INDEX TO VOL, XXII. 



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PAGE 



Leather, Red Stain for 70 



* Lecture Apparatus for Demonetrating Reflection and 



Refraction 133 



Ltft-HandedncsB, Explanation of 31 



Lemon Juice to Arrest Epistaxia 32 



Ligiitning Flashes 132 



Lightning Flashes, The Duration of 148 



Lightning- Rods as a Protection 137, 176 



Liuhtning Strokt', Effect of U 



Lights, Electrical 35 



Lily of the Valley 72 



Lime, Air-Slacked .....■* 56 



♦Liquids, The Surface Tension of 97 



Liquors, Artificial Making of 167 



Literary Notes. . . .12, 30, 44, 60, 76, 92, 108, 124, 140, 155, 169. 184 



Lobster, A Reasoning 1(*0 



Lobster Croquettes 119 



Lobster Cutlets 119 



Longest Tangent in the World, The 150 



Lotion for the Skin 32 



Magic Mirrors 117 



Magnet, A Useful 178 



♦Magnetic Induction, An Experiment upon 33 



Magnetic Suggestions 83 



Magnetization, The Electro-Motive Force of 



Man as a Steam-Engine 



♦Mandrake. The • • • 



Manhole Gaskets 



Manurial Value of Nitrogen from Diff'erent Salts 



Marmots, Geological Work of 



Marson's Test 



Matter at the Surface of the Earth, The Tendency of .. 147, 



Matter made Invisible, but not Lost 



Measuring Liquids by Drops 



Medical Memoranda 15, 32, 48, 64, 80, 112, 128, 144, 158, 



Medical Miscellany 



Medicine Advertisement, A Chinese 



Medicines, Patent 



Megalitbic Monuments of Carnac, The 



Metal composing a Tin Can, Analysis of 



Metallic Alloys 



Metals, Familiar Lustre of 



Metals, 'I'be Rare 



Meteoric Stones, Diamonds in 



Meteorite, A Submarine 



Meteorite, A Snpposed 



Meteorological Phenomena (Monthly) 



11, 28, 43, 59, 76, 92, 107, 123, 139, 154, 168, 



Micro-Organism 



Micro-Organism, Luminous 



Military liation, A New 



Mind Cure, The 



Mind Healing, A Case of 



Monthly Summary of Medical Progress, 



14, 31, 45, 62, 78, 93, 110, 126, 143. 156, 170, 



Moon's Heat, The 



Moon, Total Eclipse of 



Mortar Prepared 



Mosquito Bites, Remedy for 



Motive Force of the World 



Motor, Electric 



Mountain Heights, Variation In 



Mouth Wash 



* Moving Projectiles, The Photography of 



Mucilage, An Elastic 



Muscle, An Anomalous 



Mushrooms 



Mushrooms, Edible .'* 



Musk, The Origin of 



Mustard Oil as a Lubricant 



Mutilated Chrysalides 



Native Maiden hair Fern for the House 72 



Natural Food of Man, The 61 



Natural Gas 116 



Natural Gas, Ballooning with 164 



Natural History Notes 35 



Nature. On the Study of 34, 4y 



New Vegetable Perfumes, Two 162 



Niagara, The Power of 178 



Nickel and Cobalt, Separation of 54 



Nickel and Cobalt: the Twin Metals 149 



Nitrogen, Chloride of 70 



Oak-Pruner, The 151 



Ointment, A Useful 128 



Old Age 48 



Old Oil 118 



Opium-IIabit, The 170 



* Optical IlIusionB 97, 140 



Orange, The 23 



Orchid, An Insect-Catching 8 



♦Orchids 151 



Organ, A New Electric 150 



Organic Chemistry 167 



Origin of Species, The Making of the — 50 



Otitis 156 



Otitis, Treatment of 15 



Ottar of Roses, Home-Made 104 



Our Neighbor across the Way 173 



Over-Heat as a Cause of Disease 63 



Ozone from Pure Oxygen 54 



♦ Panama, Prehistoric Relics at 9 



Paper for Cleaning Lenses 178 



Paper, Impermeable and Transparent 54 



Paper- Making, Ancient Materials for 102 



Parchment Bearings 70 



Paris Letter 18, 58,90.114, 147, 176 



Paste for Patent Leather 164 



Patent System, The 57 



Paving-Stones, Iron-Brick 38 



Peat 71 



Pencils 150 



Pendulum, Deviation of the 162 



Periostitis of the Jaws 112 



Peroxide of Hydrogen on a Large Scale, Manufacture of . . . 53 



Personified PlanU 152 



Petroleum, Origin of 89 



Pharmaceutical Notes 79 



Philosopher's Prescription, A 126 



Phosphorus, Arsenic, and Antimony at a White Heat 20 



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Phosphorus, Crystallized 132 



