Nature, June 3, 1886] 



Meldola (Raphael) and William White, Report on the East 

 Anglian Earthquake of April 22, 1884, 265 



Meldometer, the, Prof. J. Joly, 15 



Meldrum (C., F.R.S.), Meteor Shower at the Mauritius, 

 276 



Melsens (Prof.), Death of, 609 



Melvin (J as. ), Parallel Roads in Norway, 293 



Mendenhall (Prof.), Attempts to obtain Records of Eai'th 

 Tremors from Flood Rock E.xplosion, 39 



Menier's (M.), Speculation in Electric Lighting, 88 



Mercadier (E. ), Telemicrophonic Instruments, 336 



Mercurial Bath, a New, 311 



Mercury, on the Expansion of, 575 



Mercury, on the Vapour-Pressures of, Ramsay and Young, 

 165 



Merriman (Mansfield), a Text-Book on the Method of Least 

 Squares, 51 



Merv Oasis, 520 



Mestorf's (Fraulein) Hand-book of the Prehistoric Antiquities 

 of Schleswig-Holstein, 536 



Metamorphosis in Nematodes, Von Linstow, 329 



Metals in Diluvial Clay, Remarkable Discovery of Rare, Dr. 

 Strohecker, 461 



Metals, the Internal Friction of, Herbert Tomlinson, 549 



Meteoric Dust, Father Denza, Hon. R. Abercromby, l6 



Meteorite Found in Tennessee, W. P. Blake, 332 ; Fall of, in 

 Norway, 537 



Meteorology : in China, P6re Dechevrens, 17 ; in Austria, 40 ; 

 Contributions to, Elias Loomis, LL. D., 49 ; Meteorology, 

 61 ; Dr. Hellmann on Mountain Meteorological Observa- 

 tories, 72 ; Typhoon, Origin of British Weather, Henry 

 Harries, 95 ; Meteorological Society, 96, 624 ; Rainfall at 

 Ken Nevis Observatory, 159, 347 ; M. Yurgcns's Report on 

 Meteorology of Russia, 16 1 ; in the New England States, 



181 ; Proposed Mountain Meteorological Station in Mexico, 



182 ; Influence of Forests on Climate, Dr. A. Woeikof, 190 ; 

 Great Stornr at Partenkirchen, 190 ; Tracing a Typhoon to 

 Europe, 205 ; H. F. Blanford on the \Vinter Rains of 

 Northern India, 234 ; Meteorological Phenomena, H. Toyn- 

 bee, 245 ; Capt. T. Mackenzie, 245 ; Chas. West, 245 ; John 

 C. Willis, 319; Rainfall of Singapore, 302; Thunderstorms 

 in Italy, 302 ; Exhibition of Barometers at the Meteorological 

 Society, 347 ; Snow-Covering and the Weather, Dr. Woeikof, 

 379 ; Berlin Meteorological Society, 384, 408 ; Tableaux- 

 Resumes des Observations Meteorologiques faites a Bruxelles, 

 h. Lancaster, 390 ; the Weather, 447 ; Extraordinary Dry- 

 ness of the Air, 464 ; Proposed Meteorological Observatory 

 on the Loochoo Islands, 496 ; the Recent Weather, Capt. 

 Henry Toynbee, 513; the Exhibition of Meteorology, 515; 

 Weather in South Australia, Stevenson's Thermometer Screen, 

 Clement L. Wragge, 533; Continental Information, 610; 

 Observations in the Straits Settlements, 610 ; Cuthbert E. 

 Peek's Second Report of the Rousdon Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory, 610 ; Respective Heights of Meteorological Stations 

 of Europe, Dr. Breitenlohner, 610 ; Royal Meteorological 

 Society. See Royal 



Meteors : in Norway, 61, 397, 424, 590 ; November, W. F. 

 Denning, loi ; Prof A. S. Herschel, 102 ; Admiral Sir 

 Erasmus Ommanney, F.R.S., 103; Robert Leslie, loj ; F. 

 T. Mott, 103 ; E. F. Bates, 104 ; Percy T. Ingram, 104 ; 

 James Smieton, 104; G.J. Symons, F.R.S., 104; Brilliant 

 Meteor, John Stevenson, 176 ; Meteor Showers, 184 ; at the 

 Mauritius, C. Meldrum, F. R.S., 276 ; a Meteor, W. Ainslie 

 Hollis, 245 ; Remarkable, 278 ; seen at Sutton, Surrey, 301 ; 

 seen near Barnstaple, 327; Vessel set on Fire by, \i(> \ in 

 Siberia, 591 ; Meteoric Display of November 27, 524 



Method of Least Squares, a Text-Book on the, Mansfield 

 Merriman, 51 



Metric or English Measures?, 9 



Mexico, Proposed Mountain Meteorological Station in, 182 ; 

