[Nature, yum- 3, 1886 



207 ; Offered the Assistant Directorship of Kew Gardens, 

 207 



Morris (John), Obituary Notice of, 248 



Morse (Prof), Japanese Homes and their Surroundings, 235 



Mortillet (M. de), Resignation of, 137 



Moseley (Prof. H. N., F. R.S.), the Continuity of the Germ- 

 Plasma considered as the Basis of a Theory of Heredity, Dr. 

 August Weismann, 154 ; Geographical Education and Natural 

 Science, 451 



Moser (Dr. fames), 61 



Mosses, Hand-book of, Jas. E. Bagnall, 557 



Motion : Effect upon the Earth's, produced by Small Bodies 

 passing near it, 210; Prof. N. Joukowsky on the Laws of, 

 349 



Motion of Projectiles, Law of the Resistance of the Air to the, 

 Rev. F. Bashforth, 604 



Mott (F. T.): November Meteors, 103; Movement of Tele- 

 graph-Wires, 366 



Mouchez (M.), on Celestial Photography, 383 



Mounds, Ancient, in Canada, 279 



Movement and Air Cure in China, the. Dr. D. ]. Macgowan, 

 465 



Movement of Telegraph-Wires, F. T. Mott, 366 



Movements of the Earth, Measurement of, with Reference to 

 Proposed Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Prof. J. A. 

 Ewing, 68 



Movements of Plants, Sensibility and, 520 



"Muir Glacier" of Alaska : Notes on the, G. W. Lamplugh, 

 299 ; Lieut. Chauncey Thomas, 441 



Mull, Isle of : Pisciculture at, 278 ; the Basalt Rocks of, J. S. 

 Gardner, 285 ; Fossil Plants from, J. Starkie Gardner, 

 334 



Mullenhoff (Dr. ), Kepler's Description of the Structure of the 

 Bee's Cell, 407, 623 



Munk (Prof. H.), on the Corpora Striata in the Pigeon, 216 



Munro (D. R.), British Lake Dwellings, 334 



Munro (Dr.) and Prof. Wrightson, Basic Cinder, 595 



Murder, Bird-, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 553 



Murphy (J. J.), Blackberry Blossoms in November, 31 ; Black- 

 bird with White Feather, 176 



Murray (G. ), Rhipilia, 478 



y?/«j ?«/w«</i/r in the Behring Straits, 137 



Mushrooms, Norwegian Toadstools, 213 



Music, South American Bird, W. H. Hudson, 199 



Mussel, the Fresh- Water, how it opens its Shell, Herr Pawlow, 

 106 



Myzostoma, New British, P. Herbert Carpenter, F.R.S., 8 



Nabriguas, Cave of, Emile Caitailhac on Human Crania found 



in, 120 

 Naga Hills, Botany of the, C. B. Clarke, 550 

 Naples, Supposed Fall of an Aerolite in. Dr. H. J. Johnston- 



Lavis, 153 

 Nasmyth (James), the Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, 



and a SateUite, 79 

 Nation, the New York, on the Private Endowment of Research, 



39 

 National Fish Culture Association, 348 

 Natural History Museum, the New Vienna, Ritter Franz von 



Hauer, 345 

 Natural Philosophy, Outlines of, J. D. Everett, 78 

 Natural Science, Geographical Education and, Prof. H. N. 



Moseley, F.R.S., 451 

 Natural Selection, Evolution without, Chas. Dixon, Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 26, 126 

 Naturalism, on the Ethics of, W. R. Sorley, 175 

 Nature and Her Servants, Theodore Wood, 150 

 Naumann (Dr.), Japanese National Survey and its ResuUs, 



617 

 Naval Observatory, Washington, 376, 494 ; Report of the 



Superintendent of the, G. E. Belknap, 330 

 Navigable Balloon, M. Renard on, 421 

 Navigation, Aerial, Dr. William Pole, F.R. S., 444 

 Nebula in Andromeda, Spectrum of the Great, 42 ; Nova 



Andromeda; and its Relation to the Great Nebula, 89, 397 

 Nebula, New, Discovery of, by Photography, 235 

 Nebula Round Maia, 425, 518 



Neesen (Prof.), Experiments on Sounding Air-Columns, 95 



Nematodes, Metamorphosis in, Von Linstow, 329 



Neptune, Observation of, occurring in Lamont's Zones, 498 



Nerves, Visceral and Vascular, the, Dr. W. H. Gaskell, 

 548 



Nettle, the Anatomy of the, A. Gravis, 363 



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



New England States, Meteorology in the, 181 



New Guinea : the Reported Massacre of the Expedition to, 44 ; 

 the Dutch Government and the Proposed Exploration of, 91 ; 

