INDEX. 449 



Page. 



List of minerals in national museum .- 70 



Smithsonian publications 15 



Loew, Dr. H., monograph of Diptera 16 



Lucernaria, Henry J. Clark, on 11 



Maclean, John, acts of, as Eegent 151 



re-elected Eegent 151 



report of executive committee 146 



Magnetism and electricity, later views on, by Helmholz and Maxwell 246 



Magnetism of iron-clads 11 



Mailly, Ed., on population of tlie world 282 



Manuscripts on scientific discoveries 156 



Mason, Otis T., Leipsio Museum of Ethnology 390 



Maxwell, Prof. Clerk, on action at a distance 254 



McKnigbt, John W., museum-cases 35 



Meek, F. B., scientific labors of 56 



Melting-points, tables of 24 



Members ex officio of the Institution 5 



Memoirs. See Biography. 



Meteorite, discovery of, in Mexico, account of, by William M. Pierson 419 



Meteorological reports preserved in Institution 84 



stations and observers 84 



Meteorological publications and articles in periodicals received in 1873 : 



Auroras ' 132 



Earthquakes 132 



Electricity 132 



Forests '..... 132 



General meteorology 132 



Instruments 133 



Local meteorology 134 



Africa : 



Egypt, Mauritius 134 



Asia: 



India 134 



Japan 135 



Australia : 



New South Wales 135 



Europe : 



Austria 135 



Belgium 135 



Denmark 136 



England 136 



France , 136 



Hanover 137 



HoUand 137 



Hungary 137 



Ireland 137 



Italy 137 



Prussia. 138 



Kussia 138 



Saxony 138 



Scotland 139 



Sweden 139 



Switzerland , 139 



Wiirtemberg - 139 



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