INDEX. 



687 



liminary report on the investigation 

 of, 274. 



Lubbock (Sir J.) on the workings of the 

 proposed revised New Code, and of 

 other legislation affecting the teaching 

 of science in elementary schools, 307. 



Lunar disturbance of gravity, the mea- 

 surement of, second report on, 95. 



*Macdonald (Dr.«,J. D.) on the perception 

 of colour in man and the lower animals, 

 575. 



Mackintosh (D.) on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 243. 



Mcintosh (Prof.), preliminary note on 

 CejJlialodisc'US, a new form allied to 

 Prof. Allman's Rliabdoplewa, dredged 

 in H.M.S. ' Challenger,' 696. 



McLeod (Prof.) on the present state of 

 our knowledge of spectrum analysis, 

 120. 



MacBIahon (Capt. P. A.), integration of 

 an equation connected with the elliptic 

 functions, 450. 



Macrory (E.) on patent legislation, 310. 



Magnetic metals, the alteration in the 

 dimensions of the, by the act of mag- 

 netisation, Prof. W. F. Barrett on, 476. 



*Magnetic susceptibility, a method of 

 investigating, Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson 

 on, 474. 



Magnetical and meteorological weather, 

 a similarity between, Prof. Balfour 

 Stewart on, 460. 



Mahomed (Dr. F. H.) on the work of the 

 Committee for carrying out the recom- 

 mendations of the Anthropometric 

 Committee of 1880, 278. 



^lallock (A.) on a machine for ruling 

 large diffraction gratings, 466 ; on a 

 mechanical self-registering thermo- 

 meter, 477. 



Man's evolution, evidence as to the scene 

 of, and the prospects of proving the 

 same by palffiontological discovery, by 

 W. S. Duncan, 605. 



Manson (Dr. P.) on the destiny of the 

 filaria in the blood, 579. 



Marcoartu (Don A. de) on a proposed 

 international congress to diminish the 

 casualties at sea, 653. 



Marriott (W.) on a method of obtaining 

 ammonia from shoddy and allied sub- 

 stances, 500. 



Marten (E. B.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 213. 



♦Martin (Prof. H. N.) on some new 

 methodsof in%'estigatingthephysiology 

 of the mammalian heart, 578. 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. S.) on the workings 

 of the proposed revised New Code, and 

 of other legislation affecting the teach- 

 ing of science in elementary schools, 

 307. 



Mathematical and Physical Section, Ad- 

 dress by Prof. Lord Rayleigh to the, 

 437. 



Maximum velocity, depression of, by 

 Major A. Cunningham, 665. 



Mechanical Section, Address by J. Fowler 

 to the, 655. 



Meldola (E.) on the investigation of the 

 Loughton Camp, 274. 



Mental endo-RToent, ebb and flow in, by 

 G. Harris, 606. 



Jlercury, the comparison of the, with 

 the hydrogen thermometer, Prof. J. M. 

 Crafts on, 449. 



vapours, the tension of, at com- 

 mon temperatures, Prof. Lord Rayleigh 

 on, 441. 



Merrifield (C. W.) on patent legislation, 

 310 ; on the best means of ascertaining 

 the effective wind-pressures to which 

 buildings and structures are exposed, 

 315. 



Merv, E. O'Donovan on, 624. 



Metallic compounds containing bivalent 

 hj'drocarbon radicals, Prof. Sakurai 

 on. Part III., 495. 



]Metamorphic change in old red sandstone 

 conglomerate, mention of an example 

 of an early stage of, near Aberfoil, by 

 Prof. J. Thomson, 536. 



Meteoric dust, report onthe practicabilitj'- 

 of collecting and identifying, and on 

 the question of undertaking regular 

 observations in various localitie.?, 90. 



Meteorological and magnetical weather, 

 a similarity between. Prof. Balfour 

 Stewart on, 460. 



Migration of birds, report on the, 283. 



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

 nomena of Japan, 205. 



Milnes (A.), the Ricardo theory of rent, 

 642. 



Misprint in the tidal report for 1872, G. 

 H. Darwin on a, 319. 



ilolyneus (W.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 213. 



More (A. G.) on the migration of birds, 

 283. 



Morton (G. H.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 213. 



*Mott (F. T.) on an instructional system 

 of arrangement in provincial museums, 

 597. 



JIuirhead (Dr.) on obtaining photographs 

 of the typical races in the British 

 Isles, 270. 



Muirhead (Dr. A.) on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 70. 



*Musical instrument, J. Philips on a, 478. 



New Code, the proposed revised, report 

 of the Committee for watching and 

 reporting on the workings of, and of 



