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MATHIOT, G-., engraving from daguerreo- 

 types, 182 

 Matter, absorption of, by the surface of 



bodies, 205 



Mathematical Journal, 12 



MAFRY, Lieut, on barometric anomalies, 19 



" " " large ordnance, 101 



Mediterranean and lied Sea, levels of, 29? 



submarine telegraph, 14J 



Metal, Ruscsle's rotary shears for, 118 



Metals, alkaline and earthy, electrolytic 



preparation of, 211 



" earthy, industrial employment 



of, 211 



" electro-chemical extraction of, 



from the human organism, 223 

 " production of, in Great Britain, 306 

 " spongy, 226 



Meteorite, examination of a supposed, 326 

 Meteorites, new, 325 



Mica, existence of acari in, 300 



Minerals, artificial production of, 329 



Minie balls, machines for making 



98 



Moon, chronology of the formation of, 289 

 Moon's surface, note on the extent of 



our knowledge respecting the, 387 



Mora tree of West Indies, 333 



Morphology, Analytic, 841 



Mosquito, sting of, 354 



Moths, microscopic illustrations of, 13 



Museums of domestic economy, 15 



Music, steam applied to, 37 



Musical instruments, improvements in, 128 



Nebraska, mawvais terres of, 289 

 Needlewomen, how injure their eyes, 345 



New Jersey, geological survey of, 21 



Niagara Eiver, attempts to sound, 281 



Nickel, separation of, from cobalt, 225 



Nitrogen, absorption of, by plants, 273 



Notation, mechanical, 195 



Ooguanolite, new mineral, 323 



Oil, new, 243 



" preparation from seeds, 242 



Oils for lubrication, 241 



" purifying of, 245 



Opate, Indian, 358 



Ordnance, Cavalli's Improvements in, 95 



Organ-pipes, wind regulator for, 128 



Oxalates in the mineral kingdom, new, 233 



Oxydation, alloys not subject to, 211 



Oxygen, magnetic force of, 154 



" and nitrogen, relations between, 205 



Ozone, influence of, 276 



" properties and constitution, 275 



" result of observations on, in Great 



Britain, 19 



Paddle-wheels, experiments with, 34 



Paper, bank-note, manufacture of, 84 



" electro-chemical, for telegraphic 



purposes, 153 



from straw, 82 



" gelatine, use of, for coloring light, 261 



" sizing, 248 



" plants furnishing fibers suitable 



for. 335 



Paraguay, discoveries in, 20 



Paris Exhibition, American medals, 136 



" description of, 134 



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Pavements, cast-iron, 77 



Pearls and pearl-making in China, 347 



Peat, gas from, 247 



Pen, Protean Fountain, 119 



Pendulum detachment, Brown's, 165 



Percussion caps, improvements in, 97 



Philological discoveries, interesting, 203 

 Phosphoric acid in rocks, detection 



of, 230, 272 



Photographic impressions of flowers, 175 



Photographs, colored, 176 



duration of, 178 



lunar, 175 



of Crimean battles, 179 



Photography and wood-engravin?, 178 



applications in the arts, 179 



to porcelain, 175 



printing on cloth by means 



of, 174 



Piano-forte action, improved, 128 



Piano?, Drigg's improvements in, 128 



Pickers for power-looms, 80 



Pictures, cheap, how made, 103 



Plane-iron, improved, 115 



Plane-lever, 111 



Planets discovered in 1855, 373 



Planiug-machiiie, Barlow's, 110 



" Gray & Wood's, 111 



Morse's, 111 



Plants, absorption of nitrogen by, 273 



" fossil, of the Pennsylvania coal, 281 

 Plastic compound, new, 265 



Plow-steam, Fisker's, 64 



Plugs, fusible safety, 208 



POEY & VERGNES, M. M., 223 



Polygraph, Ame's, 108 



Porcelain, application of photography to, 175 

 Potato, disease of, origin, 272 



Prizes, scientific, for 1855, 9-10 



Projectile, new war, 95 



Projectiles, resistance of air to, 192 



Printing, copper-plate, improvements in, 108 

 Printing-machines, improvements in, 106 

 Printing-press, Babcock's polychroma- 

 tic, 106 

 " Brown's color, 106 

 " Davis's oscillating, 107 

 Pulleys, loose bearings for, 130 

 Pulse, machine to record the beatings of, 130 

 Pulverizing-machine, Chase's, 76 

 Pump, Carpenter's improved, 121 

 " Gray's " 122 



Quina-trees, cultivation of, in Java, 339 



Rain-drops, fossil, formation of, 

 Kail-road bars, duration of, 

 " improvements, 



New York and Erie, 

 Rail-way sanding apparatus, 



trains, experiments in 



Redwood of California, peculiarity 

 Refraction, Solar, 

 Register, absentees', 

 leptile, new fossil, 

 tesins, bleaching, 

 letina, human, 

 Rifle, Graham's revolving, 



' exit, 

 Sings of Saturn, 



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52 

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 860 

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