234 
Middlesex Sessions, on the. degree of 
education of persons tried at the, 168. 
Milligan (John) on the pressure of the 
atmosphere, and its power in modifying 
and determining haemorrhagic disease, 
138. 
Milner (W.R.) on the influence of various 
circumstances in causing gain or lossin 
the weight of prisoners in Wakefield 
convict prison, 139. 
Mineral produce of Yorkshire in 1857, 
181. 
Minerals, on determining the temperature 
and pressure at which various, were 
formed, 107; on some peculiarities in 
the arrangement of the, in igneous 
rocks, ib. 
Monetary laws, on distinctions between 
money and capital, interest and dis- 
count, currency and circulating me- 
dium, to be observed in the reform of 
our, 197. 
Mont Blane, on an ascent of, 39. 
Moon blindness, 19. 
Moore (C.) on triassic beds near Frome, 
and their organic remains, 93. 
Moorsom (Vice-admiral) on the perform- 
ance of steam vessels, the functions of 
the screw, and the relations of its dia- 
meter and pitch to the form of the 
vessel, 215. 
Mortality, rate of, in the metropolitan 
improved dwellings for the industrial 
classes, 164. 
Miiller (Dr. S.), a geognostic sketch of 
the western position of Timor, 153. 
Murchison (Sir R. I.) on recent researches 
among the older rocks of the Highlands 
of Scotland, 94; address to the geogra- 
phical and ethnological section, 143; 
letter to, on the project of a canal across 
the isthmus of Kraw, which divides the 
gulf of Bengal from that of Siam, 153. 
Murphy (J. J.) on a proposed floating 
lighthouse, 218. 
Naylor (William) on a new double acting 
steam hammer, 218. 
Neison (F. G. P.) on phthisis in the 
army, 189. . 
Newmarch (William) on the history of 
prices of 1857 and 1858, 194; on the re- 
cent history of the Crédit mobilier, 7b. 
Nicol (Professor James) on the age and 
relations of the gneiss rocks in the N. 
of Scotland, 96, 
Nith, on the origin of the breccias of the 
southern portion of the valley of the, 81. 
Nitrogen, on the annual yield of, per 
acre, in different crops, 52. 
INDEX II. 
Nitroglycerine, on, 47. 
Norwood (Rev. T. W.) on the compara~ 
tive geology of Hotham, near South 
Cave, Yorkshire, 96; on the race and 
language of the gipsies, 195. 
Nourse (W.E.C.) on the colours of leaves 
and petals, 115. 
Nova Scotia, on the vegetable structure 
visible in the coal of, 80. 
Number, on some properties of a series 
of the powers of the same, 4, 
Nunneley (T.) on the form of the eye- 
ball, and the relative position of the 
entrance of the optic nerve into it in 
different animals, 139; on the structure 
of the retina at the punctum centrale, or 
foramen of Scemmering, 141; on the 
structure of the choroid coat of the eye, 
and more particularly on the character 
and arrangement of the pigmentary 
matter, 2b. 
Odling (Dr. W.) on the atom of tin, 58. 
Oldham (James) on the Gresham buoy, 
for recording the loss of missing ships 
at sea, 219. 
O’Neill (J.) on a plan for giving alarms 
in passenger trains, 219. 
Optical illusions of spectral phenomena, 
on an apparatus for exhibiting, 14. 
Ores, hematite, of North Lancashire and 
West Cumberland, 106. 
Organs, on the application of mechanical 
power to the bellows of, 213. 
Osler (F'.) on the construction of a portable 
self-registering anemometer for record- 
ing the direction and amount of hori- 
zontal motion of the air, 38. 
Oude, on the people of, and their leading 
characteristics, 151. 
Owen (Prof.) on a new genus (Dimorpho~- 
don) of Pterodactyle, with remarks on 
the geological distribution of flying rep- 
tiles, 97 ; on remains of new and gigan- 
tic species of Pterodactyle (Pter. Fittoni 
and Pter. Sedgwickii) from the Upper 
Greensand near Cambridge, 98. 
Oxide, chromic and ferric, on the car- 
bonate of, 69. 
Oxygen, on Prof. Schénbein’s latest ex- 
periments on the allotropic conditions 
of, 52. 
Oyster, on the, 123. 
Ozone, on an instrument for measuring 
the constant intensity of, 52. 
Page (D.) on the skeleton of a seal from 
the Pleistocene clays of Stratheden, in 
Fifeshire, 103; on the paleontology of 
the tilestones or Silurio-Devonian strata 
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