July 3, 1SS5.] 



KNOWLEDGE 



Vll 



MiMfUaoeA. — <vHtimmfJ. 

 Bible, publication of n*vised version of, 17-1 

 Black-and-whit^. dr»itiQ^> io» aanouncemcDt of eUii- 



bilion f f, 410 

 Booksellers' Prorident Institution anil the Queea, 35 

 Book$, l*w Aj to, in the Chumei Inlands, lo2 

 Bricks made of cork, 112 

 Brid^ : an imnieose railroad, 2-lS : extraordinarj 



length of a, 1^36 ; progr««« of the Forth, :iU2, 337 

 Burial •.-u^toms aud the soul. 23S 

 Bulterine, how to distinguish, 75 

 Butter-mjikiDg hj eUvtricity, 12S 



CjkBLxa, sabmarine, length of, 3 ; the Bennet-Macka^, 



96 

 Cart, » wonderful. S9 

 Channel Islands, law as to books in, I.'2 

 ChimneT-»haft, novel way of taking down a, 523 

 China : teJegmphs in, 3o : coal-tields or, 3U2 

 C*.>i>c C\>p*, re-issue of, 651 

 Christian dispensation — is it closed? 265 

 Cii-! dt terrtr, iModuct of the, 222 

 Clifton railway, extension of the, 330 

 Clock at Westnjinster, errors of, during 1S3-I, .'2i 

 Coal-fields : new, in Scotland, 104; of China, 393 

 Coal for };as-makin^, 112 

 Colchester, duancial failure of electric lighting ftt, 



SIS 

 Colour and Hsht, lecture en, 413 

 Colours in decoration, antiquity of. 160 

 Commercial statistics of America for 183i, 51 

 Copper, produc!ii>n of, in Vnited States, 2S6 

 Cork for making bricks, 112 



DiDic^iORT flowers, 113 



Digestive organs of ^rey mullet, 131 



l>indends for 1*S4: india-rubber, gutta perths, and 

 telegraph works company, IW; telegraph con- 

 struction and mainteDaoco company, ItiO 



Drift-deposits at Colwjn Bay, 93 



Rastirx telegraph company's system, 161 



Education : note on female, 292 ; technical, in 

 London, 51 



Electrical appliances, catalogue of, 31 i 



Electrical engineerint; and submarine telegraphy, 

 school of, 161, 1S2 



ElectricitT: making butter bj, 12S; torpedo-steering 

 by, 398 



Electric battery patents, lawsuits as to, 110 



Slectric inveniioDB, number of patents granted in 

 Cnited Stst-^sfor. 248 



Electric light : on locomotires, for railway-station 

 illumination, 112 ; for lighthouses, 112 ; advan- 

 tages of, in textile iudnstriea, 183 ; for mine^, 

 291 ; cost of, as compared with eas, 336; winding 

 op of " Hammond " company, 551 



Electric lighting: act of parliament for, 232; adop- 

 tion of, by Peruvian Goverument, 6); temporary 

 failure of, through snowstorm, 2Vi ; financial 

 failure of, at Colchester, 248 



Electric wires, overhead: the danger of, 513; with- 

 drawal of parliamentary bill for, 551 



Electrolier at Inventions Exhibition, 556 



Europe, railways in, 35 



Evolution, announcement of lecture on, 222 



Examinations of Society of Arts, results of, 478 



Exhibitions : aeronautical, 136 ; architects' and 

 bo-lding trades', 187 ; colonial and Indian, pro- 

 posed, 283 ; commerce and navigation, 167 ; 

 drawings in black-and-white, 416; " Healtheriea," 

 notes on, 3, 113 ; Inventions, the international, 

 notes on, 131, 241, 247, 267, 385, 556; mining 

 appliances, 514; novelties, at Fbiidelphia, 374; 

