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[Nalufi, Nov. 15, 1877 



Lichens, Dr. Lauder Lindsay's Collection of, 73 



Lick Observatory, the Great Telescope for, 216 



" Life-History of the Earth," Prof. H. AUeyne Nicholson, 39 



Light, the Velocity of, 229 



Light, Supposed Influence of, on Combustion, 341, 477, 521 



Light and Sound, Dr. Henry Muirhead, 43 



Lighthouses : the Ncedlej Light, 382 ; the Eddystone, 383 ; 



Electric Lights for, 552 

 Lightning Conductors, John Perry and W. E. Ayrton, 502 

 Lightning Stroke, the Effects of, 568 

 Limbs, Prof. S. Haughton on the best possible Number of, for 



an Animal, 407 

 Limestone, Discovery of a Precious, 515 

 Limits of Natural Knowledge, Prof. C. von Nagell, 491, 531, 



559 

 Linnrcan Society, 55, 7.^, 115, 154 ; New Foreign Members, 91 

 Linna:us, Proposed Monument to, in Stockholm, 257 

 Lisbon: Annals of the. Observatory, 139; Meteorological 



Noies from, Henry O. Forbes, 265 

 Li'Jiornis cmuinus. Discovery of Bones of, 152 

 Little (W.), Stamping-out Noxioirs Insect Life, 207 

 Liverpool Geological Society, 92 

 Llangollen, the Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone in the 



Country near, 38 1 

 Local Museums, 22S, 266, 286 ; in Switzerland, 429 

 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Star or Nebula? 413 

 Locusts in Algeria, 72 

 Ijodighin's New Electric Light, 422 

 Logarithms, Namar's Tables of, 197 

 London University Intelligence, 33, 94, 172 

 London Flora, Dr. Crespigny's New, 338 

 Longitude, Determinations of, 153 ; European Bureau of, 530 

 Lovett (W. Jesse), a Simple Wave Motion Apparatus, S3 

 Lubavin (N. N.), " Chemical Physics," 140 

 Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), on the Teaching of Elementary 



Science, 216 ; Selective Discrimination in Insects, 548 

 Lumici-e Cendrte, E. G. Jenkins, 502 

 Luminous Campanularia;, 30 

 Luminous Meteors, 371 



MacAlister (Prof.), on Embryology, 406 



Maclvor (Mr.), Statue to, 131 



McCook (Rev. II. C), on Great Vitality of Ants, 523 



McKenzie (John L.), Meteors, 551 



McNab (Prof.), on the Movement of Water in Plants, 409; 

 Cohn's " Biology of Plants," 435 



M'Crady (Prof.), Resignation of, 31 



Mackay (Rev. A.), Physiography and Physical Geography, 437 



Mackie's Composing Machine, 214 



Machinery, Apparatus for Determining the Speed of, 35 



Mactear (James), Improvements in Alkali Manufacture, 377 



Madagascar, llartlaub's Birds of, 498 



Madagascar and Africa, Zoological Relations of, 548 



Madan (Rev. II. G.), the Satellites of Mars, 475 



Madder, as a Dye, 297 



Maggot-Breeding in Paris, 29S 



IMagic Lanterns and Advertising, 91 



Magilus, Boring Powers of, 523 



Magnetic Induction and Observations of the Earth's Magnetic 

 Force, Charles Chambers, F. R.S,, 376 



Magnetic Needle, Early Allusions to the, 26S 



Magnetic Observations, Stoneyhurst, 90 



Magnus (Rev. P.), Address at University College School, 336 



Major (Richard H.), "The Discoveries of Prince Henry the 

 Navigator," 2S4 



Malet (H. P.), "Incidents in the Biography of Dust," 139 



Mallet (J. W.), the Conference of Librarians (a Good Sugges- 

 tion), 457 



Malvern, the Forest and Chase of, 559 



Mammoth Carcase, Discovery of, in Siberia, 113 



Man, Antiquity of, 69, 97, 106 



Man, Dr. G. Harris's Work on the Nature and Constitution of, 393 



Manchester : Trees in, 174 ; a University for, 241, 279 



Manganese and Chromium Compounds, 254 



Mangon (Hervc), New Registering Thermometer, 237, 421 



Mantegazza on the Relative Length of the Iirdex and " Ring " 

 Fingers, J. C. Galton, 444 



Manures: Experiments on the Value of, 129; Prizes for Best 

 Work on, 132 



Markham (Capt. Albert), Presentation of Gold Watch to, 16 



Mars : the Oppositiin of, 1S77, 14, 341 ; Physical Observations 

 of, 70 ; Reported O'ccultation of, by Venus, a.d. 368, 195 ; 

 the Satellites of, 341, 364, 397, 427, 441, 477, 503, 551; 

 the Envelope of, 446 ; Prof. Simon Newcomb, 456 ; Rev. 

