CONTENTS.

(Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)

Africa, carrying peace into 16

Air compressor, Bower's * 15

Alloy, new 18

American inventions. N.S.Wales 25

American Institute Exhibition 24

Answers to correspondents 27

Artesian well, pumping (13) 27

Billiard ball holder * 22

Billiard table * 22

Bisulphide of lime (35) 28

Bleaching silk and wool 24

Boot and shoe machinery * 19

Bookbinding, new method of * 19

Books and publications 25

Business prospects 15

Carrigeen crop 17

Catastrophism, Clarence King on 16

Catastrophe in geology 17

Chalk cup * 22

Coloring matter from herbs (2) 27

Copper plates covered with steel 22

Curtain fixture * 19

Disinfecting rooms 15

Duplex education 17

Dyspepsia, on 20

Education in Germany 24

Electricity, conducting power (21) 27

Electrotyping cylinders (33) 28

Electricity and magnetism (5) 27

Gold, dentists' (24) 27

Horses, dead, standing erect 20

Inventions patented in England 25

Lightning, effects of 20

Lime, precipitating (22) 27

Locomotive valves, setting 21

Man's place in Nature 25

Measures of the U. S. (32) 28

Mints of the U. S. (30) 27

Papier Mache (40) 28

Patents, American and foreign 25

Patent decisions, recent 25

Patents, official list of 28

Phosphorescent sweating 18

Plague, extension of the 24

Plants, curious carnivorous * 23

Popular fallacies 24

Santini, death of Professor 15

Sebastin, a new explosive 18

Solar heat, apparatus for utilizing 18

Special notice 25

Steamer, new 21

Steam pump, pounding (20) 27

Sulphur, test for 22

Sunstroke 20

Tin scrap, utilization of * 18

Tin-can telephone 21

Tin and phosphorus, alloy of 24

Yule, John 15

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