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Massachusetts, amygdaloid of Brighton, 

 iii, 65. 



argillites at Braintree. Dodge, v, 65. 



coal plant at Worcester, Perry, ix. 157 . 



Deerfield dyke. Emerson, iv, 195. 

 270, 349. 



felsite near Boston, ii, SO. 

 of Milton, v, 475. 



gahnite of Rowe, Dana, ix, 455. 



kettle holes near Wood's Holl, 

 Koons. vii. 260 ; ix, 480. 



rnetarnorphic rocks of, Dana, viii, 

 393. 



quartz sand and kaolin of, in Berk- 

 shire. Dana, viii, 448 ; ix, 57. 



rocks of Bernardston, Whitfield, v, 

 368. 



syenite of. iii. 418 ; v, 69 ; xxx, 163. 



Berkshire taconic, see Taconic under 



GeOLO&Y. 



terraces on Connecticut, see Terraces 

 under Geology. 



Triassic trap of, Davis, iv, 345. 

 Matter, Properties of, Tait. xxx, 241. 

 Matthew, G. F., Paradoxides Davidis in 

 America, xxx. 72. 



new Cambrian pteropods. xxx, 293. 

 Matthew. G. J., Fauna of the St. John 



Group, viii, 74; ix, 419. 

 Mauna Loa, see Hawaii. 

 Maximowicz, C. J.. Coriaria. etc., iii, 159. 

 Diagnosis Plantarum novarum Asi- 

 aticarum, iii, 245. 

 Maxwell, James Clerk. Life of, ix, 347. 

 Elementary Treatise on Electricity, 

 iii. 149. 

 Mayer, A. M., measurement of vibrations 



of tuning-forks, xxx, 485. 

 Maynard, J. C. Manual of Taxidermy. 



vi, 80, 158. 

 McCay, massive safflorite, ix, 369, 496. 

 McGee, W. J., orographic displacement. 

 i, 276. 



thickness of ice-sheet at any lati- 

 tude, ii, 264. 



local subsidence produced by an 

 ice-sheet, ii. 368. 



secular climatal changes, ii, 437. 

 evaporation and eccentricity in gla- 

 cial periods, iii, 61. 



loss of Des Moines, iv. 202. 

 jointed structure, v. 152. 

 notice of Penck's Glaciation of the 

 German Alps, vi, 72. 



theory of glacial climate. vi. 113, 244. 

 origin and hade of normal faults, 

 vi, 294. 



ages of river- valleys in Lincolnshire, 

 vii, 240. 



meridional deflection of ica-streams, 

 ix, 386. 



McGee, W. J., Geological Map of the 



United States, xxx, 244. . 

 McMaster, J. B., Bridger Beds, ii, 235. 

 McRae. A. L., elasticity of ice, ix, 349. 

 Medals of London societies, v. 399. 

 Mediterranean basin, in the Glacial 



period, xxx, 243. 

 Mell. P. H., the Claiborne group, i. 157. 

 Melting, modes of, ii, 220. 



points, apparatus for determining, 

 iii, 482. 

 Mendenhall. T. G. gravity at the summit 

 of Fujiyama, i, 99. 



coefficient of expansion of a diffrac- 

 tion grating, i, 230. 



Edison's tasimeter, iv, 43. 

 differential resistance thermometer, 

 xxx, 114. 



Meteorology of Tokio, i, 85 ; iii, 496. 

 Menke, A. E.. chemical contributions, vi, 



141. 

 Mercer, H. C, theLenape Stone, xxx, 79. 

 Mercuric fulminate, i, 235. 

 Mercury, distillation of in vacuo, Wright, 

 ii, 479. 



oxidation of, ii, 217. 

 pump, new form of, i, 401. 

 specific resistance of, iv, 62. 

 surface tension of, iv, 61. 

 vapor tension of, iv, 144, 287. 392. 

 Mercury, transit of, 1881, iii, 48. 

 transits of, Newcomb, v, 317. 

 Meridian, conference for the adoption of 



a standard, v. 231. 

 Merriam, C. H., Vertebrates of the Adi- 

 rondack, iv, 478; v, 239; viii, 319. 

 new species of Shrew, viii, 319. 

 Mesitylene, preparation of, vii, 56. 

 Metallic vapors, infra-red emission-spec- 

 tra of, viii, 457. 



reversal of lines of, ii, 220. 

 Metallurgy of Iron, Bauerman, v, 159. 

 i Metals, electrical furnace for, xxx, 308. 

 quantitative determination of, by 

 electrolysis, ix, 164. 



rotational coefficients of, Hall,y, 215. 

 Metasulphites, Berthelot, vii, 403. 

 Meteoric dust, ii, 86. 



iron, concretions in, Smith, v, 417. 

 see Meteorites, iron. 

 Meteorites — 



catalogue of, at Vienna, xxx, 402. 

 classification of, vi, 411 ; viii, 470. 

 Iron : Brazil, Sta. Catarina, iii, 229 ; 

 ix, 33, 496 ; Trinity Co., California, 

 ix, 469; Georgia, Whitfield Co., 

 Hidden, i, 286; Shepard, vi. 336; 

 Mexico. Coahuila, i, 461, ix. 232 ; 

 Michigan, Grand Rapids, viii, 299, 

 xxx, 312; New Mexico, Glorieta 

 Mts., xxx, 235 ; Ohio, from mound, 



