Index 



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of two Meteors, M. Blakjo, 234 ; the Study of Meteor 

 Trains, Prof. Trowbridge, 328 ; Meteors observed on 

 January 2, P. Muusmann and H. Wanning, 353 ; April 

 Meteors, Jolin R. Henry, 535; the Meteors of Halley's 

 Comet, W. F. Denning, 619 



Metric and British Systems of Weights, Measures, and 

 Coinage, the Dr. F. Mollwo Perliin, 77 



Metrology : the Metric and British Systems of Weights, 

 Measures, and Coinage, Dr. F. MoHwo Perkin, 77 ; 

 Mining Tables, Dr. F. H. Hatch and E. J. N'allentine, 

 317; the Weights and Measures of International Com- 

 merce, 317; les R^cents Progrfes du Systemc m^trique, 

 Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 611 



Meunipr (Jean), Action of an Incandescent Electric Con- 

 ductor on th,' Gases which surround it, 167; L'ghting 

 wilh Incandcsccm Mamies, (s2\ 



Meyer (Andr^), Derivatives of Phenylisoxazolone, 527 



Meyer (F'ernand), Action of Gold on the Dioxide of Sodium 

 and Barium, 95 



Michael (A. D.), New Acari from New Zealand, 142 



Michaelson (Prof. W.), die Fauna Sudwest-.'\ustraliens, 

 Ergebnisse der Hamburger siidwest-australischen Forsch- 

 ungsreise, 1905, 51 



Michelson's Echelon Grating, an Early Acoustical Analogue 

 of, Prof. P. Zeeman, 247 



Micklethwait (Miss F. M. G.), Diazo-reaction in the 

 Diphenyl Series, 431 



Micrometer Observations of Phoebe, Prof. Barnard, 421 



Microscopy : Royal Microscopical Society, 46, iSS, 311, 

 454' 55' ; Photographic Plates prepared by the Lumiire 

 Starch-grain Process for Colour Photography, Conrad 

 Beck, 188 ; Two Inexpensive Microscopes, C. L. Curties, 

 188; the " V'itascope," Newton and Co., 233; "Ghost 

 Images," A. A. C. E. Merlin, 280; Microscopes of New 

 Design made by Messrs. Leitz, J. W. Ogilvy, 311 ; the 

 Construction, Theory, and Use of the Microscope, E. J. 

 Spitta, 314; New Flagellate Monad (Copromonas 

 subtilis), C. C. Dobell, 350 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Prof. W. Stratford, 374 ; Method of demonstrating the 

 Syncytial ■Appendages of the Placental Villi, Dr. Duck- 

 worth. 479 ; Mikroskopisches und physiologisches 

 Praktikum der Botanik fiir Lehrer, G. Miiller, 481 ; the 

 World of the Infinitely Small, Prof. Gruner, 543 ; Lehr- 

 buch der mikroskoplschen Technik, Dr. Bernhard 

 Rawitz, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 605 



Miers (Prof. H. A., F.R.S.), Order in which Scientific 

 Ideas should be Presented, 283 



Mikkelsen (Captain Ejnar), Return of, and the Anglo- 

 American Polar Expedition, 541 



Mill (Dr. H. R.), Rainfall of 'tlie British Isles during the 

 Past Year, 279 ; Rainfall and Water-supply, Address at 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 286 



Millais (J. G.), Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, 223 



Miller (G. S.), the Family and Genera of Bats, 91 



Millochau (G.), the Calorific Solar Radiation, 359 



Milne (Prof. John, F.R.S.), British .Association Seismology, 

 198; Recent Earthquakes, Discourse at Royal Institu- 

 tion, 592 



Milne (R. M.), a First Statics, 555 



Mimicry among South American Butterflies not connected 

 with Birds, F. T. Lewis, 467 



Minakata (Kumagusu), Early Chinese Description of the 

 Leaf-insects, 173 



Minchin (Prof. E. A.), the Development of Trypanosomes 

 in Tsetse-flies and other Diptera, 494 



Minchin (Prof. George M., F.R.S.), the Photoelectric 

 Property of Selenium, 173, 222 



Mineralogy : the Coloration of Crystallised .Mumina, F. 

 Bordas, 17; Copper in Andesite from Fiji, H. I. Jensen, 

 23 ; the Occurrence of Copper and Lithium in Radium- 

 bearing Minerals, Prof. Herbert N. McCoy, 79; Lithium 

 in Radio-active Minerals, Mile. Gleditsch. 407 ; Catalogue 

 of the Type and Figured Specimens of Fossils, Minerals, 

 Rocks, and Ores in the Department of Geology, U.S. 

 Museum, J. P. Merrill, 91 ; New Mineral Species, arising 

 from the .-Vthenian Plumbiferous Scoria of Laurium, 

 A. Lacroix and A. de Schulten, 95 ; Artificial Reproduc- 

 tion of Heavy Spar, Celestine, and .•\nglesite, Paul 

 Gaubert, 96; .Association of Helium and Thorium in 

 Minerals, Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 141 ; Hopeite and 

 other Zinc Phosphates from Broken Hill Mines, L. J. 