 Mr. H. O. Forbes in, 108, 280 ; Exploration of, 305 ; Dr. Otto 

 Finch's New Guinea Collection, 327 



New South Wales, Technical Education in, 462 



New York : Harbour, the Flood Rock Explosion and Earth 

 Tremors, 39 ; Pasteur Institute, 233 ; Agricultural Experiment 

 .Station for the year 1S84, Prof. John Wrightson, 243 



New Zealand: Institute, 1S7; Coleoptera, 191; Salmon and 

 Trout Ova despatched to, 376 



Newall (R.S., F.R.S.): Earthquake, 129 ; Curious Phenomenon 

 in Cephalonia, 270 



Newall (H. F.) and Prof. J. J. Thomson on the Formation of 

 Vortex Rings, 356 



Newbould (Rev. W. W.), Death of, 609 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Article on Ornithology in the 

 Encyclopedia Britannica, 121 



Newton (Prof. H. A. ), the Story of Biela's Comet, 392, 418 ; 

 Relation of Asteroid Orbits to that of Jupiter, 592 



Newton (E. T.), Tertiary Vertebrata of the West, 193 



Newton : His Friend : and His Niece, Augustus De Morgan, 

 557 



Nicobar Islanders, E. H. Man, 190 



Nikolsky, Fish-Fauna of Lake Balkhash, 327 



Nile Basin, Stone Implements and Changes of Level in the, 

 F. Archer, S. Archer, 317 



Nile Delta, on Specimens of the Deposits of the. Prof. J. W. 

 Tudd, F.R.S., 142, 317 ; Sir. J. Wm. Dawson, F.R.S., 221, 

 295. 4J7 



Nineteenth Century, Astronomy during tlie, Agnes M. Gierke, 

 Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 313 



Nipher (F. E. ), Isodynamic Surfaces of Compound Pendulum, 

 332 



Nitrification, Warington on, 63 



Nitrogen in Plants, Action of Argillaceous Clays in Fixation of 

 Free Atmospheric, Berthelot, 24 



Nitrogen in the Soil, 46 



Nival Flora of Switzerland, 206 



Nocturnal Hymenoptera of the Genus Bombus, Marquis G. 

 Doria, 392 ; Jno. C. Wilson, 4S7 ; Non-Metallics, Chemistry 

 of the. Dr. E. B. Aveling, 557 



North Borneo, Frank Hatton, 267 



Norway: the Climate of, Dr. Hesselberg, 16, 277 ; Discovery of 

 Apatite in, Enoksen, 40 ; Meteors in, 61, 397, 424 ; Norwe- 

 gian Forest Association, 88 ; Norwegian North Atlantic Ex- 

 pedition, 1876-78, Zoology, Crustacea, G. O. Sars, 148; 

 Norwegian Toadstools, Dr. Schiibeler, 213 ; " Seter, " 

 " Strandlinjer," or Parallel Roads in Central, Dr. Andr. M. 

 Hansen, 268; Jas. Melvin on, 293 ; Hugh Miller on, 318 ; 

 Palimtrus vulgaris in Norwegian Waters, 279 ; Introduction 

 of the American Trout into (Salmo foiitinalis), 611 ; Nor- 

 wegian Native Minerals Used for Fabricating Objects of Art, 

 375 ; Aurora Borealis in, 397 ; Eartliquakes in, 397, 424, 

 591 ; Ethnographical Objects at Christiania University, 424; 

 Heri'ings on the Coast of, 497 ; Fall of Meteorite in, 537 > 

 Fishery Board in, 611 



Nosiloff, New Route between Obi and Petchora Riyers, 186 



Notions Generales sur I'Eclairage Electrique, Henry Vivarez, 

 342 , 



Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Helvetique des Sciences 

 Naturelles, 70 



Nova Andromeda; and its Relation to the Great Nebula, 89 



Nova AndromedEe of 18S5 and Nova Scorpii of i860, 466 



Nova Andromed£E, Parallax of. Prof. Asaph Hall, 566 



Nova Orionis, Gore's, 235, 256 



Nova Scorpii of 1S60, Nova AndromedEe of 1885 and, 466 



November, Blackberry Blossoms in, J. J. Murphy, 31 



November Meteors : W. F. Denning, lOI ; Prof. A. .S. 

 Ilerschel, 102; Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, F.R.S., 

 Robert Leslie, and F. T. Mott, 103 ; E. F. Bates, Percy T, 

 Ingram, James Smieton, and G. J. Symons, F.R. S., 104 



