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INDEX 
Mollusca of India, Col. Godwin-Austen’s Papers on, 373 
Molothrus, Parasitic Habits of, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 51 
Moncrieff (W. D. Scott), Compressed Air upon Tramways, 266 
Mongolia, Proposed Telegraph Across, 301 
Monos Island, Trinidad, 57 
Moon, the Apparent Size and Distance of, 347 
_ Moore (F.), Lepidoptera of Ceylon, 79 
Moore (Chas ), Death of, 184 
More (A. G.), appo’nted Curator of the Dublin Natural History 
Museum, 249 
Morgan (Lewis H.), Death of, 248 
Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 378 
Morphology of the Temnopleuride, Prof. P, M,. Duncan, 
E.R.S., 257 
Morris (D.), Jamaica Petrel, 151 
Morris (Prof. Chas.), on the Conservation of Solar Energy, 601 
Morrelli (Dr. Henry), Suicide ; an Essay on Comparative Moral 
Statistics, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 193 
Morteratsch Glacier, Hugo Leupold, 77 
Moscow Society of Naturalists, 326 
Moscow, Observatory of, 616 
Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), Elected to the Linacre Chair of 
Physiology in the University of Oxford, 112; Researches on 
Animals containing Chlorophyll, 338; Precious Coral, 510; 
Limulus, 582 
Moths attracted by Falling Water, J. Starkie Gardner. 436 
Mott (F. T.), Water in Australia, 507 
Mouchez’s (Admiral) Sozvée at the Paris Observatory, 493 
Mount Etna, 565, 615; Observatory, 301, 394; Proposed Rail- 
way to the Summit of, 395 
Mount Vesuvius, Eruption of, 218 
Mueller (Ferd. Baron yon, F.R.S.), Select Extra Tropical 
Plants Readily Eligible tor Industrial Culture or Naturalisa- 
tion, with some indications of their Native Countries, and 
some of their Uses, 480 
Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Polymorphism of the Flower-heads of 
Centaurea jacea, 24% 
Muffs and Vivisection, Frances Power Cobbe, 483 
Muir (J.), Treatise on the Theory of Determinants; with 
Graduated Sets of Exercises for Use in Colleges and Schools, 
551 
Mulhall (Mrs. M. G.), ‘‘ Between the Amazons and Andes; or, 
Ten Years of a Lady’s Travels in the Pampas, Gran Chaco, 
Paraguay, and Matto Grosso, 457 
Mulholland (Mrs.), Difladenia Amabilis, 79 
Mummies, Herbarium of Plants taken from, 493 
Museum, the Story {of our, showing how we Formed it and 
what it Taught us, Rev. Henry Housman, Alfred R. Wallace, 
407 
Muybridge (J.), Horse in Motion, 605 
Nachet (M. Camille Sebastian), Death of, 87 
eee (Hungary), Discovery of the Remains of a ‘Roman 
ar, 03 
Natal, Proposed Observatory at, 394 
Nathorat (A. G.), “* Eophyton,” 483 
National Defences, Our, 261 
Natura, La, 522 
Natural History, yopnle Edited by P, Martin Dunean, F.R.S. 
107; Rev. W.' Tuckwell’s Lecture on, at the Birmingham 
Town Hall, 348; Boston Society of 1830-1880, 389; Edin- 
burgh Chair of, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 607 
Natural Philosophy !for London University Matriculation 
Edward B. Aveling, 76 : 
Naturalists, Institute for, Dr. J. Rae, F.R.S., 126 
Nature, Vignettes from, Alfred R, Wallace, 381; Grant Allen, 
381, 459; Dr. W. B, Carpenter, F.R.S., 435, 480, 554; W. 
