[Nature, June S, 1884 



Malan (E. de M.), Cats on the District Railway, 573 



Malay Peninsula, Geograjjhy of, 460 



Malta, Meteorological Observations at, 225 



Mammalia, Prof. Flower (Encyc. Brit.), 53 



Mammalia, Extinct, Evidence for Evolution in History of, Prof. 



E. D. Cope, 227, 248 

 Manchester: Literary and Philosophical .Society, 143, igi, 592 ; 



Report of Free Libraries, 159 

 Mangrove as a Destructive Agent, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, 



R.N., 76 

 Mansion (P.), Determinants, 378 

 Marine Zoological Laboratories, 16 

 Marine Insects, A. \V. Pearson, 184 

 Marine Engineering, Carl Busley, 426 

 Marine Station at Granton, Scottish Meteorological Society's, 



460 

 Marine Station, Edinburgh, 483 

 Marshall's Anatomy for Ai'tists, 30, 56 

 Marshall (Prof. H. D.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 310 

 Marshall (Stephen A.), Unconscious Bias in Walking, 311 

 Martin's (Joseph) Siberian Explorations, 319 

 Mascart and Joubert, Electricity and Magnetism, 74 

 Massenat (Lieut.), Discovery of Roman City in Tunis by, 15 

 Masters (Dr. Maxwell), Obituary Notice of Dr. Engelmann, 599 

 Mathematical Society, 71, 190, 278, 399, 495, 566 

 Mathematical Tables, Galbraith and Haughton's Manual of, 282 

 Mathematical Zoology, a Problem in. Protection by Mimicry, 



Capt. T. Blakiston and Thomas Alexander, 405 

 Mathematics, Annals of, 135 

 Mathematical and Physical Papers, Prof. Stokes', Prof. P. G. 



Tait, 145 

 Maynard (T. R.), Circular Rainbow seen from a Hill-top, 357 

 Measurement of Time, J. Norman I^oekyer, F. R. S., 65 

 Measures, Weights and. Report of Board of Trade, III 

 Measures, Metrical, More Convenient Equivalents for Converting 



British into, G. J. Stoney, F.R.S., 278 

 Measuring the Aurora Borealis, Dr. .Sophus Tromholt, 409 

 Measuring Heights, 526 

 Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 38 

 Mechanics, Prof. Tait (Encyc. Brit.), 52 

 Mechanics, Applied, by Prof. Bovey, A. R. Willis, 122 

 Medicine, the History of. Dr. Payne (Encyc. Brit.), 51 

 Mediterranean and Atlantic, Relative Level of, Tillo and Bour- 



dalou, 185 

 Meldola (R.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 224 

 Meldrum (R.), on the Java Eruption, 32 

 Memoria della Societa Geografica Italiana, 159 

 Memoirs, Diffusion of Scientific, 261, 311 ; Prof. Silvanus P. 

 Thompson, 171 ; W. M. Hicks, 197; Prof. P. G. Tait, 197: 

 R. T. Glazebrook, 287, 335 

 Meudon Observatory, the, 64 

 Mental Evolution in Animals, F. J. Faraday, 335, 381 ; Geo. ]. 



Romanes, F.R..S., 404 

 Meridian, First French, that of Ferro, 44 ; Universal, 183 

 Meridian, Prime, Conference, International, 367, 413 

 Merrifield (Dr.), a Treatise on Navigation, 169, 237 

 Merrifield (C. W., F.R.S.), Death of, 244 ; Obituary Notice of, 



270 

 Merrifield (Mary P.), Drs. Agardh and Rabenhorst on Alga>, 



340 

 Merv Oasis, Alikhanofif on, 585 

 Messina, Earthquake at, 272 

 Metallic Solutions, Reduction by means of Gases of, Dr. G. 



Gore, F.R.S., 255 

 Metallic Surfaces, Reflection of Light from. Sir John Conroy, 



398 

 Metals in Electrolytes, Relations of Heat to Voltaic and Therjio- 



Eleclric Action of, Dr. Gore, F.R.S., 300 

 Metamorphism among the I'evonian RocKs, 315 

 Metcalfe (A. T. ) Vertebrate Remains in Triassic Strata, 303 

 Meteorology : Distribution of Rain-Guages, 64 ; an Indian 

 Weather Forecast, 77; Meteorology in Japan, 112; the Remark- 

 able Sunsets, 130; Ben Nevis Oljservatory, 134, 342 ; Danish 

 Meteorological Expedition, 134 ; Danish Godthaab Meteoro- 

 logical Expedition, 134 ; Hamburg Meteorological Society, 

 159 ; Meteorological Observations at Malta, 225 ; Swedish 

 Meteorological Expedition, 263 ; Chinese Meteorology, Dr. 

