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Index 



Nature, 

 June 14, 1900 



Measures (Dr. J. W.), the Zeiss Photo- micrographic and Pro- 

 jection Apparatus, 506 

 Measuring Small Diameters, Interference Method of, M. 



Maurice Hamy, 402 

 Mechanics : Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 14 ; Resistance 

 of Certain Forms of Shafting to Torsion, and effect of Key- 

 ways thereon, L. N. G. Filon, 93 ; a Friction Dynamometer, 

 Prof. W. E. Dalby, 165 ; the Strength of Materials, Prof. 

 J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 197 ; Newton's Laws of Motion, 

 Prof P. G. Tait, 265 ; the Torsional Constants of Iron and 

 Steel, Dr. Peddie, 359; a Simple Proof of Gibbs' Phase 

 Rule, Prof. Kuenen, 359 ; Apparatus for Measuring Ex- 

 tension of Wires, G. F. C. Searle, 459 ; Law of Elastic 

 Fatigue, Dr. W. Peddie, 482 ; Impact, J. H. Vincent, 507 



Medd (John C), Rural Education, 55 



Median Value of a System of Normal Variants from Two of its 

 Centiles. A Geometric Determination of the. Dr. Francis 

 Galton, F.R.S., 102 



Medicine : Justus von Liebig and Medical Science, Prof. 

 Klemperer, 63 ; an Introduction to the Study of Materia 

 Medica, Henry G. Greenish, 174 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Sir Richard Thome Thome, K.C.B., F.R.S., 183 ; 

 the Relation between Science and Medicine, Sir J. Burdon- 

 Sanderson, Bart. , 254 ; Dictionnaire des Termes de Medecine, 

 Fran9ais- Anglais, H. de Meric, 270 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Sir T. G. Stewart, 352 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Dr. William Marcet, F.R.S., Dr. F. W. Tunnicliffe, 497 ; 

 a System of Medicine by many [Writers, Edited by Prof. 

 T. C. Allbutt, F.R.S., Dr. F. W. Tunnicliffe, 584; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Sir William Priestley, 593 



Mediterranean Fauna, Dr. W. Kobelt and the, Prof. Henry 

 H. Giglioli, 227 ; the Reviewer, 227 



Medusae of Millepora, S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., 213 



Mee (Arthur), the Heavens at a Glance, 62 



Melbourne Meeting of the Australasian Association, the, 494 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Rural Education, 55 ; the Letters 

 of Faraday and Sch5nbein 1836-1862, with Notes, Com- 

 ments, and References to Contemporary Letters, 337 ; Les 

 Sucres et leurs principaux Derives, Prof. L. Maquenne, 461 



Melle (M. van), New Theory of Smells, 240 



Melvill (J. C), Mollusca of Kolguev and Franz Josef Land, 



143 



Memoirs of Novorossian Society, 262 



Memoirs of St. Petersburg University Society of Naturalists, 

 285 



Memory Image, Relative Fidelity of, Dr. I. M. Bentley, 60 



Mental Work and Longevity, Prof. R. Manterola, 400 



Menzies (A. W. C. ), Electric Thermostat, 482 



Mercury in New South Wales, 15 



Mercury Jet Interrupters, 421 ; S. M. Kintner, 590 



Mercury as a Naked Eye Object, W. F. Denning, 431 



Mercury, Photometric Observations of, during Solar Eclipses, 

 Dr. G. Miiller, 574 



Mercury and Jupiter as Morning Stars, 137 



Meric (H. de), Dictionnaire des Termes de Medecine, Fran9ais- 

 Anglais, 270 



Meridian of Universal Time, 158 



Merogenic Impregnation, Yves Delage, 24 



Merrimann (Prof. Mansfield), Elements of Precise Surveying 

 and Geodesy, 77 



Meslin (Georges), Equation-solving Machine, 579 



Mesoplodon, the Rostrum of, Dr. Henry O. Forbes, 490 



Metal, Theory and Practice of Art Enamelling upon, Henry 

 Cunyngham, 466 



Metal Work as a Form of Manual Instruction in Schools, Prof. 

 W. Ripper, 356 



Metallurgy : Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, Henry F. Collins, 

 198 ; Handbook of Metallurgy, Dr. Carl Schnabel, W. C. 

 Roberts- Austen, K.C.B., F.R.S., 199; Armour Plates, 

 R. A. Hadfield, 301 ; Improvements in Production of 

 Electrolytic Copper, S. Cowper-Coles, 371 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Prof. S. Jordan, 518 ; Iron-smelting by 

 Electricity, 618 



Meteorology : a Photograph of Clouds, Lieut. -General Ten- 

 nant, 14 ; Weather Averages in British Isles for September 

 quarter, 1866-99, ^5 5 Meteorological Extremes, II., Tem- 

 perature, G. J. Symons, 22 ; Symons's Monthly Magazine, 

 22, 238, 310, 457, 627 ; Cape of Good Hope Meteorological 

 Report, 1898, 39 ; Suggestions for Diagrammetrical Depic- 

 ture of Seasons of Drought and Rainfall, H. Deane, 47 ; 



