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REPORT 1872. 



Mediterranean, W. Boyd Dawkins on 



the physical geography of the, diuing 



the Pleistocene age, 103. 

 Meldrum (Charles) on a periodicity in 



the frequency of cyclones in the Indian 



Ocean south of the equator, 56. 

 Mensurator, W. M. Adams on the, 59. 

 Merchandise, C. Bergeron on rapid and 



economical transport of, 241. 

 JVIerrifield (C. W.) on the measurement 



of waves, 24G. 

 *Metals, Dr. Oppenheim on the action 



of phosphorus on alkaline solutions of, 



79. 

 Meteoric iron, Prof. Mallet on the effect 



upon, as regards capability of being- 

 forged, of previous heating to redness 



or whiteness in vacuo, 77. 

 Meteorology, Greek, the lie v. PI. A. 



Boys on, 63. 

 *Milk, preserved. Dr. Edward Smith on 



the economic and nutritive value of, 



227. 

 Minerals, .7. Howell on the, lately found 



in the drainage-works at Brighton, 



108. 

 •Mirage, Prof. Everett on, .36. 

 Mitraria, Prof. AUman on the structure 



and development of, 129. 

 Moab, A. W. Hayne on the flora of, 128. 

 , the Rev. Canon Tristram on the 



geology of, 12.3. 

 *Mubiu9, Prof. II. J. S. Smith on the 



circular transformation of, 24. 

 Moftat (Dr.) on a tube ozonometer, 79. 

 Moggridge (M.) on a curious elm, 129 ; 



on the Men tone skeleton, 190. 

 Mollusca, J. G. Jeffreys on the, of Europe 



compared with those of Eastern North 



America, 137. 

 Molyneux (W.) on the occurrence of 



copper- and lead-ores in the Bunter 



conglomerates of Cannock Chase, 116. 

 Monmouthshire, J. E. Lee on veins or 



fissures in the Keuper, filled with 



Rhaetic bone-bed at Goldclift'e in, 116. 

 Monodiametral quartan curves, F. W. 



Newman on, 23. 

 Monomerella, T. Davidson and Prof. W. 



King on the genera Trimerclla, Dino- 



holus, and, lOO. 

 Moore (C.) on the presence of naked 



Echinodermata (Ifolothuria) in the 



Inferior Oolite and Lias, 117. 

 Morphine, Dr. Wright on new deriva- 

 tives from, 87. 

 *Mortar, Major-Gen. II. Y. D. Scott on 



the selenitic method of making, 250. 

 ♦Mossman (A.) on the topography of 



Yeddo, 211. i- B I J 



*Mott (F. T.) on the theory of the 



scientific value of beauty in relation 



to the doctrines of Mr. Darwin and 



Mr. Galton, 137. 

 Momit Leberon, Prof A. Gaudry on the 



fossil animals of, 102. 

 Mounting of astronomical telescopes, 



II. Grubb on some new points in 



the, 30. 

 *Muscular contraction. Dr. Radcliffe on 



the mechanism of, 152. 

 Museum, national natural-histoiy, how 



a, might be built and arranged with 



advantage, by R. A. Peacock, 138. 

 *Musical beats .and resultant tones, R. 



Konig on, 58. 



National accoimts, suggestions for im- 

 proving and extending our, by F. P. 

 Fellowes, 224. 



natural-history museum, how a, 



might be built and arranged with 

 advantage, by R. A. Peacock, 138. 



New-Ireland paddles, ornamentation of, 

 169. 



Newman (F. W.) on tridiametral quar- 

 tan curves, 22 ; on quartan curves 

 with three or four diameters, 23 ; on 

 monodiametral quartan curves, 23. 



New York, State of, on the occurrence 

 of trunks of Psaronius in an erect 

 position, resting on their original bed, 

 in rocks of the Devonian age in the, 

 103. 



New Zealand, Sir D. Gibb, Bart., on a 

 pata-patoo from, 185. 



Nicholas (Dr. T.) on the ethnological 

 affinities of the French and English 

 peoples, 191. 



Nicholson (Prof. H. A.) on the geology 

 of the Thunder Bay and Shabendowan 

 mining-districts on the north shore of 

 Lake Superior, 118; on Ortouia, a 

 new genus of fossil tubicolar annc- 

 lides, with notes on the genus Teiiia- 

 culites, 118 ; report on dredgings in 

 Lake Ontario, 137; notice of a sili- 

 cified forest in the Roclty Mountains, 

 with an account of a supposed fossil 

 chip, 192. 



Nodiliica, Prof. Allman on the structure 

 of, 131. 



Norfolk and Suffolk, the Rev. J. Gnnn 

 on the prospect of finding productive 

 coal-measures in, 102. 



Oceanic thermal circulation, Dr. Car- 

 penter on the general, 48. 



Oils, fatty, J. Galletly on tlie ignition 

 of cotton by saturation with, 73, 



