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INDEX 



[A T atute, May 27, 1880 



Marsden (Dr. R. Sydney), Artificial Diamonds, 445 



Marseilles, Lectureship of Astronomy at, 239 



Marsh (Prof.), the Fossil Treasures at Vale College, 287 



Mascart's Method of Observation of Atmo-pheric Electricity, 72 



Maskelyne (Prof., F. R.S.), the asserted Artificial Production of 

 Diamonds, 203 



Mathematical Society, 75, 194, 267, 38S, 483, 578 



" Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids," by Horace 

 Lamb, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R. S ., on, 342 



Mathematical Table; chielly to Four Figures, J. M. Peirce, 346 



Mathematics to Physics, Galileo and the Application of, Prof. 

 W. Jack, LL.D.', 40 5S 



Mathematiques, Bulletin des Sciences, 152 



Matter, " ideal," Percy R. Harrison, 275 



Matteucci's proposed Expl iration of Africa, 477 



Maxwell (Prof. Clerk), Obituary Notice of, VV. Garnctt, 43; 

 proposed Memorial to, 2lS ; on a possible Mode of delecting 

 a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous 

 Ether, 314 ; Prof. P. G. Tait on his Scientific Work, 317 



Mayer's (Prof. Alfred M.) "Topophone," 385 



Mayer (John), Obituary Notice of James R. Napier, F.R.S., 206 



" Meddelelser, om Gronland, udgivne af Comrnissionen for 

 Ledelsen af de geologiske og geographiske Undersogelser i 

 Gronland," 344 



Medicinal Plants, Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen, 416 



"Medicine Past and Present," Dr. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., 

 510 



Medlicott (H. B.), Mourtain Ranges, 301 



Medusae, the, Prof, E, Ray I.ankester, F.R.S., 413 



" Melanges Geulogiques," 425 



Melbourne Observatory, 240 



Meldola (R.), Ice Filaments, 302 



Meldrum (C, F.R.S.), Sun-Spots and the Rainfall of Paris, 166 



Melochia parzi/olia, on the Heterostylism of, Dr. A. Ermt, 217 



Membranes in Sounding Columns, Herr Kohlrauscb, 309 



Memory, a Feat of, Edivyn Anthony, 562 



Menlo Park, Edison's New Electric Light at, 215, 285 



Mercadier (M.), a Vibration Micrometer, 1S9 



Mercurial Electrodes, Thermo-electric Behaviour of_ Aqueous 

 Solutions with, G. Gore, F\R. S., 169 



Mercury, Electrical Experiments with, 360, 526 



Mercury, the Planet, observed in Paris, 474 



Meritens (De), Magneto-Electric Machine and an Induction 

 Coil, Effects produced with, Wm. Spottiswcode, P.R.S., 433 



Metallic Vapours, on the Reversal of the Lines of, G. D. 

 Liveing, F.R.S., and J. Dewar, F.R.S., 193 



Metalliferous Mines and Mining, a Treatise on, D. C. Davies, 

 129 



Metalloid Elements, Pictet's proposal to Dissociate the, 445 ; 

 Sir B. C. Brodie, 491 



Metals: Chemico-Elcctric Relations of, in Solutions of Salts of 

 Potassium, Dr. Geo. Gore, F.R.S., 21S ; various Conductivity 

 of, 243 



Meteors: 51S; at Strassburg, 48; the November, Rev. S. J. 

 Perry, F. R.S., 55; Meteors on October 19, 164; the l'.iela 

 Comet Meteors, 71, 240; J. S. Thomson, 303; in New 

 Caledonia, E. L. Layard, 397 ; at Groningen, H. T. H. 

 Groneman, 444; Meteor Showers of January 2, \V. F. 

 Denning, 527 ; F. T. Mott, 537 ; Syd. Evershed on a, 563 ; 

 Meteor Showers, W. F. Denning, 621 

 Meteoric Dust, a Shower of, 574 

 Meteorite, a remarkable, 574 



Meteorology: Sun-spots in earnest, Prof. A. Wiunecke, 10; 

 proposed Meteorological Observatory on Mont Ventoux, 18; 

 Meteorological Notes, 4S, 142, 264, 384, 503 ; the Paris 

 Stations, 71 ; Meteorological Society, 123, 195, 363, 455, 

 507 ; a possible Consequence of our Present Weather, W. 

 Mattieu Williams, 130; New Meteorological Station at Prato, 

 140; French Meteorologists on the Severe Winter, 140; the 

 Chinese Typhoons, 141 ; Prof. Nipher's "Missouri Weather 

 Service Report," 142 ; the Temperatures of the Atlantic, 142 ; 

 Meteorology of South Australia, 281 ; Aratus' "Skies and 

 Weather Forecasts," 329 ; Col. Ward on the Meteorology of 

 Switzerland, 329 ; International Meteorological Conference at 

 Sydney, 382 ; Meteorological Phenomena of India, F. 

