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INDEX X1 
Memory, Diseases of, R. Ribot, Dr. G. J. Romanes, 169 
Mendeléeff (Prof.), ‘‘ Principles of Chemistry,” 113 
Mensuration, Useful Rules and Tables, W. J. M. Rankine, 
F.R.S., 431, 483 
Mercury, Electric Resistance of, R. Lenz, 182 
Mercury, Pressure of Saturating Vapour of, Herr Hertz, 183 
Merian (Prof. Peter), Death of, 372 
Meridian, Universal, 247, 516 
Merrifield (Mary P.), Rabenhorst’s ‘‘ Kryptogamen-Flora von 
Deutschland, Oesterreich, und der Schweiz,” 385 
Metalliferous Lodes, OriginZof, Prof. Sandberger, 90 
Metals, Magnetisation of, M. Berson, 183 
Metamorphic Rocks of Ross and Inverness, Henry Hicks, 474 
Metamorphic Origin of Granite—Prehistoric ‘‘ Giants,” Duke 
of Argyll, 578 te 
Metamorphism of Rocks, Recent Researches in, Dr. A. Geikie, 
ESRS,, 121 
Meteorite: Fall of, at Iserlohn, 423; near Brescia, 469; the 
Alfianello, 511 
Meteorology : the Observatory on Ben Nevis, 18, 39, 175, 399, 
411, 487 ; Meteorology of the Malay Archipelago, 79 ; Meteo- 
rological Society, 95, 234, 307, 452, 570, 619; Proposed 
Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, 373 ; Congress of 
Meteorologists, 539; Meteorological Observations at Mouth 
of Lena, Yurgens, 423; Metecrological Society of France, 
497; Elementary Meteorology, R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 575 
Meteors : the November, 43; W. L. Harnett on a, 103; an 
Extraordinary, B. R. Branfill, 149; Meteoric Auroral Pheno- 
menon of November 17, 1882, 173; Remarks on and Ob. 
servations of the, Dr. H. J. H. Groneman, 296; Rev- 
Stephen H. Saxby, 338; H. Dennis Taylor, 365; T. W. 
Backhouse, 412; A. Batson, 412; H. D. Tayler, 434; Great 
Meteor in Sweden, 423 ; a Meteor, R. W. S. Griffith, 434; 
the Large Meteor of March 2, 1883, W. F. Denning, 461; 
Meteors, Thos. Masheder, 483; Henry Cecil, 483 ; Meteor, 
E. Brown, 508; in Sweden, 517; a Blue, Consul E. L. 
Layard, 531 ; at Carlsruhe, 540 ; Instructions for Observing, 
615; Number of, observed at Prossnitz, 617 
“* Mexico to-day,” T. U. Brocklehurst, 503 
Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Stockholm Ethnographical Exhibition, 371 
“‘Micrographic Dictionary,” J. W. Griffith and A. Henfrey, 
160, 603 
Microphone, the, 588 
Microscope, a Search for ‘‘Atlantis” with the, Dr. Arch, Geikie, 
F.R.S., 25 
“* Microscope, the,” Rey. W. Houghton, 173 
Middlemiss (C. S.), Hovering of Birds, 337 
Midland Boulders, Rev. W. Tuckwell on the, 346 
Mikluho-Maclay (Baron) on New Guinea, 137, 184, 371 
Milan, Intemperance in, Prof. Verga on, 347 
Millar (W. J.) : the Comet, 29 ; Rankine’s ‘‘ Rules and Tables,” 
493 
Milne (Mr.), Proposed Study of Earthquakes in Japan, 463 
Mimicry in Moths : Duke of Argyll, 125 ; Comm. D. Stewart, 
314 
Mimicry, Difficult Cases of: Alf. R. Wallace, 481 ; R. Meldola, 
481 ; Dr. P. H. Stokoe, 508 ; H. J. Morgan, 531 
Minchin (Prof. G. M.), Kinematics, 239 
Mineralogical Society, 24, 451 
Minor Planets, 148 
Mint, Japanese, Report for 1882, 323 
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 615 
** Mittheilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft,” of Yokohama, 41 
Mollusks, Edible, Acclimatisation of, Dr. J. G. Jeffreys, F.R.S., 
SII 
Montgolfier Anniversary, 90, 517 
Monuments, Ancient, Worthington G, Smith, 102 
Moons, Mock, F. T. Mott, 606 
Morgan (Augustus de), Memoir of, R. Tucker, 217 
Morgan (C. L.), Suicide of Scorpions, 313, 530 
Morgan (H. J.), Mimicry, 531 
“ Morphologisches Jahrbuch,” 94, 473 
Morphology Human, vol. i., H. A. Reeves, 124 
Morris, New Method of Producing Aluminium, 183 
Morris (Chas.), the Matter of Space, 349 
Morse, Memorial in Rome, 445 
Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.): Von Graff’s Monograph on 
the Turbellarians, 227 ; Incubation of Ostrich, 507 
Moths, Mimicry in: Duke of Argyll, 125 ; Commander Duncan 
Stewart, 314 
Motion, Optical Illusions of, Dr. Bowditch, 183 