 Doberck, 271 ; the Recent Storm, 316 ; Lena Polar Meteoro- 

 logical Station, Dr. Bunge, 318, 3S9 ; Relation of Meteorology 



to Health, 344 ; Meteorology in Sweden, 365 ; Establishment 

 of Weather Warnings on Spani^h Coast, 365 ; Sentis Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory, 413 ; Extraordinary High Tide, 413 ; 

 Composite Portraiture adapted to the Reduction of Meteoro- 

 logical and other Similar Observations, G. M. Whipple. 420 ; 

 Pic du Midi, Pyrenees, Observatory, 431 ; Marine .Station at 

 Granton, 460; German Meteorology, G. Hellmann, 523; 

 Meteorological Bibliography, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 550 ; 

 Meteorological Observatory at Carpineto-Romano, 55^ ! 

 Meteorological .Society, see Royal 



Meteors : the Observation of, W. F. Denning, 6, 56 ; and 

 Whirlwind in Sweden, 15; J. M. Hayward on, 30; at 

 Hernosand, Sweden, 44 ; Donald Cameron, 56, 123, 287 ; Rev. 

 W. Besant Lowe, 56 ; T. W. Backhouse, 104 ; F. J. Mott, 104 ; 

 Wm. Wickham, 123 ; J. B. Oldham, 123 ; H. II. Hi^gins, 

 123 ; G. M. Whipple, 148 ; and Aurora at Alfta, 159 ; at 

 Frankfort-on-Maiiie, 226 ; seen at Fort William and Berwick- 

 on-Tweed, 272 ; E. Howarth, 336 ; Unusually Bright, in 

 Western Germany, 366 ; in Sweden, 414 



Meteorite in Sweden, 437 



Meteoric Dust, L. P. Muirhead, 494 



Meteoric Stimes, on the Tran-misiion of Organ'C Germs thi'ough 

 Cosmical Space by, J. H. Stewart, 595 



Metrical Measures, More Convenient Equiv.ilents for Convert- 

 ing British into, G. J. Stoney, F.R.S., 278 



Melzger (E. ), the Krakatoa Eruption, 240; a Blue Sun, 252; 

 Cosmic Du t, 261 ; on Mining in Japan, 605 



Mexico (New), Geological Survey of, 11. M. Wilson, 272 



Meyer, Dr., Jadeite, 15 



Meyer (Prof. V.), Thiophen, 391 



Micrococcus in Cropous Pneumonia, Dr. Friedlander, 144 



Miers (H. A.), Barytes from Chirbury, 29, 124 



Mildness of the Season, the, 236 



Milne (Prof. John), Earthquakes and Buildings, 290; Catach- 

 thonic Observatory in Japan, 4x3 ; Earth Tremors, 456 



Milne-Edwards (Prof. A.), the Talisman Expedition, 197 



Mimicry, Protection by — a Problem in Mathematical Zoology, 

 Capt. T. Blakiston and Thomas Alexander, 405 



Mineral Resources of the United States, 59S 



Mineralogical Society, 24, 191, 400 



Mineralogie, Cours c3e, A. De 1. apparent, 403 



Mist, Urcling to the Left in a, \V. Larden, 262 



Modern Languages of Africa, Sketch of, Robert Needluam Cust, 

 Prof. A. H. Keane, 377 



Mobius (Prof. K.), Christian Conrad Sprengel, 406 



Moncel (Count Du), Death of, 387 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 412 



Monk Fish, the, 348 



Moncreifif (Lord), Past Hundred Vears' History of Edinburgh 

 Royal Society, 368 



Monte Video, Earthquakes in, 437 



Moutsouris Observatory, 437 



Moon, a Green, 604 ; in S«eden, 366 



Morgan, (C. Lloyd), Instinct, 370, 405 ; Geo. J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 379 



Moritzburg Collection of Deers' Horns, the, 307 



Morocco, Captain Crema's Journey to, 462 



Morton (Mr.), Ceratodus forsteri, i5 



Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S. ), Prof. Aug. Weismann on 

 Sexual Cells of Hydromedusa;, 114; Peripatus, 196 



Motion of Projectiles, E. Ristori, 572 



Mott (F. T.), Meteor, 120; Water in Australia, 311 



Mouchez (Admiral), Proposed Removal of Paris Observatory, 



374 

 Mountain Rainbows, Ice Volcanoes, A. P. Colman, 550 

 Movements of the Earth, the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 65, 



201 

 Midler (Dr. F.), C. C. Sprengel, 334 

 MiilKr (Dr. Hermahn), Memorial ti', 244 

 Miiller (H. W., F.R.S.), Strddng Distance of Electric Discharge, 



32s 

 Miiller (Hugo, F.R.S.), Researches on the Electric Dischtrge, 



349 

 Muir (M. M. P.), Julius Thomsen's Thormochemische 



Unter.suchungen, 209; General Principles of Chemistry, 



317 

 Muirhead (L. P.), Meteoric Dust, 494 

 Munk (Prof) " Experimental " Flpilepsy, 72 ; Absorption of Fat 



in Animal Body, 472 