Budden, 529 
Naval Architects, Institution of, 533 
Naval and Marine Engineering Exhibition, 587 
Nebula in Andromeda, the Great, Rev. T. W. Webb, 341 
Nebula in Orion, Photographic Spectrum of the Great, William 
Huggins, F.R.S., 489 
Nepotism, John H. Van Lennep, 266 
Nervous System, Treatise on the Diseases of the, Dr. James 
Ross, 172 
Nettleton (J. A.), Study of the History and Meaning of the 
Expression ‘* Original Gravity,” 384 
Newberry (Prof. J. S,), Hypothetical High Tides, 357 
Newcastle-on-Tyne Free Library Report, 347 
New Code and the Teaching of Science, 491, 536 
New Guinea, the Maiwa District) 376 
New South Wales, Science in, 44; Royal Society of, 324; 
Flora of, in its Geological Aspect, 543 
New Zealanders, the Vegetable Food of, in Prehistoric Times, 
318 
New Zealand Journal of Science, 591 
Nicols (Arthur), Vivisection, 506 
Niederlandisches Archiv fiir Zoologie, 378 
Nile, Grass Barriers of the, 130 
Nile and Thames, Heights of the Rivers, Prof. Balfour Stewart, 
F.R.S., 268 
Nipher (Francis E.), Magnetic Survey of Missouri, 40 
Noggerath (Prof. Jakob), Monument to, 137 
Nomenclator, Steudel’s, 223 
Nordenskjéld (Baron), Visit to London, 112; ‘* Voyage of the 
Vega,” 179, 200; Notice of (with Portrait), 309 
Nordrup, near Ringsted, Discovery at, 249 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist’s Society, 615 
North Atlantic, Daily weather Charts in the, 605 
North Middlesex Natural History Association, 208 
North Schleswig, Earthquake in, 396 
Northcote (Sir Stafford), on Science in Education, 206 
Northumberland, on the Climate of North, as regards its Fitness 
for Astronomical Observations, Rev. Jevon J. Muschamp 
Perry, 317, 3643 J. Lingwood, 339 
Norway, the Ancient Floras of, 207; Changes of Movement 
Observable in Norwegian Glaciers, 449; J. Innes Rogers, 460 
Notelephas australis, Owen, 571 
Notornis Mantelli, 568 
November, 1881, Weather of, 131 
Niirnberg Natural History Society, 62 
Observatories: French Provincial Observatories, M. Loewy or, 
18, 126; Observatory for Hongkong, 39; Bischoffsheim 
Obsérvatory, 199; Microtelephone in the Geneva, 207 ; Lick 
Observatory, 298; Etna Observatory, 301, 3943 Observa- 
tory of Harvard College, U.S., 326; of Cordoba, 349; of 
Melbourne, 349; Proposed Observatory at Natal, 394; Ob- 
servatory at Paisley, 471; Temple Observatory, Rugby, 472; 
Observatory of Moscow, 616; of Trinity College, Dublin, 616 
Ocean Basins, Physical Cause of the, Rev. O. Fisher, F.R.S., 
24 
Odell (W.), Wild Silks of India, 563 
Ogilvie (Dr. John), Imperial Dictionary of the English Lan- 
guage, 288 
Ogle (W.), Aristotle on the Parts of Animals, translated by, 
Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 453; Aristotle on the Heart, 
528 
Oleo-Margarine, 269 
Oliver (Capt. S. P.), Song of the Lizard, 174; Sea Froth, 268 
Organ-pipe, the Investigation of the Nodes in an, 290 
Organic Chemistry, Adolph Strecker’s Short Text-book of, Dr. 
Johannes Wislicenus, H. Watts, F.R.S., 148 
Organism, Struggle of Parts in the, Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 
6; Dr. William B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 6, 52; George J. 
Romanes, F.R.S., 29 
“Original Gravity,” Study of the History and Meaning of the 
Expression, J. A. Nettleton, 384 
“ Origins of English History,” C. Elton, E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 501 
Orion, Photographic Spectrum of the Great Nebula in, William 
Huggins, F.R.S., 469, 489 
Oshima, Dr. L. Déderlein on, 43 ; Notes on the Island of, 43 
Otago (New Zealand), Trout in, 18; Notes from the University 
Museum, Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 352, 568 
“€ Overflow Bugs” in California, C, V. Riley, 386 
Owen (Prof., C.B., F.R.S.), Description of Portion of a Tusk 
of an Australian Proboscidian Mammal, 571 
Oxford, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., elected to the Linacre Chair of 
Physiology in the University of, 112 
Oxygen, Manufacture of, 229 ; Delicate Test for, 327 
Ozonised Air as an Anzesthetic, 470 
Paisley, New Observatory at, 471 
Paleeo-geological and Geographical Maps, Prof. Hull, F.R.S., 
18 
Papwolithic Implement, Herbaceous Stem on a, Worthington G. 
Smith, 173 
Paleolithic Man and Léss, W. J. Knowles, 409 
Paleolithic Floors, Worthington G. Smith, 460 
Palzontology, British, a Recent Find in, Prof. Arch. Geikie, 
F.R.S., I 
