GENERAL INDEX. 
279 
and respiration, 175 ; influence on the 
animal temperature , 178 ; influence of 
electr ical excitation during the inaction, 
180 ; dangers attending their adminis¬ 
tration, 181 ; on the neutralisation of 
some poisons hg them, 184 ; previous 
researches (1) on the amount of bile 
secreted in dogs, 188 ; ( 2 ) on the influ¬ 
ence exercised by mercury, 195 ; opera¬ 
tion for establishing biliary fistulce, 
198 ; method of collecting the bile, 200 ; 
observations to determine how far dogs 
are subject to the action of mercury, 
201 ; results of experiments on dogs, 
203 ; conclusions, 222 ; on podophyllinc 
and taraxacum as cholagogues, 224 ; the 
nitrite series, 1869, 408 ; the hydrides, 
410 ; the alcohol series, 413 ; the chlo¬ 
rides, 418 ; the iodides, 419 ; means of 
restoration, ib .; review of the work 
done in the past, 1870, 156 ; research 
with new agents, 160 ; physiological 
co nsideration s, 167 
Methyl, acetate of, vapour-tension of 
formiate of ethyl and, W. Dittmar 011 
the, 1868, 36 
*-sulphide of, the action of, on bro- 
macetic acid, Prof. Crum Brown on, 
1873, 63 
j--thetine, Prof. Crum Brown and Dr. 
E. A. Letts on, 1874. 56 
Methylacetonamine, F. Guthrie on, 1868, 
38 
Methylene, W. H. Perkin on chloride of, 
obtained from chloroform by means of 
nascent hydrogen, 1868, 40 
-blue and methylene red, Prof. 
Bernthsen on, 1887, 645 
*Metre, F. P. Fellows on certain errors in 
the received equivalent of the, 1866, 2 
-a plea for the, by E. G. Ravenstein, 
1887, 805 
Metric system of weights and measures, 
F. P. Fellows on the practical advan¬ 
tages of the, 1865, 147 
- system in the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, H. Yates Thompson on, 1866, 355 
—— system, reasons why the office of 
Warden of the Standards should in¬ 
clude standard weights and measures 
of the, in addition to those of the 
imperial weights and measures, by J. 
Yates, 1867, 146 
-- system of weights and measures , re¬ 
port on the best means for facilitating 
the adoption of the, in Great Britain, 
1884, 27 . See ‘ Measures ’ 
^Metrical measures, G. J. Stoney on the 
relation between British and, 1871, 222 
Meusel (Dr. E.) on a physical property 
of two coloured compounds, 1868, 39 
-and C. Haughton Gill on paraffin 
and its products of oxidation, 1868, 
39 
Mexican zodiac and astrology, observa¬ 
tions on the, by Hyde Clarke, 1884, 916 
Mexico, paleontological and zoological re¬ 
searches in, report of the Committee for 
conducting, 1880, 254 
Meyer (Prof. L.), *a study of the action 
of nitric acid on benzene, 1887, 653 ; 
*011 Prof. Ramsay’s method of deter¬ 
mining specific volumes, ib. 
*Meyer’s (Victor) apparatus for taking 
vapour densities of substances with 
high boiling points, exhibition of, by 
Dr. W. Ramsay, 1878, 517 
Miall (L. C.), experiments on contortion 
of Mountain Limestone, 1869, 97 
-on the formation of swallow-holes 
or pits with vertical sides in Mountain 
Limestone, 1870, 79 
-further experiments and remarks on 
the contortion of rocks, 1871, 106 
- on the structure and classification cj 
the Labyrintliodonts , 1873, 225 ; 1874, 
149 
- on the exploration of the Settle 
Caves, 1874, 133 ; 1875, 166 ; 1876, 115 ; 
1877, 215 ; 1878, 377 
- on the erratic blocks of England and 
Wales, 1874, 192 ; 1875, 82 ; 1876, no; 
1877, 81 ; 1878, 1 S 5 ; 1879, 135 ; 1880, no 
* - on solid-mounted preparations, 
1879, 376 
-—— on the ‘Geological Record j 1880, 87 
- on the exploration of Ray gill fissure, 
Yorkshire, 1883, 133 ; 1884, 240 
* - and F. Greenwood on vascular 
plexuses in the elephant and other 
animals, 1875, 170 
* -and A. Hammond on the develop¬ 
ment of the head of the fly of Chiro- 
nomus , 1890, 860 
Mian (Signor) on his travels towards 
the sources of the Nile, 1863, 143 
Mica-schist and slate, H. C. Sorby on mo¬ 
dels illustrating contortions in, 1863, 88 
-a fragment of, Prof. W. J. Sollas on, 
1880, 577 
Mica-trap dykes, some West Yorkshire, 
Dr. F. H. Hatch on, 1890, 813 
Michell (R.) on the supposed lost lan¬ 
guage and antiquity of the Kirghiz, or 
Buruts, 1875, 176 
* -(W. D.), Is the stone age of Lyell 
and Lubbock as yet at all proven ? 
1871, 155 
*Michelsen (M.) on the geography of 
bread plants, 1862, 196 
Michelson (A. A.) on the velocity of 
light in carbon disulphide and the dif¬ 
ference in velocity of red and blue 
light in the same, 1884, 654 
Michie (Alexander), notes on China, 
Mongolia, and Siberia, 1863, 1864, 145 
-(Rev. J. G.), traces of early human 
habitations on Deeside, 1885, 1232 
