INDEX. 
457 
PA.&E 
Mammals, Classification of 335 
Mammoth Cave, Animals of the ... 108 
Man and Apes 113, 243 
Man, Peculiar Degraded Race of ... 335 
Manual of Palaeontology 73 
Marsh’s (Prof.) Discovery of Possil 
Birds 210 
Masters (M. F.) on Sexuahty in 
Plants 363 
,, ,, on the Battle of 
Life among Plants 35 
Materials and Structures, Strength 
of 82 
Murray, Lieut., Death of 220 
Mechanical Means for Preventing 
Hay -ricks from Heating 98 
Mechanics 97, 213, 315, 434 
„ of the Proposed Channel 
Steamers 98 
Medal to Mr. Carter 224 
Medals given by the Greological So- 
ciety 212 
Medical Science 99, 214, 319, 436 
,, „ Physiology as an 
Aid to 100 
Mediterranean, Physical Greography 
of the 159 
Mental Powers of Birds 276 
Merrifield (C. W.), on Steamships 
for the Channel Passage 1 
Metallic Tin, Disaggregation of ... 106 
Metallurgy 101, 216, 322, 440 
Metals, how to Ascertain the 
Strength of. 436 
Meteorite, Analysis of a 92 
Meteorites in Vienna 106 
Meteors, Shower of. 84 
Microscopic Characters of Cotton... 217 
,, Object Glass, New 325 
„ Objectiyes, New Mount 
for 217 
„ Structure of the Brain 100 
Microscopical Papers 104, 325 
Microscopy 102, 217, 324, 441 
,, Irish Support to 443 
„ Progress of, in England 444 
, , V alue of Chloride of Gold 
in 217 
Milk, Spontaneous Coagulation of 436 
Mineralogical Researches, Hessen- 
berg’s 324 
Minerals, Tables for the Determi- 
nation of 323 
Mineral Trautwinite, New 441 
Mineralogy 101, 216, 322, 440 
,, Elements of, by J. Nicol 403 
Miniature Method of Estimating 
Objectives 103 
Mining Progress, Italian 102 
Mitrailleuse, New Form of 317 
Mivart (St. George), on Man and 
Apes 113, 243 
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Mivart’s “ Elementary Anatomy ”... 189 
Moggridge’s “ Harvesting Ants and 
Trap-door Spiders ” 193 
Mokuaweoweo, Volcano of 96 
Moon, the 417 
,, andPlanets, Essays on the... 76 
„ how to Sketch the 234 
,, Radiation of Heat from the... 420 
Morphology, Vegetable, Curiosities 
of 150 
Mucor mucedo. History of..! 89 
Muscular Sensation 436 
Mushrooms 89 
Mycological Herbarium, New 303 
Natueai- Philosophy, Handbook of 75 
Naval. Observatory, United States... 295 
Needles, New Mode of rubbing down 
for Microscopical Work, 442 
Negro, Anatomy of the 223 
Nematophycus logani, Histological 
Structure of 102 
Nervous System in the Annulosa ... 110 
News from Jupiter 348 
Nicholson’s “ Manual of Palaeonto- 
logy” 73 
Nicol’s Mineralogy 403 
Nitophyllum, British, New 304 
Noaic Deluge, the 298 
Noctilucine ; what is it ? 91 
N on -parasitic Marine Copepoda 223 
November Meteors, Origin of 84 
Object-glass, Microscopic, New... 325 
Objectives, Gundlach’s 218 
,, Miniature Method of Esti- 
mating 103 
Obolellina, Genus 95 
Ocean-bed, Instrument for bringing 
up Portions of the 435 
Optical Saccharimeter, Improved... 328 
Orbs around us, the 76 
O’Reilly (M. F.) on the Gramme 
Magnetico-electric Machine 265 
Organic and Inorganic Change, 
Causes of. 83 
„ particles. High Power, defi- 
nition of 444 
Ovules, Nervation of the Coats of ... 308 
Ozone, Amount of, absorbed by Water 428 
, , N atural History of 191 
Palaeontology 94, 210, 311, 431 
Palmieri’s “Eruption of Vesuvius in 
1872” 77 
Paradoxes, a Budget of. 76 
Palaeontologist, a. Exploring 94 
Palaeontology, Manual of 73 
