Xxil Index were 
December 14 1899 
Marr (J. E.), Limestone Knolls in Craven District, 94 
Mars: Rotation Period of Mars, W. F. Denning, 64; Mars 
during Opposition, 1898-1899, 330 
Mason (W, P.), Examination of Water, 14 
Massee (G.), the Trinidad Cacao-Fungus, 353 ; New Parasitic 
Tea-plant Disease, 485 
Masson (O.), the Blue Salt of Fehling’s Solution, 71 
Masterman (Dr. A. T.), Life Histories of Cod and Whiting, 
239 
Masters (Dr. T. Maxwell, ?.R.S.), Hybridisation, 286 
Matches, Lucifer, the Use of Phosphorus in the Manufacture of, 
54 
Maternal Devotion of Spiders, Francis J. Rowbotham, 413 
Mathematics, the New Science and Art of Arithmetic for the 
Use of Schools, A. Sonnenschein and H. A Nesbit, 7; a 
School Arithmetic, R. F. Macdonald, 7; Bulletin of the 
American Mathematical Society, 46, 117, 263, 308 ; Fourier’s 
Series, Prof. A. A. Michelson, M. Poincaré, 52; Prof. A. E. 
H. Love, F.R.S., 100 ; Graduated Test Papers in Elementary 
Mathematics, Walter J. Wood, 52; Mathematical Society, 
71, 191 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 90, 359; Bessel’s 
Functions, A. B. Basset, F R.S., 101, 174; Prof. A. Gray, 
F.R.S., 149; the Jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 109 ; 
Calculation of Constant of Rectilineal Diameters, E. Mathias, 
168 ; Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 215 ; Practical Plane 
and Solid Geometry (Test Papers), George Grace, 221 ; the 
Origin of the Doctrine of Compensation of Errors in the 
Infinitesimal Calculus, Philip E. B. Jourdain, 245; the Life 
of a Star, Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 247; Dr. T. J. J. See, 519; 
on the Deduction of Increase Rates from Physical. and other 
Tables, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 271, 365; Death and 
Obituary Notice of Right Rev. Charles Graves, Lord Bishop 
of Limerick, 277; Mathematics of the Spinning Top, F. 
Klein and A, Sommerfeld, 319, 346; Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 
F.R.S., 319, 346, 391; Ruled Surfaces Generated by Plane 
Movements, whose Centrodes are Congruent Conics Tangent 
at Homologous Points, Dr. E. M. Blake, 359; Traité de 
Monographie, Maurice d’Ocagne, 363; on the Deduction of 
Increase Rates from Physical and other Tables, Prof. C. 
Runge, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 365; Elements of 
Quaternions, Sir W. R. Hamilton, 387; on the Calculation of 
Differential Co-efficients from Tables Involving Differences ; 
with an Interpolation Formula, W. F. Sheppard, 390 ; Mathe- 
matical Investigation of Theoretical Vertical Movements of 
Free Balloon, Dr. Hergesell, 400 ; Théorie du Potential New- 
tonien, Prof. H. Poincaré, 410; the Eight Queens Problem, 
Dr. T. B. Sprague, 427; Euler’s Proof of the Binomial 
Theorem, R. F. Muirhead, 486 ; the Fundamental Principles 
of Algebra, Prof. Alexander Macfarlane, 515; an Elementary 
Course of Mathematics, H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, 518; 
Opinions et Curiosités touchant la Mathematique, G. Maupin, 
590; Mathematical Tables, James P. Wrapson, W. W. Hal- 
dane Gee, 590 
Mathias (E.), Calculation of Constant of Rectilineal Diameters, 
168 
Matley (C. A.), Géology of Northern Anglesey, 191 
Matthew’s (Dr. W. D.) Expedition for Fossils to Kansas, 
Nebraska and Colorado, 577 
Maunder (FE. W.), the Indian Eclipse, 1898, 489 
Maupin (G.), Opinions et Curiosités touchant la Mathematique, 
590 
Mauritius, Magnetic Observations at, C. Meldrum, F-.R.S., 
189 
Mauritius, Preliminary Results of a Years Work with the 
Seismograph at, T. F. Claxton, 587 
Maxima of Mira, A. A. Nijland, 232 
Meacham (F. G.), Relation of Underground Temperature and 
Spontaneous Coal-Fires to Oxidation, 351 
Measurement and Weighing, E. Edser, 221 
Measurements, Physical, of Public Schoolboys, 198 
Measurements, Physical, in Anthropology, 234 
Meat-Consumption in Italy, Dr. F. dell’ Acqua, 352 
Mechanical Engineering in Warships, Sir Wm. H. White, 
KC B., BeRIS:420 
Mechanics: Death of N. Rieggenbach, 350; On Rolling 
Motion, M. Appell, 384; Determination of Modulus of 
Elasticity for Copper, Brass and Steel under Small Loads, 
C. P. Weston, 485 ; See a/so Section G, British Association 
Median Estimate, the, Dr. Francis Galton, 584 
Medd (John C.), Rural Education, 616 
Medicine: Die Bedeutung der Reize fur Pathologie und 
Therapie im Lichte der Neuronlehre, Dr. A. Goldscheider, 
733 the Natural History of Digestion, A. Lockhart Gillespie, 
F.R.S., 73; Diet and Food Considered in Relation to 
Strength and Power of Endurance, Training and Athletics, 
Alexander Haig, 73; On Centenarians and the Duration of 
the Human Race, T. E. Young, 73; Twenty-seventh 
Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1897-98, 
Supplement, 73 ; the Administrative Control of Tuberculosis, 
Sir Richard Thorne Thorne, K.C.B., F.R.S., 733; Berlin 
Tuberculosis Congress (1899), Dr. F. W. Tunnicliffe, 108, 
154; Strawberry Cure for Gout, 125; Donald Ferguson, 
150; Death of Dr. A. L. Charpentier, 155; Meeting of the 
British Medical Association at Portsmouth, Dr. F. W- 
Tunnicliffe, 341; Medicine and the Réntgen Rays, Dr. C. 
