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Fire-Damp Explosions and Atmospheric Pressure; Drinker's "Amer- 

 ican Tunnels"; Age of Elephants; Seal-Meat; Uniformity of Meas- 

 ures, Instruments, and Methods of Observation among Physicians, ix 383 



Franklin Institute's Exhibit at the Centennial ; International Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition; European Silk-Crop, 1874; Course in Spencer's 

 Psychology at Harvard ; Small-pox conveyed by Letter ; The Py- 

 thon as a Patter ; Silk-Worms reared on Osage Orange ; Published 

 Eesults of the Challenger Expedition; New Grape-Fungus; Car- 

 Wheels traveling 91,800 Miles; Return of the Challenger Expedi- 

 tion; Death-Rate in England; Pig-Iron Street Pavement; New 

 Gas Process ; Hoosac Tunnel ; Tea-making ; Depth of the Pacific, ix 511 



Buffalo Meeting (1876) of the American Association; Meeting (1876) 

 of the Entomological Club; French Association (1876) Meeting; 

 Agassiz Museum ; British Association Meeting (1876) ; Brilliant 

 Meteor; Death of E. Newman; Study at Home Society; Knighting 

 of Professor C. Wyville Thomson ; Grass penetrating a Telegraph- 

 Cable; Relations of Ophthalmology to General Surgery; New 

 Green Pigment ; Microscope in examining Water ; Heating Gas in 

 London ; Vaccination in Foot and Mouth Disease ; An International 

 Coinage ; Photographing Solar Eclipses ; Legislation on Vivisec- 

 tion ; Practices in English Insane Asylums ; Proposed French Ex- 

 pedition, 1878 ; Testing Safety-Lamps ix 639 



Work of the United States Fish Commission ; Remarkable Coal- 

 Mine; Parasite on the Potato-Bug ; Memorial to Dr. Parkes; Car- 

 rier-Pigeons m Germany ; New Book by Darwin ; Effect of Sub- 

 cutaneous Injection of Sodic Lactate ; Liability of the Eye to Injury ; 

 Permanence of Prussian Blue ; Gallium ; Amputation of the Tongue ; 

 Hardened Glass Lamp-Chimneys; Nickel-Mine in Pennsylvania; 

 Carbon in the Heavenly Bodies ; M. Paul Bert's Prize ; New 

 Fireman's Suit ; Cholera among the Cats ix 767 



Depth of the Ocean ; S. W. Burnham appointed Director of Dear- 

 born Observatory ; Measurements of Skulls of Noted Men ; Vana- 

 dium; Dynamite in Vine-Culture; Death of C. G. Ehrenberg; 

 Sugar from Watermelons ; Death of Dr. Lonsdale ; New Geological 

 Map of Scotland; Cremation Congress; Fermentation in Atmos- 

 phere of Carbonic Acid and Hydrogen ; Liquid Mercury found at 

 Montpellier; Phosphor-Bronze Wire Rope ; Hatching Silkworms by 

 Electricity; Early Workers in the Mechanical Theory of Heat; Ar- 

 tesian Wells in Algeria ; Living Gorilla brought to Europe ; Medical 

 Prize; Cochin-China Diarrhoea ; Death of George Smith; A Case 

 of Longevity s 127 



American Metric Bureau; Free Analyses at the Paris School of Mines; 

 Cremation in Saxe-Gotha; Tree-Planting in Illinois; The Govern- 

 ment and the Rocky Mountain Locusts ; Voices of Animals ; Woman 

 in the University of Micbigan; Antidote for Toadstool-Poison; 

 Spontaneous Combustion of Coal; Size of Brain in Dogs; Bottom 

 of the British Channel seen from a Balloon ; Death of Professor 

 Dimond ; French Association's Aid to Research ; Coal and Iron in 

 Central Africa; Martin's Lecture at Johns Hopkins; Nickel-Ore 

 in Pennsylvania; Steam Velocipede ; Finds at St. Nazaire ; Births 

 and Deaths in Great Britain ; Blue Glasses x 255 



