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on "Women and Children ; Brightening Iron ; IIumble-Bees in New 

 Zealand ; New Russian University ; Vanilla from the Wood of the 

 Pine ; Female Medical Missionaries in India ; Bath Bricks ; Grain 

 grown in Minnesota viii 383 



Correction of Article on " Nebula in Sagittarius " ; Enormous Ox- 

 Horns; The Tiger stronger than the Lion; Sagacity of Ants; 

 Phosphuretted Hydrogen ; Rapid Plant-Growth ; Ferments ; Solid 

 Matter in Milk ; Gas from Cork ; Country and City Boys ; Women 

 in Medicine; Intelligence of Grasshoppers; African Journey of 

 Marno; Electricity for Executions; Sulpho-Carbonate of Potas- 

 sium for Phylloxera; Death of Dr. R. von Willemoes-Suhm ; Prize 

 to Paul Bert ; Medal to Crookes ; Spiral Form of Nebula? ; Deter- 

 mining the Longitude of the West Indies; Gum in Fruit- Trees; 

 Electric Apparatus for detecting Adulteration ; Acetate of Lead in 

 Sewing-Silk viii 510 



Smithsonian Centennial Collection; Artesian Well in St. Louis; 

 Mining of Ancient Cedar-Logs ; Recognition of the Work of J. 

 Horrocks; The Great Auk ; Death of F. R. S.'sin 1875; Service of 

 Confederate Cruisers in American Seal-Fishery ; Lieutenant Cam- 

 eron's Journey ; Mr. Lick's Donation to the California Academy 

 of Sciences ; Mastodon Remains at Lisle viii 640 



Life-Pension to M. Pasteur ; Fish Resources of the United States ; 

 American Microscopic Society ; London Loan Collection of Scien- 

 tific Instruments ; Cat-Tail Substitute for Asparagus ; Sir John 

 Franklin Search ; Death of G. P. Scrope ; Coast-Survey Signal on 

 Mount Shasta; Proposed Union of the Black and Caspian Seas; 

 Atfection of a Lioness for a Terrier; Indian Relics at Chickies, 

 Pennsylvania viii 768 



Birds breeding twice a Season; Coins of the Metric System; Fire- 

 proof House: Nest of Fishes; Stimulant Drugs; Aged Physicians ; 

 Women admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons, England ; Rail- 

 roads in China; New Fossil Reptile ; Summer School of Biology; 

 Salicylic Acid ; Illinois Normal School of Natural History ; West 

 and East Rocks, New Haven ; Agricultural Station ; Channel Twin- 

 Steamship ; Wonderful Recovery from Gunshot-Wound ; Strengths 

 of Various Substances; New Variety of Bronze; Freezing Mer- 

 cury; Wollaston Medal to Huxley; Summer School of Science; 

 Discovery of Animal Remains in Switzerland ; Walnuts ix 126 



Benjamin Franklin's Printing -Press; Eozoon Canadense; Bastian 

 and Spontaneous Generation; Paper from Peat; Cotton-Worm; 

 Making Pewter, etc., sonorous; Phylloxera Prize; Generation of 

 Marsh- Gas in the Stomach; Cape Diamonds; Mortality of Liquor- 

 Drinkers; Salicylic Acid in Sores; Explosiveness of Coal-Dust; 

 Scalping; Nordenskjold Polar Expedition; Death of E. A. Parkes ; 

 Death of Dr. II. Letheby ; Amber; Resonance of Sea-Shells ix 255 



Gift to the Royal Society ; First Employment of Chlorine ; Age of 

 the Third Pyramid; Vitality of Jews; An Eel's Tenacity of Life; 

 Death of A. R. Marvine ; Vaccination in India ; Scientific Results 

 of the Polaris Expedition ; Ant-Eggs; Dogs and Arsenic; Cinchona- 

 Trees in Reunion Island ; Smithsonian Institution Fund ; Foot and 

 Mouth Disease and Milk; Fish-Bones for fertilizing; Peat-Fuel; 

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