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Coating Thread with Silk; Pasteur's Eesearches on Contagious 

 Diseases xviii 207 



Large Holtz Frictional Machine ; Fishes on the Pacific Coast; Ants; 

 Microscopic Vegetable and Animal Life in Ponds; Irrigation with 

 Sewage; Phosphorescent Meat; Stars of the Southern Heavens ; 

 Copley Medal to J. J. Sylvester ; African Telegraph ; Photograph 

 of the Nebula in Orion ; Improvement in Solar Engines ; Electric 

 Lights in St. Gothard Tunnel ; Kock-drill driven by Electricity ; 

 Death of Dr. H. von Wagner xviii 431 



Meeting of the French Association (1881); Death of M. Chasles; 

 A Correction ; Death of Dr. J. Stenhouse ; Antennas of Insects ; 

 Death of Ernst Ilampe; Growth of American Associations; Inter- 

 national Congress of Electricians; Blood-Capillaries; Death of J. 

 C. Watson; Equipment of the Observatory at Nice; Death of A. 

 Wood; New Process of Tanning; Death of Benjamin C. Brodie; 

 Death of P. A. Horner xviii 575 



Fleuss's Diving Apparatus; Suffocation of Infants by Overlying ; 

 Death of F. T. Buckland ; Death of T. E. Jones; Improved Solar 

 Engine ; Entomological Club in New York ; Evolution and Zoolo- 

 gists ; Effect of Different Colors on Development of Infusoria? ; 

 Proposed Systematic Solar Photography; Siemens's Electric Rail- 

 way; Boston Free Library; Phylloxera in the Crimea; Mont 

 Cenis Tunnel; Colossal Fossil Rhinoceros; Election of A. B. 

 Gould to the French Academy ; Death of J. T. Towson ; Huxley 

 appointed Inspector of Fisheries xviii 719 



Instruction in Plumbing and Sanitary Engineering ; Second Annual 

 Meeting of the Illinois Natural History Society; Cremation in New 

 York ; Death of Dr. E. Boricky ; Geology of Iron County, Utah ; 

 Death of C. F. Kuhlmann; New Intermittent Signal -Lamp; 

 Vitality of Disease-Germs; Death of William White; Society of 

 Arts Prizes; II eilprin's Course of Lectures on Invertebrate Pale- 

 ontology ; Value of Whales in aiding Fisheries ; Sach's Experi- 

 ments on the Electric Eel ; Death of Professor A. Brongniart ; 

 Death of J. J. Bigsby xviii S63 



Thermometric Bureau ; Buckland's Museum of Economic Fish Cult- 

 ure ; Electric Light for catching Insects ; Arteriography ; Moist- 

 ure-collecting Plant; Death of Carl Weyprecht ; Artificial Basalt; 

 Woolen Mattresses and Disease ; Death of Sabino Berthelot ; The 

 Spongidfe ; Election of J. W. Draper Honorary Member of Phys- 

 ical Society, London; A Correction; Death of Dr. J. Lewis; Rat 

 caught by an Oyster; Ice-Drift in New York Harbor; Suhstances 

 from Peat ; Mode of applying Sulphuret of Carbon for the Phyl- 

 loxera ; Sun-Spots and Rainfall ; Altitude and Color of Flowers, xix 143 



Meeting of the National Academy of Science; Seaside Laboratory 

 of Natural History; Death of A. Delesse ; Malthusian Doctrine and 

 Fish; Death of an Aged Carp; Sixth Session of the Summer 

 School of Biology; Recent Improvements in Marine Navigation ; 

 Durability of Building-Stones under Heat ; Meeting of the So- 

 ciety of Agricultural Science ; Meeting of the French Association ; 

 Death of J. Tennant; Death of F. A. Nobert; Formation of New 

 York Electrical Society ; Death of Sir P. Egerton xix 283 



