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INDEX II. 
illustrative of the changes in the bed 
of the, 117; on the estuary of the 
river, 126; on the large fly-wheel 
lately erected at the iron works, 147. 
Meteoric astronomy, on, 26. 
Meleorolites, on, 19. 
Meteorological instruments, on photo¬ 
graphic drawings of, adopted by the 
Council of the British Meteorological 
Society, 47. 
Meteorology, 28; of Huggate, 34; of 
Nice Maritime fur 1853, ib .; of the 
Albion Mines, Nova Scotia, 35. 
Mcthyle, on the physiological properties 
of, 76. 
Michel (H. E.) on the treatment of 
abandoned workings of the Australian 
gold fields, 214. 
Microscopic objects in fluid, on an easy 
method of making thin gluss cells for 
mounting, 47. 
Milk, on the preservation of, 74. 
Miller (William) on decimal coinage, 
142; on the decimalization of the 
tariff, 143. 
Minerals from the south of Norway, ou 
the occurrence and chemical composi¬ 
tion of some, 67, 
Mines, on the meteorology of the Albion, 
in Nova Scotin, 35; on a machine in¬ 
tended to prevent accidents in, 150. 
Moigno (Abbe) on u new arithmometer, 
1 ; on Babinet'B honmlographic maps, 
2 > 0,1 preservation of milk, 71. 
Moon, on photographs of the, 10. 
Mqon s surface, on collodion photographs 
of the, 66. ** r 
Moore (Mr.) on rare animals in the 
Museum of Natural History in Liver¬ 
pool, 111. 
Mordants, on the action of gallic and 
tannic acids on irou and alumina, 66. 
Mortar, marine, on destroying shins by 
means of a, 158. 1 3 
Mosses, on some new, 102. 
Motion, on mechanical antecedents of* 
Murchison (Sir R. I.) on the palmozoic 
rocks of Germany, 87; on a slab of 
old red sandstone from Puddiestone 
near Leominster, 91. 
Muscology of Liverpool, on recent addi¬ 
tions to the, 102. 
Napo, on the eastern territory of the 
Ecuador nnd the river, 123. 
Nasmyth (James) on the structure of 
unar volcanic craters, 91; on a me¬ 
thod of boring holes in rock for tunnel¬ 
ing purposes, 157; on destroying ships 
by means of a marine mortar, 158; on 
a lightning conductor for chimneys, 
ib. 
National accounts, suggestions for im¬ 
proving the present mode of keeping 
and stating the, 138. 
Navigation, 49 ; on the progress of steam, 
169 . 
Newnmrih (William), magnitude and 
(hictuatiun of the circulation of hills of 
exchange, 1816 to 1853, 143; fads 
and statements connected with the 
question, — whether, in consequence of 
the discoveries within the last six years, 
the exchangeable value of gold in this 
country has fallen below its former 
level, 143. 
Ncvins (Dr. J. B.) on the storms which 
have visited Englaud and Ireland 
during 1852, 1853, and 1854, with 
reference to (lie theory of rotatory 
storms, 30. 
Nice Maritime, on the meteorology of, 
tor 1853, 34 ; tho BtutistieB of, 115. 
Nicholson (E, C.) on the estimation of 
iron by tho method of Marguerite, and 
on the preparation of the standard solu¬ 
tion oF permanganate ofpotush, 71. 
Nicolay (Rev. C. ( i.) on the eastern ter¬ 
ritory of the Ecuador and the river 
Napo, 123. 
Norton (Copt. J.) on tome railway signals, 
158. 
Norwny, on the occurrence and chemical 
composition of sonic minerals from the 
t south of, 67. 
Nova Scotia, on the meteorology of the 
Albion mines in, 35. 
Nymphieacea?, on the arrangement of the 
air-canals in the, 102. 
Offenders, on the reformation of, 132. 
Opium, on tho relntion of meconine und 
papaverine to the other constituents of, 
64. 
Osier (F.) on his anemometer and rain- 
gauge at the Liverpool Observatory, 34. 
Owen ( Prof.) on the anthropoid apes, 111; 
on tlie anatomy of the great ant-eater. 
■o- 
the 
Pago (D.) on the subdivision of the pal® 
zoic rocks of Scotland, 91 ; on “•* 
structure anti texture of stratified rocks, 
as a means of determining the condi¬ 
tions under which they are formed, 9-. 
Papaverine, on the constitution of, 64- 
Paper, on some materials for making, 
97. 
Patterson (Robert) on Priapulus cau- 