Motion, Laws of, Prof. P. G, Tait, 283 
Mott (F. T.) : the Sea Serpent, 293 ; Mock Moons, 606 
Moule (W. A.) and H. Newell Martin, Handbook of Verte- 
brate Dissection, 335 
Mouse-Mill Dynamo (Thomson’s), J. T. Bottomley, 78 
Mudballs, Formation of, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 507 
Muirhead (Dr. H.), Aurora of Noy. 17, 1882, 315 
Miiller (Dr. Fritz): Animal Intelligence, 240; Two Kinds of 
Stamens with Different Functions in the same Flower, 364 
Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Two Kinds of Stamens with Different 
Functions in the same Flower, 30 
Mundella (A. J., M.P.), on Education, 276 
Munro (Dr.), “ Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings,” by Sir John 
Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S., 145 
Munro (J.), Swan Lamp Spectrum and Aurora, 173 
Murcia, Earthquake at, 277 
Murphy (J. J.): Complementary Colours, 8; Pollution of the 
Atmosphere, 241 ; Aurora, 434 
Museum, New Natural History, 54 
Museum, Warwick, 539 
Muybridge’s Zoetrope Pictures of Animals in Motion, 42; New 
Work on Motion in Man and Animals, 539 
Myxinoids, the Skeleton of, Prof. W. K. Parkes, F.R.S., 330 
Nachtigal (Dr. G.), ‘‘Sahara und Sudan,” A. H. Keane, 408 
Naphtha Wells at Ferghana, 445 
Naples, Zoological Station in, J. T. Cunningham, 453 
Napoli on Electricity as a Motive Power for Balloons, 517 
Nasal Bones in Man and the Ape, Projection of, J. Park 
Harrison, 266, 294 
Natural History Museum, The New, 54; Removal of Collec- 
tions, 538 
“Natural History, Another Book of Scraps principally relating 
to,” Chas. Murray Adamson, 480 
“Natural” Experiment in Complementary Colours, Chas. T. 
Whitmell, 266 
Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa Gray, 291, 
529 ; Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 362, 528 ; J. B. Hannay, 
F.R.S., 364 
Natural Science in Civil Service Examinations, 321 
Nayy, The British, Sir Thomas Brassey, 549 
“Nearctic” as one of the Primary Zoological Regions, on the 
Value of the, Alfred R. Wallace, 482 ; Prof. Angelo Heil- 
prin, 606 
Nebulz, Meridian Observation of, 324 ; New, 400, 446 
Nervous System, Influence of, on the Kegulation of Tempera- 
ture in Warm-blooded Animals, 469 
** Neurologie, Lehrbuch der,” Dr. Schwalbe, 196 
‘Newall (H. Frank), Internal Reflections in the Eye, 376 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Free Library, 615 
Newcomb (Prof.), ‘‘ Popular Astronomy,” 373 
New Guinea, Dr. Otto Finsch’s Expedition to, 43; Baron 
Mikluho-Maclay on, 137, 184 
New South Wales, Linnean Society of, 215 
New Zealand: Earthworm in, 91 ; Pott’s ‘‘ Out in the Open,” 
172 ; Astronomy in, 276 ; Catalogues of New Zealand Diptera, 
Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera, F, W. Hutton, 399 
“‘ Niagara and other Famous Cataracts,” G. W. Holley, 146 
Niagara Falls, Complementary Colours at, H. G. Madan, 174 
Niceville (L. de) and Major Marshall, Butterflies of India, 
Burmah, and Ceylon, 50 
Nicols (Arthur), Zoological Notes on the Structure, Affinities, 
Habits, and Mental Faculties of Wild and Domestic Animals, 
Dr. Geo, J. Romanes, F.R.S., 333 
Niger: W. A. Forbes’s Zoological Expedition up the, 14; Col. 
Desbordes on Banks of, 424 
Nilson, Thorium, 184 
** Nomenclator Zoologicus,” Sam. H. Scudder, 28 
Nordenskjold (Baron) : Discovery of North-East Passage, 422; 
his Proposed Greenland Expedition, 446, 496 
Nordland, ‘‘ Naturen” on the Old Silver Mines of, 347 
“*Normal Element” of Electromotive Force of Galvanic Com- 
bination, Kittler, 325 
Norske nord-hass-expedition, 1876-78, Herman Friele, Dr. J. 
Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 457 
North-East Passage, Discovery of, Baron Nordenskjéld, 422 
Norway: Leprosy in, 423; Dust Showers, 496; Norwegian 
Geodetical Operations, 224, 341 ; Norwegian Science Grants, 
444 
Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvetique des Sciences 
Naturelles, 282 
