INDEX 



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Acoustics in building, 163 



Agriculture, use of lime in, 226 



Agriculturists, benefit of birds to, 321 

 Air, bleaching power of, 244 



Albumen, vegetable, a substitute for 



glue, 59 



Alcohol, arseniated, 211 



effects of on the nervous 



system, 195 



Alizarine, artificial, 236 



America, North, geology of the west- 

 ern part of, 255 

 " fishes of, 327 

 " " mammalia of, 326 

 American geology, notes on, 272 

 Ammonia, evolutions of, from volca- 

 noes, 304 

 Anaesthetic, new, 197 

 Anaesthetics, influence of, on the ner- 



vous system, 



195 



Analysis, liquid diffusion applied to, 197 

 " spectrum, or photochem- 

 ical, 134 

 Anatomy, application of photogra- 

 phy to, 144 

 Angular ship sides, value of in naval 



construction, 85 



Animals, geographical distribution 



of, 339 



" musky secretions of, 336 



" poisoning of noxious, 236 



" the recently extinct, 293 



Animal life, deep sea, 344 



Antiquities, notes on, 393 



Appalachian Mountain system, 280 



Archaeological discovery, curious 



Egyptian, 404 



Architecture, military, of the middle 



ages, 28 



Armstrong gun, is it a failure ? 87 



Association, American, for 1861, 3 



" British, " " ' 3 



Asteroids, new families of, 370 



" peculiarities of, 367 



Astronomical summary, 388 



Atlantic and Pacific telegraph, over- 

 land, 122 

 Atmosphere, modifications of, con- 

 sequent on habitation, 240 

 " of the sun, 139 

 Atmospheric electricity, 99 

 " ozone, 186 

 Auriferous veins, 308 

 Aurora, Sept. 2, ]S59, 117 

 " universality of, 117 

 Australia, ornithorhynchus of, 324 

 researches in, 393, 394 

 Azof, sea of, changes in, 395 



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Bashan, the land of, 401 



Battery, Ericsson's, iron-clad, 73 



Bathometer, the, 166 



Barometer, water, 164 



Baily's beads, 385 



Beaver, habits of, 330 



Bee, queen, new theory respecting, 365 

 Benzine, for plants, 315 



Birds, insect and grain-eating, 320 



" preservation of by law, in 



France, 321 



" typical forms of, 322 



Bitumen, origin of, 285 



Bleaching, use of ozone for, 184 



Boat-building by machinery, 22 



Boilers, steam, novel arrangement of, 25 

 -Boiler explosions, and their causes, 25 

 Bone-bed, in the so-called American 



New Red Sandstone, 292 



Book-binding, ornamental, 51 



Botanical science, 310 



" summary, 313 



Brains of men and animals, 340 



Brame's, De, rifled cannon, 90 



Bread, phosphated, Horsford's, 223 



Breeding, curious facts in relation 



to, 342 



Bridge, Niagara suspension, 33 



British isles, lines of deepest water 



around, 268 



Building, acoustics in, 163 



Buusen and Kirchhoff's process of 



spectrum analysis, 133 



Butter, extraction of, 228 



Butterfly vivarium, 332 



Camphor tree, introduction of into 



the U. S. 314 



Cannon, De Brame's openwork rifled, 90 

 new mortar, 91 



Spanish rifled, 88 



Carbine, Terry's breech-loading, 90 

 Carbolic acid, use of, as a disinfectant, 246 

 Carbonic acid, liquid, properties of, 183 

 Carboniferous age, terrestrial ani- 

 mals of, 291 

 Cataract, artificial production of, 354 

 Caves, natural ice, 155 

 Ceylon, geological history of, 271 

 Charcoal, value as a medium for fil- 

 tration, 57 

 Chickens, " Mother Carey's," home 



of, 322 



Chimney, largest in the world, 00 



Chimneys, substitute for external, 61 

 Chemistry and medicine, 172 



Chemical manufactures, 245 



" synthesis, 171 



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