406 



ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



Beet-root sugar, improvements in the 



manufacture of, 95 



" " in Ireland, 



" " production of in Europe, 95 

 Bergamot pear oil, 225 



Biela's comet, return of, 361 



Binocular microscope, 153 



Birds, humming, Gould's collection 



of, 349 



" nest, curious locality of, 350 



BLAKE, W. T., 296 



Blood, forces influencing the circu- 

 lation of, 330 

 Boat-lowering apparatus, 

 Boats, life, improvements in, 69 

 " self-acting safety plug for, 43 

 Bodies, electro-chemical researches 

 on the properties of, elec- 

 trified, 197 

 molecular peculiarities of 



certain, 188 



motions of numerous small, 



around the sun, 



" phosphorescence of, 194 



spheroidal state of, 201 



Boiler, new tubular, 51 



Boilers, construction of marine, 49 



Bomerang propeller, 

 Bonnets, Dipthera, 112 



BOUTIGNY. M., 201 



BOUTELLE, C. O. MR., 368 



Brake, Frinck's self-acting, 58 



Bread, why becomes stale, 246 



BREWSTER, SIR DAVID, 149, 171, 292 



Brick machine, new, 89 



Bricks, pressed, 90 



Bridge, flying railway, 39 



Genesee high, 39 



White's wooden suspension, 38 

 Britain, Great, commercial statistics 



of, 67 



British iron, production of, 204 



BUFF, PROF., 117 



BUNSEN, PROF., 64 



BURNET, DR. W. I., 379 



Butyric acid, preparation of, 224 



Butter, separation of from cream by 



catalysis, 251 



Calico, machine for printing, 94 



Canada, foot-prints in the Potsdam 



sandstone of, 304 



gold districts of, 300 



platinum in, 297 



Candles, treatment of fat for the 



preparation of, 



Car, new railroad, for grain, &c., 56 

 " replacer, 59 



Car. , improvement in ventilating 



railroad, 57 



" Paine's ventilating, 67 



" sheet iron railroad, 60 



Cards, new enamel for, 112 



Carpets, Crossley's patent, 80 



improvements in weaving 



and printing, 



Catacombs at Rome, discoveries in, 388 

 Cattle, fattening in stalls and sheds, 353 

 Cellular tissue, artificial formation of, 252 

 Charcoal, decolorizing power of, 236 



Chemical change produced by solar 



agency, 158 



combinations, 188 



testimony in cases of poi- 

 soning, 256 

 Chemistry, application of certain op- 

 tical phenomena to, 193 

 early Egyption, 190 

 China, showers of sand in, 278 



" tallow tree of, 



Chinese rice paper plant, 322 



Chloric Ether, Chloroform, &c., 230 

 new method of pre- 

 paring, 231 

 Chloroform, poisonous, 

 Chronometers, American, 102 

 Chromic acid as an escharotic, 245 

 Chrystalotype, Whipple's, 161 

 Cigarette machine, 75 

 Cilia, muscular structure of 330 

 Circulation of the blood, forces in- 

 fluencing, 330 

 Civilization, human, connection of 

 the progress of, with the distribu- 

 tion of animals, 327 

 CLAUSSEN, M., 218 

 Clay, burnt, efficacy of, 247 

 Climate, causes of change in geologi- 

 cal periods, 



effect on consumption, 378 



" of New England and Ger- 

 many compared, 377 

 of the Southern States fa- 

 vorable to astronomical 

 observations, 368 

 Coal formation of the U. S., observa 



tions on, 



" its origin and composition, 

 Cochineal, insect, new, 348 



Coffee, deodorizing properties of, 236 

 Color, adaptation of to the wants of 



the animal, 328 



k{ harmony of in dress, 151 



" most frequently hit in battle, 171 

 Combustion, spontaneous human, 255 

 Comet, Biela's, 361 



Comets discovered in 1852, 

 COMPAGXON, JACQUES, 

 Compasses on iron ships, location of, 13.: 

 Condensation and evaporation, 372 



Condenser, Miller's Monozymatic, 51 

 Normandy's fresh water, 94 

 Consumption, effects of climate on, 378 

 Copper mines of Lake Superior, 

 Cornish engines, 51 



Cotton, Flax, 



presses, new, 74, 75 



Cow-catcher, substitute for, 60 



CRAIG, REV. MR., 154 



CRAW, W. J., 243 



CROSSLEV, MR. THOMAS, 80 



Crystal lens, found at Nineveh, 171 



Crystal Palace in New York, 

 Crystallization of glass, 

 Crystalline form of the globe, 276 



Cyanide of Potassium, preparation 



of, 220 



Daguerreotypes, colored, 



engraving from, 163 



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