 Volcanic Eruption in, 327 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Prehistoric Settlements of Gurir.a, 517; on 

 the Prehistoric Necropolis of Hallstatt, 517 ; Album of Phil- 

 ippine Types, 591 



Meyer (General), on the Transcaspian Region, 186 



Meyer's (Von), Apparatus for Determining Densities, 63 



Michael (A. D.), on the Nymphal Stage of Tegeoci-aniis lephci- 

 forniis, 119 



Micro-Chemical Reactions, MM. Klement and Renard, 566 



Micro-Organisms, on the Action of Sunlight on, Arthur Downes, 



M.D., 357 

 Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology, Methods of Research 



in, C. O. Whitman, 243 

 Microscopical Examination, 9 

 Microscope, Water-, D'Arsonval's, Crisp, 70 

 Microscope, Riddell's Binocular, J. Mayall, jun., 71 

 MicroscojHcal Society. See Royal 

 Microskopische Reactionen, Dr. Haushofer, 174 

 Middlemiss (C. S.), Sound-Producing Apparatus of the Cicadas, 



582 . I 



Middleton(R. Morton), the Viper ( K/yit-ra feraj, L.), 176 

 Migration of Marine Fishes on the Coast of Venezuela at Cari'i- 



pano, on some Interesting Cases of. Dr. A. Ernst, 321 

 Military Signalling, Bruce's System of, 41 

 Milky Way, Photographs of, 311 

 Millar(W. J.), an Introduction to the Differential and Integral 



Calculus, with Examples of Application to Mechanical Pro- 

 blems, 99 

 Millardet and Gayon, Lime and Sulphate of Copper, Treatment 



of the Vine, 95 

 Miller (Hugh), Parallel Roads in Norway, 318 

 Mills (Edmund J.), Variable Stars, 440, 514 

 Mills, Sea, at Argostoli, J. Lloyd Thomas, 129 ; L. Frieiler- 



ichsen and Co., 154 

 Milne (Rev. J. J.), Solutions of Weekly Problem Papers, 



391 

 Milne (Prof John), an Earthquake Invention, 438 ; Seismology 



in Japan, 465 

 Mimicry in a Neuropterous Insect, Dr. E. R. Johnson, 365 

 Mincralogical .Society, 23, 168 

 Mineralogy in Norway, 40 

 Mineralogy, Rudiments of, Alex. Ramsay, 316 

 Mines, Coal-Dust Explosions in, 197 

 Mines Commission Report, 568 

 Mines, the Explosion at the Mardy, 208 

 Minor Planets, Discovery of, Herr Palisa, 5^7 

 Mississippi, Discovery of the Source of the, Henry Gannett, 221 

 Mist Bow, 366 



Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Report of, 590 

 Mithun, the, S. E. Peal, 7 



Mittheilungen of Vienna Geographical Society, 44, 2S1 

 Mittheilungen der Naturfor.-.chenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 



47. 473 



Mobius (Dr. Karl), Resting Position of Oysters, 52 



Models Illustrative of Phyllotaxis, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 

 F.R.S., 176 



Models for Instruction in the M.agnetism of Iron Ships, on the 

 Use of, 587 



Mole, on the Development of the, Walter Heape, 547 



Molecular Constitution of a Solution of Cobaltous Chloride, 

 Prof. W. J. Russell, F.R.S., 21 



MolecuUr Equivalents, Prof. F. Guthrie, F.R.S., 21 



Molecular Physics, 330 



Molecular Structure, Friction and, Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 

 154 ; Col. C. K. Bushe, 199 



Molecular Weights, 20; of Salts, S. U. Pickering, 21; of 

 Solids and Salts in Solution, Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 

 21 ; Cryoscopic Method of Determination of, Raoult, 120 



Molecules, the Size of. Prof. A. W. Reinold, F.R.S., 20 



Moller (M.), Return of, 91 



Monatsschrift fiir den Orient, 91 



Monge Reinstated in His Rights by Prof. Beman of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, U.S., and Boole Justified, Prof. J. J. 

 Sylvester, F.R.S., 581 



Montsouris, Observatory at, 424 



Moon, on the Photogr.aphing the Corona of the, in Full Sun- 

 shine, 42 ; Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, 

 James Nasmyth, 79 ; Temperature of the Surface of the, 210, 

 2It 



Morgan (Prof. C. Lloyd), on the Sound-Producing Apparatus 

 of the Cicadas, 368 ; the Springs of Conduct, an Essay in 

 Evolution, Dr. Geo. J. Rom.anes, F. R.S., 436 



Morley (Dr. H. Forster), Outlines of Organic Chemistry 

 Dr. F. R. Japp, F.R.S., 435 ; a Correction, 461 



Morphologisches Jahrbuch (Gegenbaur's), 473 



Morren (Prof. C. J. Edward), Death of, 423 ; Obituary Notice 

 of, 446 ; on the Sensibility and Movements of Plants, 520 



Morris (D.), and the Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica, 



