Index. 



487 



Magnetism and diamagnetism of gases 



and vapours, 78. 

 Magnetism and the meteorites, 315. 

 Magnolias and rhododendrons of the 



Himalayas, 132. 

 Magpie moth, 327. 

 Mammalia, pre-historic, 403. 

 Mammoth, remains of, 201 . 

 Man, and the pleistocene mammals of 



Great Britain, 201. 

 Manufacture of starch, 314. 

 Mare Vaporum and the lunar clefts, 



occultations, 52. 

 Mars during the late opposition, 81. 

 Mason's cave, 27. 

 Mastax of rotifiers, 291. 

 Master of the Mint, Sir Isaac Newton, 



351. 

 May islands, displacement of, 143. 

 Meadow brown butterfly, 329. 

 Measures, standard, 297. 

 Mechanical science, 238. 

 Medicines through the nose, 79. 

 Meerschaum, artificial, 313. 

 Megalcema Asiatica, 243. 

 Megalorhynchus, 243. 

 Megrini,* t or scald-fish, 247. 

 Mehcertians, 284. 

 Mendip hills, 30. 

 Menobranchus lateralis, 199. 

 Meteoric appearances on June 11, 80. 

 Meteoric orbit, 196. 

 Meteors in November, 190. 

 Meteorites and magnetism, 315. 

 Meteorological observations at Kew ob- 

 servatory, 68, 302, 

 Metopidia acuminata, 295. 

 Mexican hydrology, 134. 

 Mexican storms, 134. 

 Micro-crystals of alkaloids, 320. 

 Microscope for waistcoat pocket, 320. 

 Microscope, its history, construction, 



and application, 388. 

 Miceoscopy, micro-crystals of alkaloid, 

 320 ; waistcoat-pocket microscope, 

 320 ; microscope, its history, con- 

 struction, and application, 388 ; 

 Boss's new four-inch objective, 

 398 ; cheap compressorium slide- 

 cells, 398 ; microscopic ferment, 

 479. 

 Milky way, 1. 

 Mineralized blood, 89. 

 Mining districts of Derbyshire, anti- 

 quities found, 342. 

 Moisture, amount of, in the atmosphere, 



335. 

 Mollusks, free sulphuric acid in, 399. 

 Motion of rotation, 192. 

 Motmots, 245. 

 Mottle umber moth, 327. 

 Mudfish from New Zealand, 399. 



Mullus surmuletus, 250, 252. s 

 Muscular force maintained by combus- 

 tion of carbonaceous elements, 109. 

 Muscular currents of electricity, 94. 

 Muscular system of annelids, 271. 



Nattjbal History (including Zoo- 

 tomy). — Native countries of different 

 birds, 245 ; handy book to the 

 collection and preparation of fresh 

 water and marine algte, diatoms, dea- 

 mids, etc., 79 ; leporides, 80 ; food 

 of the salmon, 104 ; aquatic lice, 104 ; 

 voracity of the salmon, 106 ; her- 

 rings, 106 ; difference of quality in 

 the flesh of a sea and fresh-water 

 salmon, 109 ; intestinal worms, 106 j 

 river salmon, 107 ; frogs and toads, 

 108 ; Clupeidse, 110 ; synopsis of the 

 recent British Ostracoda, 110 ; ento- 

 mostraca, 110; fossiled carapaces, 

 110 ; Bhizopoda, 1 11 ; fossiliferoua 

 strata, 111; foraminifera, 111; Crusta- 

 cea, 113 ; Cypridse, 114 ; Cytheridse, 

 114 ; Cypridinidse, 115,127 ; Conchoe- 

 ciadae, 115 ; Polycopidse, 116, 129 ; 

 Cytherillida;, 116,129 : Cypridse, 116 ; 

 Cyridopsis, 117 ; Paracypris, 118 ; 

 Notodromas, 118 ; Candona, 118 ; 

 Pontocypris, 118 ; Bairdia, 119 ; Ma- 

 crocypris, 119 ; Cytheridse, 120 ; 

 Cythere, 120 ; Limnocythere, 121 ; 

 Cytheridea, 122 ; Cytheropsis, 122 ; 

 Ilyobates, 122 ; Loxoconcha, 123 ; 

 Xestoleberis, 123 ; Cytherura, 124 ; 

 Cytheropteron, 124 ; Bythocythere, 

 124 ; Pseudocy there, 125 ; Cythe- 

 ridis, 125 ; Scerochilus, 166 ; Para- 

 doxostoma, 126; Philomedes, 127; 

 Cylindroleberis, 127; BradycinetuS, 

 128 ; Conchoecia, 128 j Polycope, 

 129 ; Cytherella, 129 ; animal life in 

 Himalayas, 132 ; birds of the Hima- 

 layas, 133 ; Venus' flower basket, Eu- 

 plectella speciosa, 161 ; sponges, 161 ; 

 network of skeleton of Euplectellaspe- 

 ciosa, 163 ; spicules, 164 ; Menobran- 

 chus lateralis, 199 ; mammoth, 201 ; 

 mammals, remainsof, found, 201; Sals- 

 burg mammalia, 201 ; sabre-toothed 

 animal, 201 : teeth of mammalia, 

 201 ; cave lion, cave hyaena, wolf- 

 fox, ermine, badger, cave bear, brown 

 bear, otter, urus, Irish elk, stag- 

 reindeer, wild boar, tailless hare, 

 water rat, hippopotamus major, rhi- 

 noceros tichorhinus, Arvicola pra- 

 tensis, Arvicola agrestis, hare, and 

 rabbit, 202 ; horse and bison, 206 j 

 Epiornis, great bird of Madagascar, 

 240 ; poisonous fish, 240 ; barbets 

 and their distribution, 241 ; bell-bird, 



