Nahire,Juiic 9, 1S87] 



Medland's Cabinet for Microscope- Slides, 15S 



MedlicoU (H. B.), the Use of the Bengalis in the Geological 

 Survey of India, 472 



Medusa, \e\v Rhizostomatous, J. Walter Fewkes, 451 



Medusa", Report on the, J- Walter Fewkes, 377 



Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 421 ; First 

 Meeting of the London Commission, 518 



Melinite, the New Gun-powder, Accident with, 472 



Melvill (J. C), on Conns gloria maris, 230 



Men, Longevity of Great, Joseph Jasfrow, 10 



Mendenhall (Prof T. C), Report on the Charleston Earth- 

 quake, 31 



Mental Straining in Young Persons, Bad Results of, 495 



Mercadier ;M.), Death of, 306 



Mercer (John, F. R.S.), the Life and Labours of, Edward A. 

 Parnell, Prof T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 145 



Mercury, Mass of, Herr Backlund, 85 



Mercury, on the Physical Properties of, 120 



Merrill (Prof. Geo. P.), Deposits of Volcanic Dust, 174 



Metal Films arising from the Disruption of a Kathode, B. 

 Dessau, 333 



Metal Plates, on the Deformation of, by grinding, 333 



Metallic Propionates, 551 



Metals and Alloys, Colours of. Prof. W. Chandler Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 106 



Metastasis in Man, Effect of Alcohol on, 383 



Meteoric Iron from Augusta County, Virginia, 381 



Meteoric Iron, Mazapil, William Earl Hidden, 572 



Meteorites, Iron : on the Crystalline Structure of, O. W. 

 Huntington, 16 ; a Fossil found in Coal, Dr. Gurlt, 36 ; 

 on the Crystalline Structure of Iron Meteorites, O.W. Hunting- 

 ton, 93 ; on the Explosion of, M. Hirn, 303 ; Coahuila, 

 O. W. Huntington, 451 



Meteorology : Algiers Observatory, 16 ; High Temperature in 

 October, Chas. Harding, iS ; Investigations into Thunder- 

 storms of July 1SS4, Prof. Bomstein, 24; Prof von Helmholtz 

 on the Formation of a Thunderstorm, 24 ; Sea-Level and 

 Ocean- Currents, Prof J. S. Newberry, 35 ; the Squall that 

 capsized H.M.S. Etuydice, Hon. K. Abercromby, 36; the 

 Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas, Dr. Doberck, 36 ; the 

 Recent Weather, 198; F. T. Mott, 173; William Ingram, 

 173 ; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 54 ; the Climate of Carlisle, 

 F. G. Benn, 9S;the Gale of October 15-16, 1S86, C. Harding, 

 95 ; Remarkable Phenomenon in Norway, 159 ; the Hong 

 Kong Observatory, 229 ; Meteorological Conditions at the 

 Time of the Eruption of Mount Tarawera, New Zealand, 

 Capt. F. W. Hutton, 322 ; a Few of our Weather Terms, 

 Rev. W. Clement Ley, 323 ; Low Barometric Readings, 

 Henry F. Blanford, 344 ; Army Signal Service in the United 

 States, 349 ; Comparison of the Daily Forecast issued by the 

 Meteorological Office for the Midland District with the Actual 

 Weather experienced in 1886, G. T. Ryves, 350 ; Exhibition 

 of Marine Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus, 352 ; 

 Exhibition of Marine Meteorological Instruments, 443, 491 ; 

 Meteorological Society, 3S4, 504 ; Scottish Meteorological 

 Society, 355 ; Berlin Meteorological Society, 360 ; Adminis- 

 tration Report of the Meteorological Department, India, 365 ; 

 Atlantic Weather Charts, 469 ; Blue Hill Meteorological 

 Observatory, U.S., 472 ; West Indian Meteorological Con- 

 federation, Maxwell Hall, 4S5 ; Marine Temperature Obser- 

 vations, Dr. H. K. Mill, 527 ; Meteorological Stations 

 established by It.alian Meteorological Society, 612 ; Areas of 

 High Pressure, Elias Loomis, 621 



Meteors, 58, 224 ; Joseph John Murphy on a,J 8 ; Rev. John 

 Hoskyns-Abrahall, 29 ; E. Parry, 29 ; Meteor, November 17, 

 1886, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 76 ; W. F. Denning, loi jiVIeteor 

 of December 28, 1SS6, W. F. Denning, 248 ; Brilliant Meteor 

 seen on Ihe South-West Coast of Sweden, 112; at Holme- 

 strand, 352 ; in Dalcarlia, Central Sweden, 495 ; in Central 

 Norway, 443 ; in Vferdalen, Norway, 612 ; April Meteors, 

 W. F. Denning, 606 ; Meteors and Auroras, Dr. M. A. 

 Veeder, 126 



Method of measuring the Mutual Induction of Two Coils, 478 



Methyl Alcohol, Thermal Properties of, William Ramsay and 

 Sydney Young, 358 



Methylal, on the Physiological Action of, 336 



Metre, the Measure of the, W. de Fonvielle, 388 



Metronome, Electrical, established at the Paris Opera House, 

 '58 



Metronome, New, 479 



Metzger (Jos. M.) and J. S. Hay, Earthquake in Sierra Leone, 



141 

 Mexican Codices and Graven Inscriptions, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, 



