GENERAL INDEX. 



Metals, vi. 147 

 Meteoric cycle, i. 77 



masses, i. 133 ; ii. 78 



Meteorology, xi. 5 



Meteors, i. 142 



Meton and Metonic cycle, v. 157 



Mexico, iv. 162 



Micrometers, ix. 53 



Micrometer screw, vi. 53 



Micrometric apparatus, iv. 190; ix. 51 



Micropolariscope, ix. 65 



Microscope, vi. 62 ; ix. 2 



Microscopic objects, vi. 52 ; ix. 63 



Middle ages, iii. 21 



Midsummer, vii. 38 



Migration, viii. 126 



Mileage, i. 164 ; vi. 136 



Milk, vi. 106 



teeth, viii. 73 



Milky Way, viii. 12 

 Mineral springs, ii. 102 



veins, xi. 84 



Mines, v. 192 



Mirrors, vii. 123 



Missing stars, vii. 203 



Mississippi, ii. 30 ; ix. 162 



Mithridates, ii. 82 



Mollusca, xii. 113 



Mongol, viii. 85 



Monkeys, viii. 128 



Monochord, the, xii. 191 



Monte Nuovo, xi. 96 



Month, the, v. 143 ; ix. 173 



Moon, the, i. 29 ; iii. 34 ; v. 144 j 



vii. 9 ; ib. 11 



stars, i. 60 



Moore, T., ix. 197, ib. 198, ib. 201 



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Moore's Almanack, vii. 4 

 Moors, the, ii. 133 

 Morbihan, xii. 13 

 Morning stars, vii. 44 

 Morpho Menelaus, vi. 55 

 Morse's telegraph, iv. 41 

 Mosaic deluge, ii. 91 



history, xii. 157 



Motion, v. 73 



Mountains, ii. 9 ; iii. 52 ; iv. 170 ; 



vi. 195 ; ix. 185 ; xi. 74; xii. 6. 

 Mountebanks, i. 96 

 Mud volcanoes, iv. 169 

 Multiplier, magnetic, iii. 194 

 Mungo Park, x. 110 

 Murchison, Sir R., xi. 70 ; xii. 40 



Murphy's Almanack, i. 69 

 Muscles, the, viii. 79 

 Music, iii. 200 ; iv. 71 

 Musical strings, xii. 192 

 Mygale, the, viii. 123 



NANKIN pagoda, ii. 148 

 Naples, ii. 120 



Narni, meteoric stone at, i. 134 

 Nautical Almanack, i. Ill 

 Neap tides, vii. 135 

 Near-sightedness, v. 56 

 Nebulae, vi. 56-58 ; viii. 24 

 Needle, electric, iii. 194 



instruments, iv. 10 



Neptune, vi. 171 

 Nervous system, viii. 50 

 Netherlands, the, iv. 143 

 Newall & Company, iii. 152 

 Newspapers, iv. 90 ; xi. 29 

 News-rooms, iv. 85 

 Newton, vii. 66 ; xi. 1 74 

 Nicene Council, vii. 9 

 Night-travelling, i. 192 

 Nobert's test-plates, vi. 67 

 Nones, v. 152 



North of England system, xii. 15 

 American peninsula, ix. 154 



Northern hemisphere, ix. 167 

 Northumberland coal, ii. 200 ; xi. 125 

 Norway and Sweden, ix. 140 

 Numa, v. 150 

 Number, i. 88 

 Nymph of bee, x. 54 

 of white ant, ix. 100 



OBSERVATORIES, iv. 98 

 Oceans and seas, xi. 34 

 Ocular spectra, v. 77 

 Odd numbers, v. 151 

 Odours, i. 88 

 OZningen, xii. 137 

 Ohio, the, ix. 160 

 Olber, M., i. 127 ; vi. 164 

 Old style, v. 173 

 Olefiant gas, ii. 199 

 Opacity, vii. 58 

 Ophthalmometer, v. 202 

 Optic nerve, v. 53 

 Optical images, vii. 81 

 Orbits, cometary, xi. 146 

 Organic remains, xi. 45 ; xii. 27 



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