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Africa, native iron in, 307 



Agricultural implements, new, 94 



Agriculture in France, 16 



Alcohol, production of from beet- 

 roots, 253 

 production from sugar by 

 electrical action, 252 

 Alcoholic spirits, poisons found in, 254 

 Alleghany range, measurements of, 276 

 Alkaloid, new, 252 

 Aluminum, leaf, 195 

 American Association, fourteenth 



meeting, 3 



Ammonia, artificial production of 



from the atmosphere, 261 



Ancients, transportation and eleva- 

 tion of large stones by, 177 

 Angora goat in France, 365 

 Animal kingdom, existence of series 



in, 353 



Animals, domestication of foreign, 364 

 parasitic, reproduction of, 357 

 society for the acclimatiza- 

 tion of, 



Antarctic explorations, 10 



Archaeology, some general views of, 320 



Arctic expeditions, recent, 12 



" flora, notes on the. 350 



Armstrong gun, how manufactured, 42 



" practical effects of, 43 



Arsenic-eaters, 208 



Arsenic in articles of domestic use, 210 



" " river-water, 210 



" presence of in plants, 240 



" in the larvae of insects, 369 



Arsenious acid, influence on animal 



tissues, 208 



Artillery, construction of, 50 



Asteroids, perturbations of the, 407 



Astronomical researches, recent, 

 Atlantic cable, last of the, 124 



Atmospheric dust, composition of, 362 

 electricity, origin of, 120 

 " telegraph, 65 



Atomic weights, new views respect- 

 ing, 272 

 Attitudes of the dead, 371 

 Australia, extinct marsupial animals 

 of, 315 



Bags, machine for turning, 101 



BARTON, Richard, improvement in 



steam engines, 



Bath, new form of, 90 



Battle-field, science on the, 53 



Beardmore's experiments on electri- 

 cal conduction, 122 



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Beet-root alcohol, 253 



Bird, power of the song of a, 184 



Birds, fossil, from New Zealand, 313 

 Bleaching action of sulphur, 214 



employment of carbonic 

 acid in, 216 



Blindness, color, 139 



Boilers, steam, new method of testing 



the strength of, 29 



Bones, bird : s, fossil, from New Zea- 

 land, 313 

 " fossil, from Connecticut River 

 sandstones, 313 

 Boracic acid, in the waters of the 



Pacific, 207 



new American min- 

 eral containing, 304 

 Boron, adamantine, 224 

 Bread, fermented and aerated, 241 

 Brickwork, exclusion of damp from. 98 

 British Association, thirtieth meeting, 3 

 Bronze, the age of, 321 



relics from the auriferous 

 sands of Siberia, 335 



Building materials, decay and pres- 

 ervation of, 95 

 Butter, means of removing rancidity 

 from, 222 



Cadmium, properties of, 206 



Calcium, new method of preparing, 195 

 Calico printing, recent progress in, 71 

 California, geological survey of, 13 



new mining region in, 286 

 Canna, domestication of the, 364 



Cannon, improvements in the con- 

 struction of, 44-52 

 Capillarity, researches on, 175 

 Carbonic acid, effects of on the skin, 250 

 " " new method of pre- 

 paring, 217 

 " use of in bleaching 

 paper-stock, 216 

 Carbon, sulphuret of, new use for, 218 

 Catalysis, and contact action, 260 

 researches on, 256 

 Caverns, bone, of Europe, 8 

 Cellulose, digestibility of, 239 

 " in animal tissues, 240 

 Cements, new metallic, 211 

 Chameleon, changes of color in, 146 

 Chemical agents producing disease, 256 

 analysis by means of spec- 

 tra, 191 

 " summary, 222 

 Chemistry, recent'progress of, 7 

 Chitiue, composition of, 240 



