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Index. 
Lathe-Band, Problems connected with, 
by Edward Sang, LL. D., 294, 
Latin Address to the University on 
the occasion of the Tercentenary, 940. 
Lanrie (A. P. ), Note on an Application 
of Mendeleieff’s Law to the Heats of 
Combination of the Elements with 
the Halogens, 46. 
Leguminosa3 of Socotra, 404. 
Liliaceae of Socotra, 97, 411. 
Line of Simple Flexure, by Edward 
Sang, LL.D., 172. 
Logarithmic Sines, the Construction of 
the Canon of, by Edward Sang, 
LL.D., 601. 
Macfarlane (Alexander), D.Sc,, Note 
on Plane Algebra, 184 ; Arrange- 
ment of the Metals in an Electro- 
Frictional Scale, 412. 
MacGregor (Professor J. G.), on the 
Absorption of Low Eadiant Heat by 
Gaseous Bodies, 24. 
Macpherson (Prof. Norman), on 
Boulders in Eigg, 212. 
Maddox (E. E.), M, B,, on Distant 
Vision, 433. 
Madi or Moru Tribe of Central Africa, 
by Robert W. Felkin, F.R.G.S., 
303 ; Habitations, 304 ; Furniture, 
305 ; Granaries, 305 ; Gardens, 306 ; 
Cattle, 306 ; Food, 307 ; Fire, 309 ; 
Smoking, 310 ; Agriculture, 310 ; 
Measurements of average man, 313 ; 
Hair, 315 ; Odour, 316 ; Clothing, 
316 ; Physical Powers, 316; Patho- 
logy, 317 ; Marriage Customs, 320 ; 
Reproduction, 323; Education, 326; 
Burial, 327 ; Superiors or Chiefs, 
329 ; Hospitality, 329 ; Treatment of 
Women and Aged, 329; Roads, &c., 
330; Salutations, 332; Bathing, 332; 
Division of Labour, 333; Religion, 
333; Feasts and Music, 337; Dances, 
338; Fights, 339; Weapons, 340; 
Animals, and Hunting and Fishing, 
341-346; Manufactures, 347; Money, 
350; Measures, 351; Vocabulary, 
352. 
Magnetism. — On Superposed Mag- 
netisms in Iron and Nickel, by Prof, 
C, G. Knott, 225. 
Modification of Gauss’s method 
for determining the Horizontal Com- 
ponent of Terrestrial Magnetic Force, 
and the Magnetic Moments of Bar 
Magnets, 578. 
Makdougall- Brisbane Prize for the 
Period 1880-82, awarded to Prof. 
James Geikie for his Contributions 
to the Geology of the North-West 
of Europe, including his paper on 
the Geology of the Faroes, 565. 
Marriage Seasons in England, 630. 
Marriages in Scotland, 622. 
Marshall (Prof. A. M.), Pennatulida 
dredged in the Faroe Channel, 231. 
Masson (Dr Orme) and Dr Matthew 
Hay, on the Elementary Composition 
of Nitroglycerine, 234. 
Mendeleieff’s Law applied to the Heats 
of Combination of the Elements 
with the Halogens, 46. 
Metals, Arrangement of, in an 
Electro-Frictional Scale, 412. 
Micrometrical Measures of Gaseous 
Spectra, by Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, 696. 
Middle (Greatest). — On the Pheno- 
menon of “Greatest Middle” in the 
Cycle of a Class of Periodic Con- 
tinued Fractions, by Thomas Muir, 
M.A., 578. 
Mile.— The Old English Mile, by W. 
Flinders Petrie, 254. 
Mill (Hugh Robert) B.Sc. , Observa- 
tions of the Rainband from June 
1882 to January 1883, 47. 
On the Periodic Variations of 
Temperature in Tidal Basins, 927. 
Milne-Home (D. ) of Milne-Graden, 
communicates Ninth Report of the 
Boulder Committee, 193. 
(D.) LL.D., presents Tenth and 
Final Report of the Boulder Com- 
mittee, with Appendix I. containing 
Abstract of the Nine Annual Reports 
of the Committee, 769 ; and Appendix 
II., Summary of Facts and In- 
ferences in the Nine Annual Boulder 
Reports, 885. 
His Remarks on presenting 
Tenth Report of Boulder Committee, 
907. 
Notice of two Localities for 
Remarkable Gravel Banks or Kaimes 
and Boulders, in the West of Scot- 
land, 913. 
Mirage, Further Remarks on, by Prof. 
Tait, 98. 
On the Impossibilty of Inverted 
Images in the Air, by Edward Sang, 
LL.D., 129. 
Moon. — The Moon and the Weather, by 
John Aitken, 187. 
Moncreiff (The Right Hon. Lord), Pre- 
sident, Address on Opening the 
Session, 1882-83, 2. 
Address on Closing the Session, 
1882-83, 235. 
Address giving a Review of the 
Hundred Years’ History of the 
Society, 451. 
