INDEX. 



597 



pounds of carbon with hydrogen and 



nitrogen : No. II, 494. 

 Liveing (G-. D.) and J. Dewar on the 



spectrum of water, 580. 

 Lockyer (J. N.), on a new method of 



spectrum observation, 22. 

 note on the spectrum of hydrogen, 



31. 



note on the spectrum of carbon, 



335. 



further note on the spectrum of 



carbon, 461. 



Mackenzie Biver, Miocene plants dis- 

 covered on the (Heer), 560. 



MacMunn (C. A.), researches into the 

 colouring matters of human urine, with 

 an account of the separation of uro- 

 bilin, 250. 



Magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel 

 in North America between the Atlantic 

 Ocean and the Great Salt Lake, Utah 

 (Thorpe), 132. 



■ circuits in dynamo- and magneto - 



electric machines (Elphinstone and 

 Vincent), 287. 



Mallet (J. W.), revision of the atomic 

 weight of aluminium, 329. 



note on the bearing on the atomic 



weight of aluminium of the fact that 

 this metal occludes hydrogen, 574. 



Masters (M. T.), J. B. Lawes, and J. H. 

 Gilbert, agricultural, botanical, and 

 chemical results of experiments on the 

 mixed herbage of permanent meadow, 

 conducted for more than twenty years 

 in succession on the same land : 

 Part II. The botanical results, 556. 



Matter, on a fourth state of (Crookes), 

 469. 



Maxwell (J. Clerk) on a possible mode 

 of detecting a motion of the solar 

 system through the luminif erous ether. 

 In a letter to Mr. D. P. Todd, of the 

 Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, 

 U.S., 108. 



M'Coy (F.), elected, 468. 



Meadow, mixed herbage of permanent, 

 experiments on (Lawes, Gilbert, and 

 Masters), 556. 



Measurement of the actinism of the 

 sun's rays and of daylight (Smith), 

 355. 



Medusa, fresh-water, note on the dis- 

 covery of a (Lankester), 554. 



additional note, 556. 



Megalania prisca, description of some 

 remains of : Part II (Owen), 304. 



Metals in solutions of salts of potassium, 

 chemico-electric relations of (Gore), 

 38. 



Mills (E. J.), on chemical repulsion, 68. 



Mixed vapours, on the critical point of 

 (Dewar), 537. 



Motion of the solar system through the 

 luminif erous ether, on a possible 

 mode of detecting a (Maxwell), 108, 



Moulton (J. Fletcher) elected, 468 : ad- 

 mitted, 469. 

 • and W. Spottiswoode on the sen- 

 sitive state of vacuum discharges : 

 Part II, 302. 



Miiller (H. W.) and W. De La Eue, 

 experimental researches on the electric 

 discharge with the chloride of silver 

 battery: Supplement to Part III, 

 563. 



on the height of the Aurora 



Borealis, 332. 

 Musical beats, notes of observations on 



(Ellis), 520. 



New method of spectrum observation, 

 on a (Lockyer), 22. 



Nitrogen, on the amount of, excreted in 

 the urine by man at rest (West and 

 Bussell), 444. 



Niven (C), elected, 468 ; admitted, 520. 



on the induction of electric cur- 

 rents in infinite plates and spherica. 

 shells, 113. 



Noble (Captain) and F. A. Abel, fired 

 gunpowder : Note on the existence of 

 potassium hyposulphite in the solid 

 residue of fired gunpowder, 198. 



Northbrook (Lord), elected, 67 ; ad- 

 mitted, 173. 



Note on protagon (Gamgee), 111. 



Obituary notices of Fellows deceased : — 

 Brooke (Charles) , i. 

 Broun (John Allan), iii. 



On the spectrum of water (Liveing and 

 Dewar), 580. 



Orbit of a satellite revolving about a 

 tidally distorted planet, on the secular 

 changes in the elements of the (Dar- 

 win), 1. 



Ossification of the terminal phalanges of 

 the digits, preliminary note on 

 (Schafer and Dixey) , 550. 



Ova of Echidna hystrix, on the (Owen), 

 407. 



Ovarial glands or "egg-tubes," obser- 

 vations upon the mode of formation of 

 the, in the dog (Schafer), 237. 



Ovarian ovum, on the structure of the 

 immature, in the common fowl and in 

 the rabbit (Schafer), 237. 



Owen (Professor), description of some 

 remains of the gigantic land-lizard 

 {Megalania prisca, Owen) from 

 Australia : Part II, 304. 



on the ova of Echidna hystr'ix, 



407. 



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