INDEX. 



997 



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Hydro carbons, new TpS, 871 



new process for obtain- 

 ing 565 



HydrogMi, absorption of 872 



heat from 706 



peroxyde of 840 



sulphuretted 510 



Hydrographical basis of the U. S 831 



Hyer's grain and seed separator 291 



Hygrodeik 621 



I. 



Ice a preventive .of aeration 969 



Icebergs 8/4 



formation of 890 



Ice-houses 277 



Imitation fruits I'i3 



Impenetrability 813 



Implement for corn-planters 100 



Indian Ocean currents 591 



Indicator cards 527 



Indium 457, 605, 645 



Industrious lady 351 



Inertia 811 



Infants, food for 828 



Insects, 112, 132, 146, 147, 160, 161, 222, 267 



on locust trees 222 



Iodine, new test for 556, 592 



Iodide of silver under light 6;'.2 



Iron chair-bottoms 125 



corrugated 922 



Irrigating meadows 332 



Isinglass 442 



J. 



Japan, a new fruit from 265 



quince 212 



Japanese alloys 737 



jfenks' samples of dyed wood 403 



Johns' roofing 163 



Jupiter's system 696 



K. 



Kansas and Nebraska 110 



Kaufman's feed-cutter and thresher.... 103 



Keese's churn 103 



Kerosene telegraph 573 



King birds destructive to bees 232 



Kittatinny blackberry 187 



Knight's seedling pear 287 



Knitting machines 121 



Kreosote and carbolic acid 539 



L. 



Laboratories, colossal 633 



Land, restoring worn-out 370 



Laurentian limestones 471 



Laurite 455, 666 



Lead, carbonate of 630, 8 1 



Lead, new chloride of 909 



Leather, defects of 706 



Leaves, functions of 642 



skeleton 887 



Ledion's imitation fruit 313 



Lemons 44 



Lennox's potato digger 239, 249 



Lettuce 63 



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Lice on cattle 333 



Light on iodide of silver 547 



Lightning rods 208 



Lighting the capitol dome 574 



Limbs, artificial 851 



Lime, gas-house, value of, 125, 180, 203, 490 



Lime juice for scurvy 888 



Linseed oil 654 



Lint, substitute for 762 



Liquid state of atoms 815 



Longitude determined by ocean cable.. 766 



Long Island lands < 8 



Lubricators, the requisites of 524 



Lunar crater 887 



Lupins as a fertilizer 160 



M. 



Machine for unloading hay 312 



McDonald's railroad brick kiln 357 



McKnight's improved bridle bits 406 



Madder 301 



Magnesium alloys 918 



and aluminum 642 



light 456 



photography 629 



Magnet from iron shavings 666 



Magnetism and electricity 528 



Maine's cabinet bedstead 416 



Maize, fine collection of 746 



Malaria and malarious diseases 531 



Manure, artificial 919 



liquid 318 



for blackberries and strawber- 

 ries 243 



nitrogen from 617 



question 300 



Manures, salt, ashes and lime 98 



sheltering of 387 



use of, in the west 398 



Maple orchards 391 



Marl 150, 272 



for strawberries 214 



Marriage, blood relationship in 736 



Mastodon, the Cohoes 745 



Mensuring funnel 498 



Meat eating 81 



extract of 767 



preserved by paraffine 592 



Melon bugs 146 



Melons. 45, 68 



Mercury, heat conducting powers of.... 516 



Metallic film for spectacles 593 



life boat 516, 523 



tree 671 



Metals, geology of 806 



Meteorites, classification of 849 



Meteoric stones 705, 732 



Meteorology 573 



in America 642 



Great Britain 643 



Meteor spectra 731 



Meteors, November 593, 749 



Mica as a fertilizer 104 



Michigan as a fruit region 235 



Microscope, new method of illuminating 



opaque objects 477 



Milk, preservation of 666 



richness of 733 



Milk-weed as a substitute for cotton . . . 234 



Mill, immense rolling 885 



stone dressing machine 889 



