XX 
Measurement of Degrees in Europe, Publication of the Nor- 
wegian Commission of the, 547 
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 20, 343 
Mechanical Telephone, W. J. Millar, 316 
Mechanism of the Will, Motor Centres of the Brain and the, 
Victor Horsley, 377 
Mechanism of the Pump, Marey and Demeny, 432 
Medicine in Dundee, Proposed School of, 254 
Medicine, the Low Popular Estimate of, Dr. Quain, 608 
Mediterranean Coast, Morphology of the, Dr. Fischer, 163 
Mediterranean Coral Trade, the, 36 
Mediterranean and the Red Sea, on the Cause of the Extreme 
Dissimilarity between the Faunas of the, Prof. E. Hull, 
F.R.S., 560 
Meerens on Standard Musical Pitch, 9 
Megaloglossus Woermannt, 374 
Meldola (Prof. R.), Colours of Arctic and Alpine Animals, 172 
Melting and Boiling-Point Data, T. Carnelley, 364 
Mendenhall (Prof. T. C.), 81; a Differential Resistance-Ther- 
mometer, 567 
Mendeleeff (Prof.), on Formulz of Dilatation of Liquids, 87 
Menges (J.), Language of Signs used by Oriental Traders, 231 
Mentone, a New Man of, Thomas Wilson on, 588 
Mercer (H. C.), ‘‘The Lenape Stone ; or, the Indian and the 
Mammoth,” Dr. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 593 
Meridian, Universal, Dr. Janssen, 148, 200 
Meridional Oscillation of the Auroral Zone, Eleven-Year, E. 
Douglas Archibald, 414 
Merriam (Dr. C. H.) and Economic Ornithology, 329 
Merv Oasis, Baron Benoist-Méchin’s Travels in, 209 
Mesozoic Floras of the Rocky Mountain Region of Canada, 
Sir William Dawson, F.R.S., 164 
Metal Rods, the Changes produced by Magnetisation on Length 
of, S. Bidwell, 45 
Metals, Action of Tidal Streams upon, Thos. Andrews, 189 
Metallurgy, the Development of Technical Instruction in, Prof. 
Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 608 
Metamorphic Rocks, G. H. Kinahan on the Irish, 555 
Metamorphism, Regional, Prof. Prestwich, F.R.S., 214 
Meteorology, 252, 253; Erection of Meteorological Station at 
Massowah, 11; Work of the Observatory Department of 
South Australia, 12; High-Level Stations, 54; Meteorologi- 
cal Instruments, 67 ; Meteorology of the China Seas, 84; 
New Meteorological Station on the Tyrolese Alps, 133; 
Meteorological Society of Vienna, 133; the International 
Committee of Meteorology, 160; Meteorology of Bombay, 
170; Meteorology in America, 181; the Mean Direction of 
Cirrus Clouds over Europe, Dr. Hildebrandsson, 190 ; General 
Meeting at Florence of the Italian Meteorological Society, 
207; Berlin Meteorological Society, 239; Dr. Neuhauss’s 
Observations, 239 ; Rainfall of Southern India and Burmah, 
278; Curious Phenomena at Stockholm, 279; New Station 
in Northern Queensland, 279 ; Stonyhurst College Observa- 
tory, 300; Meteorology in Java, 300; Cyclones in United 
States, 328; Weather of Southern Norway, 354; Cyclones 
in Sweden, 355 ; Remarkable Aérial Phenomenon at Jonké- 
ping, 375 ; Cloud-Measurement by Theodolites, 400 ; Meteoro- 
logical Observatories at Pekin, 403; Meteorology in Switzer- 
land, 426; Storms on Atlantic Coast of United States, 427 ; 
Congress of Meteorologistsat Munich, 460; Average Velocities 
of Typhoons, 453; Statistics of Rainfall in East Indian Archi- 
pelago, 494 ; International Meteorological Committee, 501 ; 
Proposed Observatory near Chepstow, 503; Observations on 
Ben Nevis, 529; Meteorology of Ben Nevis, A. Buchan, 536; 
on the Rainfall of the British Islands, A. Buchan, 536; 
Meteorology in Madras, 541 ; Japanese Meteorology, 579; 
the Jesuit Establishments near Shanghai, 579; Scottish 
Meteorological Society, 636 
Meteors : at Soedertelje, near Stockholm, 230; W. F. Denning, 
597 ; April, W. F. Denning, 5; July, W. F. Denning, 342 ; 
August, H. B. Jupp, 342; W. F. Denning, 415; Meteor 
observed at Fontainebleau, E. P. Mounier, 496 ; Meteor seen 
at Stockholm, 515 ; Comet 1866 and the Meteors of Novem- 
