Leipsic : Dr. Klemm's Ethnological Collection, 210 



Leifchild (John R.), "The Higher Ministry of Nature," 499 



Lepidodendron Stems in Coal Plants, 25, 45 



Lepidoptera, Parthenogenesis in, 149 



Lepidoptera, Catalogue of, by W. F. Kirby, 281 



Ley (W. Clement), " Laws of the Winds of Western Europe, " 



200 ; Development of Barometrical Depression, 340, 382 

 Liebreich (Dr. R.), Lecture on the Vision of Turner and Mul- 



ready, 404, 449, 500 

 "Life Science, Tlioughts on," by E. Thring, M.A., i6o 

 Lindsay (Dr. W. Lauder, F.R.S.E.), New Zealand Forest 



Trees, 123 

 Linnean Society, 39, 94, 134, 173, 174, 254, 295, 335, 395, 



494. S'4 

 Linnean Relics, Photographs of, 8g 

 Liverpool Geological Society, 175 

 Livingstone (Dr.), Government Grant to his Children, 48; 



Mr. .Stanley's American E.spedition, 75, 115; Search Ex- 

 pedition by Geographical .Society, 131, 250, 274, 310, 335, 



347, 509 ; Meeting at the Mansion House, 271 

 Lockyer (j. Norman, F.R. S.), Lecture on board the Miruifoi-e, 



30; his Observations of the Eclipse, 217, 259; Lectures on 



Solar Phy.sics, 369 

 Locusts in South Australia, 411, 475 

 Loewy (Benjamin, F.R. A.. S.), Periodicity of Sun-Spots, 192; 



Planetary Influence on Solar Activity, 423 ; Solar Physics, 



493 

 Logan Chair of Geology, Montreal University, 44S 

 " Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions, Tables of," by J. 



M. Peirce, 200 

 London University, 13, 30, 88, 138, 202, 232 

 Lonsdale (Earl of). Father of the Royal Society, Obituary 



Notice of, 390 

 Low Barometrical Pressure, Cause of, 102 

 Low Conductivity of Copper Wire, 462 

 Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), on a Paraselene (Willi Diagram), 24 

 Lowne (B. T., M.B.), Origin of Insects, loi, 142^ 1S3 

 Lubbock (Sir John, Bart., K.R.S.), Site of Druidical Temple at 



Avebury, purchased by, 347 ; on Fergusson's "Rude Stone 



Monuments," 386 

 I^uminous Matter in the Atmosphere, 304 

 Lunar Calendars, 123, 204 

 Lyell's " Principles of Geology," 466 

 Lying-in Institutions, Miss Nightingale on, 22 



MacCormac (H., M.D.) on Consumption, 459 



Maclear (Com. J. B., R.N. ), Progress of the Eclipse Expedi- 

 tion, 163; his Otiservations of the Eclipse, 219; Aurora 

 Borealis, February 4, 1872, 2S3 ; Spectrum of the Atmo- 

 sphere, 341 



Mcintosh (Dr. W. C, F.Z.S.), Adaptive Coloration, Phos- 

 phorescence, &c., 443 



McClure (R.), Aurora Borealis of November 9 and 10, 1871, 43 



Mad Elephant in India, 90, 412 



"Magnetism, Treatise on," by G. B. Airy, F.R. S., Astronomer 

 Royal, 120 



" Magnetism," by Sir W. Snow Harris and H. M. Noad, 363 



Magnetism ; Deviation of the Compass in Iron Ships, 479 



Magnetic Disturbances during the Solar Eclipse, 269, 285 



Magnetic Disturbances before the Aurora of February 4, 1872, 

 356 



Magnetic Force of the Ea^th at Bombay, 274 



Magnetic Observations at Havana, 347 



Magnetic Storms, 243 



Mahaffy (Rev. J. P.) on Descartes' "Animated Machines," 62 



Main (Rev. Robert, M.A., I'.R.S.), Admiralty Manual of 

 Scientific Inquiry, 260 



"Malta, NaUual History of," by A. L. Adams, M. B., 280 



" Mammals of Florida," by J. A. Allen, 58 



Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 445, 484 



Man, the Science of, Ouetelet on, 358 



Manchester : Grammar School, 88 ; Popular Science Lectures, 

 70, 151 ; Literary and Philosophical Society, 134, 155, 170, 

 '74> 356, 374, 510, 514 ; Proposed Aquarium, 4S7 



Marme Zoology, 184 



Markham (C. R., F.R.G.S.), Arctic Exploration, 77 



Marocco and the Gre.at Atlas, Geology of, 254 



Marsh (Prof. O. C), his Geological Explorations, 152,414; 

