MENNONITES. 



METALS. 



MENNONITES. XIII. Movement for emi- 

 gration to the United States, 62. 



XIV. Board of Guardians, 526 ; its object, 

 526; passages from Europe furnished, 527; 

 places of settlement by immigrants, 527. 



MENSDORF-POUILLY, Count ALEXANDRE ?oa. 

 XI. Birth, career, death, 496. 



MENTSCHIKOFF, Prince ALEXANDER SERGU- 

 WITSCH, IX. Birth, 418; death, 418; ca- 

 reer, 418. 



MSNZEL, WOLFGANG, German critic and au- 

 thor. XIII. Obituary of, 595. 



ME2CADANTE, SAVESIA, musical composer. 

 XI. Birth, 496 ; career, 496, 497; death, 496. 



MESCANTLNI, LUIGI. XII. Obituary, 650. 



MEREDITH, SOLOMON. XV. Decease of, 585. 



USSEDITII, WILLIAM M. XIII. Birth, 483; 

 death, 483 ; career as a statesman and cabinet 

 officer, 483. 



MEREWETHES, FRANCIS. IV. Birth, 511 ; 

 writings, 511 ; death, 511. 



MERIAM, EBEN. IV. Birth, 512 ; pursuits, 

 512; death, 512. 



J1ESOIES, PROSPER. X. Birth, 480 ; death, 

 480 ; political career, 480 ; scholarship, 480 ; 

 literary works, 480 ; archasological and other 

 works, 481. 



JIE3UVAL2, HERMAN. XIV. Birth, 527; 

 public career, 527 ; death, 527. 



MESLE-D'ACBICNE, JEAN HENRI. XII. Birth, 

 death, 509; career, 509; character, 509. 



HESMILLOD, Abbe. XII. Removed from the 

 Diocese of Geneva, 752. 



XIII. Proceedings as Vicar-General of 

 Geneva, 726. 



SIERRIAM, Geasral ELA, New York militia. 

 XIII. Obituary of, 584. 



HEERICS, PLINY. VII. Birth, 486 ; politi- 

 cal services, 486 ; death, 486. 



MESRICK, Jaflge WILLIAM HI. I. The case 

 of, 356. 



MER&ILL, RCT. SAMUEL H., Congregationalist 

 clergyman. XIII. Obituary of, 579. 



MERBIMON, AUGUST S, XIV. Senator from 

 North Carolina, 150; on the Louisiana bill, 

 238. 



MEHSYrilAN, JOHN. I. Proceedings in the 

 case of, 354. 



MEXVLNE, WILLIAM. VIII. Birth, 463; 

 death, 463 ; naval career, 463. 



MESSI1H, CHURCH OF THE. VI. Founder 

 of the sect, 480 ; his proceedings, 480 ; points 

 of faith, 480 ; situation near Jaffa, 480. 



METALS. I. Lake Superior copper-mines, 

 455 ; statistics of its production, 456 ; Kewee- 

 naw district, 456 ; Portage Lake district, 456 ; 

 Ontonagon district, 456 ; copper in the pud- 

 dling-furnace, 456; malleable iron, 457; cop- 

 per in Canada, 457 ; zinc, 457 ; iron and an- 

 thracite of Pennsylvania, 458; pig-iron in 

 Scotland, 458 ; heats of melted cast-iron anil 

 some alloys, 458 ; improvement in iron and 

 steel, 459; gold in Nova Scotia, 459; re- 

 searches on the platinum metals, 460; di- 

 morphism of arsenic, antimony, etc., 460; lead 

 in some silver coins, 461 ; allots of aluminium, 

 461 ; new alloy, 461. ' 



V. Iron of remarkable purity, 539 ; ei- 

 ceedingly hard iron, 539 ; cast-iron and steel 

 hardened with tungsten, 539 ; economical pro- 

 duction of metallic tungsten, 539; iron from 

 titaniferous ores, 539 ; gases contained in mol- 

 ten lead and steel, 540 ; reduction of certain 

 metals by zinc, 540 ; new smelting-furnace fdr 

 copper, etc., 540 ; utilization of copper-smoke, 

 540, 541 ; Spencs's copper-ore calcining-fur- 

 nace, 541 ; Gerstenhofer's copper-furnace, 541 ; 

 saving from slag of copper-furnaces, 542 ; non- 

 metallic impurities of refined copper, 542 ; cop- 

 pering of cast-iron, 542; new processes for 

 coating metals with other metals, 543; new 

 method of preparing aluminium, 544; sup- 

 posed passive state of metals, 544. 



VI. Some points in the working of, 480 ; 

 manufacture of cast-steel at Essen, 480 ; Bes- 

 semer process, 481 ; conversion of cast-iron 

 into steel, 481 ; new theory of iron and steel, 

 481 ; strengthening of iron, 482 ; iron-foil, 

 482 ; preservation of copper and iron in fresh 

 and sea water, 482; separating cobalt from 

 nickel, 482 ; ore of manganese, 483 ; alloys of 

 manganese, 483; reduction of chromium and 

 manganese, 483 ; estimation of silver oxide as 

 metallic- silver, 483 ; improved process of sep- 

 arating lead from silver, 483 ; action of acids 

 upon metals, 483 ; action of platinum, etc., on 

 chlorine-water, 484 ; sodium amalgamation 

 process, 484. 



VII. Extracting silver from lead, 487 ; iri- 

 dium in Canada, 487 ; chemically pure silver, 

 487 ; copper in powder, 487 ; aluminium 

 bronze in soldering, 488 ; works in bronzed 

 cast-iron, 488 ; soldering iron and steel, 488 ; 

 refined pig or cast iron, 488 ; corrosion of cast- 

 iron, 489 ; manufacture of steel, 489 ; analysis 

 of blister steel, 489 ; native hydrate of iron, 



