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Index. 
Letts (Professor E. A.), and R. F. 
Blake, on the Identity of Hofmann’s 
“Dibenzyl-Phosphine” with Oxide 
of Tribenzyl-Phosphine, and on 
some other points connected with 
the Phosphorised Derivations of 
Benzyl, 193. 
Library, Donations to the, 823. 
Lime, Carbonate of. See Carbonate. 
Lineati. See Coscinodiscus. 
Linstow (Dr 0. von), on Pseudalius 
alatus, Leuckhart, 15. 
Liver, Tropical Abscess of, 311. 
M ‘Alpine (D.) Continued Observa- 
tions on the Progression and Rota- 
tion of Bivalve Molluscs and of De- 
tached Ciliated Portions of them. 
Part II. — In Fresh-Water Mussel 
( Unio ), 725. Part III. In the 
Oyster ( Ostrea ), 729. 
M'Aulay (Alexander), Differentiation 
of any Scalar Power of a Quater- 
nion, 201 ; with Note by Professor 
Tait, 205. 
Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Opening 
Address for Session 1888-89, 2. 
Macleod (Neil), M.D., and Walter J. 
Milles, F.R.C.S.Eng., Results of an 
Inquiry into the Causation of Asiatic 
Cholera, 18. 
Madrepora Durvillei, 79. 
Magnesium Silicates, Action of Sea- 
Water on Pure Natural, 172. 
Mainardi, his Contribution to the 
Theory of Determinants, 223. 
Makdougall-Brisbane Prizes, for Pe- 
riods 1884-86, 1886-88. See Prizes. 
Malarial Fever, 269. 
Matter, Molecular Constitution of, by 
Sir William Thomson, P.R.S.E., 
693. 
Medulla Oblongata, Uterine Nerve 
Centre in, 175. 
Meetings of the Society during Session 
1888-89, 807. 
Metabolism of Man during Starvation, 
by D. Noel Paton, M.D., and Ralph 
Stockman, M.D., 121. 
Milles (Walter), F.R.C.S.Eng., and 
Neil Macleod, M.D., Results of an 
Inquiry into the Causation of Asi- 
atic Cholera, 18. 
Minding (Prof.), his Contribution to 
the Theory of Determinants, 216. 
Molecular Constitution of Matter, by 
Sir William Thomson, P.R.S.E., 
693. 
Molluscs. Continued Observations on 
the Progression and Rotation of 
Bivalve Molluscs and of detached 
Ciliated Portions of them, by D. 
M ‘Alpine. .Part II. In Fresh- 
Water Mussel {Unio), 725. Part 
III. In the Oyster {Ostrea), 729. 
Monodon monoceros. See Narwhal. 
Muir (Thomas), LL.D., Note on the 
Relation between the Mutual Dis- 
tances of Five Points in Space, 86. 
The Theory of Determinants 
in the Historical Order of its De- 
velopment (Continuation). Part I. 
Determinants in General, 1829-44, 
207, 389, 748 ; Reiss (1829), 207 ; 
(1838), 394 ; Jacobi (1829, 1830), 
215; (1831-33), 230; (1835), 233; 
(1841), 426 ; Minding (1829), 216 ; 
J. E. Drinkwater (1831), 220 ; 
Mainardi (1832), 223 ; Grunert 
(1836), 389 ; (1842) 764 ; Lebesgue 
(1837), 393 ; Catalan (1839), 398 ; 
Gamier (1814), 401 ; Sylvester 
(1839), 401 ; (1840), 410 ; (January 
1841), 417 ; Richelot (May 1840), 
412; Cauchy (1840), 414 (March 
8, 1841), 420; (1841), 445, 748 ; 
A. Q. G. Craufurd (February 1841), 
419. Retrospect of the Period, 
1813-1841, 758. Cayley (1841), 
759 ; (1843), 765 ; Terquem (1842), 
764 ; Hesse (1843), 769 ; Grass- 
mann (June 1844), 769. 
Muscle Contraction, by Alexander 
James, M.D., 385. 
Mussel {Unio). See Molluscs. 
Narwhal {Monodon monoceros), On the 
Stomach of, bj 7, G. Sims Woodhead, 
M.D., and Robert W. Gray, 792. 
Office-Bearers for Session 1888-89, 1. 
Oliver (James), M.D., Deductive Evi- 
dence of a Uterine Nerve Centre, 
and of the Location of such in the 
Medulla Oblongata, 175. 
Oriental Plague, 293. 
Oriental Sore or Boil, 288. 
Oscillating Body. — The Air’s Resist- 
ance to an Oscillating Body (its 
Influence on Time-Keepers), by Ed- 
ward Sang, LL.D., 181. 
Oyster {Ostrea). See Molluscs. 
Papers ; Titles of, read during Session 
1888-89, 807-821. 
Parantipathes, 80, 81. 
Paton (D. Noel), M.D., and Stockman 
(Ralph), M.D., on the Metabolism 
of Man during Starvation, 121. 
Peach (B. N.), Address on Presenting 
Makdougall-Brisbane Prizefor 1886- 
88, 816. 
