430 



INDEX. 



PAT.E 



Tissue, when dead, 3-1 



Titanium, large specimens of, 206 



Touch, the sense of, 3SO 



Transplanting, implement for, 94 



Trees, large, new method of trans- 

 planting, 96 

 Trowbi idge, Lieut., 61 

 Turnips, essential manures for, 265 

 Tymlall. Dr. J., on the effects of heat 



on gases, 174 



Type '-map, 100 



Vacuum, electrical discharges in, 121 

 Vaughan, Prof. Daniel, 367, 413 



Vegetable cells, composition of, 241 



parchment, 248 



Vegetation, action of the soil on, 265 i 



" on miasma, 372 



Ventilator, new, 6S 



Vermont, erosion of rock in, 326 



fossil cetacean from, 351 



Vesuvius, eruptions in 1859, i 326 



Vibrations in Jailing water, 183 



Vibrio, origin of, 402 



Vinegar, acetic acid in, 252 



Vision, binocular experiments in, 156 



Volcanic emanations, 361 



eruption at the Sandwich 



Islands, 356 



Volcanoes, origin of, 304 



theory of, 299 



War implements, novelties in, 76 



" missile, new, 77 



Water, action of on glass, 254 



' on lead 256 



freezing of, in capillary tubes, 195 

 impurities in London drink- 

 ing, 257 

 Water, melting and solidification of, 178 J 

 " products extracted from soils 

 by, 260 , 



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Water, purification, of, by carbide of 



iron, 255 



Wsiter. contain- 



ing lead, 258 



Water, contain- 



ing gypsum, 256 



Water, running, measurement of, 56 

 Water-pipes, wooden, strength of, 60 

 Water-wheels, work of by day and 



night, 60 



Wax and rosin, use of in painting, 271 

 Weather, map of, 16 



Weir-boards, use of for measuring 



water, 56 



Well, frozen, at Brandon. Vt., 316 



Wells, artesian, at Columbus, O., 320 



" " Louisville, Ivy., 319 



" frozen, 



Whale, fossil, from Vermont, 351 



Whitney, J. D., 322 



Whittle'sey, Charles, Prof., 323 



Winans's steamer, 26 



Wine, oil of, how prepared, 273 



Winslow, Dr. C. F., 291 



Wisconsin, on the so-called "potash 



kettles " of, 323 



Wood, connection between structure 



and physical properties of, 52 



Wood, destructive action of the 



oxides of iron on, 113 



Wood, pine, use of, for ornamental 



work, 113 



Woody fibre, transformation into 



sugar, 245 



Wool, recovery from worn fabrics, 119 

 Woollen ra2:s, value as manures, 2iil 

 Work, units of, 1H4 



World, seismograph ic map of, 359 



Wurtz, Prof., Henry, 



Zealand, New, geology of, 2S8 



Zinc and manganese ores of Arkansas, 329 



