846 



SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME II. 



Marcou. J. B. The affinities of Richlho- 

 feniu, 10:i. 



Marey. E. .T. The physiological station 

 of Piirifl, ill. 678, 7m. 



M:irine yedimenls, control of. Hi. 560. 



Marriage lawa of Oiuahae, ill, 599. 



Martin. H. N.,*209. 



Maryland oyster commission, 665. 



Masai people, 503. 



Mason, O. T. The Charnay collection at 

 'W'aabin^iton, 368; the scope and value of 

 antliropological studies, 358. 



Massachusetts agricultural experiment-sta- 376. 

 tion, 636; institute of technology, Bos- Mohawks, life £ 

 ton, 449, 605. Moisture, influ 



Mastodon arverneneis, 3S6. plants, 5. 



Mathematics, obligations of, to philosophy, Molar, superior, 

 477,502. 



Maturation of mammalian ovum, 583. 



Maudsley's Body and will, reviewed, 600. 



Mavia tribes of negroes, 407. 



Maxwell, S. A. The formation of tor- 

 nadoes, 620. 



Maynard's Manual of taxidermy, re- 

 viewed, 312. 



Mechanical engineers, society of, 62, 267; 

 methods, Egyptian, 4G7. 



Mechanism of direction, 554, 622, ill. 655. 



Medal of Imperial geographical society, 

 118. 



Medical profession in England. 667. 



Mediterranean MoUusca, 136; oysters, 

 430. 



Medusae, American, life-history of, 489, 



Meehan, T. Rapid geological changes in 

 Alaska, 655. 



Melanippe montanata, 55. 



Mell, y. H., jun. Method for making 

 electrical signals, ill. 823. 



Melophorus Ba^oti, 143. 



Melospiza melodia, 303. 



Melting, kinetic theory of, 284. 



Mendenhall, T. C. a method of dis- 

 tributing weather forecasts by means 

 of railways, 252. 



Mentzelialaevicaulis, 134. 



Meridian circle, flexure corrections of, 239. 



Merorayza americana, 833. 



Merovingian grants of immunity, 470. 



Merrijian, G. B. Illustrative apparatus 

 for astronomy, ill. 218. 



Mesoderm, composition of, 11; origin of, 

 ill. 815. 



Mesogonistius cbaetodon, 722. 



Metalloids, decomposition of water by, 



'44:4:, 



Meteoric iron. 233. 



Meteorite in Argentine Republic, 386. 



Meteorological notes, 364; observatory of 



Japan, 253; station at Orange Harbor, 



384. 

 Meteorology, Bavarian, 351; elementary, 



226; in Ohina, 390 ; of St. Michaels, 61; 



spectroscope in, ill. 488; tbeoretical, 767. 

 Meteors, November, 713; observation of. 



Metre of archives, relation between, and 

 imperial yard, 250. 



Metrical standard of mound-builders, 365. 



Micrococcus, 483. 



Microscope, treatise on, 313. 



Microscopic life, rare forms of, 438; sec- 

 tions, reconstruction of objects from, 

 531. 



Microscopical diagnosis, 83. 



Microscopists, American society of, 117, 

 465. 



Milk, preserved, 144. 



Mill-engines, 7. 



Miller manual labor school, 606. 



Miller- Hauenfels's Theoretical meteor- 

 ology, reviewed, 767. 



Milne, John, 341. 



Mimicry, 338. 



MiNEH. R. H. Fishes obtained by the 



TeripatuB, ill. 306; composition of the 

 mesoderm, 11; histology of insects, 430; 

 origin of the meeoderm, f/^. 815; primi- 

 tive streak of vertebrates, 105. 



Mirage, 5. 



Missionary work, French, 335. 



Missouri, magnetic survey of, 251; river, 

 descent of, 518 ; weather service, 26. 



Mitla, notes on, 286. 



Mitra cryptodon, 207. 



MixTER, C. S. The increase of the 

 colored population of the United Slates, 



of, upon growth in 



Alba 



, 617 



MinL'ial rL'r^ources of United States, 413. 

 MiiKials iVum Amelia county, Va., 338. 



Minrsuf Ciil.a, 81. 



MiiiinL' ix'L'inri. I'l-escott, 83, 

 MinnrM'tii, L'l:i<i;.l epoch in, 319; granites, 

 324; vaik'y in iceiige. 318; weather, 262. 

 MlNOT, C. a. Balfour's last researches on 



Molecular volume of liquids, 547. 

 Mollusks, abyssal, 37, 308, 453; of 

 Caucasus, 330; extramarine, of New 

 Guinea, 490; at Fisheries exhibition, 

 138, 431; Mediterranean, 136; notes 

 on. 59; use of, 587. 

 MoncePs, du, Electro-magnets, reviewed, 



16. 

 Mongols, hospital itj' of, 148. 

 Montgoltiers' monument, ill. 517. 

 Moraine, terminal, across Pennsylvania, 



ill. 163; west of Ohio, 317. 

 Moraines, 321. 

 Morin, 666. 



Morse, E. S. A new plan of museum 

 case, 333; in-door games of the Japanese, 

 366; methods of arrow release, 369; 

 Mya arenaria: its changes in pliocene 

 and prehistoric times, 336; papers of. at 

 Minneapolis, 437; the kitchens of the 

 east, 369; the utilization of the sun's 

 rays for warming and ventilating apart- 

 ments, 283. 



Morse's papers at Minneapolis, 437. 



Morton's Heroes of science — astronomers, 

 reviewed, 623. 



Motion, ideas of, 713. 



Motor-nerve endings, 163, 



Motors, prime, 443. 



