GENERAL INDEX. 
273 
-white sands and clays in North Wales 
antecedent to the boulder clay drift, 68 
Maw (George) on the Cambrian rocks of 
Llanberis, with reference to a break in 
the conformable succession of the 
Lower bed, 18G7, 70 ; on covered life¬ 
boats, 156 
- on the rate of increase of under¬ 
ground temperature, 1868, 510 ; 1869, 
t 76 ; 1870, 29 ; 1871, 14 ; 1872, 128 ; 
1873, 252 ; 1875, 14 , 156 ; 1876, 204 
-- on the sequence of the deposits in 
Norfolk and Suffolk superior to the Red 
Crag, 1868, 73 ; on the occurrence of 
Lastrea rig Ida in North Wales, 105 
-on the trappean conglomerates of 
Middletown Hill, Montgomeryshire, 
1869, 96 ; on insect-remains and shells 
from the Lower Bagshot leaf-bed of 
Studland Bay, Dorsetshire, 97 
-on the evidences of recent changes 
of level on the Mediterranean coast, 
1870, 79 
- on the erratic Moolis of England and 
Wales, 1874, 192 ; 1875, 82 
Maxwell (Charles C.) on the confec¬ 
tionery and marmalade trade of Dun¬ 
dee, 1867, 143 
- (Prof. J. Clerk), report on standards 
of electrical resistance , 1863, 111 ; 1864, 
. 345 , 35o; 1865, 308 ; 1867, 474 5 1869, 
434 ; 1870, 14 ; on the elementary rela¬ 
tions between electrical measurements, 
1863, 130 ; description of an experi¬ 
mental measurement of electrical resist¬ 
ance, 163 
-on a real-image stereoscope, 1867, 
11 ; on the theory of diagrams of forces 
as applied to roofs and bridges, 156 
- on the rate of increase of under¬ 
ground temperature, 1868, 510 ; 1869, 
176 ; 1870, 29 ; 1871, 14 ; 1872, 128 ; 
1873, 252 ; 1875, 14 , 156 ; 1876 , 204 ; 
1877, 194 ; 1878, 178 ; 1879, 40 
- experiments on the value of v, the 
ratio of the electromagnetic to the 
electrostatic unit if electricity , 1869 ,436 
-Address to the Mathematical and 
Physical Section, 1870, 1 ; on hills and 
dales, 17 ; on colour-vision at different 
points of the retina, 40 
- on Siemens’s electrical-resistance 
pyrometer, 1872, 134 ; 1874, 242 
- on dynamical and electrical units, 
1873, 222 ; on science lectures and or¬ 
ganisation, 507 
-on the final state of a system of 
molecules in motion subject to forces 
of any kind, 1873, 29 ; on the relation 
of geometrical optics to other branches 
-of mathematics and physics, 38 
- on the selection and nomenclature 
of dynamical and electrical units, 1871, 
255 
Maxwell (Prof. J. Clerk) on the appli¬ 
cation of Kirchhoff’s rules for electric 
circuits to the solution of a geometri¬ 
cal problem, 1874, 18 
-- on Ohm's law, 1876, 36 ; on the me¬ 
chanical equivalent of heat, 1876, 275 ; 
1878, 102 ; 1879, 36 
- on the protection of buildings from 
lightning, 1876, 43 
- on the elasticity of mires, 1878, 103 ; 
1879, 33 ; on the progress of the chief 
branches of mathematics and physics, 
1879, 37 
* Maxwell’s theory of electricity, a hy¬ 
pothesis concerning the ether in con¬ 
nection with, Dr. O. J. Lodge on, 1879, 
258 
——- equations for the electromagnetic 
action of moving electricity, Prof. 
FitzGerald on, 1883, 404 
* -equations of electromagnetic 
waves, Prof. H. A. Rowland on a modi¬ 
fication of, 1888, 617 
*Mayers (W. F.) on the Panthays of 
Yunnan, 1872, 211 
*Mayne (Commander R. C.) on Vancou¬ 
ver’s Island, 1862, 195 
-- [Captain R. C.] on the Straits of 
Magellan and the passages leading- 
northward to the Gulf of Penas, 1869, 
164 
--(Messrs. Wallace and) on a Peruvian 
expedition up the rivers Ucayali and 
Pachitea, 1867, 131 
Meacham (F. G.) and H. Insley, notes 
on the rocks between the thick coal 
and the Trias north of Birmingham and 
the old South Staffordshire coal-field, 
1886, 626 
Meade (R.), statistics of the production 
and value of coal raised within the 
British Empire, 1886, 646 
Measure of value in direct taxation, report 
on a common, 1878, 220 
Measures, Prof. W. J. M. Rankine on 
units of, 1864, 188 
-- of length, James Yates on mural 
standards for exhibiting the, legalised 
in the United Kingdom, 1865, 159 
- report ontlie best means of providing 
for a uniformity of weights and, with 
reference to the interests of science, 1863, 
162 ; 1865, 375 ; 1866, 352 ; 1867, 46 S ; 
1868 , 484 ; 1869 , 308 ; 1870, 232 ; 1871, 
198 ; 1872, 25 ; 1874, 359 ; 1884, 27 
*Meat, preserved, Dr. Edward Smith on 
the economic and nutritive value of, 
1872, 227 
-the production and consumption of, 
in the United Kingdom, Major P. G. 
Craigie on, 1884, 841 
Mecanique moleculaire, sur Tapplication 
de l’analyse spectrale a la, par Dr. J. 
Janssen, 1888, 547 
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