INDEX. 



551 



Mechanics, fundamental Tiews regarding, 

 204. 



Melbourne, lunar atmospheric tide at, 

 489. 



magnetic obseryatory, 274. 



Mercury, on the specific grayitj of, 10. 

 Merrifleld (C. W.) on a new method of 



calculating the statical stabiHty of a 



ship, 332 ; note on, 396. 

 Metals and alloys, on the expansion of, by 



heat, 220. 



Meteoric iron, on the occlusion of hydro- 

 gen gas by, 502. 



stone, composition of the Dhurm- 



salla, 214. 



Meteorological department of Board of 

 Trade, on reorganization of 271. 



obseryations by sea and land, note on 



a correspondence on, between Her 

 Majesty's Goyernment and the Presi- 

 dent and Coimcil of the Eoyal Society, 

 29. ' 



Methenyldiphenyldiarain e, 61 . 



Miller (W. H.) on the forms of grE^phi- 

 toidal silicon and graphitoidal boron, 

 11. 



Miyart (St. G-eorge) on the appendicular 

 skeleton of the primates, 320. 



Moisture, on Appold's apparatus for re- 

 gulating, 145. 



Mouamines. aromatic, action of trichloride 

 of phosphorus on the salts of, 55. 



, , transformation of, into acids 



richer in carbon, 335. 



Montgomery (E.) on the formation of 

 " cells" in animal bodies, 314. 



Moon (E.) on Poisson's solution of the 

 accurate equations applicable to the 

 transmission of soimd through a cylin- 

 drical tube, and on the general solution 

 of partial differential equations, 306. 



on the integrability of certain par- 

 tial differential equations proposed by 

 Mr. Airy, 486. 



Motion of a rigid body moying freely 

 about a fi:sed point, on the, 139, 



MiUler ( Dr. H.) admitted, 209. 



Murchison (Dr. C.) admitted, 189. 



Muscles, table of yarieties in the, 243, 546. 



Muscular arrangements of the bladder and 

 prostate, 244. 



Myology, yariations in human, 229, 518. 



Mysteries of numbers, on, 115. 



Nebulte. further obseryations on the spectra 

 of the, and mode of determining their 

 brightness, 17. 



^settleship (E.), notes on the rearing of 

 Tcenia echinococcus in the dog, from 

 hydatids, with some obseryations on the 

 anatomy of the adult worm, 224. 



Keumayer (G.) on the lunar-diurnal ya- 

 riation of the magnetic declination, with 



special regard to the moon's declination, 

 414. 



Neumayer (G.) on the lunar atmospheric 



tide at Melbourne, 489. 

 Nitrogen, elimination of, by the kidneys 



and intestines, 339. 

 Numbers, on the mysteries of, alluded to 



by Fermat, 106, il5. 



Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased : — 



John George Appold, i. 



George Boole, yi. 



Samuel Hunter Christie, xi. 



Hugh Falconer, xiy. 



Vice-Admiral Eobert FitzEoy, xxi. 



Benjamin Gompertz, xsiii. 



Sir Benjamin Heywood, xxiy. 



Sir William Jackson Hooker, xxv. 



John Lindley, xxx. 



Sir John WilHam Lubbock, xxxii. 



Sir John Eichardson, xxxyii. 



Admiral William Henry Smyth, xliii. 



Johann Franz Encke, Ixiy. 



Adolf Theodor yon KuplFer, xlyi. 

 Optics of photography, 456. 

 Ouibos moschatus, 516. 



Palceocyclus, on the genus, 460. 

 Parker (W. K,), royal medal awarded to, 

 283. 



Parkes (E. A.) on the elimination of ni- 

 trogen by the kidneys and intestines 

 during rest and exercise, on a diet with- 

 out nitrogen, 339. 



Partial differential equations, on the ge- 

 neral solution of, 306. 



, on the integrability of certain, pro- 

 posed by Mr. Airy, 486. 



Pendulum experiments in India, preli- 

 minary notice of results of 318. 



obseryations in India, 254, 256. 



Perkin (W. H.) admitted, 209. 



Petroleum, note on the amyl-compounds 

 deriyed from, 131. 



Pettigrew (J. B.) on the muscular ari-ange- 

 ments of the bladder and prostate, and 

 the manner in which the ureters and 

 m'ethra are closed, 244. 



Phillips (J.), notice of a zone of spots on 

 the sun, 63. 



, obseryations of temperature during 



two eclipses of the sun (in 1858 and 

 1867), 421. 



Phosphorus, on the action of trichloride 

 of, on the salts of the aromatic mon- 

 amines, 55. 



Photography, optics of, 456. 



Pliicker (J.), fundamental yiews regarding 

 mechanics, 204. 



, Copley medal awarded to, 278. 



Pollock (Sir F.) on the mysteries of num- 

 bers alluded to by Fermat, 115. 