ber 14, 610 
Meteoric Cycle and Stonehenge, R. Edmonds, 436 
Meteoric Dust, B. A. Report on, 529 
Meteoric Formations in Mexico, M. Violet d’Aouest, 376 
Meteoric Stone found in Sweden, 36 
Meteorites : Rey. E. Hill on the Average Density of Meteorites 
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compared with that of the Earth, 556; Theoretical Views on 
the Detonation of, Bombicci, 633 
Mexico, Proposed Geological Survey of, 112; Bursting of a 
Waterspout in, 133; Meteoric Formations in, M. Violet 
d’ Aouest, 376 : 
Michelson (Albert A.), M. Wolf’s Modification of Foucault’s 
Apparatus for the Measurement of the Velocity of Light, 6 
Microbe, Koch’s, on an Alkaloid Extracted fron: Liquid and 
in Cultivation of, A. G. Pouchet, 432 
Microbes, Pathogenetic, on the Transmission from Mother to 
Foetus, and in Milk of, Koubassoff, 432 
Micronesia, Prehistoric Structures in, Capt. L. U. Herendeen, 13 
Micro-Organisms, the Removal from Water of, P. F. Frankland, 
262 
Microbe-Organisms and Albumen in Solution, Action of Ozo- 
nised Air upon, J. J. Coleman, 561 
Microphytes, Action of Cold on, Prof. M’Kendrick, 561 
Micropternus pheoceps, Nesting of, Chas. Bingham, 52 
Microscopes, Theiler’s, 112 
Microscopic Drawings, Rochfort Connor, 633 
Microscopic.Preparations of the Skin, Drs. Blaschko and Lassar, 
544 
Microscopical Investigation of Vegetable Substances, Guide for 
the, Dr. W. J. Behrens, 193 
Microscopy, the Value of Indian Ink in, Léo Errera, 37 
Microtomist’s Vade-Mecum, Arthur Bolles, Dr. E. 
HORS9:5 047, 
Mid-Lothian, Electrical Phenomenon in, Dr. Robert Lucas, 343 
Migratory Birds, Early Departure from Sweden of, 427 
Mikroskopischen Anatomie, Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden, Dr. 
Herman Fol, Dr. E. Klein, 293 
Miles (Manly), Unconscious Bias in Walking, 293 
Milford Haven, an Encysting Myzostoma in, P. Herbert Car- 
penter, 391 . 
Mill (H. R.), on the Temperature of the Water at Firth of Forth, 
Klein, 
fo) 
Miller (A. K.) and H. E. Armstrong, on the Product of Gas 
Manufacture from Petroleum, 286 
Miller (Hugh), on Some Results of a Detailed Survey of the 
Old Coast Lines near Trondhjem, Norway, 555 
Millar (W. J.), Mechanical Telephone, 316 
Milne (Prof. John), on the Observation of Earth-Tips and Earth- 
Tremors, 259 ; an Earthquake Invention, 573 
Milne and Snow, Notes on the Kurile Islands, 135 
Mimicry, Singular Case of, Graciano A, de Azambuja, 366 
Mine to the Mint, History of a Lump of Gold from the, Alex. 
Watt, 340 
Mineralogie, Lehrbuch der, Dr. Gustav Tschermak, 3 
Mineralogie Appliquée aux Arts, a l’Industrie, au Commerce, et 
a l’Agriculture, Raoul Jagnaux, 28 
Mineralogy in California, H. G. Hanks, 100 
Mineralogy and Chemistry, Original Researches in, J. Lawrence 
Smith, 3 
Minerals of British Borneo, 161 
‘*Mineral Resources of the United States,” A. Williams, 341 
Mineral Products of the United States, 404 
Mines, Shot-Firing in, W. Galloway, 596; Prof. C. G. Kreischer, 
596 
Minima of Algol, 86 
Minor Planet, New, 464 
Minot (Dr. Chas. Sedgwick), the New Endowment for Research, 
2 
Micke in the Baltic, 112; in Sweden, 231, 279, 541, 552; in 
Dorsetshire, Rev. M. F. Billington, 552 
Mississippi, Protection against Tornadoes on the, 279 
Missionary, Protestant, Educational Work in China, 35 
Mitchell (F. S.), the Birds of Lancashire, 241 
Mittheilungen der Wiener Geographische Gesellschaft, 581 
Mobangi River Exploration, 281 
Model University, a, 367 
Modulus of Elasticity, Dr. Konig on, 360 
Mojsvar (A. Mojsisovics Edlen von), ‘‘ Leitfaden bei zoologisch- 
zootomischen Prapaririibungen,” 171 
Molecular Distances in Galvanic Polarisation, J. Larmor, 
38 
Nicene Formule, Hartley, 87 
Molecular Structure of Carbon Compounds and their Absorp- 
tion Spectra, Researches on the Relation between the, Prof. 
W.N. Hartley, F.R.S., 93 