 Henry Cooper Key, 457; Lord Rosse, 459; Rev. II. G. 

 Madan, 475 ; John Brett, 503 



Marsh (Proi. O. C), Discovery of Baptornis advtntts, 336 ; 

 Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America, 

 448, 470, 4S9 



Marsh on Physical Observations of Mar.s, 70 



Mason (Dr. Otis T. ), Rate of Mound-Building, 503 



Massee (G. E.), Phyllotaxis, 208 



Mathematical Society, 95, 176, 55^ 



Mathematics in America, R. Tucker, M.A. , 21 



" Matter and Motion," Prof. Clerk Maxwell's, 119 



Matthews (Washington), Ethnography nnd Philology of the 

 Hidatsa Indians, 338 



Mault (A.), "Natural Geometry," 455 



Mauriiius, Sun-spots and the Weather at, 168 ; the Observatory 

 Reports, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 337 ; Cyclones in, 375 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), " Matter and iMotion," Prof. P. 

 G. Tait, 119; Watson's " Kinetic Theory of Gases," 242 



Mayer (Dr. A. B. ), New Work on Birds, 399 



Mayr (Dr. G.), "Die Gesetzmiiszigkeit im Gesellschaftsleben," 

 500 



" Mechanics of Engineering, " Weisbach's, 81 



Mechanics' Institutes in Towns, Mr. Swire Smith on, 411 



Medal to Commemorate the Transit of Venus, 1 1 



Medical Congress at Geneva, 296 



Medical Scieirces, Internatronal Congress of, 131, 42S 



Mediterranean, a True Whale in the, 309 ; the Flora of, 523 



Medusa, on a Fish-Sheltering, 227, 248, 362 



Meehan (Thomas), Fertilisation of Flowers, 364 



Meguin (M.), on Acarians and Hypopes, 133 



Meissen, Mines of. 514 



Melbourne Observatory, Report of, 503 



Meldrum (Dr.), Reports of the Mauritius Observatory, 337 



Memorie della Sociela degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 134 



Mental Work, German Society for, 556 



Metallic Films on Glass Tubes, 430 



Metals, Inlluence of Light on the Electrical Resistance of, 447 



Meteors, 43, 266, 550, 551 ; at the Cape of Good Hope, 72 ; 

 New Meteor Radiant, W. F. Denning, 102 ; Luminous 

 Meteors, 371 ; Meteor at Bhawnepoor, India, 375 ; Meteoric 

 Fire-Balls rn America, 143; Meteoric Masses, Heat of, 431 ; 

 Meteoric Astronomy, 441 ; Meteoric Phenomenon during a 

 Gale, 551 ; Meteoric Stones in America, 558 



Meteorite, the Sialldalen, 238 



Meteorology : Greenwich as a Meteorological Station, 7 ; Prof. 

 Balfour Stewart on Suspected Relation between the Sun and 

 the Earth, 9, 26, 45 ; Observations at Glasgow, 16 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 20, 115, 259; Meteorologrcal Notes, 50, 89, 

 267 ; Meteorology in Italy, 51 ; in France, 51, 513 ; Grant 

 to the Scottish Meteorological Society, 53 ; Paris Observa- 

 tory, 71 ; Meteorology of Holland, 89 ; Tycho Brahe's 

 Meteorological Journal, 89 ; " Atlas Metcorologique," 89 ; 

 Weather Maps in Australia, 90 ; Stoneyhurst Meteorological 

 and Magnetic Observations, 90 ; Climate and Infant Mortality 

 in Tasmania, 90 ; Meteorology of South Australia, 16S ; 

 Meteorology of the Future, a Vision, 193 ; Meteorological 

 Council, the New, 224 ; Notes from Lisbon, Henry O. 

 Forbes, 265 ; Agricultural Meteorological Service, 334 ; Pr-o- 

 posed Institute for France, 334 ; Arctic Meteorology, 35S ; 

 Dr. J. J. Wrld on the Meteorological Effects of Eclipses, 419 ; 

 and the Indian Famine, A. Buchan, 425; the Pic du Midi 

 Observatory, 513 



Meux's Brewery, Deep Well-Boring at, 2, 3S0 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Museum Reform, 227 



Mice, the Singing of, 558 



Micrometer, a New Form of, 115 



Microscope, Prof. A. Mayer's Vernier, 151 



Microscopical Society, sa Royal 



Microscopist, the, by Dr. W. II. Wythe, 6 



Millar (\V. J.), Floating Cast Iron, 23 



Miller (W. J. C), "Mathematical Questions," 417 



Mimnliis tutciis, the Electrical Disturbance which accompanies 

 the Excitation of the Stigma of. Prof. Burdon Sanderson, 

 F.R.S., 163 



Minchin (G. M.), Potential Energy, 547 



" Mind," 32 



" Mind, the Physical Basis of," by George Henry Lewes, 26 [ 



