CONTENTS.

(Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)

Africa crossed again 193

Aluminum 197

Barometer, aneroid 201

Bolt, door, improved* 198

Bread, snow-raised 199

Buffalo, domestication of the 197

Carpet beetle, remedy for the 195

Chimney flues 198

Clocks, pneumatic 196

Cooper, Peter, as an inventor 193

Crusher, ore, novel* 194

Electricity, statical, phenom. in 194

Flour, banana 195

Furnace, imp., for burn'g garbage* 198

Hardware, English & American 201

Ice cave of Decorah, Iowa 196

Inventions, new agricultural 199

Iron, advance in 201

Light, albo-carbon 201

Magnetism, curious facts in 194

Motor, Gary, the* 196

Natural science, charms of 200

Neutral line, Gary's 196

Notes and queries 203

Patent laws 192

Patents, American, recent 194

Pen, stencil, new* 195

People, a strange 195

Phosphorescence 199

Plants protected by insects 201

Pleuro-pneumonia 192

Railway, Vesuvius 200

Reading and eyesight 199

Reading, taste for 193

Regulator, engine, novel* 195

Spain a field for machinery 193

Sponges, glass* 200

Table, ironing, new* 194

Telegraph, writing 196

Telegraph, writing, Cowper's 197

Telegraphy, ocean, progress of 195

Tiller, steam, new* 191

Tree, pottery 200

Vase, Greek, ancient* 199

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