Mouchez on the Paris observatory, 131. 



Mound-builders identified, 365; metrical 

 standard of, 365; pipes of, ill. 258. 



Mounds, emblematic, 365, 366; iron in, 

 304; Missouri, 366; of Cahokia,365; of 

 Wisconsin, 378. 



Mountain sheep, 210, 



Mourlon's G-eology of Belgium, reviewed, 

 14. 



Mouth of vertebrates, 33. 



M'tesa, death of, 403. 



Mucor racemosus, 112; tenuis, 112. 



Mucors, zygospores of, 133. 



MuUer, Hermann, 484; portrait, 487. 



Muraenopsis tridactylus in captivity, ill. 

 159. 



MuRTFELDT, M. E. Periodicity of Sab- 

 bacia angularis, 335. 



Musca vomitoria, 430. 



Muscle-fibres, development of, 358. 



Muscovite, enclosures in, 183. 



Museum case, new, 333. 



Music, Aztec, 305, 



Musical sand, 713. 



Muskoki strategy, 440. 



Mya arenaria, 336, 740. 



Mycedium, 88. 



Mysidacea, 793. 



Mythologic parallels, 504, 



Mythology, Navajo, 468. 



Naples zoological station, 93. 



National academy of sciences, November 

 meeting of, 669 ; observatory, 415 ; scholar- 

 ships, English, 385; traits in science, 

 455. 



Natural sciences, classification of, 279. 



Navajo mythology, 468. 



Naval observatory. See U. S. naval obser- 

 vatory. 



Neale, D. H. O'Neale. The national 

 railway exposition, ill. 3, 32, 97, 125, 

 417. 



Nebalia, 793. 



Nebraska, fresh-water shells from, ill. 808. 



Nelson, E. T. From superstition to hum- 

 bug, 739. 



Nemertenn proboscis, homology of, 348. 



Neraertlnes, spermatogi-nesls of. 95. 



Nerve-endings in caudal akin of tadpoles, 

 379. 



Nerves of human eyelid, 36. 



Nervouscentres, histology of, 578; sysleiu 

 of Siphonophores, .571. 



Neumayr's plan for a Nomenclator pnlae* 

 ontoIogicuH. 778. 



Newberry, J. S. The ancient gtaciation 

 of North America: its extent, character, 

 and teachings, 316; the eroding power of 

 ice, 320. 



Newcosib, S. The psychological mechan- 

 ism of direction, 554; the units of maea 

 and force, 493. 



Newcomb, S., 451; on Hell's observationH 

 of the transit of Venus in 1769, 219. 



New-England Brachyura and Anoraura, 

 257; granites, 324; ice in glacial times, 

 685. 



New Guinea, 119, 324 ; mollusca of. 490. 



New Jersey state microscopical society, 

 373, 494 ; mound-builders* pipes in, ill. 

 258. 



New Madrid, earthquake at, in 1811, 324. 



New- York agricultural station, report of, 

 reviewed, 687; lake region, flora of, 3S6. 



Niagara River, history of, 315. 



Nicholson, H. H. See Mabekt, C. F., 

 and Nicholson, H. H. 



Nickel extraction. 347. 



NiPHER. F. E. Magnetic survey of Mis- 

 souri,251; plan for a state weather ser- 

 vice, 252; tornado at liacine, 1883, 281. 



Nitrification in soil, 388. 



Nitro-glyeerine, 318. 



Nitrogen, determination of, 15 ; liquefac- 

 tion of, 4. 



Nitrogenous fertilizers, 549. 



Nitrous oxide, application of, to produce 

 anaesthesia, 33S. 



Nomenclator palaeontologlcus, 778. 



Nordenskiiild, 451; claims of, 341; on the 

 inland ice of Greenland, ill. 732. 



North America, glaciatiou of, 316. 



North-American continent, history of, 293. 



Northern heavens, survey of, 229. 



Northern notes, 19, 30. 



Norton, C. E., addressof, before Archae- 

 ological institute of America, 646. 



Norway, maps of, 184. 



Notarchus, shell in, 307. 



Notes, African, 87 ; Arctic, 84 ; Asian, 

 85; on mollusca, 59; northern, 19, 30; 

 South American, 153. 



Notornis, sternum of, 459. 



Nottingham records, 171. 



Nucleus, division of, in protozoa, 570. 



Nudibranchs, researches on, 454, 



Nugent, E. Humblebees vs. field-mice, 

 470; synchronism of geological forma- 

 tions, 739. 



Oats, effects of fertilizers on, 550, 



Observation, precision of, 519. 



Observatory at Vienna, 92; Greenwich, 

 103 ; national, 415 ; Paris, 131 ; equa- 

 torially mounted telescope at, 782. 



Odontoblasts, 384. 



Ohio fungi, 24, 425 ; mechanics' institute, 

 S39, 178 ; "Wesleyan university, 91. 



Ohm, measurement of, 138, 



Oil-sands, Allesrheny, 18. 



Olfactory lobes, 90. 



Olmecas, 387. 



Omabas, marriage laws of, ill. 599. 



Ontario, rain-storm in, 373. 



Ophidia, organ of Jacobson in, 301. 



Opbryocysiis Biitschlii, 143, 



Opuntia vulgaris, 381. 



Orange Harbor, meteorological station at, 

 384. 



Orchis mascula, 567. 



Oregon, fauna of, 66. 



Oriental society, American, 651. 



Origin of invention, 779. 



Orkney-islanders, 465, 



Orkneys and Shetland, ill. 743. 



Ormerod's Economic entomology, re- 

 viewed, 406. 



Ornamental forms in nature, 298. 



