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English Mathematicians, Prof. Elliott, F.R.S., 117; Mathe- 

 matical Society, 117, 190, 311, 406, 501, 599; Theory of 

 Groups of Finite Order, \V. Burnside, F. R.S., I'rof. H. 

 Burkhardt, 122 ; Differential and Inlegral Calculus, P. A. 

 Lambert, 124 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 140, 357 ; 

 Infinitesimal Analysis, William Benjamin Smith, 147 ; on 

 the Foundation of Astrophysics on a Mathematical Base, Prof. 

 R. von Kovesligethy, 159; Two Problems of Wave-Pro- 

 pagation at Surface of Elastic Solid, T. J. Broniwich, 190 ; 

 Three Exceptionally High Numbers, Lieut. -Col. Cunning- 

 ham, 191 : ()uick and Easy Methods of Calculating, Robert 

 Gordon Blaine, 196 ; Fourier's Series, Prof. Albert A. 

 Michelson, 200 ; Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. 200 ; A. E. H. 

 Love, F.R.S., 200; R. B. Hayward, F.R.S., 271; II. F. 

 Baker, F.R.S., 319; Prof. J. Willard Gibbs, 606: Death 

 and (Jbituary Notice of the Rev. Bartholomew Price, F. R S., 

 229; Mathematical Contribution to Theory of Evolution, 

 Prof. Karl Pearson, Alice Lee, and L. Bramley-Moore, 259; 

 Lectures on the Geometry of Position, Theodor Reve, Prof. 

 O.Henrici,F.R.S.,242: Spherical Trigonometry, W, W. Lane, 

 268: Attraction in a Spherical Hollow, Prof.Thomas Alexander, 

 270; Prof. Andrew Gray, F.R.S., 341 ; Prof. Lang, 441; 

 Elementary Mathematics, J. L. S. Halton, George Bool, 294 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. E. O. Kendall, 300 ; a 

 Treatise on Magnetism and Electricity, .Andrew Gray, 

 F. R.S., 314; Systems of Revolution and their relation to 

 Conical Systems in Theory and Lame's Products, F. H. Safford, 

 357 ; Set of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite 

 Order, A. N. Whitehead, 358 ; Introduction to the Theory of 

 Analytic Functions, J. Harkness, F. Morley. Prof. W. Burn- 

 side, F.R.S., 386 ; to Calculate a table of Logarithms, Prof. 

 John Perry, F.R.S., 393, 439; a Certain Minimal Surface, 

 T. J. Bromwich, 406 ; Octonions ; a Development of CHI- 

 ford's Bi-quarternions, Alex. McAulay, Prof. W. Burnside, 

 F.R.S.,411; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Sophus 

 Lie, 445 ; Change of Independent Variables and Theory of 

 Cyclicants and Reciprocants, E. G. Gallop, 479 : Invariant 

 Total Differential Equation in Three Variables, Prof. J. M. 

 Page, 501 ; Trinodal Quartics, Prof. Jan de Vries," 504 ; 

 Mathematical and Physical Tables, James P. Wrapson, W. 

 W. Haldane Gee, 532 ; Theory of Functions, Prof. \. Hark- 

 ness, 533 ; Prof. F. .Morley, 533 ; Prof. W Burnside,' F.R.S , 

 533 ; Singular Points of Linear Differential Equations with 

 Real Coefficients, Prof. M. Bocher, 575 ; Curious Properties 

 of the number Seven, Lieut. -Colonel Cunningham, 599; an 

 Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Attraction, 

 Francis A. Tarleton, 604 



Mathews (Charles Edward), the .Annals of Mont Blanc. 2S9 



Matignon (Camille), Variation of Entropy in Dissociation of 

 Similar Heterogeneous Systems, 2S8 



Matruchot (L.), Method of colouring Protoplasm by Bacterial 

 Pigments, 119 



Matter, Energy, Force, and Work, Silas W. Holman, 199 



Mawley (E.), Last Year's Weather in British Isles, 407 



Maxwell's Logic, John Lister, 201 



Means (T. II.), Electrical Determination of Soluble Mineral 

 Matter in Soil, 621 



Measuring Extreme Temperatures, Prof. H. L. Callendar, 

 F.R.S., 494, 519 



Mechanics: Practical Mechanics, Sidney H. Wells, 100 ; the 

 Invention of ihe Gimbal, Kumagusu Minakala, 150 ; Stability 

 of Motion of Bicycle, F. J. W. Whipple, 516 



Medial-Fernrohre, Die, L. Schupmann, 532 



Medicine : .Medical Diseases of Infancy and Chilhood, Dr. 

 Dawson Williams, 2S ; Chloroform, Robert Bell. 149 ; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Sir William Jenner, 154; Prize 

 Awards of Paris Academy of .Medicine, 276 : Hunter and 

 the Science of Surgery, Sir William MacCormac, Bart., 402 ; 

 Death of Dr. Alexander Laboulbene, 421 ; Vaccination, its 

 Natural Historvand Pathology, Dr. S. M. Copeman, 435 ; 

 Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century, Together with a 

 List of Plants Recorded in Contemporary Writings with 

 their Identification, Rev. Prof. G. Ilenslow, 483 ; English- 

 French Dictionary of Medical Terms, H. De Meric. 4S4 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of Sir William Roberts, F.R.S., 

 592 ; Death of Dr. William Frazcr, 592 



McdiiHosa angHca, D. IL Scott, F.R.S., 381 



Medus.e: Re.searches on Medusa;, Franklin Story Conant, 4 ; 

 on Keeping Medusa' and other Free-swimming Marine 



Animals Alive in Small Aquaria, 44 ; Fossil Medusa, C. D. 

