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INDEX 
Microscopy, 170 
Midland Institute, 209 
Mildew, 61, 78 
Miller (S. H.), Ocean Rainfall, 123 
Mimicry : in Fungi, 55; in the Colours of Insects, 113 
Mirage, References to Authorities on, 322 
Moggridge (J. T., F.L.S.), “ Trap-door Spiders,” 337, 453 
Monro (C. J.), Kant on the Retarded Rotation of Planets, 241 ; 
Anticipations of Natural Selection, 402 
Montreal Natural History Society, 475 
Moon’s Surface, 221 
Moore (T., F.L.S., and G. Jackman, F.R.H.S.), The’ Cle- 
matis as a Garden Flower,” 102 ; 
Moreton Bay Plants at Kew, 370 
Morren (E.), Botanical Science in Belgium, 320, 334 
Morgan (J. E., M.A.), “ University Oars,” 397, 418, 458 
Moseley (H. N.), Notes on Zoology and Botany in Lisbon, 229; 
Anatomy of Land Planarians, 353 
Mott (Albert J.), Periodicity of Rainfall, 161 
Muller (Prof. Max) on Darwin’s Philosophy of Language, 145, 
412 
Murchison Medal awarded, 355 
Murie (Dr.), Testimonial to, 430 
Murphy (J. J., F.G.S.), Water-beetles, 47; The Meteorology 
of the Future, 142; Fiords and Glacial Action, 323, 362 ; Me- 
chanical Analogy to Perception in Animals, 483 
Naresia cyathus, found by the Challenger, 387 
National Monuments, Preservation of, 297 
‘“Natural History, Anecdotal and Descriptive,” 198 
Natural History Museums, South Kensington and New;York, 
350 
«Staral Philosophy, Elements of,” by Profs. Thomson and 
Tait, 399 
Natural Selection, Modern Applications of the Doctrine, 277 
(See Darwinism) 
Naval Architects’ Institution, 431, 432 
Navy (The) and Science; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 
217 
‘‘Nervous system, Exalted States of the,” by R. H. Collyer, 
M.D., 360 
Neumayer (Dr.), South Polar Exploration,’ 21, 62, 138 
New Cross Microscopical Society, 231 
New England, Fauna of, 365 
New Guinea, 362 
New Planets, 35, 132, 169, 189, 331, 491 
Newton (A., F.R.S.), Yarrell’s ‘‘ British Birds,” 461 ; Zoologi- 
cal Collections at the East India House, 481 
Newton (Prof., H. A.), November Meteors at Yale College, 122 
New York, Statistics of Education, 152 
New Zealand ; Venomous Spider, 29 ; New Zealand Institute, 
132 ; Wellington Philosophical Society, 135 : 
Nichols (T. L., M.D.), “ Human Physiology,” 261 
Nicoll (W. R.), Inherited Instinct in Dogs, 340; Nitrogen, 
Spectrum of, 463 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 76 
North Magnetic Pole, its Motion in the last two Centuries, 142 
North Polar Exploration (Sze Arctic Exploration) 
Northumberland and Durham, Natural History Transactions, 
221 
“ Observatories of Great Britain,” 232 
Observatories ; on Mount Vesuvius, 2; Florence, 15; Alle. 
ghany, 16; Central Asia, 71; France, 111; Vienna, 34; 
Sydney, 130; Mauritius, 243; Alleghany, 251; Manitoba, 
289; Cape of Good Hope, 311; Paris, Montsourris, Mar- 
seilles, 331; Leyden, 350; Pera, 351 ; Madras, 371 ; Wash- 
ington, 412; Manitoba, 425 ; Stonyhurst, 431; Trinity Col- 
lege, Dublin, 431 ; Edinburgh, 451 
Ocean Meteorological Observations, 43, 68, 123 ; Rainfall, 183, 
202 
Occultation of Venus, 72 
Octopus, Gigantic, 210 
Old Change Microscopical Society, 231 
‘* Organic Chemistry,” by W. G. Valentin, F.C.S., 160 
Organisation of Academical Study, 72 
Ornithologists’ Union, 392 
Ornithology, ‘‘ Stray Feathers,” an Indian Journal, 350; 
‘Thesaurus Ornithologie,” by Dr. C. G. Giebel, 44 
Orton (James), Ascent of Cotopaxi, 449 
Osteology of Hypotomide, 294. 
