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INDEX. II. 
Marley (John) on the discovery of rock- 
salt in the new red sandstone at Mid- 
dlesborough, 82. 
*Marsham (Hon. R.) on two ascents of 
the volcano of Misti, 143. 
Masters (Dr. Maxwell T.) on certain in- 
fluences regulating the forms of leaves, 
&e., 97. 
Mathematical symbols, W. H. L. Rus- 
sell on a certain class of, 1. 
Matthiessen (Dr. A.) on the constitu- 
tion and rational formula of narcotine, 
46. 
Megaceros hibernicus, J. B. Jukes on 
certain markings on some of the bones 
of a, lately found in Ireland, 81. 
Men, Alfred R. Wallace on the varieties 
of, in the Malay Archipelago, 147. 
Mercurial air-pump, J. W. Swan on a, 
26. 
Meteoric fireball, Prof. Coffin on the path 
of a, relatively to the earth’s surface, 
21 
*Meteorological observations recorded at 
Huggate, Yorkshire, by Rev. T. Ran- 
kin, 25. 
Miani (Signor) on his travels towards 
the sources of the Nile, 143. 
Mica-schist and slate, H. C. Sorby on 
models illustrating contortions in, 88. 
Microlepidoptera, H. T. Stainton on the 
eneric characters furnished bythe dif- 
ferent modes of mining leaves adopted 
by the larve of, 106. 
Micrometer, H. Soleil on a new, 15. 
Middlesborough, John Marley on the 
discovery of rock-salt in the new red 
sandstone at, 82. 
Minerals, R. C. Clapham and John Da- 
glish on, found in coal-pits, 37. 
Miniature, H. Swan on a new kind of, 
possessing apparent solidity by means 
of a combination of prisms, 17. 
*Misti, volcano of, the Hon. R. Marsham 
on two ascents of the, 143. 
*Moffat (Dr.) on the connexion that 
exists between Admiral FitzRoy’s 
“caution telegrams” and the lumi- 
nosity of phosphorus, 24, 
Moigno (the Abbé), M. Soleil’s tenebro- 
scope for illustrating the invisibility 
of light, exhibited and described by, 
14; on afree air barometer and ther- 
mometer by the Abbé Jeannon, 24; 
¥*on galvanic copper, photolithography, 
and photomicroscopic specimens, 48 ; 
on Caselli’s autotelegraph, 176; on 
Bourdon and Saleron’s ‘“injecteur pour 
les corps solides,” 176; on M. Peri- 
gault de Rennes’ “yentilateur a réac- 
205 
tion,” 176; on M. Seiler’s “ balance 
aérostatique,” 176. 
Molecular motion, Dr. Zenner on impu- 
rities in lead and, 58. 
*Mollusks, nudibranchiate, A. Hancock 
on the renal organ in the, 116. 
Moon, Prof. Phillips’s researches on the, 
9 
Moon’s mean motion in longitude, Rey. 
Dr. E. Hincks on the relationship be- 
tween the variation of the excentricity 
of the-earth’s orbit and the, 6. 
Moore (Charles) on the equivalents of 
the Cleveland ironstones in the West 
of England, 83; on the organic con- 
tents of the lead-veins of Allenheads 
and other lead-veins of Yorkshire, 
83. 
Moray Firth, E. Roberts and Prof. Busk 
on the opening of a cist of the Stone 
age near the coast of the, 146. 
Mortality of Lancashire, &c., F. Purdy 
on the, during the year ended at mid- 
summer 1863, 159. 
Mundesley, Norfolk, Prof, Phillips on the 
drift-beds of, 85. 
Murchison (Sir R. I.), observations upon 
the Permian group of the N.W. of 
Kngland, 83; his address as president 
of Section EH, 126. 
Murphy (J. J.) on the distribution of 
heat on the sun’s surface, and the cur- 
rents in its atmosphere, 9, 
Murray (Dr. W.) on the investigation of 
instinctive actions, 119 
Musical sounds produced by carbon, Dr. 
T. L. Phipson on, 50. 
Narcotine, Dr. A. Matthiessen and G. C. 
Foster on the constitution and rational 
formula of, 46. 
*Naudet (M.) on a metallic or holosteric 
barometer, 24. 
Neanderthal skull, Prof. W. King on the, 
81. 
Negro, Dr. James Hunt on the physical 
and mental characters of the, 140. 
Newton (A.) on the irruption of Syr- 
rhaptes paradoxus, 105, 
New Zealand lignites, Dr. Murray 
Thomson on the composition of some, 
56. 
Nightingale (Miss), on native colonial 
schools and hospitals, from the sani- 
tary statistics of the aborigines of Bri- 
tish colonies, collected by, 155. 
*Nile, Baron yon Heuglin on his explo- 
ration of certain affluents of the, 138; 
J.A.Grant on the discovery of the 
sources of the, 157; Signor Miani on 
