INDEX 



465 



Manual of Botany, by Asa Gray, 214, 



222 



Manual of Geology, by J. D. Dana, 

 242, 243, 249, 251, 255, 257 note, 

 262, 264, 265, 267 



Marine Laboratories, see Beaufort, 

 No. Carolina; Chesapeake Zoologi- 

 cal Laboratory; Hampton, Va., 

 Nassau, Bahama Islands; Peni- 

 kese Island; Port Henderson, 

 West Indies 

 Marine signals, 19 

 Marsh, Caleb, 283, 284 

 Marsh, Othniel Charles, ancestry 

 and birth, 283; early training, 

 284; enters Phillips Academy, 

 285; interest in mineralogy, 287; 

 discovery of Eosaurus, 288; ex- 

 peditions to Canada, 289; honors, 

 289; student in Europe, 290, 291; 

 abandons miscellaneous work for 

 vertebrate paleontology, 290; pro- 

 fessor at Yale, 291; plans for 

 systematic exploration of the 

 West, 292; evolution of the horse, 

 292, 294; private expeditions, 293; 

 encounter with Sioux Indians, 

 294; appointment to U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, 297; contributions to 

 scientific literature, 299-302; dis- 

 covery of toothed birds, 300; and 

 of pterodactyls, 301; unfinished 

 work, 303; Curator at Yale, 304; 

 interest in archeology and ethnol- 

 ogy, 305; honors, 306-308; per- 

 sonal qualities, 310; adversity, 

 311; death, 312; also 320 

 Martin, Prof. Henry Newell, 438 

 Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp 



Von, 152 ^ 



Maryland Fish Commission, 440 

 Mason, Otis Tufton, 277, 396 

 Maximilian II, King of Bavaria, 21 

 Maxwell, Clerk, 349, 350, 411 

 Mayer, Dr. Alfred Goldsborough, 



163, 453 



Mayor, Dr. Matthias, 150 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, 414, 



4i5 



Meehan, Thomas, 224 

 Meigs, Prof. Josiah, 94 

 Mendenhall, Prof., 411, 421 

 Menhaden, monograph on, by G. B. 



Goode, 399 



Mesozoic time, mountain-making 



in, 256 

 Metamorphosis ofSiredon into Ambly- 



stoma, by O. C. Marsh, 292 

 Meteorological observations at 



Smithsonian Institution, 140 

 Michaux, Andre, 63 

 Michie, Gen., 411 

 Middlesex Canal, 12 

 Military Gardens in Bavaria, 28 

 Miller, Hugh, 245 

 Milne-Edwards, Henri, 114, 156, 



177 



Minot, Charles Sedgwick, 163 

 Mitchell, Dr. Silas Weir, 177, 203 

 Mohs, Friedrich, 243 

 Monograph of the Aye- Aye, by 



Richard Owen, 177, 193 

 Moreau, Jean Victor, Gen., 41 

 Morehouse, George R., 177 

 Morse, Edward Sylvester, 163, 203, 



335, 434 



Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1 25 



Moon, see Astronomy 



Mosasurs, see Sea-serpents 



Motion of the Moon, by Simon New- 

 comb, 388 



Moulton, C. W., 254 



Mountain-making, process of, 254- 



257 

 Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henry Ernst, 



63 



Munich, 9, 18, 21 



Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 155 

 Murray, Dr. John, 100, 260, 261 

 Museum Administration, Principles 



of, by G. B. Goode, 393 

 Museums of the Future, by G. B. 



Goode, 393 



Nassau, Bahama Islands, marine 



laboratory at, 443 

 Natural History of Aquatic Animals, 



by G. B. Goode, 400 

 Natural Science, 334 

 Natural selection, 226 

 Naumann, Karl Friedrich, 245 

 Nautical Almanac, 368, 373, 381 

 "Negro Question," 191 

 Neo-Lamarckian school, 331 

 Neurology, Wyman's work in, 196 

 New Brunswick, expeditions to, 289 

 Newberry, John Strong, 313 

 Newcomb, John Burton, 364 