Spencer, 143 ; Mineralogical Society, 143, 358, 574 ; 

 Analysis of Meteoric Stone seen to' Fall on April 30, 

 1906, on the New Jersey Shore, Dr. E. Goldsmith, 

 136; Discovery of Thorianite in Ceylon, Mr. Parsons, 

 185 ; " Kimberlite " and the Source of the Diamond in 

 South Africa, Dr. F. H. Hatch, 224 ; the Sutherland 

 \'olcanic Pipes and their Relationship ro other Vents 

 in South Africa, .A. W. Rogers and A. L. du Toit, 224 ; 

 the Diamond Pipes and Fissures of South -Africa, H. S. 

 Harger, 224 ; the Occurrence in Kimberlite of Garnet- 

 pyroxene Nodules carrying Diamonds, G. S. Corstor- 

 phine, 224; Kimberlite Dykes and Pipes, F. W. Voit, 

 224; the Origin of Diamonds, F. W. \'oit, 224; the 

 Diamantiferous Rock of Kimberley, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., 248; Endeavour to apply Recent Chemical 

 Theories towards elucidating the Origin and Formation 

 of the Diamond from Quartz-bearing Rocks, Mr. Schips, 

 542 ; Geological Survey of the Eastern Portion of 

 Griqualand West, A. L. du Toit, 224 ; Leber die 

 sudafrikanischen Diamantlagerstatten, A. Macco, 224; 

 Untersuchungen iiber einige siidafrikanische Diamanten- 

 lagerstiitten, R. Beck, 224; M. Lemoine's Case, 254; 

 the Formation of certain Precious Stones of Crystallised 

 Alumina, F. Bordas, 263 ; Internal Structure of Gold 

 Crystals, Prof. A. Liversidge, 263 ; Zeolites from the 

 Neighbourhood of Belfast, F. N. A. Fleischmann, 358 ; 

 Striiverite and its Relation to Ilmenorutile, Dr. G. T. 

 Prior and Dr. F'. Zambonini, 358 ; Crystallised Sodium 

 Fluoride an Element of the Nepheline Syenites of the 

 Los Islands, Villiaumite, A. Lacroix, 359 ; Possible 

 Presence of Microscopic Diamonds on the Sea Floor and 

 in a Specimen of \'egetable Earth, J. Thoulet, 407; the 

 Weathering of Coal, Prof. S. W. Parr and N. D. 

 Hamilton, 468 ; Lehrbuch der Chemie und Mineralogie 

 fiir die vierte Klasse der Realschulen, Franz von 

 Hemmelmayr and Dr. Karl Brunner, 484 ; Thermo- 

 magnetic Analysis of Meteoric and Artificial Nickel-iron 

 Alloys, S. W. J. Smith, 574; Metamorphic Minerals in 

 Calcareous Rocks in the Bodmin and Camelford .Areas, 

 G. Barrow and H. H. Thomas, 574 ; Supplementary 

 Notes on Kaolinite, A. B. Dick, 575 ; New Form of 

 Quartz-wedge, J. W. Evans, 575 ; New Silicate of Copper 

 from the French Congo, A. Lacroix, S7S 



Minerals : Mineral Production of Canada, 3S1 ; Mineral 

 Production of Canada in 1907, 566 ; Mineral Production 

 of India during 1906, T. H. Holland, F.R.S., 400 



Minet (.Adolphe), New Electric Arc Furnace applicable to 

 Laboratory Researches, 359 



Minimising of Maurice, the, being the .Adventures of a 

 Very Small Boy among Very Small Things, Rev. S. N. 

 Sedgwick, 50S 



Mining : Origin of the Gold in the Rand Banket, Prof. 

 J. W. Gregory, 22 ; Death of M. Walton Brown, in ; 

 Labour-saving Appliances in Transvaal Mines, E. J. 

 Way, 114; the Deviation of Rand Bore-holes from the 

 Vertical, J. Kitchin, 119; Tin-mining Industry, \\'orld's 

 Production of Tin Last A'ear, A. Selwyn-Brown, 157; 

 the Concentration of Ores, A. P. Macquisten, 181 : the 

 .Assay of Telluride Ores, G. T. Holloway and L. E. B. 

 Pearse, 190 ; Product of the World's Gold Mines for the 

 Year 1906, T. F. Van \\'agenen, 280; Gold-mining for 

 the Year 1904-5 in Mysore, 301 ; Goldfields of \\'estern 

 Australia, C. G. Gibson, 400; the Great Fitzroy Copper 

 and Gold Mine, Queensland, B. Dunstan, 46S ; Progress 

 of the Kolar Gold Mines, 495 ; Electrical Equipment of 

 Gold Mines, H. J. S. Heather, 575 ; Eruptive Diamond- 

 bearing Breccias of the Boshof District, J. P. Johnson, 

 287 ; Asriferous Banded Ironstones and Associated Schists 

 of South Africa, Owen Letcher, 287 ; the Vaal River 

 Diamond Diggings, Mungo Park, 287 ; Mining Tables, 

 Dr. F. H. Hatch and E. J. Vallentine, 317; Mining in 

 Nevada, 351 ; the Waste of Life in .American Coal- 

 mining, Clarence Hall and W. O. Snelling, 419; the 

 Shaft Sinking at the Horden Colliery, South-east 

 Durham, J. J. Prest, 420; Practical Coal Mining, 457; 

 the High-level Platforms of Bodmin Moor and their 

 Relation to the Deposits of Stream-tin and Wolfram, G. 

 Barrow, 502 ; some Unsolved Problems in Metal-mining, 

 " James Forrest " Lecture at Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, Prof. Henrv Louis, 619 



Miocene Wasp, a. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 80 



