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Index. 



[Oct., 



Mentzelia, Development of Flower in, 



276, 

 Mer de Glace, Flowering Plants of the 



Jardin of, 658. 

 Metals, Action of Sea- Water on, 457. 



Coating one with another, 87. 



Metal Miners, on the Health of, 216. 



Mining, 59. 



Metalliferous Mines Bill, 481. 

 Metallurgy, 122, 314, 489, 686. 

 Metamorphic Rocks, Chemical and 



Mineralogical Relations of, 299. 

 Meteorite, the Orgueil, 77, 271. 

 Meteorolites, 117. 



Meteors, Report on Luminous, 731. 

 Merionethshire, Gold Mines of, 638. 

 Microscope, the, 512. 

 Milk, Yield of, 70. 

 Miller, Dr. W. A., on Analysis of 



Potable Waters, 460. 

 Milton, Viscount, Explorations of 



Means of Commnnication between 



Canada and British Columbia, 100. 

 Minerals, New Cornish, 119, 312. 

 Mineral Springs of Nova Scotia, 141. 



Statistics for 1864, 682. 



Mineralogy, 117, 309, 487, 685. 



of South America, 309. 



Mines, Air of, 221. 



Methods of Descending, 60. 



Number of Deaths by Violence in, 



219. 



Work in, 66. 



Mining, 111.306,481,682. 



Moa, Egg of, 331. 



Mont Blanc, Scientific Ascents of, 554. 



Montpellier, Flora of, 448. 



Moon, Atmosphere of the, 267. 



Evidences of Continued Volcanic 



Action in the, 77. 



Physical Constitution of, 231. 



Morren, M., on Phosphorescence of 



Rarefied Gases during Passage of the 



Electric Spark, 500 

 Mule, Foal produced by a, 330 

 Mi'ller, Dr. F., Observations on the 



Crustacea in Relation to Darwin's 



Theory, 508. 

 Muscology, 558. 

 Musical Organs of Insects, 671. 

 Sounds, on the Quality of, 591. 



Nickel in Lead, and its Removal, 88. 

 Niobium, 665. 



Nitroglycerine for Blasting, 684. 

 No ad, Henry M., Ph.D., a Manual of 

 Chemical Analysis, &c. (Review), 

 171. 

 North Staffordshire Coal-fields, Distri- 

 bution of Organic Remains in, 527. 

 Notes and Correspondence : — 



On the Probable Existence of the 

 Repetition of Octaves in the 

 Solar Spectrum. By C. Hilton 

 Fagge, M.D., 182. 



On the Vast Antiquity of the 

 Lunar Surface. By James 

 Nasmyth, 183. 



Reform in the Committee of Coun- 

 cil on Education, and the Science 

 and Art Department, 355. 



On the Connection between the 

 supposed Inland Sea of the 

 Sahara and the Glacial Epoch. 

 By Rev. Horatio J. Ward, M.A., 

 357. 



On the New South Wales Coal 

 Fields. From Mr. John Mac- 

 kenzie, Government Examiner of 

 Coal Fields, New South Wales, 

 358. 



On the Iron-bearing Deposits of 

 Oxfordshire. By E. Hull, B.A., 

 F.G S., 360. 



On the Occurrence of a Tertiary 

 Species of Trigonia in Australia. 

 By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., 362. 



On the Cerebrum of the Entellus 

 Monkey. By E. Ray Lankester, 

 562. 



The Sahara and the North-East 

 Trade Wind. By W. Pengelly, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., 565. 



On Petroleum Springs in the 

 Eastern Crimea, and on the 

 Shores of the Sea of Azof. By 

 Professor D. T. Ansted, F.R.S., 

 755. 



On the Probable Conditions (Past 

 and Present) of the Lunar Sur- 

 face. By T. Clifford Allbutt, 

 M.A., M.B., 753. 



N. 



O. 



Nasmyth, James, on the vast Antiquity 

 of the Lunar Surface, 183. 



Nebula?, Physical and Chemical Con- 

 stitution of the, 689. 



Spectra of, 316. 



New Zealand, Geology and Palft;onto- 

 logy of, 476, 479. 480. 



Oldham, Dr. T., Annual Report of the 

 Geological Survey of India for 1863-4 

 (Review), 338. 



Operculum of Univalve Shells, Homolo- 

 gies of, 701. 



Organic Remains, Distribution of, in 

 North Staffordshire Coal Fields, 527. 



