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INDEX. 



Marine zoology of Devon and Cornwall, 

 report of the Committee for exploring 

 the, 165. 



Markham (C. R.), Address by, to the 

 Geographical Section, 420 ; on Indian 

 marine surveys, 453. 



Martin (Capt. G.) on the Kuram valley, 

 445. 



Mathematical and Physical Section, Ad- 

 dress by G. J. Stoney to the, 243. 



Mathematical tables, report on, 46. 



Mathematics and physics, the progress of 

 the chief branches of, report of the 

 Committee for endeavouring to procure 

 reports on, 37. 



Maxwell (Prof. J. Clerk) on the elasti- 

 city of wires, 33 ; .on the mechanical 

 equivalent of heat, 36 ; on the progress 

 of the chief branches of mathematics 

 and physics, 37 ; on underground tem- 

 perature, 40. 



*Maxwell's theory of electricity, a hy- 

 pothesis concerning the ether in con- 

 nection with, Dr. O. J. Lodge on, 258. 



Mechanical Section, Address by J. Robin- 

 son to the, 495. 



Mercury sulphate, large crystals of, P. 

 Braham on, 293. 



Merrifield (C. W.) on instruments 'for 

 measuring the speed of ships, 210; on 

 patent legislation, 223. 



Merrifield (Dr.) on the phenomena of the 

 stationary tides in the English Channel 

 and the North Sea, and the value of 

 tidal observations in the North At- 

 lantic Ocean, 71. 



*Metallic sulphides, the action of am- 

 moniacal salts on, M. De Clermont on, 

 309. 



Metallurgy, a new process in, by J. Holl- 

 way, 298. 



Miall (Prof. L. C.) on the erratic blocks 

 of England, Wales, and Ireland, 135 ; 

 *on solid-mounted preparations, 376. 



♦Microscope, the isophotal binocular, S. 

 Holmes on, 253. 



Milk adulteration, the detection of, W. 

 H. Watson on, 322. 



Milne (Prof. J.) on the stone age in 

 Japan, 401. 



Mimusopese, a section of the order Sapo- 

 tacese, M. M. Hartog on, 376. 



Mivart (Prof. St. G.), Address by, to the 

 Biological Section, 354. 



Molyneux (W.) on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 135 ; on 

 the circulation of underground waters, 

 155. 



Moore (C.) on ammonites and aptychi, 

 341. 



Morton (Mr.) on the circulation of under- 

 ground waters, 155. 



Moss (Dr. E. L.) on a collection of or- 

 ganic remains from the kitchen-mid- 



dens of Hissarlik, 401 ; experiments on 

 septic organisms in living tissues, 416. 



Moss (J. F.) on science teaching in con- 

 nection with elementary schools, 476. 



Moss-flora of the West Eiding, recent 

 additions to the, by C. P. Hobkirk, 

 375. 



Mott (P. T.) on reformatory punishment, 

 478. 



Muirhead (Dr. A.) on the constancy of 

 capacity of certain accumulators, 283. 



Murray (T.) and the Abbe A. Renard on 

 the volcanic products of the deep sea 

 of the Central Pacific with reference to 

 the ' Challenger ' expedition, 340. 



Napier (J. R.) on instruments for mea- 

 suring the speed of ships, 210; on 

 patent legislation, 223. 



Natal, the physical aspects of Zululand 

 and, B. Tower on, 442. 



i and the border countries, geological 

 facts observed in, Rev. G. Blencowe on, 

 349. 



Neolithic age, a new estimate of the date 

 of the, S. B. J. Skertchly on, 380. 



period, the survival of the, at Bran- 

 don, Suffolk, S. B. J. Skertchly on, 

 400. 



New Guinea, Italian explorers in, Prof. 

 Giglioli on, 457. 



Newmarch (Mr.) on patent legislation, 

 223. 



Newton (Prof.) on the possibility of 

 establishing a close time for the pro- 

 tection of indigenous animals, 165. 



Newton (Prof. H. A.) on the direct motion 

 of periodic comets of short period, 

 272. 



Nitrogen in steel, the presence of, A. H. 

 Allen on, 302. 



•Nitrous acid, the amount of, produced 

 in electric illumination, Prof. Dewar 

 on, 317. 



*Odling (Prof.) on the constitution of 

 aluminic compounds, 302. 



OgowS, the basin of the, S. de Brazza on, 

 439. 



, the native races of Gaboon and, 



Comte S. de Brazza on, 394. 



Oppert (Dr. G.) on a classification of 

 languages on the basis of ethnology, 

 392. 



*Ord (Dr. W. M.) on crystallisation of 

 urea in presence of a colloid, 418. 



Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, third 

 report of the Committee appointed to 

 consider the datum-level of the, with 

 a view to its establishment on a surer 

 foundation than hitherto, and to tabu- 

 late and compare other datum-marks, 

 219. 



Organic remains, a collection of, from 



