INDEX II. 



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mic distillation of gas from cannel- 

 coal, 69. 



•M'Cann (the Rev. Dr. J.) philosophical 

 objection to Darwinism or evolution, 

 151. 



Machaii'odus latidens, W. PengeUy on 

 the alleged discovery of, in Kent's 

 Cavern, 99. 



Madecasees, C. Staniland Wake on race- 

 affinities of the, 151. 



Magellan, Strait of, Dr. R. O. Cunning- 

 ham on the flora of the, 112. 



. , Straits of, and the passages 



leading northward to the Gulf of 

 Penas, Capt. R. C. MajTie on the, 

 164. 



Magnus (Prof. Gustav) on the absorp- 

 tion, emission, and reflection of heat, 

 25. 



Main (Rev. R.) on the longitude of the 

 Radclift'e Obsen-atory, Oxford, as de- 

 duced from meridional observations of 

 the moon made at Greenwich and Ox- 

 ford in the years 186.4-68, 18 ; on the 

 discordance usually observed between 

 the results of direct and reflection- 

 observations of north polar distance, 

 18 ; remarks on the Biitish Associa- 

 tion Catalogue of Stars, 19. 



Main (R.) on Navy finance, 196. 



Mammalian fauna of North-west Ame- 

 rica, R. Brown on the, 109. 



Mammoth, H. H. Howorth on the ex- 

 tinction of the, 89. 



*Man, W. C. Dendy on the primitive 

 status of, 130. 



* and the animals, being a counter 



theory to Mr. Darwin's as to the ori- 

 gin of species, Archdeacon Freeman 

 on, 132. 



, Sir John Lubbock on the origin of 



civilization and the primitive condi- 

 tion of, 137. 



Manganite of calcium, Walter Weldon 

 on the manufacture of chlorine by 

 means of perpetually regenerated, 79. 



Mann (Dr.) on the rainfall of Natal, 41. 



* on the gold of Natal, 96 ; on 



Erskine's discovery of the mouth of 

 the Limpopo, 164. 



on assisted emigration, 196. 



Marocco, J. Stirling on a visit to the 

 holy city of Fas, in, 168. 



•Martin (F.) on a new self-recording 

 aneroid barometer, 51. 



Masters (Dr. Maxwell T.) on the relative 

 value of the characters employed in 

 the classification of plants, 114. 



Mathematical and Physical Section, Ad- 

 dress by Professor Sylvester to the, 1. 



*Matthiessen (Dr. A.) and C. R. Wright 

 on the action of hydrochloric acid on 

 morphia codeia, 69. 



Maury barometer, Frederick T. Mott on 

 the, a new instrument for measuring 

 altitudes, 51. 



Maw (G.) on the trappean conglome- 

 rates of MiddletownHill, Montgomery- 

 shire, 96 ; on insect-remains and sheila 

 from the lower Bagshot leaf-bed of 

 Studlaud Bay, Dorsetshire, 97. 



Mayne (Capt. R. C.) on the Straits of 

 Magellan and the passages leading 

 northward to the Gulf of Peiias, 164. 



Mechanical Section, Address of the Pre- 

 sident, C. W. Siemens, to the, 200. 



Mechanical tracing of curves, W. II. L. 

 Russell on, 15. 



Megalithic monuments, A. L. Lewis on 

 the builders and the purposes of, 137. 



Mercury, bromo-iodide of. Dr. A. Oppen- 

 heim on, 72. 



Metallic deposit obtained from the in- 

 duction-discharge in vacuum-tubes, 

 J. P. Gassiot on the, 46. 



Metals, Dr. J. H. Gladstone on the re- 

 lation between the specific refractive 

 energies and the combining propor- 

 tions of, 21. 



Meteorological reductions, remarks on, 

 by Dr. Balfour Stewart, with especial 

 reference to the element of vapour, 43. 



MiaU (L. C), experiments on contor- 

 tion of mountain limestone, 97. 



Microscopical observations at Munster 

 am Stein, by George Gladstone, 113. 



Minerals, Dr. J. D. Heaton on den- 

 di'oidal forms assumed by, 127. 



Miocene clays of Bovey Tracey, W. 

 Pengelly on the soiuxe of the, 99. 



•Mitchell (D.), Are flint implements of 

 the first stone age found in the drift ?, 

 69. 



Mofiatt (Dr. Thomas) on the phosphor- 

 escence of the sea and ozone, 72. 



* on the oxidation of phosphorus, 



and the quantity of phosphoric acid 

 excreted by the kidneys in connexion 

 with atmospheric conditions, 72. 



Mollusca of Nicaragua, R. Tate on the 

 land and freshwater, 117. 



Montgomerj'shire, G. Maw on the trap- 

 pean conglomerates of Middletown 

 Hill, 96. 



Moon, the Rev. R. Main on the lon- 

 gitude of the Radclilfe Observatory, 

 Oxford, as deduced from meridional 

 observations of the, 18. 



Moore (0.) on a specimen of Teleosauriu 

 from the Upper Lias, 97. 



