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 tacea ; Recovery of the B ody of J. Blackford on Mont Blanc ; 

 Shad-Culture on the Delaware ; Poisoning by Colored Socks; Leg- 

 islation, on Vivisection ; Destruction of Library of tbe J. J. Au- 

 dubon vii 510 



A New Feature of Industrial Exhibitions ; Novel Snow Spectacles ; 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England ; Phylloxera in England ; 

 Bean's Pneumatic-Electric Gas-Lighter ; Egyptian Geographical 

 Society ; Ligbtning-Stroke ; Cactus for Paper-Pulp ; Sunday Law 

 and tbe Brighton Aquarium ; Antiquity of Man ; Mortality from 

 Cold; Buffalo-Gnat; Yellow-Bird's Nest; Death-Rate of United 

 States Cities ; Archaeological and E'.bnological Collection from 

 Peru ; Death of Sir W. E. Logan vii 639 



Protecting Birds ; Prize for Substitute for Plaster of Paris ; Births 

 in Boston ; First Hindoo Human Dissector ; Icebergs in the North 

 Atlantic; Captain Lawson ; Mica-Mine in Utah ; Zanzibar Ants; 

 Insulation of Cables injured by Minute Crustacean ; Unknown Mi- 

 lages in Syria ; Death of H. d' Arrest; Death-Rate of Memphis; 

 Standards of Weights and Measures; Singular Marriage Custom of 

 the Balantes; Smithsonian Contribution to the Centennial ; Micro- 

 scopic AlgS3 ; Height of tbe Pre-Miocene Alps ; Fungus on tbe 

 Opium-Poppy; Antiseptic Properties of tbe Eucalyptus vii 767 



Drive- Wells in extinguishing Fires ; Chaparral- Hen ; Large Mass of 

 Copper; Death-Rate in the United States Navy ; French Appreci- 

 ation of American Scientific Work ; Fish in Indiana Waters ; Khe- 

 dival Geographical Society; Carnivorous Plants; Platinum-Black; 

 Heat Conduction of Ice ; Leaves of Trees affect by their Height ; 

 British Excise Duties on Liquors ; Popularity of Darwin's Books; 

 Effects of Poisonous Plants upon Rodents and Marsupials ; Tele- 

 graph Rates in England ; Exhalation of Carbolic Acid in Animals ; 

 Primary Instruction in Peru ; Fishes under Great Pressure ; De la 

 Bastie's Glass ; Mussels on the Hull of the Great Eastern; Income 

 of the French Association ; Batrachian Remains in Palaeozoic 

 Rocks ; Substitute for the Dredge ; Bleaching due to Oxygen ; 

 Advantage of Hammocks in conveying the Sick ; Tea-Cultivation 

 in Ceylon viii 126 



Death of Sir Charles Wheatstone ; Gundlacb ; Death of S. D. Till- 

 man; Ancient Mound near Detroit; Dr. G. B. Duchenne; De- 

 crease of Medical Students in Germany ; Manufacture of Peat-Fuel 

 in California ; Tufts College; First American Suspension-Bridge; 

 Tin from Tasmania ; Anniversary of the Discovery of Infusoria ; 

 Compressed-Air Tramway-Car; Cells in a Mushroom; British 



p ar j 9 viii 255 



Association Aids to Research ; Proposed Electric Exhibition in 



Delivery of Young Opossums ; Largest Telescope ; Birds with Teeth ; 

 Hull-Gate Excavations; Wild Sheep; Changes in Tree-Growths in 

 Denmark ; Nutrition and Habits of Plants; Spectrum Lines of Me- 

 teors; Trial of the Eighty-one-Ton Gun; Statu Archaeological As- 

 sociation in Ohio; Young Salmon placed in Truckee River; Nickel 

 in New Caledonia; Death-Rate of English Towns; Spontaneous 

 Combustion of Coal; Trichina) in a Wild Boar; Water-Spray for 

 Steam in Sulphuric-Acid Manufactory ; Punishment for Assaults 