the Effect of Weather on Every-day Life, Edwin Grant 

 Dexter, 56 ; Barisal Guns and Earthquakes, Prof. A. Issel, 

 60 ; Barisal Guns, Henry S. Schurr, 127 ; March Weather in 

 United States, O. L. Fassig, 93 ; Results of International 

 Work for U.S.A., F. H. Bigelow, 190; Grundlinien der 

 Maritimen Meteorologie, W. Koppen, loi ; the West Indian 

 Hurricane of August 7-14, 1899, Prof. E. B. Garriott, 112 j 

 Hurricane Tracks, 1890-9, 112 ; Diurnal Variation of Baro- 

 meter in British Isles, R. H. Curtis, 119; Meteorological 

 Society, 119, 214, 311, 434, 555 ; the Diurnal Variations of 

 Atmospheric Electricity, A. B. Chauveau, 136; Current 

 Papers, H. C. Russell, F.R.S,, 167 ; Atlas of Meteorology, 

 J. G. Bartholomew and A. J. Herbertson, 171 ; Meteorology 

 at the Berlin Geographical Congress, A. Lawrence Rotch, 

 177 ; the Writer of the Report, 177 ; Scientific Weather Pre- 

 diction for Agricultural Purposes, Dr. van Bebber, 185 r 

 Aerolites, H. L. Ward, 190 ; W. M. Foote, 190 ; the Wind 

 during Eclipses of the Sun, 200 ; A. L. Rotch, 589 ; Remark- 

 able Marine Dust Haze, Dr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 214; 

 Wire Fencing and Lightning, F. J. Brodie, 257 ; Solar Halos, 

 279 ; Compensation in Weather, Alex. B. MacDowall, 295 ; 

 Indian Tidal Forecasts, 303 ; Report of Mauritius Obser- 

 vatory, 303 ; Low Barometric Pressure on December 29, 

 1899, 310; Severe Frost in December 1899, 311 ; Rainfall' 

 and Temperature of 1899, 353 ; Die Orkane des Fernenr 

 Ostens, Dr. Paul Bergholz, 317 ; the Lukchun (Central Asia) 

 Depression, General Tillo, 328 ; Report of Meteorological 

 Council, 328 ; Drunkenness and the Weather, Prof. Edwin 

 Dexter; 365 ; Kite Observations of 1898, H. C. Franken- 

 fields, 371 ; the Air Movement at Simla and in the 

 Western Himalayas, 380; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Prof. H. A. Hazen, 398 ; Recent Floods in Eng- 

 land, 398 ; Diurnal Rain-range, 1871-1890, Dr. R. H, 

 Scott, 399 ; Mean Temperature of Sea-surface Round 

 British Coasts, and its Relation to Air-temperature, 

 399 ; Present State of Polar Ice, 422 ; Phenological 

 Observations for 1899, E. Mawley, 434 ; Percolation 

 Experiments at Rothamsted, Dr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 435; 

 Barometric Oscillations of February 13-19, 1899, Joseph 

 Jaubert, 436 ; the Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work 

 especially as Conducted by National and State Weather 

 Services, Cleveland Abbe, 448 ; Hail-prevention by Gun- 

 firing, Dr. J. M. Pernter, 451 ; Remarkable Hailstorm in 

 Cape Colony, O. D. Deacon, 594 ; Climatological Record for 

 British Empire for 1898, 457 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of George James Symons, F.R.S., 475 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Dr. E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 498 ; Fog on Great Lakes, 

 U.S.A., 500; Quartz Thermometers, M. Dufour, 521, 531 ; 

 Dynamics of Cyclones, John Aitken, F.R.S., 531 ; Practical 

 Exercises in Elementary Meteorology, Robert De Courcy 

 Ward, 560 ; Jubilee of the Royal Meteorological Society, 565 ; 

 Recent International Balloon Ascents, Dr. H. Hergesell, 572 ; 

 Recent Exploration in Upper Air and its Bearing on Theory of 

 Cyclones, 611; Remarkable Secondary Tidal Undulations, 

 W. B. Dawson, 619 ; the High April Temperatures, 620 ; a 

 Curious Fact about London Summers, A. B. MacDowall, 627 

 Meteorite off Greek Coast, Capt. G. Neville, 1 1 1 

 Meteorite, Illinois Gulch, H. L. Preston, 529 

 Meteorites, Two New American, H. L. Preston, 626 

 Meteors : the Leonid Meteors, 41, 374 ; Dr.G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 F.R.S., 28, 32 ; Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 28; W. 

 F. Denning, 81 ; Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 132 ; Thos. W. 

 Kingsmill, 491 ; Contemporary Meteor-showers of the Leonid 

 and Bielid Meteor-periods, Prof. A. S. Herschell, F.R.S., 

 222, 271 ; Supposed Daylight Leonids, W. F. Denning, 152 ; 

 a Daylight Meteor, H. H. P. Bouverie, 279 ; Rev. R. 

 Hudson, 280 ; a Brilliant Meteor in Sunshine, 306 ; the 

 Andromedes, 61 ; Meteors of Biela's Comet, E. C. Willis, 

 78 ; W. F. Denning, 78 ; a Brilliant Meteor, Samuel Barber, 

 326; Meteor Photography, 424; a Brilliant Fireball, Mr. 

 Crommelin, 548 

 Meunier (Louis), Rapid Method for Determining Carbonic Acid 



in Gaseous Mixtures, 435 

 Mexico, Catalogue of a Collection of Objects Illustrating the 



Folklore of. Prof. Frederick Starr, 488 

 Meyer (A. B.), the Birds of Celebes, 605 

 Meyer (Prof. E. von), the Colloid Metals, 64 

 Meyer (Dr. IL), Determinations of Radicle in Carbon Com- 

 pounds, 538 

 Meyer (Dr. Oskar Emil), the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 289 



