INDEX OF VOLUMES I TO XX. 81 



Notes : TOL. PAGB 



Iron Piano-forte Frames ; Telephonic Inventions ; Utilization of 

 Natural Gas ; Appointment of Professor J. E. Hilgard Director of 

 International Bureau of Weights and Measures; Death of J. Nog- 

 gerath ; Death of H. Newton ; Proctor's Occupations ; a Foe of 

 the Phylloxera ; French Scientific Expedition ; The Lick Tele- 

 scope ; Discoverer of the Laryngoscope ; Disappearance of the 

 "Barker Islands"; Human Hair from China; Cheese in Army 

 Rations xii 255 



Upward Filtration ; Scientific Aspersions of Military Men ; Death of 

 James Orton ; Relic of the Sir John Franklin Expedition ; Technical 

 Education ; Death of W. H. Fox Talbot ; Measurements of Head in 

 Men and Women; Live-Stock Insurance Company ; Scales to show 

 Loss of Weight of the Body ; Preserving Fish ; Monument to Lin- 

 naaus ; Vineyard in Wales xii 383 



Solar Eclipses in 1878 ; Award of " Copley Medal " for 1877; Prize 

 for Means of extracting Juice from Sugar-Cane; Forest-Growth 

 in Australia ; Death of K. L. von Littrow ; Mean Distance of the 

 Sun ; Burial Customs of North American Indians ; Death of D. A. 

 Spaulding; New Filter; Prize for Machine for preparing Ramie- 

 Fiber ; Bicarbonate of Sodium for Burns ; Lightning-Rods in An- 

 tiquity ; Engines of British Ironclad Terr.eraire ; Test for Sewage 

 in Water; Embryo of the Crawfish; Beecher's Sermon on the 

 Future Life xii 511 



Fossil Ferns in Silurian Rocks ; Election of Professor Whitney to 

 the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles -Lettres; Fines 

 imposed on a Gas Company ; Arrest for Unsanitary Condition of 

 a House ; Death of H. D. Ruhmkorff ; Singular Rite of the Semi- 

 noles ; Rainfall and Sun-Spots ; Value of Crying in Pain ; Case of 

 Lead-Poisoning xii 6-10 



Causes of Diseases of Women ; A Great Chinese Literary Work ; De- 

 struction of Life in India by Wild Animals ; Professorships of Hy- 

 giene in the Holland Universities ; Parkes Museum of Hygiene ; 

 Coal-Measurea of Missouri; Effect of Contact with Millepora; 

 Strong Drink among the Swedes ; Summer School of Zoology of 

 Union College; Vivisection; Saliva of the Rat; School-Seats; 

 Cremation on the Battle-Field ; American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory; Galvanized Iron for Roofing; Cocoon-Silk Industry in 

 France; Bookbindings and Coal-Gas ; Germ Theory of Disease ; 

 New Tanning Process xii 767 



Date-Palm in the United States ; Largest Bell in the World ; Gas from 

 Oil-Waste; California Wines ; Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences; 

 Explosion of Toughened Glass ; Engraving by Electricity ; Sheep- 

 Entrails for Belting ; Foucault's Pendulum Experiment to be re- 

 peated at the Paris Exposition, 1878 ; Lockjaw ; Dangers of Infec- 

 tion by Books; South-Polar Spot ; Objections to Trees in Towns; 

 Fasting Girls ; Camels in Texas ; Effect of Vibrations on Hard and 

 Soft Steel; Trials of Endurance ; Value of the Common Nettle as 

 a Textile Fiber xiii 127 



Bowdoin College Summer School of Science ; " Writer's Cramp " ; 

 Disappearance of an Island ; Unequal Length of the Lower Limbs; 

 Fossils from Oregon ; the Catalpa as a Timber-Tree ; Death of Ju- 



