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REPORT — 1871. 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. Story), localities of 

 dioptase, 74 ; on andrewsite, 75. 



Mathematical and Physical Science, 

 Address by the President, Prof. Tait, 

 to the Section of, 1. 



Mathematical theory of atmospheric 

 tides, the Rev. Prof. Challis on the, 

 51. 



Matter, kinetical theory of, T. M. Lind- 

 say and W. E,. Smith on Democritus 

 and Lucretius, a question of priority 

 in the, 30. 



■ , speculations on the continuity of 



the fluid state of, and the relations 

 between the gaseous, the liquid, and 

 solid states, by Prof. J. Thomson, 30. 



Mechanical Science, Address by the 

 President, Prof. Fleeming Jenkin, to 

 the Section of, 225. 



Meg-alithic circles, Lieut,-Ool. F. Leslie 

 on, 154. 



*Meikle (James) on the mode of asses- 

 sing for the poor-rates, 213. 



*Meki'an, Capt. B. Lovett on the inte- 

 rior of, 180. 



* , Major Eoss on a journey through, 



189. 



Menteath (P. W. Stuart) on the origin 

 of volcanoes, 104. 



Men-ifield (C. W.) on certain families 

 of surfaces, 18. 



Merse, Dr. Beddoe on the anthropology 

 of the, 147. 



Metals, JP. Braham on the crystallization 

 of, by electricity, 67. 



*Metrical measures, G. J. Stoney on the 

 relation between British and, 222. 



Miall (L. 0.), further experiments and 

 remarks on the contortion of rocks, 

 106. 



*Michell (W. D.), is the stone age of 

 Lyell and Lubbock as yet at all pro- 

 ven ?, 155. 



Microzymes {Bacterid), Di: B. Sanderson 

 and i)r. Ferrier on the origin and dis- 

 tribution of, in water, and the cir- 

 cumstances which determine their ex- 

 istence in the tissues and liquids of the 

 living body, 125. 



Miles (Capt.) on the Somali coast, 186. 



Miller (John) on the so-called hyoid 

 plate of the Asferolepis of the Old 

 Red Sandstone, 106. 



Milne-Home (D.) on the consei-vation 



of boulders, 107. 

 ' Mimicry ' in plants, Prof. Thiselton 



Dyer on the so-called, 128. 

 *Mitchell (W. S.), further remarks on 

 the denudation of the Bath oolite, 

 107. 



Moab, E. H. Palmer on the geogi'aphy 

 of, 187. 



*Moabite stone. Dr. Ginsburg on further 

 disclosures of the, 179. 



Mock Sims observed in Ireland, W. A. 

 Traill on, 56. 



Mofiat (Dr. T.) on ozonometry, 76; on 

 geological systems and endemic dis- 

 ease, 107. 



Moggiidge (M.)' on bones and flints 

 found in the caves at Mentone and 

 the adjacent railway-cutting, 155. 



*Moigno (the Abb6), poste photogra- 

 phique, 44. 



Molecidar arrangement of the alloy of 

 silver and copper, W. C. Roberts on 

 the, employed for the British silver 

 coinage, 80. 



Moon, W. Pengelly on the influence of 

 the, on the rainfall, 55. 



*Moral sense, the Rev. Dr. M'Cann on 

 the origin of the, 155. 



More (A. G.) on Spiranthes Romanzo- 

 viana, Cham., 129; on Eriophorum 

 alpimim, Linn., as a British plant, 

 129 ; on the occurrence of brown trout 

 in salt water, 133 ; on some di-edgings 

 in Kenmare Bay, 133. 



Morphine, Prof Delfts on the detection 

 of, by iodic acid, 69. 



*Morris (Rev. F. 0.) on encroachments 

 of the sea on the east coast of York- 

 shire, 187. 



Morrison (J. D.) on a new system of 

 warming and ventilation, 240. 



Morse printing telegraph. Prof. Zenger 

 on a new key for the, 48. 



Mossman (S.) on the immdation and 

 subsidence of the Yang-tsze river, in 

 China, 187. 



Mom-ne Mountains and Slieve Croob, 

 Prof. Hull and W. A. Traill on the 

 relative ages of the gj-anitic, plutonic, 

 and volcanic rocks of the, 101. 



*Muir (Pattison) on an antimony-ore 

 from New Zealand, 76. 



Mm-iatic acid, the Rev. H. Highton on 

 a method of presei-ving food by, 73. 



Murie (Dr. J.) on the development of 

 fungi withinthe thorax of living birds, 

 129 ; on the systematic position of 

 Sivatheriuin (jigantetim, 108. 



*Murray (J. Wolfe), note on a cross 

 traced upon a hill at Cringletie, near 

 Peebles, 156. 



Muscular activity, E. R. Lankester on 

 the existence of ha9moglobin in the 

 muscular tissue, and its relation to, 140. 



Muscular and pidmonary tissue in health 

 and in phthisis, Dr. W. Marcet on the 