 Discovery of a Fossil Bird, 348 



Martens, Scarcity of, 240 



Masters (Dr. M. T., F.R.S.), Classification of Fruits, 6 

 Mathematics: Earnshaw's Differential Equations, 199; Pro- 

 fessorship at Cooper's Hill College, 331 ; Peirce's " Tables of 

 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions," 200 

 Mathematical Society, 75, 174, iSi, 255, 315, 455, 514 

 Maw (Geo.), Geology of Marocco and tlie Great Atlas, 254 

 Maxwell (J. Clsrli, LL.D., F.R.S.), "Theory of Heat," 319 ; 



Electric Currents, 354 

 Mayer (Dr. Julius Robert), Copley Medallist of 1871, his 



Scientific Labours, 117, 137, 161, iSi 

 Mechanics, New Works on, 41, 63, 102 

 Mechanics, Prof. W. G. Adams on Study and Teaching, 389 

 Meehan (Tho;.), Monocotyledon the Universal Type of Seeds, 



153 



Meeze (A. J.), Colour of a Hydrogen Flame, 444, 4S1 



Megalosaurus from the Oxford Clay (With Illustrations), 145 



Melbourne : University, 348 ; Industrial and Te:hnological 

 Museum, 469 



Meldrum (C, F.R.A.S.), Aurora of February 4. 1872, 392 



MeUa(Piits, D.D.), " Hints and Facts on the Origin of Man," 

 320 



Meiiteath (P. W. Stuart), Prof. Tait on Geological Time, 161 



Mercury Photographs, 230 



MerrifieU (C. W., F.R.S.), Arithmetic and Mensuration, 299 



Merton College, 310 



Meryon (L'eut. J. E, R.N) on "An Odd Fish," 462; 

 CJu'irona'tes pictits, 501 



Metaphysics, True and Spurious, 62, 81 



Meteograph, Prin'ing, Dr. Theorell's, 327 



JMeteoric Collection at Massachusetts, Catalogue of, 292 



Meteoric Iron in Greenland, 74 



Meteorite in the Pyrenees, 272 ; in Greenland, 214 



Meteors: in Madras, 171; at Hay, 400; Kew Observatory, 

 481 ; New Haven, Conn., III ; Ireland, 382; Cumberl.and, 

 501 



Meteorological Committee, Daily Weather Charts, 391 



Meteorological Observations at Chiswick Gardens, 391 



Meteorological Observations at Havana, 347 



Meteorological Office, Quarterly Weather Report, 441 



Meteorological Phenomena, 203 



Meteorological Society, 124 



Meteorology, from December 1S71 to March 1S72, 44S, 469 



Meteorology in the Arctic Ocean, 25 1 



Meteorology: Rock Thermometers at the Edinburgh Observa- 

 tory, 317 



Meteorology of Scotland (1856-1871), 479 ; Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 332 



Meteorology and Colliery Explosions, 504 



Meteorology (sec Barometric Depressions and Observations) 



Meyer (Dr. A. B. ), Earthquakes in Celebes, 225 ; in the Philip- 

 pine Islands, 422 



Microscopical Journal, 212, 273 



Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 114, 234 



Microscopical .Society, 39, 311 



Microscopy, Monthly Journal of, 153 



Microscopy in America, 131 



Microscopy, Notes on, 244 



Microscopy : " The Lens " (Chicago), 492 



Middlesex Hospital, Lectureship on Botany at, 347 



Miers (John, P'. R S., F.L.S.), " Contributions to Botany," 42 



Migration of Graptolites, 373 



Military Engineering, School of, 465 



Milk, Artificial, 45, 129 



Millard (Mr.), his Bequest to Trinity College, Oxford, 332 



Mimicry and Homoplasy, A. W. Bennett, F.L.S., on, 12, 4S0 



Mines, Foitl Air in, by Prof. Tyndall and J. E. Gibbs, 365 



Mining, West of the Rocky Mountains, Report on, 112 



Moa, Recent Examples in New Zealand, 2i6 



Moab, Dr. Ginsburg's Expedition to, 410 



Mock Sun, 243 



MoUusca, Adaptive Coloration of, 408 



Monads, Origin of, 454 



Mongoose and Cobra, Fight between, 204, 305 



Monck (W. H. S.) Fixed Barometric Variations, 407, 461 



Monocotyledon, the Universal Type of Seeds, 153 



Mont Cenis Tunnel, 13 



Montreal University, 448 



Moon, The, E, J. Lowe, F. R.S., on a P.araselene, 24 



Moon, The, Photographs by Mr. Rutherford, 31 



Moore (J. Carrick), Error in Humboldt's Cosmos, 479 



