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lie Schools ; State Board of Examiners for College Degrees ; Sugar 

 from Corn; Mortality on the West Coast of Africa; Provisions of 

 the British Polar Expedition ; Suicide Statistics ; Black Bass in the 

 Susquehanna ; Increased Fund for Meteorology in England ; De- 

 crease of Fish in New Jersey Waters ; Technical Education; Animal 

 Remains in Northern Spain ; Prevention of Moisture on Mirrors. . xi 255 



Ways of spending the Summer ; Women admitted to Clinics; Sum- 

 mer Course at Cincinnati Observatory; Rock-Crystal for Standards 

 of Weight and Measure; Cleansing Skeletons of Small Animals; 

 Lectures on American Prehistoric Archaeology ; Tungstate of Soda 

 for rendering Cloth uninflammable; Cremation in London; Lect- 

 ures on Stock-Breeding ; Death of P. P. Carpenter ; Professor Morse 

 visits Japan; Meaning of "Anthropology," "Ethnology," and 

 " Ethnography " ; Economy in Iron Manufacture ; Effect of Glyc- 

 erine xi 383 



Errors to which Microscopists are liable ; Imperviousness of Glass; 

 Unveiling of the Monument to Liebig ; Death of Alexander Braun ; 

 Absorptive Power of Sea-Weed Charcoal ; Progeny of a Cock and 

 a Duck ; Carnivorous Habits in Red-headed Woodpeckers ; Trans- 

 actions of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Late Spring 

 in Scotland ; Size of the Red Corpuscles of the Blood ; Siemens's 

 Hardened Glass; Statistics of the Blind; Commerce in Africa; 

 Bichromate of Potash as an Antiseptic; Device for drawing 

 Liquids from Carboys; "Oriental Sore"; Bressa's Bequest; Moles 

 as Destroyers of Worms si 511 



Destructive Tornado in Indiana ; Effect of Steam on a Saline Solu- 

 tion ; Action of Sea- Water on Copper and Phosphor-Bronze ; Ex- 

 periment showing Increase of Weight by Combustion; Toads 

 eating Bees; Water and Turpentine exposed to a Current of Air; 

 Absence of Domestic Animals among Negroes; Revision of the 

 American Pharmacopoeia; Heating a City by Steam ; Remains of 

 an Enormous Dinosaur ; Cause of Typhoid Fever ; Tea Statistics in 

 England ; Comparative Safety of Crystallized and Liquid Nitro- 

 Glycerine X1 637 



Steam-Power in the World; Wheat sprouting after being Four 

 Years in Arctic Regions; Papier-Mache Coating for Iron Ship 

 Bottoms; Ilowgate Expedition; First Telephonic Line for Actual 

 Use ; Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 

 Fires caused by Concentration of the Sun's Rays; Consumptives 

 in Australia; Growth of a Tree; African Exploration; Native 

 Trees, etc., of Southern France x i 7G8 



Zinc in the Liver; Lucid Teaching; Barrenness of Land flooded 

 by the Sea; Longevity of Orange-Trees; Anthracite in Arizona; 

 Persistency of House-Wren in Nest-building; Fish-eating and 

 Brain-Power; Hibernation of Birds; Singular Instance of Hered- 

 ity; Germs on a Hospital Wall; Archroopteryx, Discovery of the; 

 New Ice-Breaker; Poisoning by Colored Stockings; Cremation 

 Death Notice ; New Malady of the Grape-vine ; Lavoisier Medal to 

 Walter Weldon ; Dunkirk Microscopical Society ; Berlin Aquarium 

 Gorilla ; Death of Professor Parlatore ; Dynamite in the Slaughter- 

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