 photographs by amateurs, 276 ; SheSield manu- 

 factures, 182 



Family Physician, issue of the, 214 



Female education, projects in connection with, 292 



Ferns, announcement of a book on, 4i2 



Fire, effects of, on iron pillars, 4S6 



Fire-proof paint, note on, 551 



Fires in London during 1881, 93 



Flowers: dedicatoiy, li:j; fertilisation of, 155 



Forest-treea of >'. America, issue of maps illustrating, 



190 

 Forth bridge works, progress of the, 292, 337 

 Fossil- stones, misapplied use for, 267 

 France: passenger tralGc with England daring 1834, 



136 ; public works expenditure, 306 

 Frozen meat, imports of, 357 



GxBDBinso, a hint on, 113 



Gardner machine-guns, trial of, by the Italian 



GoTemment, 551 

 Gas : as a coal eeonomiser, 357; coal for making, 



112 ; New York companiea* profits, 336, 476 

 Gaa company, the Commercial, profits of, 336 

 Geologi'-al formati>"<ns. action of Jand-ice in, 469 

 Geological Society, the, meetings of, 93,469, 502 

 Greenland, icebergs in, 382 



Hailstos^s, the temperature of, 517 

 Harleian society, the publications of. 222 

 Health Exhibition : honours at the, 3; financial sac- 

 cess of, 113 

 History, Society for Promoting the Study of, 311 

 Hotchkiss machine-gun, death of inventor of, 2^6 



IcKDBBos in Greoulaud,3d3 



India-rubber, cutta-percha, and ;telograph works 

 conipaiiv, dividenu of, 143 



Infectious diseases, importation of, into Loudon, 

 611 



Inventions Exhibition, the International : Commis- 

 sioner to represent United Stiktes at, 131 ; date of 

 openini:, 241 ; contract for liglitint;, 217 ; Soiicty 

 of Arts awiirds, 267 ; contra* t for turnstiles, 3H5; 

 tire at. and asbestos tire-proof paint, 551 ; hand- 

 some *'ele«trolier " at, 556 



Iron: cheap conveyaneo of Belgian, 112; cost of 

 bridyp-f of, 162 ;" the etfect of tire on, -486 ; use of 

 corrugtited, in United titutes, 555 



Ivory, how to clean, 222 



Jbwish race, purity of the, 1S8 



"John Bull's neighbour in her true light," Russian 

 translation of, 293 



Kino's College and the higher education of women, 



293 

 Kingsley, IVilliam C. (bnildor of Brooklyn bridge), 



death of, 292 



LiSD-icB, action of, in geological formations, 4(i9 



Larynx, photo^^raphing the, 136 



Lifeboat institution, the national, 23 



Light and itsrolution to colour, lecture on, 4H 



Lighthouses: cost of illuminants for, 311; electric 



light for, 112 

 Light, more, and purer air, 76 

 Lightships, illumination of, 222 

 " Literary success," issue of second edition of, 116 



MiCHiNB-nuNs : death of inventor of " Hotchkise," 



2Sti; trial of the "Gardners' " by Italy, 551 

 Mahdi, the, issue of a work on, 357 

 Maize, produciion of, in United State'',07 

 Maori race, origin and lusloms of, 4;i2 

 Mark Train's visit to Kngland, 136 

 Masonry of Philadelphia public building, settlement 



in, 110 

 Mat, tlie supposed largest in the world, 138 

 Mechanical industry in Kussia, encouragement of, 59 

 Medicines, patent, evils of, 35 

 Mersey tunnel and railway, 35; lighting rolling-stock 



of; 126 

 Metals, the combustion of, under the microscope, 517 

 Mexican Indians, textile shields of, 374 

 Microscope, powers of the, 412; and the combustion 



of metals, 517 

 Mining appliances, announcement of exhibition of, 



514 

 Monument, the "Washington, insecurity of, 313 

 Monuments, ancient, papers on the, Uj'S 

 Morbihan, sculptured dolmens of the, 233 

 Mullet, grey, digestive organs of, 131 



Nbw South Walks : borings for water in, 112 ; die- 



cnvery of platinum in, 318 ; royal society of, prize 



offered by, 270 

 Xew York, elevated railrcad of, 9J ; gas companies' 



profits in, 336, 476 

 Novelties exhibition at Philadelphia, announcement 



of, 374 



OpEEA-house at Nice, new, cost of building, 156 



Patents: for electric batteries, 110; for electric in- 

 ventions, 248 



Peruvian (jovernment, adoption of electric lighting 

 by, 60 



Philadelphia : settlement of masonry in, 140 ; anovel- 

 ties eihibiti'-.n for, 374 



Physiology, licensed experimental, statistics of, 529 



Photographing the larynx, 136 



Phoiographv : authorship of article on, 431 ; by ama- 

 teurs, 90; exhibition of amateur, 276 



Platinum, discovery of, in New South Wales, 313 



Poisons used in sugar manufacture, 97 



Political essays, issue of a series of, 350 



Population of Australasia, 1&2J 



Post-office, telegraph receipts cf, 266 



Prophecy, a remarkable, lt>2 



Public works in France, expenditure for, 300 



Railway-bsidge, an immense, 2t8 

 Railway-carriages: cost of saloon, 267; lighting cf, 



126 ; sarcastic allusion to quality cf, 507 

 Railway: extension of the Clifton, 38iJ ; New York 



elevated, 93 ; proposed, through the Simplon, 243 

 Railways in Europe-, 35 

 Religion and science, 426 

 Roy«l Society of New South Wale5, prizes offered by, 



270 

 Russian encouragement of mechanical industry, 59 



Paloos-cabs, cost of, on American railways, 267 



Salts in solution, experiments with, 529 



Science and religion, 426 



Scientific research, prizes offered for, 270 



Scotland, new coal-fields in, 104 



Sculptured dolmens of the Morbihan, 23S 



Sea-water, to render drinkable, 353 



Sewage: improvempnt of, at Coventry, 242 ; defective 



state of, at Enfield, 337 

 Shields of textile fabrics, 374 

 Ship-railway in France, projected, i'lO 



"Siege of London," the, 35; French translation of, 



293 



SimpKm, proposed railway through the, 248 



Sixpenny telegrams, 280, 337, 117 



Smith, WiUoughby, portrait of, lO-l 



Smoke of cities, the, 76 



Snowstorms: and electric lighting, 2H; damage to 

 telegraphs through, 261 



Society of Arts: awards of. 2t>7; meeting of, H3; 

 results of exaniinHtioiis, 478 



Societies, references to: Aeronautical Societv, 13fi; 