 Chambers, 3S4 ; Meteorological Report, Scotland, Prof. 

 Piazzi Smyth's, 407 ; New Journal of Meteorology and 

 Astronomy, " Ciel et Terre," 424; the Briancon Observatory, 

 452 ; the United States Signal Service and the German 

 Government, 473 ; H. F. Blanford on the Barometric See- 



Saw between Russia and India in the Sun-spot cycle, 4.77 ; 

 U.S. Weather Maps, 500; Canada Monthly Weather 

 Review, 503 ; Loomis' Isobars for United States, 503 ; the 

 Annual Variation of the Barometer in India, S. A. Hill, 

 513 ; Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., on the Long Period 

 Inequality in Rainfall, 541 



Methyl Chloride, Manufacture of from Beet-root, Prof. C. 

 Vincent, 358 



Metric Commission, the International, 423 



Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Exploration of Timor, 108 



Meyer's Spectrum, Analytical Comparison of Gas, Sun, Day, 

 and the Electric Li^ht, 504 



Mica, the Chemical Moncrraphy of, 526 



Michelson (Albert A.), Experimental Determination of the 

 Velocity of Light, 94, 120, 226 



Micrometer, M. Mercadier's Vibration, 1S9 



Microscopical Society, Journal of the Royal. 27 



Microscopic Serenade, Jacob F. Henrici, 112 



Microscopic Structure of Scottish Rocks, 333 



Miers (John, F.R.S.), Dr. Henry Trimen, 11 ; his Bequest to 

 the British Museum, 71 



(Heir), Account of Waterspouts off Cape Spada, 265 



Milk, Something about, 402 



Miller (Mrs. Fenwick), an Atlas of Anatomy, 9 



Mills (Edmund J., F.R.S.), Chemical Repulsion, 290 



Milne (Prof.), his Method of Detecting Seismic Trembling, 3S2 



Milner (James W.), Death of, 329 



Mind in the Lower Animals, by Lauder Lindsay, M.D., George 

 J. Romanes, 8 



Mineral Deposits, Dr. Albrecht von Groddeck on, 174 



Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 28, 524, 5S0 



Wines and Mining, Metalliferous, a Tre.itise on, D. C. Davies, 

 129 



Minie (M. Claude Etienne), Death of, 162 



Minor Planets, 20, 240, 359, 475 



Mission, the Second Yarkand, 3S9 



"Missions Catholiques," 477 



" Missouri Weather Service Report," Prof. Nipher's, 142 



Mitchinson (Alexander), his return from Africa, 288 



Mivart (Prof. St. George, F.R.S.), Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of Literature and Science, 107 



"Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry," 

 by Ogden N. Rood, Prof. Silvanus Thompson on, 78, 395 



Moldavia, Earthquakes in, 524 



Molecular Velocity of Gases, 201 ; L. Hajnis, 302 



Molecules, the Mean Free Path of, 537 



Momentum and Force, 108 



"Monatshefte fur Chemie tind verwandte Theile anderer 

 Wissenschaften," Vienna, 407 



Moncrieffe (Sir Thomas), Proposed Memorial to, 237 



Mongolia, Exploration of, IiS 



Monkeys in the West Indies, Edmund Watt, 131 ; P. L. 

 Sclater, F.R.S., 153 ; John Imray, 371 



Mont Ventoux, Proposed Meteorological Observatory on, 18 



Monti's (M. Michelangiolo) " Acoustico-Electrical Kaleido- 

 scope," 359 



Montigny (M.), on the Supernumerary or Spurious Rainbows, 

 267 



Montreal, McGill University, Gift to, 595 



Monuments, Ancient, in France, 115 



Moore (Capt. P.), Ornithological Tables, 440 



Morgan (H. A.), a Clever Soider 276 



Morgue, the Paris, and Artificial Cold Processes, 19 



Morin (Gen.), Obituary Notice of, 349 



Morphine, Reaction for, 360 



" Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 75, 530 



Morren's (Prof. E.) " Correspondance Botanique," 141 



Morris (Alfred), the Kangaroo v 302 



Morse (Prof. Edward S ), the Omori Shell-Mounds, 561 



Morton (George 11.), "The Carboniferous Limestone and 

 Cefivy-Fedw Sandstone of the Country between Llanymynech 

 and Minera, North Wales," 105 



Morton (Henry), Kcenig's Collection at the Philadelphia Ex- 

 hibition, 36S 



Mosasauroid Reptiles, New, 308 



Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), Easter Island, 32 ; Deep-Sea Dredg- 

 ing and Life in the Deep Sea, 543, 569, 591 



Moser (Dr. Ludwig), Death of, 473 



Moths, Bees Eeating Entrapped, 30S 



Motion of Fluids, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 342 



