294 
GENERAL INDEX. 
the Thylacine, Cuscus, and Phascogale, 
Dr. D. J. Cunningham on the, 1877, 107 
Myriapod of the genus Euphoberia in the 
Coal-Measures of Kilmaurs, H. Wood¬ 
ward on the discovery of a large, 1869, 
103 
Myriothela phrygia, Prof. Allman on 
some points in the histology of, 1874, 
135 
Mythology, Edward B. Tylor on lan¬ 
guage and, as departments of biolo¬ 
gical science, 1868, 120 
-natural, and some of the incentives 
to its adoption in Britain and Ireland, 
J. S. Phene on, 1874, 158 
Myxine glutinosa , the tail of, Prof. Cle- 
land on, 1885, 1069 
Ifyxogaster, C. E. Broome on a recently 
discovered species of, 1869, 108 
♦Nachtigall (Dr. G.) expedition from 
the Lake Tchad to the Upper Kile, 
1875, 195 
Nachtigall’s (Dr. G.) explorations in 
Africa, 1869-74, E. G. Bavenstein on, 
1874, 175 
Naegele’s obliquely contracted pelvis, the 
aberrant form of the sacrum connected 
■with, Dr. A. Thomson on, 1878, 605 
Nagel-flue of the Rigi and Rossberg, note 
on the, by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 1883, 507 
* Naiadacem , Dr. I. B. Balfour on, 1878, 
570 
♦Nakamura (T.) and Dr. Divers, an 
apparently new hydrocarbon distilled 
from Japanese petroleum, 1885, 975 
Names, the prehistoric, for man, mon¬ 
key, lizard, &c., Hyde Clarke on, 1876, 
165 
Naxsen (Dr. F.), observations on the 
Greenland ice-sheet, 1889, 573 ; *on 
Greenland, 668 ; *on the Esquimaux, 
788 
Naphthalene derivatives, report on the in¬ 
vestigation of isomeric , 1883, 132 ; 
1884, 74 ; 1886, 216 ; 1887,231 ; 1888, 
96 ; 1889, 172 ; *1890, 775 
Naphthylic sulphide, Dr. H. E. Armstrong 
on alpha- and beta-, 1873, 62 
♦Napier's original method of logarithms, 
Prof. Purser on, 1871, 23 
♦Napier (Capt. the Hon. G.) on the 
Turcoman frontier of Persia, 1875, 195 
-(the Right Hon. Joseph), report on 
technical and scientific evidence in 
courts of lam, 1862, 373 ; 1866, 456 
-- (J. R.) on steamship performance , 
1861, 190 ; 1862, 282 ; 1863, 339 
- on the resistance of mater to floating 
and immersed bodies, 1865, 56 
- on the difference between the resist¬ 
ance of mater to floating and to im¬ 
mersed bodies , 1866, 148 
Napier (J. R.) on the analysis and con¬ 
densation of the information contained 
in the reports of the ‘ Steam-ship Per¬ 
formance ’ Committee, and other sources 
of information on the same subject, 
1867, 58 
- on a uniformity of weights and mea¬ 
sures, 1868, 484 ; 1869, 308 ; 1870, 232 ; 
1871, 198 ; 1872, 25 
- fon Napier’s pressure log, 1873, 214 
- on instruments for measuring the 
speed of ships, 1874, 255 ; 1878, 219 ; 
1879, 210 
- on the effect of propellers on the 
steering of vessels, 1876, 66 ; 1877, 200 ; 
1878, 419 
- on patent legislation, 1878, 157 ; 
1879, 223 
-and Prof. W. J. Macquorx Rak- 
kine on the use of movable seats for 
slide-valves, 1S67, 156 
Naples, report on the zoological station at. 
See ‘ Zoological station ’ 
Napo, a journey from Guayaquil to the, 
by the Upper Patassa route, Alfred 
Simson on, 1877, 148 
Narcotine, Dr. A. Matthiessen and G. C. 
Foster on the constitution and rational 
formula of, 1863, 46 
Nares (Capt. Sir G.) on the desirability 
of f urther research in the Antarctic 
regions, 1886, 277 ; 1888, 316 ; on the 
erosion of the sea-coasts of -England and 
Wales, 1886, 847 ; 1888^898 
Narwhal, the stomach of the : the bear¬ 
ing of its histology on Turner’s and 
Max Weber’s nomenclature of the 
stomach of the ziphioid and delphinoid 
whales, Dr. G. S. Woodhead and R. W. 
Gray on, 1889, 635 
Nasmyth (J.) on some peculiar features 
in the structure of the sun’s surface, 
1862, 16 
♦ - on an improved form of ‘ link ’ 
motion, 1862, 196 
- report on the application of gun¬ 
cotton to marlihe purposes, 1863, 1 ; 
1865, 264 
♦ - on a spherical pendulous safety- 
valve, 1876, 229 
Natal, Dr. R. J. Mann on the. Kaffirs of, 
1866, 112 ; on the physical geography 
and climate of, 113 
-Dr. R. J. Mann on the resemblance 
and contrasts of the climates of the 
Mauritius and, 1868, 21 ; meteorolo¬ 
gical observations made at Pietermar¬ 
itzburg, 24 ; on the Coal-field of, 73 
-the rainfall of, Dr. R. Mann on, 
1869,41 ; *the gold of, Dr. R. Mann on, 
96 
- the physical aspects of Zululand 
and, B. Tower on, 1879, 442 
-and the border countries, geological 
