'ippUinenl to .\'ulii 

 June T, 1893 



Index 



XXV 11 



Meteorite, 408 ; on the Presence of Graphite Carbonada and 

 Microscopic Diamonds in the Blue Earth of the Cape, 408 ; 

 Ready Preparation of Large Quantities of the More Refractory 

 Metals by Means of the Electric Furnace, 424 ; the Chemical 

 Properties of the Diamond, 472 ; Analysis of the Ashes of 

 the Diamond, 479 ; the Use of the Electric Current in Pro- 

 ducing High Temperatures, 497 ; on the Preparation of a 

 Variety of Swelling Graphite, 527 



Molecular Force, Mr. Sutherland's Paper on the Laws of, Prof. 

 1 it/gerald. Dr. Gladstone, S. H. Burbury, Prof. Ramsay, 

 Macfarlane Gray, Prof. Herschel, 117 



Mollusca, the Mantle-Cells of Ascidians, Kowalevsky, 62 ; 

 on the Reproduction of Orbitolites, H. B. Brady, 119 ; Cata- 

 logue of the New Zealand Mollusca, H. Suter, 397 



Mollusks, Hints for Collectors of, William H. Dall, 140 



Munckton (Horace VV.), on the Occurrence of Boulders and 

 Pebbles from the Glacial Drift in Gravels south of the Thames, 



501 

 Mondes, Autres, Amedee Guillemin, 485 

 Mongolia and Central Tibet, C. Woodville Rockhill, 426 

 Monsters, Extinct, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 250 

 Mont Blanc Observatory, 204 

 Montagu (S., M.P.), the Decimal System, 323 

 Monteil's (Capt.) Mission, Completion of, 89 

 Month and Year, a Simple Rule for finding the Day of the 



Week corresponding to any given day of the, 509 

 Monuments of Prehistoric People?, Manners and. Marquis de 



Xadaillac, 316 

 Moody (G. T.), Studies on Isomeric Change, ii. and iii. , 



Moon, Occultation of Mars and Jupiter by the, Prof. Barnard, 

 41 ; Lunar "Volcanoes" and Lava Lakes, S. E. Peal, 486 



"Moore (T. J), Death of, late Curator of Liverpool Derby 

 Museum, 37 



Morbology : the Alleged Increase of Nervous Diseases with 

 Growth of Civilisation, Dr. Brinton, 280, 374 ; on the Patho- 

 geny of Diabetes, MM. i\. Chaveau and Kaufmann, 384 ; 

 Typhoid Fever attributed to bathing in jjolluted water, Herr 

 Jaeger, 398 ; the Clasmatocytes, the Fixed Cellules of the 

 Connective Tissue and the Pus Globules, M. L. Ranvier, 

 408 ; on the Urea contained in the Blood in cases of Ec- 

 lampsia, M. L. Butte, 456 ; Experimental Medicine, 593 ; 

 Prof. Behring's Experiments with Preventive Serum, 600 



More About Wild Nature, Mrs. Brightwen, 125 



Mormyrus and Malapterurus, on the Origin of the Electric 

 Nerves in the Torpedo, Gymnotus, Gustav Fritscb, 271 



Morocco, Lieut.-Col. Sir R. Lambert Playfair and Dr. Robert 

 Brown, 298 



Morocco, the Mixed Character of the Population of, A. Le 

 Chatelier, 61 



Morphology : The Sense Organs of the Skin, Feathers, and 

 H^irs in Mammalia, Herr Maurer, 87 ; Contribution a 

 I'Etude de la Morphologic et du Developpement des Bac- 

 . teriacees, Dr. A. Billet, Dr. Rubert Boyce, 532 



Morris (Rev. F. O.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 372 



Morrison (Mr.), Experiments on the Value of the Steam jacket, 

 20 



Moscow, International Zoological Congress at, 236 



Moth, the Death" s Head, and Bees, J. R. S, Clifford, 234 



Moths of India, 387 



Motion in the Line of Sight, M. H. Deslandres, 88 



Motion of Nova .Vurigse, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 256 



Motion of 3 Persei, 115 



Motion of the Solar System, Prof. J. G. Porter, 41 



Motion of a Solid Body in a Vi.>cous Liquid, A. B. Basset, 

 F.R.S.,512 



Motions, Proper, M. Deslandres, 115 



Motive Power, Waves as a, H. Linden, 438 



Mottelay (P. Fleury), William Gilbert, of Colchester, Physician, 

 of London, on the Loadstone an I Magnetic Bodies, and on 

 the Great Magnet, the Earth. A New Physiology, Demon- 

 strated with Many Arguments and Experiments, 556 



Mouillefort (M.), the Vineyards of Cyprus, 517 



Mound, Kansas, the Great Spirit Spring, E. H. S. Bailey, 87 



Mound-Excavations in the Ohio Valley, the Recent, M. de 

 Nadaillac, 16 



Mountain Ranges, Experiments on Folding and on the Genesis 

 of. Prof. E. Reyer, 81 



Mountain Group in Podolia, a Curious, 617 



Mudfishes, the Brain in, Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, 339 