M. Moullin, 426; Research Work and the Opening of the 
Medical Schools, 569 
Mediterranean, Dust-Fall in, G. T. Prior, 205 
Meinertzhagen (Dan), Bird Life in an Arctic Spring, 542 
Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Mimicryrand Warning Colours, 55 ; 
Rural Education, 616 
Meldrum (C., F.R.S.), Magnetic Observations at Mauritius, 
189 
Melvill (Mr.), Cowries of Caput-Serpentis Group, 596 
Memory, the Philosophy of, and other Essays, D. T. Smith, 
I 
Menschen: Die Spiele der, Karl Groos, 363 j 
Mercer (H. C.), the Vertebrate Remains of Port Kennedy, 
Penns., 113 ‘ 
Merrill (A. A.), Experiments on best forms of Curves for use 
with Flying Machines, 257 
Messinger (C.), New Compound of Arsenic and Tellurium, 
71 
Metallurgy : the Treatment of Refractory Silver Ores by Lixivi- 
ation, Mr. Breakell, 15; the Iron and Steel Institute, 38, 
433 the Solution Theory of Iron, Baron Jiiptner von Jon- 
storff, 43; Historical Note on Recalescence, Prof. W. F. 
Barrett, F.R.S., 173; Prof. Sir W. C. Roberts-Austen, 
K.C.B., F_R.S., 173; Effect of Sudden Cooling of Redhot 
End of Iron Bar, Prof. E. Lagrange, 206 ; Tables for Quanti- 
tative Metallurgical Analysis for Laboratory Use, J. James 
Morgan, 291; the Use of Finely-Divided Iron Ore, Prof. J. 
Wiborgh, 402; the Solution Theory of Carbonised Iron, 
Dr. A. Stansfield, 403; the Constitution of Steel, Prof. E. 
D. Campbell, 403 
Metals: Experiments on Fatigue of Metals, J. O. Thompson, 
86; Metals and their Action on Photographic Plates, Dr. W. 
J. Russell, V.P.R.S., 208; Magnetic Strain in Bismuth, 
Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., and Dr. C. G. Knott, 222; a 
Lecture Experiment on the Relative Thermal Conductivities 
of Various Metals, Edwin Edser, 244; the Corrosion by Sea 
Water of Metals, 375 
Metaphysics of Biology, Alfred Earl, 458 
Meteorology : Cyclone in Missouri, 14; Death of Charles 
Leeson Prince, 14; Characteristics of Mild Winters, Dr. G. 
Hellmann, 66; Results of International Balloon Ascent, Dr. 
H. Hergesell, 66 ; Unmanned Balloon Ascent, 351 ; Meteoro- 
logische Zeitschrift, 66, 237 ; Symons’s Monthly Magazine, 
90, 212, 308; Meteorological Extremes: Pressure, Mr. 
Symons, 308; the Harmattan Wind, Dr. von Danckelmann, 
112; Observations on Sonnblick Summit, 112 ; the Height 
of the Aurora, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 130; Meteorology of 
South Australia, Sir Charles Todd, 134; Meteorology at 
Athens, 157; Death and Obituary Notice of Charles William 
Baillie, 204 ; Climatology of Roumanian Black Sea Coast, 
Dr. Hepites, 205 ; Unprecedented Frost in United States in 
February 1899, 212 ; -Meteorological Society, 214; Heavy 
Rainfalls, 1871-98, Dr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 214; Re- 
searches on Rainfall, Dr. Hildebrandsson, 374 ; the Influence 
of Altitude on Rainfall, Mr. Symons, 400; Self-recording 
Anemoscope, J. Baxendell, 215; Wave of Billow Clouds, 
235; Amount of Cloud in Europe during Cyclonic and Anti- 
cyclonic Days, Dr. C. Kassner, 237; Comparison of Plati- 
num and Gas Thermometers, Drs. J. A. Harker and P. 
Chappius, 238; Robert Browning and Meteorology, 245 ; 
Neudrucke von Schriften und Karten iiber Meteorologie und 
Erdmagnetismus, Dr. Hellman, 266; Annals of the Astro- 
nomical Observatory of Harvard, 266 ; Annales de l’Observ- 
atoire National d’Athénes publiées par Démetrius Eginitis, 
266; Death of Dr. Eugen Ritter von Lommel, 277 ; July 