 Anthropological Institute, IMH, 138. 403, 432; 

 Society of Arts, 110, 113. 171, 2(i7. 396, 478; 

 Astronomical Society {tho Koyal) ,71, HO, 1 55, 376, 

 505; Astronomical Societv (of Liverpool) , 376; 

 Geological Societv, 93, Kilt, o02 ; liarleian Hoeioty, 

 222; Iron and Steel Institute, 419; Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Societv, 352; Man- 

 Chester Medical Soi-ietv, 310; Meteorological 

 Sotiety, 353, 410 ; Philobophical Society (of 

 Glasgow), 392; Royal Institution, 133, B17 ; 

 Royal Society, 468, ol7: Koyal Society of New 

 South Wales, 270; Royal Microscopical Society, 

 523 



Soudan and Kgypt, map of, note on, 357 



Spinning-tops, the motion of,461i 



Star-atlas, a beginner's, publication of, 368 



Steam-launch for Thamoa-police, 35 



Steam-tramway, an economical, 70 



Storni-sit;nal9, value of, 72 



Submarine cal)le3, length of, 3 



Sugar-beet, ;rrowth of, in England, 93 



Sugar-manutatture, poisons used in, \)7 



Tbchnical education in London, 54 

 Telegram^*, the sixpenny rate of, 28tJ, 337, 4-17 

 Telet;raf.h Coinpanv. the Eastern, system of, 161 

 Telegraph lonstruetion and maintenance company, 



dividend of, 100 

 Telegraphs: in China, 35; damage to, by snow storms, 

 2t;4- receipts of post-office, 206; in Cochin China, 

 35/' 

 Telegraph-wires, durability of, 357; dangerous over- 

 head, 513 , . . 

 Telegraphy, submarine, and electrical engineering, 



school of. 16i, 482 

 Telephone action, another. 93 , » d 



Telephone company, the United, withdrawal ot Par- 

 liamentary bill by, 551 

 Textile institute, proposed formation of, 418 

 Textiles : and the electric light, 183 ; shield of, 374 

 Torpedo-steering by electricity, 398 

 Trade of United States, depi;e3sion in, 54 

 Tramway, steam, an economical, 70 j *■ c 



Tramways, street : investments in, 35; adoption oi 



steam for, 3i7 

 " Tricycles, how to ride them," authorship of, 267 

 Twain, Mark, visit to England of, 136 



United States: depression of trade, 54: production 

 of maize in,ii7; lawsuits as to electric battery 

 patents 110; decline of revenue of, '.^48; patenls- 

 granted during 1884 in, 248 ; anthracite coal-trade- 

 in, 398 J reduction of wheat acreage of, 402 



Ventilation by .^olus water-spray, 439 



A''ictoria hall, royal, nctes on, 72, 155, 3C6, 392, 39-, 



41S. 412,405 

 Vivisection, statistics relatinir to, 529 

 Voice, range of the human, 359 



Washington monument, insecurity of the, 318 

 Water, borings for, in New South Wales, 112 



Water-pipes, vibrations in, 336 



Wealher, a work on the influence of the moon on, 357 

 Westminster clock, errors of, during l8St, 521 

 Wheat acreage of the United States, reduction of, 4')i 

 " Wild England, " new work entitled, 244 

 Willoughby Smith, portrait of, 104 

 AV'ood-engraving, beautiful example of, 70 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Ammonia PHONE, the, 205 



Angle, Iri'^ection of, fitjures illustrating, 209 



Ant, a white, enlarged drawing of, 143 



Beactt, Hogarth's line of, diagrams illustrating, 313, 



33 1 

 Bicycle, a safety, 122 



Bird-cage, an improved, for exhibiting, 271 

 Bottle-staud, a lapsable, 227 

 Brake for two-wheeled vehicles, diagram of, 359 



CHAMPAGNB-bottle-wire cutter, 117 



Chichester Cathedral and market-cross, views of, 412 



Chronoraeter-Imlance, sectional view of, 489 



Cistern, intercepting, sei-tional view of, 390 



Closets, water: Eection of valve, 413; section (4" 

 *' flush-out," 434; patent "Brighton excelsior," 

 434; sectional view of traps for, 309, 325, 413 



Coffee-roasting machine, view of, 293 



Compass, an attachment, 337 



Cooking' apparatus, a steam, 227, 4'M 



Cotton-harvester, an automatic, 526 



Cyanus major, seed of, under the microscope, 232 