307, 328 

 Miall (L. C), the Structure and Life-History of the Cockroach, 



Michaelis (E.), an Ice Period in the Altai Mountams, 149 

 Michigan, University of, Proposed School of Hygiene at, 377 

 Microbe of Yellow Fever, 528 



Microscopy : Medland's Cabinet for Microscope-Slides, 158 ; 

 Flagellated Protozoa in Animals' Blood, Dr. Crookshank, 

 191 ; Microscope, on a Perspective, G. J. Birch, 358 ; Size 

 of Ancient Microscopes, 359 ; the Value of the New Apo- 

 chromatic Lenses, 467 ; the Watson-Draper Microscope, 550 ; 

 Studies in Microscopical Science, A. C. Cole, 568 

 Micro-organisms in Atmosphere, New Method for the Quanti- 

 tative Estimation of, Dr. P. F. Frankland, 188 

 Micro-organis'Tis obtained from Air, some New, G. C. Frank- 

 land and Dr. Percy F. Frankland, 477 

 Midden, Kitchen, at Ginnerup, Denmark, H2 

 Middlemiss (C. S.), Top-shaped Hailstones, 413 

 Middlesex County Natural History Society, 167, 335, 454 

 Middlesex, North- West, PalEeolithic Man in, J. A. Brown, 



554 . . 



Migration of Primitive Peoples, 205 



Mill (Dr. H. R. ), Marine Temperature Observations, 527 



Milne (Prof John), Volcanoes of Japan, 19 ; Seismometry in 

 Japan, 36 : Sounding a Crater, 152 ; Important Points in the 

 History of Earthquake Investigation in Japan, 559 



Mineralogy : O. W. Huntington on the Crystalline Structure of 

 Iron Meteorites, 16 ; Mineralogical Soeiety, 382 ; the Rela- 

 tions between Geology and the Mineralogical Sciences, Prof. 

 John W. Judd, F.R.S., 392, 414 ; Mineral Resources of the 

 United States, 401 ; Mineralogical Magazine, 423 ; Catalogue 

 of Minerals in the Australian Sluseum, 4S5 ; the Relation of 

 Tabasheer to Mineral Substances, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 

 488 ; Mineralogical Study of the Fort Duncan Meteoric Iron, 

 528 ; Constituents of Mineral Naphthas, 552 ; Mineral 

 Physiology and Physiography, Thos Sterry Hunt, 578 



Mines, Royal School of, and Normal School of Science, Colonel 

 J. F. D. Donnelly, 271 



Minister of Education, Necessity for a, 481 



Minor Planets : No. 262, 497 ; No. 264, 353 ; No. 265, M. 

 Bigourdan, 474 ; New, Prof. C. H. F. Peters, 59, 282 ; Herr 

 Palisa, 59, 425 ; Names of, 207, 569 ; Observations of, 312 



Miocene Vertebrate Fauna, 383 



Mitteilungen of the Vienna Geographical Society, 446 



Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens, 612 



Mittheilungen of the Zurich Antiquarian Society, 423 



Modern War- Ships, W. H. White, 306 



Modigliani (Dr. E.), Excursion to Island of Nias, 60 ; Explora- 

 tion of Nias, Prof. Henry H. Giglioli, 259, 342 



Moduli of Alloys, 333 



Moissan's Researches on Isolation of Fluor, 71 



Moluccas, Proposed Geographical and Geological Exploration 

 of the. Prof. Kan, 182 



Monaco (Prince Albert of), Experiments made to determine 

 the Direction of the North Atlantic Currents, 288 



Monck (W. H. S.) : Astronomical Theory of the Great Ice 

 Age, 7 ; Brightness and Mass of Binary Stars, 402 



Mongalla, Lieut. Baert's Journey up the, 446 



Monotremata and Marsupialia, Embryology of, W. H. Cald- 

 well, 524 



Montagne Noire, French Pyrenees, Age of the Upheaval of, 



551 



Montgaudier Cave, the, 119 



Moon, New Map of the, 58 



Moore's (Thos. ) Botanical Collections acquired for the Herbarium, 

 Kew Gardens, 495 



Moreland (Prof S. T.), Lunar Halos, 414 



Morgan (Prof C. Lloyd) : the Beetle in Motion, 7 ; Abnormali- 

 ties in the Vertebral Column of the Common Frog, 53 ; Super- 

 normal Psychology, 290 ; Abnormality in the Urostyle of the- 

 Common Frog, 344 ; Scorpion Virus, 534 



Morley (Frank), Rule for escaping a Danger, 345 



Morley (John), Study of Literature, 422 



Morphiomaniacs, Characteristics of the Pulse in, 528 



Morphology of Birds, Prof. W. K. Parker, F.R.S., 331 