 Walcot, 568 



Mee (.Mr.), the Heavens at a Glance, 208 



Meinhardus fDr. VV.), Icefall of October 20, 189S, in Germany, 

 '56 



Melbourne Observatory, the, 186 



Melde (F.), Tuning-Plates as Substitutes for Tuning-Forks at 

 High Pitches, 214 



Meldola (Prof. Raphael, F.R.S. ), Scientific Education in Rural 

 Districts, 7 ; Coast Erosion, 188 ; Organic Evolution Cross- 

 Exaniined, 217 ; the Duke of Argyll and Mr. Herbert 

 Spencer, 269; Prof. Meldola and Mr. Herbert Spencer as 

 Critics, the Duke of Argyll, K.G , F.R.S., 317; Prof. R. 

 Meldola, F. R S., 317 : Prof Meldola's Explanation, Herbert 

 Spencer, 294 ; Chemische Technologic an den Univer.sitiiten 

 und Technischen Hochschulen Deulschlands, 361 ; the 

 Groundwork of Science, a Study of Epislemology, 577 



Mellish (H.), Soil Temperature, 623 



Memoirs of Kazan Society of Naturalists, 166, 30S 



Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 30S 



Mends (Admiral Sir William Robert, G.CB.), Bowen Stilon 

 Mends, 605 



Menger (Dr, Anton), the Right to the Whole Produce of 

 Labour, 555 



Mental Calculations of a High Order, 55 



Mental and Physical Deviations from the Normal among 

 Children in Public Elementary and other .Schools, Sixth 

 Annual Report of the Committee on the, l6i 



Merck (Wilhelm), Obituary Notice of, 326 



Merfield (C. J ), Comet, 189S, VII. (Coddington-Pauly), 350 



Meridian ( )bservations, on a New Reduction of Bessel's, Dr. 

 Fritz Cohn, 159 



Merilens (M. de), Death and Obituary Notice of, 59 



Merrifield (.Mr.), Experiments with Forced and Cooled Pupx, 94 



Merriinan (Mansfield), Elements of Sanitary Engineering, 365 



Merritt (.Mr), How Experiments on Discharge of Negative 

 Electricity by Light are Afiected by Electrical State of Arc- 

 Vapour, 301 



Metallurgy : the Extraction of Nickel from its Ores by the 

 Mond Process, Prof. W. C. Roberts- Austen, C.B., F.R.S , 

 63 ; Imporosily of thin Steel Plates under Hydraulic Pressure, 

 133: the Iron Ore Deposits of Northern Sweden, 211 ; 

 Metallic .Alloys and the Theory of Solution, Charles T. 

 Heycock, F. R.S. , 212 ; Double Carbides Solated from Steels, 

 MM. Ad. Carrot and Goutal, 335 ; Permanent Torsion and 

 Recalescence- Point in Steel, G. Moreau, 359 : the Re- 

 covery of Iron from Overstrain, James Muir, 429 ; Trans-; 

 actions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 482 ; 

 the Precipitation of Gold by Charcoal, J. I. Lowles, 491 ; 

 James C. Richardson, 558 ; the Writer of the Note, 55S ' 

 Native Silver accompanying Matte and Artificial Galena, 

 Prof. Liversidge, F.R.S., 503; Alloys of Iron and Nickel, 

 R. A. Hadfield, 546 ; Iron-making in .\labama, Dr. W. B. 

 Phillips, 565 ; Alloys, Sir William Roberts- Austen, 566 ; 

 Chemical Reactions in Pan Amalgamation of Silver Ores, 

 H. F. Collins, 613 



Metals : Specific Heats of Metals at Low Temperatures, V. 

 Behn, 94 ; Transference of Heat in Cooled Metals, Carl 

 Kinsley, 174 



Meteorology : the Weather Week by Week, 14, 132, 255, 277, 

 376, 421 ; Dr. Koppen's Chart of Yearly Isotherms and 

 Isabnormals of Sea-Surface, 40; Heat and Drought in 

 September, 1S98, 46 ; The Drought of 1S97-S, F. J. Brodie, 

 501 ; Forty Years' September Observations at Camden Square, 

 46 ; Symon's .Monthly Magazine, 46, 427, 524, 621 ; Sun- 

 spots and Xw Temperature, 77 ; Sunspols and Weather, Alex. 

 B. MacDowall, 462 : Sunspots and Rainfall, Alex. B. Mac- 

 Dowall, 5S3 ; Tract of Recent West Indian Hurricane of 

 September, 1S98, 81; Captain A. Carpenter, 215: Rainfall 

 of Russian Baltic Provinces, Prof. B. Sresnevsky, Si ; Ob- 

 servations of Cloud-Heights and Velocities, Dr. Ilildebrands- 

 son, 105 ; Climate of Dublin, Dr. J. W. Jloore, 105 ; Royal 

 Meteorological Society, 118, 215, 334, 407, 501, 623; Ex- 

 periments on Exposure of Anemometers at Difi'erent Eleva- 

 tions, 1 18 ; the .Mildness of the Season, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 

 127: Iriilescent Clouds, E. Armitage, 127: British Rainfall 

 for November, 132 ; British Rainfall for December, 255 ; Ice- 

 fall of October 20, 1898, in Germany, Dr. W. Meinhardus, 156; 

 Where do we stand in Bruckner's VVeather Cycle ? Alex. B. 



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