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N»tur«l philoHophv, • trenliso on, by Profomora Sir 

 W. lliomsoii liuil r. O. Tnit. Vol. I., part 2. 

 CumbrilKo University Pri-M, 3 Ik 



Oboanio chemistrr, an introduction to, by AdoloU 

 I'inucr, Ph.D.', Protcsaor of Chemistry in the 

 ITniyersity of Berlin. Translaloci and revised from 

 the llflh Gorman edition by Peler T. Austin, 

 Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry. London : Triibnor 

 & Co, , a 15 



PnvsiCAL Optioa, by R. T. Glnzebrook, M.A. Long- 

 mans Green. & Co., 10 



Poems and balhids for penny readings, by Agra. 

 Wyman & Bona, London, 31.5 



Popular astronomv, bv Simon Newcomb, LL.D., of 

 the Naval OlnervatorT, Washington. Messrs. 

 Macniillon .t Co., London, rii 



Pro' ticalgeomelry, the art -student's, second grade, by 

 .lohnLowres, revised and partly wnttenbvOcorgo 

 llrown, of the Blackhcath School of Art . London ; 

 Moffat & Paige, 206 ., „ „ „ 



SiLT. the history of, by Evan jr. Boddy, M.K.C.S. 

 Bailliero, Tindall, & Coi, London, 22B 



Science, does it aid faith in regard to creation? by the 

 Kight Rev. Henry Cotterill, D.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Bishop of Edinburgh. London : Hodder & 

 Stoughlon, 3m 



.'inakes : curiosities and wonders of serpent life, by 

 Catherine C. Uop'.ey. GrilHth & Farran, London, 

 133 



Sound, by John Tyndall, D.C.L., &c. Fourth edilion, 

 revised and augmented. London : Longmans & 

 Co., 297 



Study and stimulant; or, the use of narcotics and 

 intoxicants in relation to intellectual life, edited by 

 A. Arthur Reado. Abel Hcywood & Son, Man. 



fsivBESB, the, or the infinilelv great and the iulinitelv 



little, by F. A. Pouchet, M.D. London ; Blackie 



4 Son, Si 

 YoCNO men, a physician's sermon to, bv Dr. 'Williain 



Pratt. JBailliJre, Tindall, & Cos, London, 23.i 

 Yi'Uth. business guide for the. a practical manual for 



those entering life, by Experienlia. London; 



Wymau & Sons, 311 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Allots of metals, 379 



Amsterdam, the exhibition at, 209 _ 



Arcade railway under Broadway, New York, 37S 



Asbestos rope, 161 



Auatralian meat and British butchers, 151 



BALLOONS, new electrical motor for, 266 



Boston, the telephone in, 266 



Brass cannon found at Coorum, 25S 



Brighton School of Science and Art, 386 



Bumham Beeches, 363 



Cancelling stamp, a new electric, 363 



Capybara (a rodent), the, and its relations to cats, 331 



Caterpillars, train stopped by, 374 



Chesterfield, electric lighting at, 307 



China, the great wall of, 171 



Chubb & Sons, enormous safe manufactured by, 138 



Coal brought to London. 69 



Coalfield, development of the Deer Creek, in Arizona, 

 313 



Coleridge, Lord, summing-up of, in the Freefhiiiktr 

 trial, 279 



Colonies, the increasing importance of, 209 



Colossal bronze statue, 373 



Colour-blindness and railwa 



Courtney, Mr., on science. ■; 



Creosoted trestle work, remarkable specimen of, 387 



Cunning of a toad. 73 



Cyclone at Beauregard and Wesson. Mississippi, 293 



D'bvotion to literature of the English people, 198 



Elbctbic light in the City of London, i\ ; in Switzer- 

 land, 191 



Electric lighting, 81; application for orders relative 

 to, 151 ; lighting in Kimberlcy, South. Africa, 3>i2 ; 

