Nature, Da. 29, 1881] 



Magnesium, the Spectrum of, Professors Liveing and Dewar, 



118 

 Magnetic Survey of Missouri, Prof. F. E. Nipher, So 

 Magnetic Action, Prof. Rowland's New Theory of, J. J. 



Thompson, 204 

 Magnetic and Auroral Observations in High Latitudes, H. R. 



Procter, 241 

 Magnetism, Molecular, Prof. D. E. Hughes, F.R.S., 180 

 Magnetism and Electricity, Hydrodynamic Analogies to, Prof. 



George Forbes, 360 

 Mailland (Major-General) and the Bordeaux Phylloxera Con- 

 gress, 590 

 Malay Archipelago, Notes from the, 399 

 Mammals of the Argentine Republic, Dr. H. Burmeister, 209 

 Man, Palseolithic, Worthington G. Smith, 29 

 Manchester, Fellowships at Owens College, 254 

 Manganese, the Oxides of, 468, Nodules of, 469 

 Maps, Whewell on Colouring Geological, Prof. Thos. McK. 



Hughes, F.R.S., 14 

 Marine Algie of New England and the Adjacent Coast, Dr. 



W. J. Farlow, 354 

 Mars, Satellites of, 520 

 Masheder (T.), Bisected Humble-Bees, 335 

 Mason (Sir Josiah), Death of, 175 ; the Will of, 455 

 Mason Science College, Aid to Students at, 201 

 Massey (Gerald), a Book of the Beginnings, 49, 1 10 

 Mathematical Soci-uy, 71, 159 

 Maxwell (Jan-es Clerk), wilh Portrait, 601 

 Meat, Tinned, m 

 Mechanical Research, 21 

 Medical Congress, 87, 324, 338 

 Medical and Sanitary Exhibition, 386 

 Medicine, Vivisection and, 329 

 Medicine, the Connection of the Biological Sciences with. Prof. 



T. H. Huxley, 342 

 Medicine, Slate, J. Simon, F.R.S., 370 

 Mediterranean, Italian Deep-Sea Exploration in the, Dr. Henry 



H. Giglioli, IS, 358, 381 

 Mediterranean French Exploration of, 88 

 Melampyrum, Nectar-Secreting Glands in Species of, 203 

 Medusae, Surgeon-Major H. Archer, 307 

 Melanesia and Australia Anthropological and Anatomical 



Researches in. Dr. Miklucho Malay's, 157 

 Memorie delta Societ.a degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 400, 600 

 Mendeleeff's Tables, on the Equivalents of the Elementary 



Bodies considered as representing an Arithmetical Progression 



Deducible from. Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 274 

 Mercurial Thermometers, the Calibration of, 467 

 Mercuric Chloride, Dr. Carnelley's Experiment with, J. B. 



Hannay, 77 

 Mercury, Transit of November 7, 18S1, 81 

 Merriman (Geo. B.) Thought Reading, 284 

 Merriman (Mansfield), the Figure of the Earth, 259 

 Metal wires, the influence of pressure on the conductivity of, 



112 

 Metallic Vapours, on the reversal of the Lines of, Profs. 



Liveing and Dewar, 206 

 Metals, Heat conductivity of, 3S7 

 Metals, tlie Fluid Density of certain, 470 

 Meteorology, the printing of the U.S. International Bulletin; 



16 ; America Meteorological observations, W. B. Hazen, 189, 



Meteorological Bibliography, A. Ramsay, 53 ; Meteorological 



Society, 96, 184 ; Swiss Federal Commission for Meteorology, 



109; Weather and Health of London, A. Buchan, 143; 



Meteorological Notes, 266 ; Station at Pavia, 426. 

 Meteors, Major G. L. Tupman, 1S9 ; B. J. Hopkins, 238; G. 



H. Kinaham, 2S5 ; at Munich, 314 ; seen near Oxford, 565. 

 Meteor-Spectroscopy, Progi-ess of. Prof. A. S. Herschel, 507. 

 Meteoric Dust, B.A. Report on, 462. 

 Meteoric Stone, Fall of a, at Castrop (Westphalia), 427. 

 Meteorites, photographic reproduction of thin sections of. Dr. 



Hahm, 132. 

