof. H. 



Carvill Lewis, 573 



orainic Lakes in Central England, on some Imftortant Extrar, 



Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, 573 

 [lordovians. Juridical Customs of the, MainofF, 400 

 'ore, A. G., 374 



orera (G.), on the Normal Derivatives of the Potential 



Function of Surfaces, 455 

 lorocco. Southern, Troglodyte Remains in, 542 

 lorphinomania in Animals, 24 

 lorphology of the Muscles, M. Marey, 504 

 lorris (D.), Botanical Federation in the West Indies, 135 

 lorrison Observatory, 455 



Morse (Prof.), What American Zoologists have done for Evolu- 

 tion, 398 



Mossaniedes, on a Collection of Mammals made at. Dr. Jentink, 

 117 



Moths at High Water, Disappearance of, J. T. Carrington, 



137 

 Motion, Newton's Laws of, 366 

 Motion, Proper, of LI 26481, J. Tebbutt, 564 

 Motive Force of the World, 615 

 Mott (F. T.), Dying Fish, 222 

 Mouchez (M.), Paris Observatory, 112; Photographic Chart of 



the Heavens, 287 

 Moughton Fell, near Settle, Yorkshire, on the Discovery of 



Carboniferous Fossils in a Conglomerate at, Robert Law and 



Jas. Horsfall, 571 

 Mount Lebanon, Fossil Fishes of, 132 

 Mount Loa Craters, History of the Changes in the, James D. 



Dana, 551 

 Muir (M. M. Pattison), on the Teaching of Chemistry, 536 

 Muir (Thomas), Recent Works on the Theory of Determinants, 



51 

 Muirhead (Lewis P.), "After-Glows at Helensburgh, 175 

 Miiller (Prof. F. Max), Thought without Words, lOO ; No 



Language without Reason, no Reason without Language, 



249 

 Munk (Prof.), Experiments on Laws of Vibration of Tuning- 



Forks, 383 

 Murphy (Joseph John), Thought without Words, 172 

 Murray-Aynsley (Mrs. J. C), Sun and Fire Symbolism, 364 

 Muscles, Morphology of the, M. Marey, 504 

 Muscular Force in Man, Measurement of the. Prof. G. Zoja, 



45 . ^ 



Mushketoff's (Prof.), Exploration in the Caspian Steppes, 541 

 Music in Nature, Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 343; A. P. 



Coleman, 605 



Nahrwold's Experiments on Atmospheric Electricity, 280 



Names for Electric Units of Self-Induction and Conductivity, 

 Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 174 



Nancy, Shower of Ants at, 349 



Naphthalene Derivatives, Isomeric, Report of the B.A. Com- 

 mittee on, 516 



Narcissus rejlexus, W. Brockbank, 70 



Nasal Obstruction, Three Lectures on the Forms of, in Rela- 

 tion to Throat and Ear Disease, Greville Macdonald, 603 



Nathorst (Prof. A. G.), Discovery of P"ossil Remains of an 

 Arctic Flora in Central Sweden, 211 



National Fish-Culture Association, 89 



Nations, the Health of, Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward 

 Richardson, 385 



Natural History Buildings, Owens College, 414 



Natural History Collections made near Cameroons, H. H. 

 Johnston's, 254 



Natural History Museum, 279; on a, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 

 63; Dr. Henry B. Woodward, F.R.S., on the, 345; Col- 

 lection of Specimens received from Emin Pasha, 539 



Natural History in Schools, the Study of, Rev. S. A. Preston, 

 209 



Natural History Society of Wisconsin, III 



Natural History of the Roman Numerals, J. Lymburn, 555 



Natural History of the Coast of Lancashire, Dr. Thomas 

 Alcock, 526 



Natural Science in Board Schools, Proposed Elementary Evening 

 Classes, 254 



Natural Science Courses, Vacation, in Edinburgh, 230 



Naturalists, Eminent, Thos. Greenwood, 293 



Nature, Art, and Literature, Precious Stones in, S. M. Burn- 

 ham, 482 



Nature, Music in. Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 343 5 A. P. Cole- 

 man, 605 



Nature of Solution, Report of the B.A. Committee on, 516 



Nautical Almanac Stars, Magnitudes of, Prof. Pickering, 401 



Navassa, Island of. Earthquake in the, 587 



Navez (M. ), on the Influence of the Various Geological Forma- 

 tions in Belgium, 617 



Nazarofif, on the Fauna of Kirghiz Steppe, 476 



Nebula in Lyra, Ring, Variable Star in the, Herr Spitaler, 431 



Neesen (Prof.), a Vapour-Calorimeter, 288 