Owen (Prof. R., F.R.S.), The National Herbarium, 5 ; Fossil 
Mammals of Australia, 255 
Oxford, Science at, 53, 88, 250, 290, 490 
Page (D., LL.D., F.G.S.), Geological Subjects taught at the 
College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 102 
**Palzeontographica,” by Drs. Dunkemand Zittel, 45 
Palestine Exploration, English and American Societies, 35, 
152, 412 
Palgrave (W. Gifford), Auroral Phenomena at Trebizond, 181 
Palmieri (Prof.), ‘‘The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872,” 1, 259 
“ Paradoxes, A Budget of,” by A. De Morgan, 239 . 
Paris: Academy of Sciences, 20, 40, 59, 96, 115, 136, 176, 
195, 216, 236, 256, 296, 316, 356, 376, 396, 416, 436, 452, 
496; Award of Prizes, 86, 88 ; Jardin d’Acclimatation, 112, 
351; Observatory, 331 
Pathological Society, 189 id 
Pavy (M.), his Arctic Expedition, 231, 270, 311 
Pearson (Rev. Jas.), The Greenwich Date, 68 — 
Penikese Island given to Prof, Agassiz for Scientific Purposes, 
445, 471, 477 
Perception in the Lower Animals, 340, 360, 361, 371, 377, 384, 
409, 415, 438, 443, 444; a Mechanical Analogy, 483; in 
Men and Animals, 463, 483 
Periodicity of Rainfall, 98, 143, 161 
Perrier (Capt.), Geodetic Operations in Algeria, 450 ‘ 
Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.A.S.), November Meteors at Stony 
hurst, 84; Terrestrial Magnetism, 171, 193; ‘‘ Magnetic 
Survey of Belgium,” 295 
Persia, Science in, 15 
Petermann (Dr.), North Polar Exploration, 7 
Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences, 491 
Peruvian Skulls, 350 
Petrified Forest in the Libyan Desert, 363 
Peyton (J. E. H.), Boring in Sussex, 162 
Pharmaceutical Society, 53, 131 
Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, 76, 111, 156, 195, 
215, 496; Philosophical 335, 475 
Phillips (Prof, John, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Prof. Sedg. 
wick, 257 c 
Pheenician Vademecum, 462 
Phosphorescence in Fishes, 47, 221 
Phosphorescence in Wood, 464 
Photographic Association of the United States, 412 
Photographic Society, 35, 154, 235 : 
Photography, Dr. Vogel appointed Professor at Berlin, 88 ; Pro- 
fessorship at Ghent, 111 
‘* Physical Geography,” by Prof. Geikie, 359 
Physics for Medical Students, 7, 27 
«Physiological Laboratory, Handbook for the,” 438 
Physostigma and Atropia, 69 
Pigeon Express, Ceylon, 351 
Pigeons, Inherited Instinct, 378, 417 ; protected from Rapacious 
Birds in China, 371 
Pigott (E. V.), November Meteors at Malpas, 85 
Pitter (W. T.), “ First Principles of Human Physiology,” 25 
Planarians of Ceylon, Anatomy of, 353 
Planets, New, 35, 132, 169, 189, 331, 491; and Satellites, Re- 
tarded Rotation of, 241 
** Plants, Natural History of,” by H. Baillon, 320 
Plateau (Felix), Aquatic Articulata, 469 
Pogson (N. R.), Hints on Collecting Arachnida, 163 
Pollen-eating Insects, 132, 161, 202, 242 
Popular Science in 1872, 142 
Portsmouth, U.S. Exploring Ship, 268 . 
Possession Islands, R. H. Scott and Dr, Hooker, C.B., on, 384; 
View of, 486 
Potato Disease, 151, 171 
Prehistoric Culture of Flax, 453 
Priestley (Dr.), Statue of, 210 
Pringle (E, H.), Height of Thunderclouds, 143 
Pringle (E. W.), Reflected Sunshine, 162; Spectroscopic Ob- 
servations, 222 
Proctor (H. R.), Aurora Spectra, 242 ; Spectroscope, 381 
Era (W., M.D., ‘F.C.S.), ‘‘ Hygiene of Air and Water,” 
31 ‘ 
Progress of Science in the last Twenty-five Years, 137, 158, 
162 
Projectiles, }Flight of, 362, 404 
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