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INDEX. 



Magnetite, the electric resistance of, 

 ■ Prof. S. P. Thompson on, 314. 



Magnus (Sir P.) on manual training, 

 748. 



Main (P. T.) on our experimental know- 

 ledge of the properties of matter with 

 respect to volume, pressure, tempera- 

 ture, and specific heat, 100. 



Manganese mining in Merionethshire, 

 Dr. C. Le Neve Foster on, 665. 



Man's lost incisors, Prof, Windle and J. 

 Humphreys on, 688. 



Manual training. Sir P. Magnus on, 748. 



Marcoartu (Don A. de), the resources 

 and progress of Spain during the last 

 tifty j'ears of representative govern- 

 ment in connection with the British 

 Empire, 784. 



Marine biological station at Granton, 

 Scotland, report of the Committee for 

 promoting the establishment of a, 251. 



Markham (C), on the desirability of 

 further research in the Antarctic 

 regions, 277. 



Marr (J. E.), on the lower palaeozoic 

 rocks near Settle, 663. 



Marshall (Prof.), on the investigation of 

 certain physical constants of solution, 

 especially the expansion of saline 

 solutions, 207. 



Marshall (Prof. A. M.) on the occupation 

 of a table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 254. 



Marshall (W. P.) on American and Eng- 

 lish railways in reference to couplings, 

 buffers, and gauge, with a suggested 

 improvement in couplings, 802. 



* Marsupial bones. Prof. Thompson on, 

 711. 



Marten (E. B.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 235 ; the Birming- 

 ham canal, 772 ; the Stourbridge canal, 

 773 ; boiler explosions, 823 ; the drain- 

 age of surface works in the South 

 Staffordshire mines, 824. 



Martin (J. B.), Address to the Section of 

 Economic Science and Statistics, by, 

 737. 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. S.) on the teaching 

 of science in elementary schools, 278. 



*Mason (J. E.), the Fiji Islands, 731. 



Masters (Dr. M. T.), note on the floral 

 symmetry of the genus Cypripedium, 

 706. 



Mathematical and Physical Section, 

 Address by Prof. G. H. Darwin to the, 

 511. 



Mathematical theory of banking, the, by 

 F. Y. Edgeworth, 777. • 



*Mathews (C. E.), the water supply of 

 Birmingham, 817. 



Mathews (W.) on the Halesowen dis- 

 trict of the South Staffordshire coal- 

 field, 625. 



Matter, first report on our experimental 

 knowledge of the properties of, with 

 respect to volume, pressure, tempera- 

 ture, and specific heat, by P. T, Main, 

 100. 



Meacham (F. G.) and H. Insley, notes 

 on the rocks between the thick coal 

 and the trias north of Birmingham 

 and the old South Staffordshire coal- 

 field, 626. 



Meade (R.), statistics of the production 

 and value of coal raised within the 

 British Empire, 646. 



Mechanical Section, Address by Sir J. N. 

 Douglass to the, 786. 



Medusa, a peculiar, from St. Andrews 

 Bay, note on, by Prof. Mcintosh, 710. 



Meldola (Prof. R.) on the work of the 

 Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 285. 



Mercurial air-pump, a, by J. T. Bottom- 

 ley, 519. 



Metal tubes, J. Robertson on the manu- 

 facture of, 810. 



Metamorphism in rocks, a contribution to 

 the discussion of, by Rev. A.Irving, 658. 



Meteorological observations on Ben 

 Nevis, report of the Committee for co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society in making, 58. 



Meteorological observatory near Chep- 

 stow, third report of the Committee 

 for co-oiDerating witli Mr. E. J. Lowe 

 in his project of establishing a, on 

 a permanent and scientific basis, 139. 



Micro-organisms, the distribution of, in 

 the air of town, country, and buildings, 

 by Dr. P. F. Frankland, 704. 



■ , the multiplication and vitality of 



certain, pathogenic and otherwise, by 

 Dr. P. F. Frankland, 702. 



Migration of birds, report on the, 264. 



*Miles (Rev. T.), the honey bee verms 

 Darwinism, 695. 



Mill (Dr. H. R.), report on the work done 

 at the marine biological station at 

 Granton, Scotland, 253 ; on the tem- 

 perature of the River Thurso, 530 ; on 

 the chemistry of estuary water, 598 ; 

 river entrances, 731 ; configuration of 

 the Clyde water system, 732. 



Miller (H.) on the classification of the 

 carboniferous limestone series : North- 

 umbrian type, 675. 



Miller's portable torsion magnetic meter, 

 exhibition and description of, by Prof. 

 J. Blyth, 556. 



Milne (Prof. J.) on lihe volcanic phe- 

 nomena of Japan, 413. 



Mineral district of Western Shropshire, 

 C. J. Woodward on the, 665. 



Molecular structure and biological action, 

 the connection between. Dr. J. Blake 

 on, 687. 