 at Chesterfield, 3i>7 



Engineering and metal trades' exhibition, 10 



Explosives, statistics of manufactories of, 371 



Extraordinary run of an engine, 235 



Fatalixi£3 to railway servants, 293 



Ferric oxalate, the pholo-theraiea! action of, 201 



Kiddleslrings, the manufacture of, iM 



Fi>h carried alive by railway. 273 



Foretelling flredam'p eHCapen, 21t7 



Franco, teleglaphio wire in, 300 



Free smoke abatement museum, 153 



Front -steering tricvcle, a, 151 



Gas r. electricity, 123 



Gas-ivell at Lyons, 371 



Giants' Causeway and Port Rush electrical tramway, 



09 

 Glasgow, the electric clocks in. 260 

 Glass, electrical resistance of, 72 

 O.ild in Australia, 251 ; ahnndance of, 310 

 Gramme Electric Company of New Y'ork, patents 



controlled by, 23 

 Great wall of China. 171 

 Hahtz mountains, mining work in the. 387 

 Hydrants for fire purpose, niilcAge of streets with, 378 

 Ice at the Pole. 212 

 Ice gorge on St. Lawrence River broken by gunpowder 



mine, 378 

 Insects, agency of, in fertilising flowers, 185 

 Iron, production of the different kinds in the United 



Kingdom, 263 

 •Tapan tramways, 358 

 Killbd by stays, 283 



Kimberley, South Africa, electric lighting in, 262 

 Kirkcaldy Naturalists' Society, 288 

 LvKE Winnipeg, 3 i9 

 Liquorice farming in New Zealand. 166 

 Literature, devotion to, of the English people, 188 

 Logic, stndy of, 71 

 London Library, utility of the, 135 

 Long-bved lamp, a, 39i 

 JliBCH, extraordinary cold of. 212 

 Matter diffused in the air, 379 

 Maiim- Weston Electric Light Company, 298 

 Jlesaina, steel bridge for the Strait of, 309 

 Mexican tin, 371 

 Mid-occan telegraphv, 331 

 Mining work in the Hartz mountains, 387 

 Naheow gauge trains blown otf rails, 363 

 New spectrometer, a, 297 

 New Zealand mutton and beef, 151 

 Nitrogen, the liquefaction of, 309 

 Non-inflammable insulatini; matt-rial, 263 

 Nottingham, electric lighting at. 283 

 Oil tanks flred by lightning, 307 

 Papeb wheels for railway trains, 371 



electr 



, 133 



Philadelphia, its telegraphic, telephonic, and electric 



light revenue, 153 

 Piutsch Patent Lighting Company and the Suez Canal, 



233 

 Poteline, a new substance, 103 

 Prize competition for railway inventions, 258 

 Prize electrical essay. 83 



Proctor, Mr., and his lectures at St. Leonards, 331 

 Radiation of silver in solidifying, 313 

 Railway coupling stick, advantage of, 371 

 Railway mileage of the world, 392 

 Railway aervants, fataUties to. -.93 

 Red marl, discovery of a bed of, at Ruabon, 392 

 R jman coins, discovery of, at Cobhara Hall, near 



Rochester. 283 

 Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 211 

 Sanitaby Inspection Association, the, 133 

 Shanghai, the foreign settlement at, 85 

 Sheppev, landshp in the Isle of, 374 

 Siller, radiation of, in solidifying, 312 

 Snow-plough in India, 260 

 Spanish iron minerals. 2 16 

 Spectrometer, a new, 297 

 Sporting shot manufactured from iron, 336 

 South American timber, 392 

 Steel bridge for the Strait of Messina, 3fj9 

 Storing electrical enery, new patent for, by Mr. C. F. 



Brush, 133 

 Street fire alarms, 83 

 Suez Canal, lighting the, by gas, 283 

 Teleobams between Australia and England, average 



time of transmission, 263 

 Telegraph in British Guiana. 23 

 Telegraphic wire in France, 360 

 Telegraphy in China, 328 

 Telephone, statistics of, 202 ; in Boston, 200 



Thunderstorm, 83 



Time signalling, 359 



Ti'sanilier. Mr. M. G., and bis new electrical motor 

 for balloons, 266 



Toad, conning of a, 73 



Turrons bridge (South Australia), sinking of th«, 

 338 



Trafalgar collieries. Forest of Dean, electrical experi- 

 ments in, 25 



Tramways in Japan, 3'j8 



Truna-Caucafian railway, working of, 71 



Trtvellers" meteorological equipment, 123 



Tunnel-work, a diHicult piece of, 331 



Tu- kish railroads and their peculiar freights, 57 



UNsnrn.ED area of the Uniti-d Slates, 309 



VbntilatioX of the Metropolitan District Railway, 

 153 



Wivn pressure on the Forth bridge, 40 



W(.o 1 as fuel, statistics of, 30J 



Y'ACUr, a large steam, 231 



Zl.vc coating for iron, 305 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Acoustic experiment, 00 



Age of the moon, 291 



Amateur electrician, the, electrical measaremeats, 233 



Amrpha, diagrammatic drawings of, 355 



Ancient inscrilted stones, 213 



Arche- fish, the, 280 



Armature of the Brnsh dvnamo-electri'- machine, 295, 

 29(3 



Atlss and Hercules (walled plains in the moon), 2EH 



Bowbb-Geiscom: lamp, 261 



Brachionua urceolaris (ve^jetable organism), 359 



Cathebcte, CjriUua, and Theophilus (lunar craters), 

 291 



Comets, heads o?, IH 



Crystal Palace electric and gas exh'bition, 198 



Curious rainbow, a, 90 



Electrical measurement, 102, 103, 2^)6, 207 



Etchings of Mr. Whistler, 2t8 



Eurypharvni pelecanoides, the, 250 



Eve, dia^'rams of the. 111 



FoBMiTiox of comets' tails, 102 



Formations in the moon, views of, ;J28 



Fracastorius (bay in the moon) . iot 



Gastboscope, view showin*r application of, 231 



Geological sketch-map of the Isle of Man, 277 



Great Britain, sun-views of, 390 



Great comet of 1882. the, 102, 128. 195 



Great Pyramid, sections of veuiilation of, 287 



Hbabs of comets, 1-iS 



How to use our eyes, 191 



Laege sun-spot, a, 251 



Laws of brightness, diagrams illustrative of the, 304 



Leech, John, a reminiscence of, 209 



Lunar craters, various views of, 291 



Moon, map of the, 223 



Nights with a three-inch telescope, 39 



(EciSTES crystallinus (vegetable organism), 359 



Organisms revealed bv the microscope, 322 



Our bodies, the huma'u skeleton, 116 



Pahadise fish, the, 291 



Petavius, a typical lunar feature, 265 



Protamcebae, figure of, from infusion of meat, 355 



RfiADiSG, right and wrong wavs in regard to the eye- 

 sight, 149, 150 



Resistance boxes (the amatenr electrician) , 70 



Eoaater, by Count Eumford (chemistry of cookery), 

 312 



Eotifer vulgaris (vegetable organism), 35S 



Skiddaw slates, section, Isle of Man, showing the 

 conglomerate resting thereon, 278 



Skull, diagram of a, 6^ 



Steamers, side-Ughts of, 1S3 



Strata, geological, ot the Isle of Man, 278 



Sun-views of the earth. 24, 55, 117, 18 ), 237, 310, 375, 

 of Great Britain, 390 



Telephone, diagrams of, 113, lU 



Telescope in the Warner Observatory, 233 



Transit of Venus, 90 



Valley of the Alps (views in the moon), 391 



Vi'luntary muscles, 9 



' Wabneb Observatory, the, 232 