 Meter for Electric Currents, a New, John T. Sprague, 335 

 Methanometer, an Automatic, 112 

 Metkorich (Dalmatia), Earthquake at, 265 

 Mexico, Fish Mortality in the Gulf of, 3SS 

 Mice, Field, Plague of in France, 132 

 Michelson (Albert A.), on the Velocity of Light, 460 

 Micrococcus of Tubercle, Dr. C. Creighton, 604 

 Micrography, Course of Lectures for the Teaching of, 541 

 Microphone, Wheatstone's, upon a Modification of and its 



applicability to Radiophonic Researches, Prof. Alex. Graham 



Bell, 302 

 Microscopical Examination of Farina, 66 

 Migration of Birds, some Observations on the, W. E. D. Scott, 



274 ; Migration of the Wagtail, Henry Forbes, 358 

 Mile, English, Origin of, M. Faye, 80 

 Milne (Prof. John), Earthquakes in Japan, 64, 462 

 Milne-Edwards (H.), Medal presented to, 83 

 Mimas, Elongation of, 478 

 Minchin (Geo. M.), Kinematical Theorem, 557; a Correction 



583 

 Mmd-Reading versus Mascle- Reading, Prof. W. F. Barrett 



212, 236 

 Mmd-Readmg, Physiology of. Prof. G. Croom Robe/tson, 236 

 Mmeralogie, Lehrbuch der, Von Dr. G. Tschermak, W. J. 



Lewis, 355 

 Minima of Algol, 542 



Missouri, Magnetic Survey of. Prof. E. E. Nipher, 80 

 Mitchell (W. S.}, Collection for Teaching Chemistry of Foods, 



427 

 Mittheiluugen of the Hamburgh Geographical Society, 613 

 Mivart (St. George, F.R.S.), Popular Accounts of ChamEcleons, 



309. 335 

 Model Public Library, 384 



Molecular Magnetism, Prof. D. E. Hughes, F.R.S., iSo 

 Monatsschrift fiir den Orient, 613 

 Moniteur officiel de I'Klectricite, 455 

 Monticulipora and its Sub-genera, on the Structure and Aftinities 



of the Germs, H. Alleyne Nicholson, 27 

 Moon, Coloured Picture of the, 566 

 Morris on Liberian Coffee, 39 

 Mortality, the True Coefficient of, Prof. John Le Conte, 357 ; 



Alexander Buchan, 357 

 Morteratch Glacier, 340 

 Moseley (H. N., K.K.S.), Dr. Bessels' Account of the yW,;r« 



Expedition, 194 

 Mott (F. T.), Water in Austraha, 30 

 Mottling, Shock of Earthquake at, 65 

 Mouchez (Admiral), the Comet. 223 

 Mount Vesuvius, Earthquake Shocks on, 132 

 Mouth-Cavity, Resonance of the, Sedley Taylor, 100; John 



Naylor, 100, 126, 191 ; Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 166, 214 

 Mud- Volcano in Italy, 291 

 Muirhead (Henry, M.D.), Phenomena of Clouds, 237 ; Atoms, 



459 ; Red Rainbows, 485 

 Miiller (Prof. Hermann), Exploration of the Female Dimorph- 

 ism of Pattostoma torrentiiim, 214 ; Two Kinds of Stamens 



with different Functions in the same Flower, 307 ; Gradations 



between Hermaphroditism and Gynodioecism, 532 

 Mummies, Egyptian, and Excavations, 4S9 

 Munich, Meteor observed at, 314 

 Murphy (J. J.), Optical Illusion, 80; Glaciation, 460 

 Murray (David), Red Rainbows, 459 

 Muscles, Functional Metamorphosis of, Dr. D. J. Cunningham 



527 

 Muscle-Reading versus Mind-Reading, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 212, 



236 

 Muscles, Rhythmic Contraction of Voluntary, 202 

 Museum, New, of Natural History, E. H. Pringle, 460 

 Museums and Exhibitions in Japan, 562 

 Myopia in France, 202 



Nach Ecuador Reisebilder, Joseph Kolberg, 99 



Natiu-al History Museum, Guides to, 16 ; E. H. Pringle, 460 



Natural Sciences, Helvetic Society of, 59S 



Naturen, 148, 175, 201 



Naturforschende Gesellschaft, the Dantzig, 315 



Naturwissenschafthche-Mathematisches Vademecum, Gustav 



Wolf, 17 

 Naval Cadet Examinations, 30 



Naylor (John), Resonance of the Mouth-Cavity, 100, 126, 191 

 Nectar-Secreting Glands in Species of Melampyrum, 203 

 Neolithic Implements at Acton, W., Occurrence of, Spencer G. 



Perceval, loi 

 Neptune, Satellite of, 591 

 Newall (R.S., F.R.S.), the Comet, 197 

 Newberry (Prof. J. S.), American Cretaceous Flora, 191 

 New England Indians, Notes on the Crania of, Lucien Carr, 140 

 New England, Marme AlgK of and the Adjacent Coast, Dr. W. 



J. Farlow, 354 ; Remarkable Phenomenon in, 540 ; Dark 



Day in, Chas. W. Harding, 557 



