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1905, delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Fran- 

 cisco, Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. J. W. W. Stephens, 

 Supp. to Mav 3, ix ; a System ol' Medicine, Supp. 10 

 October 11, viii 



Melanesia, a Plea for an Expedition to, Dr. .A. C. Haddon, 

 F.R.S., 1S7 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), American Chemists and the 

 Jubilee of the Coal-tar Colour Industry, 514 



Meldrum (Dr. Andrew N.), Avogadro and Dalton, the 

 Standing in Chemistry of their Hypotheses, 537 



Memorial to the late Prof. Tacchini, A, 417 



Mendel's (Gregor), Briefe an Carl Nageli, 1866-73, 640 



Mental .Actions, Physiological Effects of, Prof, Martius, 20 



Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty, Frederick .Adams 

 Woods, 97 



Mercanton (Paul L.), Cause of Explosion of Sealed Glass 

 Tubes Containing Radium Bromide, 253 



Mercury, the Planet, Mr. Denning, 499 



Merritt (Ernest), Studies in Luminescence, I^aw of Decay 

 of the Phosphorescence of Sidot Blende, 209 



-Meslin (Georges), Interference Effects Produced by a Grat- 

 ing Limiting a Thin Plate, 95 



Mesozoic Floras of the L'nited .States, .Status of the, Lester 



F. Ward, William M. Fontaine, .Arthur Bibbins and 



G. R. Wieland, A. C. Sewards, F.R.S., 81 

 "Metabatic," Origin of the Term, Robert E. Baynes, 56 

 Metabolism, .Animal, Problems in, J. B. Leathes, 349 

 Metabolism, On Carbohydrate, with an .Appendi.x on the 



Assimilation of Carbohydrate into I^roteid and Fat, rol- 

 lowed by the Fundamental Principles and the Treatment 

 of Diabetes Dialectically Discussed, Dr. F. W. Paw, 

 F.R.S., 631 



Metallurgy : Steel and Pig-iron Production in England, 

 Germany, and United States, 18; Electrothermics of Iron 

 and Steel, C. A. Keller, 23 ; Rotating Electric .Steel Fur- 

 nace in the Artillery Construction Works, Turin, Ernesto 

 .Stassano, 23 ; the Iron and Steel Institute, 68; Method of 

 Compressing .Steel Ingots, A. J. Capron, 68; Influence 

 of Silicon, Phosphorus, Manganese, and .Aluminium on 

 Chill in Cast-iron, E. Adamson, 68; Influence of Nearly 

 Pure Metallic Manganese .Alloyed with Varying Propor- 

 tions of nearly Pure Metallic Iron, Prof. J. O. .Arnold 

 and F. K. Knowles, 68; Use of Oxygen in Removing 

 Blast-Furnace Obstructions, C. de Schwarz, 68 ; Causes 

 of Brittle and Blistered Tin Plates, E. F. Law, 68: 

 Effect of Copper in Steel, F. H. Wigham, 69 ; Deforma- 

 tion and Fracture of Iron and Mild Steel, W. Rosen- 

 hain, 69 ; Determination of the Hardness of the Con- 

 stituents of Iron and Steel with the aid of Jaggar's 

 Microsclerometer, Dr. H. C. Boynton, 69; on the Heat 

 Treatment of Wire, J. D. Brunton, 6q ; Some Special 

 Brasses, L^on Guillet, 95 ; the Principles and Practice 

 of Iron and Steel Manufacture, Walter M.ncfarlane, 197 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of George James Snelus, 

 F.R.S., 207; Molecular Changes in Nickel Steel, C. E. 

 Stromeyer, 223 ; Deterinination of the Transformation 

 Points of some Steels by the Electrical Resistance Method, 

 P. Fournel, 288 : Smelting of Canadian Iron Ores by the 

 Electrothermic Process, Dr. E. Haanel, 311; Some 

 Scientific Centres, IX., the Metallurgical Department of 

 the Sheffield University, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 541 



Metaphysics : Immanuel Kants Grundlegung zur Met:i- 

 physik der .Sitten, 488 



Metcalf (J. H.), New Method for the Discovery of .Aste- 

 roids. 185 



Metchnikolt (Prof.), Transmission and Prophylaxis of 

 Syphilis, 62 ; Harben Lectures, 107 



Metchnikoff (EL), Researches on ihe Whitening of Fui 

 and Feathers in Winter, 95 



Meteorology: Lightning Flashes, R. '1'. .\. 1.. 8; .August 

 Rainfall, .Alex. B. MacDowall, S ; A"agaries of Lightning 

 Reproduced Experimentally, A. Hands, 23 ; Value of a 

 Projected Image of the Sun for .Meteorological Study, 

 Miss C. O. Stevens, 23 ; Royal Meteorological Society, 

 23, 94, 215; Interpretation of Meteorological Records, 

 Dr. John Aitken, F.R.S., 30; Balloons and Kites in the 

 Service of Meteorology, W. H. Dines, F.R.S., 35 ; 

 .Atmospheric Circulation and its Relation to Weather, 

 Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 38; Normal General Circu- 

 lation of the .Atmosphere at the Surface and in the 



Upper Air, and the Relation of Temperature and Rain- 

 fall to the General Circulation and Local Disturbances, 

 Dr. W. N. Shaw, 63 ; Exploration of the Upper .Air 

 over the Atlantic North of the Tropic of Cancer, Prof. 

