CONTENTS. 2 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES, 
1. Forsien. 
Steam-Engines of extraori nary dimensio: 170 
Large ane of. Aan r found in the ‘alata of New Providence —Free Com- 
ial S og 171 
Baneve: Moen um one inne iety, ‘ : : : ate 
Model School of Mutnal eaitsirss Liga snch PB osts, ; é ‘ 5 174 
Laplace’s System of the World—Public Instruction, ‘ ; ~ ie = 
Canton de Vaud (Switzerland)—Gymnastic Science 1 
Limits = — and Cold—Sweden —The American Journal of Science and 
; 178 
Surge nes-Thatiee f Professor Picte ee ee a ss eg 3 
Manufacture of Salt by evaporation ‘on F aggots, = 3 : ; : . 4180 
Effects of Mercurial Vapou ‘ : é 181 
sag of Entomology Remarkable Water s rSpout, iS Spe ecg ee 
“ahr r Com —- with Vi a lee-shore, ‘ , 194 
. onometers 
185 
‘Bosdawaliteys anew “Mineral—Influence of sounds on the Elephant ‘and Lion, 186 
_ Aurora borealis—Curious lunar ogieeen= 187 
Vibration apo the | ely colours— Declinations of stars proportion- 
ed 188 
On the effe a of Anima Charcoal in n prev the putrefaction of stagnant 
water—On the Phosphorescence of a sub-resin 189 
Minerals produced Gy heat— Ammonia dis 0% a pani during vegeta: 
tion—Influence of Prussic Acid u 
gaan af Somme siioh Le. cnivert Eilat tees H dro lirics Acids found in 
Rio Vinagro—English Locality of Metallic Lead, 
hei return of migrating Sains to the same spot—Red Snow—Portable Gas 
ompanies, 
a in the contents of Brine Springs—Paper Making Manufacture of 
Hats, ; 193 
English Opium— —Menstraum for Biting-in on Steel Plate : Bereges | 
General oo of the Linnean sported of Paris, eres ee 
Ee Pe Le em 
Subterranean Sounds—H lelve etic Society, : y ‘ . ‘ pe Lk 
- Rectification of Alcohol without heat, . i 3 ‘ % ‘ Ue eae 
Fundpuion -Pelyiachairc Tintitate.of Vieni, ®.i 6 ee a 
imal Heat— Heat by Combustio: SeeAits id é « 382 
sana uf rons tai ta Instruction, — poet 383 
a ee of Quinine—Chloruret of time, ‘ eee : 386 
Paper—Hygrome an —Method of procuring good yeast, —. F : ‘ 387 
Method o inaking So ope tudone Printing upon Zine, . Mea kas Oe 
~ Medicinal Leeches, : : ; : 389 
, Influence of the Nerves on Animal Heat—Notes of Birds, ; : ‘ . 390 
* Civi lized Nation in Africa, ; ; : t 392 
2. Domestic. 
¥ 
Peete of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, — - : : 998 
A eological Society, — - pei ate i eos ae 
' Correction by = B ee by G. W. Ca arpen nter, . 
Indian Summe Recipe for or driving Insects from trees, 
Notice of the "Asthractes region of Pennsylvania, . : ‘ ; . 205 
