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INDEX. 



Merritielcl (C. W.) on patent legislation, 

 222. 



Merritield (Dr. J.) on the phenomena of 

 the stationary tides in the English 

 Channel and the North Sea, and the 

 value of tidal observations in the North 

 Atlantic Ocean, IfiO, 



Metallic compounds containing bivalent 

 hydrocarbon radicals, J. Sakurai on : 

 Part II., 567. 



Meteoric dust, report of the Committee 

 appointed to collect information re- 

 garding, and to consider the question 

 of undertaking regular observations in 

 various localities, 88. 



Microscope, a, with arrangements for 

 illuminating the sub-stage, E. Crossley 

 on, 563. 



Migration of birds, report on the, 189. 



Milne (Prof. J.) on the earthquake phe- 

 nomena of Japan, 200. 



and T. Gray, a contribution to 



seismology, 646. 



*Milum (Rev. J.), an account of a recent 

 visit to Dahomey, 747. 



Minchin (Prof. G. M.) on tlie absolute 

 sine electrometer, 558. 



*Mississippi river, the improvements of 

 the, Capt. J. B. Eads on, 774. 



Molecular attraction, F. D. Brown on, 

 592. 



Molyneux (W.) on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 204; on 

 the circulation of underground waters, 

 309. 



Monkeys, the catarrhine and platyrrliine, 

 a little-known cranial diiferencc be- 

 tween, W. A. Forbes on, 718. 



Moore (C.) on life in Irish and other 

 Laurentian rocks, 610. 



*Moore (H. F.) the depression in agricul- 

 ture : its effects and its lessons, 761. 



Morphology of the rhabdophora, J. Hop- 

 kinson on some points in the, G49. 



Mortimer (J. B.) on sections of the drift 

 obtained from the new drainage works 

 of Driffield, 617 ; account of the dis- 

 covery of six ancient dwellings, found 

 under and near to British barrows 

 on the Yorkshire wolds, 691. 



Morton (G. H.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 309. 



Mountain limestone at Eaygill, the ex- 

 ploration of a fissure in tlie, J. W. 

 Davis on, 645. 



Muirhead (Dr.) on standards for use in 

 electrical measurements, 423. 



Muirhead (Dr. H.) on the work of the An- 

 thropometric Committee, 225 ; on the 

 arrangement of cometic perihelia with 

 reference to the sun's march in space, 

 532. 



Mundesley and Westleton beds, the, the 

 strata between the Chillesford beds 



and the lower boulder cla}-. Prof. J. 

 Prestwich on, 620. 

 Mundesley and Westleton beds, the, the 

 extension of, into Essex, Middlesex, and 

 other inland counties, in relation to 

 the age of certain hill-gravels and of 

 some of the valleys of the South of 

 England, Prof. J. Prestwich on, 620. 



New Eed Sandstone of Nottingham, a 

 discovery of fossil fishes in the, 

 E. Wilson on. 637. 



Newton (Prof.) on the migration of birds, 

 189. 



New Zealand, the siliceous and other hot 

 springs in the volcanic district of the 

 North Island of, W. Lant Carpenter on, 

 580. 



, the hot-lake district and the 



glacier scenery and fjords of, W. Lant 

 Carpenter on, 742. 



Nitric ferment, alterations in the pro- 

 perties of the, by cultivation, R. 

 Warington on, 693. 



Numeral and philological relations of 

 the Hebrew, Phoenician, or Canaanitic 

 alphabet and the language of the 

 Khita inscriptions, Hyde Clarke on 

 the, 698. 



♦Occlusion of gaseous matter by fused 

 silicates at high temperatures, and its 

 possible connection with volcanic 

 agencies, I. Lowthian Bell on the, 580. 



*Occultation of stars, of the first and 

 other bright magnitudes, the desira- 

 bility of observing, from places where 

 they are to be seen near the horizon, 

 H. S. Williams on, 547. 



Oceanic currents, the effects of, upon 

 climates. Rev. Dr. Haughton on, 451. 



♦Oceanic or maritime discovery, explora- 

 tion, and research, Capt. Sir F. J. 

 Evans on, 742. 



*Odling (Prof. W.) on the inferences 

 deducible from high molecular weights, 

 as exhibited by the oxides of man- 

 ganese, 582. 



Osmunda regalis (Linn.), some points in 

 the development of, C. P. Hobkirk on, 

 675. 



Oval tool-stones, the origin and use of, 

 W. J. Knowles on, 692. 



Owen (Dr. R.), Address by, to the Bio- 

 logical Section, 651 ; on the homology 

 of the conario-hypophysial tract, or of 

 the so-called ' pineal ' and ' pituitary' 

 glands, 719. 



Oxides of manganese, V. H. Veley on the, 

 582. 



Palaeozoic rocks of North Devon and 

 West Somerset, W. A. E. Usher on the, 

 629. 



