Index. 



487 



Lower silurian rocks, 348. 



Lunar Aristillus and Autolycus, 195. 



Lunar Apennines, clusters and nebulee, 



occupation, 379. 

 Lunar Cassini, 147. 

 Lunar crater Linne, 388. 

 Lunar crater Plato, 273. 

 Lunar delineation — the lunar Aristillus 



and Autolycus, 195. 

 Lunar eruptions, 215. 

 Lunar perspective, 267. 

 Lunar shadows, 380. 

 Lutraria, 18. 



Maclise's Othello and Desdemona, 359. 



Magilus, 19. 



Mahometan intaglios, 408. 



Malay houses, 414. 



Mammoth in Bay of Tas, 240. 



Mammoth and its epoch, 70. 



Mammoth skeletons, 72. 



Mangrove and its allies, 65. 



Manilius, 52. 



Mare Imbrium, 51, 380. 



Marine engine, 424. 



Mars, 80. 



Maury's theory, 340. 



Mayer Museum, 152. 



Mayer statue, 308. 



Measuring minute portions of time by 

 sonorous vibrations, 311. 



Measuring spots on the sun, 436. 



Mediaeval collections of gems, 405. 



Menelaus, 52. 



Meteoric iron, 397. 



Meteorological observations at Kew 

 Observatory, 44, 294. 



Meteorology, 334. 



Meteorology, handbook, 478. 



Meteors, November, 320. 



Meteors, Schroter's, 144. 



Meteor showers, 392. 



Method of measuring sun spots, 435. 



Mexican boat flies, 469. 



Mexican insects, 467. 



Microscopes, 316. 



Microscopy. — Royal Microscopical 

 Society, 239, 399 ; white cloud illu- 

 mination for low powers, soiree of 

 Microscopical Society, 316 ; Dichroi- 

 scope, 316 ; travelling microscope, 

 316 ; pocket microscopes, 316 ; Eoyal 

 Microscopical Society, 399; cam- 

 phine lamps, 399; binocular micro- 

 scopes, 476. 



Middle spotted woodpecker, 325. 



Midas ring, 403. 



Millais's " Jephthah," 363. 



Mimetic butterflies, 399. 



Mints, ancient, 10. 



Mint pyx assay, 12. 



Mithridates's museum of rings, 404. 



Modifications of the pneumatic des- 

 patch, 474. 



Molecular force in liquids, 80. 



Mollueca, 18, 161. 



Mollusca applied in commerce, arts, 

 and manufacture, 166. 



Money-cowry, 168. 



Monograph of British fossil Crustacea, 

 233. 



Monoprion group, 366. 



Monstrosities, vegetable, 446. 



Moon colours, 388. 



Mosses found in Wirtemberg, 450. 



Mother Carey's chickens, 362. 



Motor clock of Greenwich Observatory, 

 480. 



Mould for casting rings, 3. 



Mr. Graham's recent discoveries : the 

 absorption and dialytic separation of 

 gases by colloid septa — the occlusion 

 of gases, 452. 



Mrs. Cameron's photographs, 30. 



Mud-huts of the Egyptians, 414. 



Murex adustus, 20. 



Murex tenuispina, 20. 



Mud volcano in the moon, 221. 



Muricidse, 19, 24. 



Muscular action of a fish's stomach, 190. 



Museum of mediaeval art at the exhibi- 

 tion, 473. 



Museum of rings, 404. 



Mussels, 162. 



Mussulman antiquities, 408. 



Mya, 25. 



Myra, 18. 



Myrmecoleon (ant lion), 112. 



Mytilus edulis, 162. 



Native houses of America, 414. 



Natural History, including Zoo 

 LOGY. — Form, growth, and construe 

 tion of shells, 18 ; siphons, 18 

 tellina solidula, 18 ; don ax anatinus 

 18 ; myra, 18 ; lutraria, 18 ; anatina, 



18 ; gastrochoena, 18 ; clavagella, 18 

 toredo, 18 ; watering-pot shell, 18 

 aspergillum vaginiferum, 18 ; cymba 

 olla, 19 ; magilus, 19 ; patella, 19 

 nudibranchiata, 19; cypraea turdus 



19 ; helix aspersa, 19 ; garden snails 



19 ; sea snails, 19 ; eulima, 19 

 manella, 19 ; triton, 19 ; muricidse. 



20 ; murex tenuispina, 20 ; murex 

 adustus, 20 ; scalaria pretioso, 20 

 pteroceras, 20; rostellaria ampla 

 20 ; vermetus, 20 ; siliquaria, 20 

 cowry, 20 ; ciprsea, 20 ; helicida? 

 20 ; gibbus lyonetti, 20 ; volutes 

 24 ; living mollusks, 24 ; oliva?, 24 : 

 neritida, 24 ; auriculidse, 24 ; mu 

 ricida), 24 ; hermit crabs, 24 ; bul 

 mius, 24 ; vegetable feeders, 24 ; dog 