Muir (Prof. James), Manual of Dairy Work, 555 



Mulcaster (Richard), Foster Watson, 279 



Miiller (Dr. F^lix), Tabular History of Astronomy to the year 



1500 A.D., 18 

 Miiller (P. A.), the Evaporation fioni a Snow Surface, 301 

 Mummies, Egyptian, Prof. Macalister, 623 

 Mundella(Mr.), the Board of Trade and the Electrical Engineers, 



85 

 Munk (Dr. J.), Experiments on the Nutrition of Fasting Men, 



552 

 Munro (Dr.), Yew Poisoning, 285 

 Murphy (Joseph John), an Optical Phenomenon, 365 

 Murray (Helen J.), a Wild Rabbit Tamed, 86 

 Murray ( P. S.), Synthesis of Oxazoles from Benzoin and Nitiiles, 



430 

 Muscle, the Cross Striping of. Prof, Richard Ewald, and Prof. 



Haycraft, 92 

 Museum of Sanitary Appliances, Hornsey Local Board, 587 

 Music, Sound and. Rev. J. A. Zahm, 222 

 Musical Instruments, Women and, Henry Balfour, 55 

 Musk Ox, 559 ; Suggested introduction into Scotland of the. Col. 



H.W. Fielden, 349 

 Mycology, British Fungus-Flora, George Massee, 26 ; a new 



Luminous Fungus from Tahiti, 157 

 Myers (W. S.), Production of Orcinol, &c., from Dehydracetic 



acid, 237 



Nadaillac (M. de), the Recent Mound- Excavations in the Ohio 

 Valley, 16 



Nadaillac (Marquis de). Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric 

 Peoples, 316 



Nagel (Herr), Food- recognising Sense of Sea-Anemones, 185 



Naked- Eye Botany, F. E. Kitchener, 198 



Names, Geographical, Colonel H. H. Godwin- Austen, F.R. S., 

 245 



Nansen's (Dr.), Arctic Expedition, 65 



Napoleonic Wars, Statistics of Survivors of the, M. Turquan, 

 233 



Natal Observatory, 498 



Nathan on the Improvement of Cider by Wine- Yeast, 208 



Native Birds of New Zealand, the Preservation of the, 394 



Natural History : Edgar B. Waite appointed Assistant 

 Curator in Australian .Museum, Sydney, ill; American 

 Society of Naturalists, 205 ; the Naturalist on the River 

 Amazons, Henry Walter Bates, F. R.S., 269; Lion-Tiger 

 and Tiger- Lion Hybrids, Dr. V. Ball, F.R.S., 390; Lion- 

 Tiger Hvbrids, S. F. Harmer, 413 ; Idle Days in Patagonia, 

 W. H. 'Hudson, Dr. Alf. Russel Wallace, 483 ; Applied 

 Natural History, W. L. Calderwood, 492 ; the Musk-Ox, 

 559 ; Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Annual 

 Address of, II. B. Woodward, 562 ; Wild Spain, Abel Chap- 

 man and Walter J. Buck, 583 ; Natural History of Plants, 

 Anton Kerner Von Marilaun, 605 ; Blind Animals in Caves, 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 389, 486; J. T. Cunning- 

 ham, 439, 537 ; A. Anderson, 439 ; G. A. Boulenger, 608 ; 

 Bequest to Illinois Wesleyan University of Mr. Lichten- 

 thaler's Collection, 613 



Nature, the Beauties of, and the Wonders of the World we 

 Live in, Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., 28 



Nature, a Description of the Laws and Wonders of, Richard A. 



Gregory, 74 

 Nature, Evolution and Man's Place in, Henry Calderwood, 385 

 Naue (J.), Discovery near Schaffhausen of Prehistoric Drawings 



on Limestone, 279 

 Nautical Almanac for 1896, the, 326 



Naval Architecture : the Strength of Bulkheads, Dr. Elgar, 

 529; Experiments on the Transmission of Heat ihrough 

 Tube-plates, A. J. Durston, 521 ; Notes on Boiler-iestir.g, 

 J. T. Milton, 521 ; an Apparatus for Measuring and 

 Registering Vibrations of Steamers, E. Otto Schlick, 521 ; 

 Experiments with Engines of ss. Iveagh, John Inglis, 521 

 Naval Architects, Institution of, 519 ; Annual General Meeting, 



494 



Navigation ; the Measurement of Wake Currents, G. A. Cal- 

 vert, 519 



Navigation, Graphical Solutions of Problems in, 547 



Nayudu (P. Lakshmi Narasu), Notes on Qualitative Chemical 

 Analysis, 100 



Neave (Newman), a Fork-tailed Petrel, 31 