 H. Hergesell, 40 ; Climate of Pamplemousses, Mauri- 

 tius, 64 ; Fall of Dust on February 6 in Italy, Dr. F. 

 Eredia, 64; Weather Report for Week Ending Saturday, 

 May 19, 86; the Thunder-Squall of February 8, 1906, 

 R. G. K. Lempfert, 94 ; Measurement of the Earth Air 

 Current, and the Origin of Atmospheric Electricity, 

 C. T. K. Wilson, 94 ; Report of the Director of the 

 Meteorological Officer upon an Inquiry into the relation 

 between the Estimates of Wind-Force according to .Ad- 

 miral Beaufort's Scale, and the Velocities recorded by 

 Anemometers belonging to the Office, G. C. Simpson, 

 Sir G. H. Darwin, W. H. Dines, and Commander 

 Hepworth, 106 ; Weekly Weather Report for the Period 

 ending May 26, no; Rainfall, Pr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S.. 

 no; Egyptian Meteorological Report for the A'ear 1903, 

 no; the" Green Ray," Prof. Rambaut, in ; a Horizontal 

 Rainbow, W Schaffers, 125 ; Sixteen years' Observations 

 on the Relation of Temperature and Rainfall to the 

 .Spread of Scarlatina, Measles, and Typhoid Fever, R. 

 Sydney Marsden, 142 ; Miiller-Pouillets Lehrbuch der 

 Physik und Meteorologie, 147 ; Thermometer Scales. 

 R. T. .A. Innes, 150; Weekly Weather Report for the 

 Period ending June 9, 156 ; the Life-history of Surface 

 Air-currents ; a Studv of the Surface Trajectories of 

 Moving Air, Dr. W. 'N. Shaw, F.R.S., and R. G. K. 

 Lempfert, 162 ; Rainfall A'alues at CoUegio Romano for 

 Eighty-one Years, Dr. F. Eredia, 184; Weather Report 

 for Week Finding June 16, 184; Meteorological Observa- 

 tions at .Stonyhurst College for 1905, 186 ; Report of the 

 .Sonnblick .Station for 1905, 186 ; Meteorology of India 

 for 1904, 186; Report of the Government Observatory, 

 Bombay, 186; Report of the Meteorological Department 

 of the Transvaal for 1905, 186 ; Temperature of Fresh- 

 water Lochs of Scotland, with special reference to Loch 

 Ness, E. M. Wedderburn, 191 ; a Remarkable Lightning 

 Discharge, Sir Edward Fry, P.C., F.R.S., 198; Mean 

 Prevalence of Thunderstorms in British Islands, 1881- 

 1905, F. J. Brodie, 215; Typical Squall at Oxshott, 

 May 25, 1906, W. H. Dines, 215; Rainstorm of June 28, 

 228 ; Hollow Lightning Conductor Crushed by the I'is- 

 charge. Prof. J. A. Pollock and S. H. Barraclough, 230; 

 Results of Recent Rainfall Investigations, W. Gallen- 

 kamp, 230 ; the Great Typhoon in the Philippine Islands 

 in September, 1905, Rev. M. S. Mata, 232 ; the .Meteoro- 

 logy of the Free Atmosphere, L. Teisserenc de Bort, at 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, 255 ; some Facts about the 

 Weather, William .Marriott, 295 ; the Hottest Weather 

 this Summer, 303 ; Weekly Weather Report, 303 ; 

 Meteorological Reports, 308 ; Summary of the Tempera- 

 ture Conditions at Chemulpo. H. Mukasa, 308 ; the 

 Management of the Wet-bulb Thermometer, T. Okado, 

 308; Observations at Bulawayo, 1897-1904, Rev. E. 

 Goetz, 308 ; Observations in South .Australia during 1902 

 and 1903, Sir Charles Todd, 308 ; Report of the Govern- 

 ment Astronomer of Natal for the A'ear 1905, 308 ; Report 

 on Ihe Rain of the Nile Basin in 1905, Captain H. G. 

 Lyons, 308; the Physiography of the River Nile and its 

 Basin, Captain H. G. Lyons, 461 ; Report of the Fal- 

 mouth Observatory Committee, 309 ; Rainfall Observ- 

 ations at Dehra Dun for Thirty-six Years, 1868-1903, 

 309 ; Barometric \"arialions of Long Duration over Large 

 Areas, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 352 ; Abnormal Fea- 

 tures of the Weather of the Past Half-year, Dr. Walker, 

 369 ; the International Balloon Ascents of April 5 and 

 May 3, 384 ; Meteorological Observatory at Tokio, 

 Results for 1904-5, 384 ; the Determination of the Size 

 of Cloud Components from the Phenomena of Optical 

 Meteorology, Dr. J. M. Pernter, 416; Meteorological 

 Kites in India, 448: Meteorological Observations in the 

 Philippine Islands during 1903, 450 ; Refraktionstafein, 

 Dr. L. de Ball, 465 ; the Week's Weather, 472 ; Prac- 

 tical Meteorology, 477 ; Meteorological Chart of the 

 North Atlantic and .Mediterranean for September, 478 ; 

 Limnographic Apparatus and Measurements on Loch 

 Earn, Prof. Chrystal, 483 ; Weather for the Week ending 

 September 8, 498; Weather conditions during June and 



