INDEX 



PAGE 



Adamas 96 



Ages, stone, iron, and bronze, of 



Europe 284 



Agricultural implements at the 



Great Exhibition 38 



Alcohol, artificial production of 196 



" from coal-gas 200 



Aluminum, manufacture of. 41 



" new applications of 241 



America. North, fossil fishes of 271 



" " gold deposits of.... 272 



American iron-clad vessels 52 



Ammonia, production of from air 



and water 221 



Aniline, how manufactured 239 



" colors, printing with 204 



" purple 35 



Animal life in poisonous substances 308 



Ape, last in Europe 272 



Armor-plates, experiments with .... 50 



" " for ships 20 



" " manufacture of 78 



Artesian well-boring 33 



" well of Passy, France 259 



" wells in the Sahara 261 



Asteroids, magnitude of 31] 



new 310 



Astronomical calculations, accuracy 



of. 327 



' hypothesis, new 330 



" observations with the 



spectroscope 330 



Atlantic telegraph, prospects of. . . . .126 



Atlantis, the ancient 274 



Atmosphere, earth's, extent of. 132 



" effects of on terrestrial 



heat 136 



' new views respecting. 331 

 " periodic changes in the 334 

 " vertical movements of 135 

 Atmospheric and magnetic perturba- 

 tions 120 



refraction, effects of.. . . 133 

 " vapor, new theory of. . 144 



" waves 133 



Aurora Borealis, De la Hive's re- 

 searches on 117 



Australia, gold of. 272 



hairless men of. 294 



Autotypography 36 



Balloon ascensions, scientific 137 



Barometers, new form of. <. 151 



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Bees, curious facts concerning. .240, 241 



Benzine detector 234 



Bessemer's patent steel 25 



Bird of Paradise 307 



Birds, fossil footprints 271 



" notes on 274 



Blood, coagulation of. 210 



of vetebrate animals 305 



Boilers, steam, testing the strength 



of 95 



Bolt, improved 99 



Bone cave, interesting 281 



Books, scientific for 1862 336 



Boron, crystallized 204 



Brain, wounds of. 301 



Bread, compressed 99 



Breech rs. muzzle-loading cannon. . . 61 



Breeding improvements 298, 299 



Brick-making by machinery 38 



Bricks and tiles 37 



Bubbles, soap, curious facts in rela- 

 tion to 146 



" how to make of large size 147 

 Bullet machine, Snyder's 65 



Calico printing 34 



California, curious inundation in 265 



quicksilver mines of 266 



Calorific phenomena, notes on 149 



Camphor, motions upon water 131 



Canadian Pleistocene fossils 271 



Cannon, breech vs. muzzle-loading. . 61 

 James's, for battering pur- 

 poses .. 65 



new American 66 



" Austrian 61 



plan for firing under water. 66 



Capillary attraction in paper 211 



Carbolic acid, mechanical effects of. .227 



Carbonic acid as an anaesthetic 226 



" " evolution of from 



plants 288 



" new method of gener- 

 ating 200 



oxide, poisonous effects of 226 



Cephalopod, gigantic 301 



Chain cables, new pattern 22 



Charcoal, deodorizing properties of 217 

 Chlorine, new method of producing 201 



Chromium, reduction of metallic 208 



Chromo-typography 97 



Chronograph, new 114 



Cinnabar mines of California 26ti 



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