Phosphorus, Etherial Tincture of, for Pneumonia 46 



♦ Photographic Amateurs, Notes for 145 



Photographic Art, New Discoveries in 137 



Photographs, Magic 22 



♦Photography, Caricature 177 



Photography, Dangerous 116 



♦ Photography, Recent Feat* in 58 



Phylloxera, ^^elhod proposed for Destroying 24 



Phylloxera, The 40 



Physician, A Brave 128 



Physician, Death of an Aged 16 



Physiology, Some Answers in 144 



Pin-hole Camera, The 101 



Pipes for Furnishing Steam Heat and Power, Laying of ... . 153 



Plain Living, The Fallacy of 166 



Plants, Color in 49 



Platinizing Metals, A Cheap Method of 38 



Platinum 53 



Platinum Dishes, Cleaning 178 



Pneumatic Massage 125 



Pneumonia, Inverting the Patient in 14 



Pneumonia. Treatment of 158 



Polish, A French 164 



Polypi, Removing 46 



Pomology 160 



Porcelain Shot 134 



Positively Usetul Drugs, The Percentage of 158 



Potatoes a ta Milanese 119 



Potato-Culture, A New Method of 179 



Potato Fare! 119 



Pot Plants, Soil for 120 



Potassium in I'resence of Sulphates, Estimation of ... . . 134 



Practical Recipes 54, 70, 164 



Practice of Medicine in Illinois, Legal Restrictions upon ... 73 



Precipitation 122 



Preventing Noise on Elevated Roads 150 



Procuring Chemicals under Difliculties 118 



Piofessor Proctor 167 



Proposed Engineering Scheme 153 



Pure Non-Arseniferous Sulphuretted Hydrogen, Method for 



Generating 178 



Purslane Worm, The 40 



♦Pyrenees, Prehistoric Monuments in the 41 



Quack Doctors and Medicine, Advertising of 167 



Quantivalence 73 



Quantivalence, An Experiment to Illustrate 134 



Quantivalence of Oxygen 181 



Quartz, Fine Threads of 155 



Quebracho, for Burns, Frost-Bitea, etc 32 



Questions and Answers ..12, 29, 60, 76, 92, 108, 140, 155, 169, 184 



Rabbit Pest, The 40 



Radiometer (Crookes) 116 



Railroad, A Persian 102 



Railroad, A Siberian Pacific 22 



Railroad Building, Scientific Sli 



Railroad In Palestine, A 102 



Railroad Notes 70, 102, 150 



Railroads, English and American 150 



Railroads, Facts about 118 



Railroads, Gauge of 102 



liail way to Teheran , 70 



Rain-proof 'Flowers for Autumn . 336 



liUimHey's Kxperiments 153 



Itaspberries, To Remove Old M'ood from 40 



Raw Meat, Value of 172 



Red Color for Confeclloners, A Harmless 12 



Reduction of Coppir in Fehllng's Solution with Chloral 



Hydrate 16 



Remarkable Engineering 22 



Rendering Jewels Phosphorescent 116 



Retreating Foreheads 63 



Rind of Fruit Indigestible 109 



River Rhone, Volume of the 36 



Roast of Rubbish, A 136 



Rocks, The Growth and Decay of 55 



liose-Jar, The Luxury of a 120 



Roses, Hedge of 136 



Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, The 146 



Royal Cocoanut Tarts 166 



Rubber Tubing, To Preserve 38 



♦ Rubies, Artificial 81 



Run, A Ix)ng 102 



Rust, A Solvent for 164 



Saccharin, A Test for 70 



Saccharin Tabloids, Usu of 14 



Saccharin, The Use of 79 



Salicylic Acid in France 127 



Salts of Copper, New Reagent for 178 



Sanitary Science and Domestic Archlteci ure 13, 30 



Savory Cod-Flsh Patties 119 



Savory Cod- Fish Balls 119 



School System, Modern 41 



Science in Newspapers 52 



Scientific Brevities. .4, 20, 36, 52, 68, 84, 100, 116, 132, 148, 162, 176 



Scientific Terms, The Derivation of 1 



Scientific Tests in Corn and Sorghum . 40 



Scotch-Oats Essence 105 



Sca-Scrpent, A Petrified 132 



Seals, To Take Impression from 70 



Seasickness, Fatal 172 



Seidlitz- Powder Solution 64 



Selected Recipes 8,56, 119, 166 



Sense, Do Horses have 29 



Separation of Tin from Antimony, The 86 



Sewer-Gas, A Test for 73 



Sewer-Gas In the Production of Diphtheria and Typhoid- 

 Fever 9, 80 



Sickness, Milk : 63 



Sightseer's Headache, The 143 



Sihcon, Influence on the Properties of Steel 5 



♦ Simple Scientific Experiments 17, 82, 159 



Six Living Generations 128 



Small-Pox, Use of (Calomel for 46 



Small Screws, To Clean 118 



Snake Bite, Treatment of 186 



Sneezing Formula, The Origin of the 161 



Snow-Flake, A Mammoth 11 



Snow from a Clear Sky 116 



Soap 163 



Soap-Bubbles 131 



Soapstone Paint 150 



Solar Spectrum, Observations on 41 



Soldering-Fluid, A New 34 



SootVVater 40 



Specialism, The Tendency toward 167 



Specific Gravity of Liquids, Easy Method of Finding 133 



Spectre, The Dissolving 10 



Spectrum Analysis, The Wonders of 129 



Sphygmographs, Simple 77 



Spider, An Interesting 52 



Spiders' Webs 176 



Sprugue Motors, Use of, at Topeka, Kan - 86 



Stable Management 55 



Starch-Sugar and Glucose 21 



Stars, Number of '. 176 



Stars, The Nearest 20 



Statues, Some Queer 80 



Steal, A Peculiar 102 



Steamers of the World, The 6 



Steam-Heating 150 



Steam-Logger, A 102 



Steel Implements, To Prevent Rusting 54 



Stomach, An Elephant's 32 



Stone, A Precious 52 



Stonework, To Repair 38 



Strangulated Hernia, Albuminuria in 46 



Substitution of a Rabbit's Eye in place of the Human Optic, 121 



Sulphuric Acid 85 



Sun's Atmosphere, Platinum in the 9 



♦Sun-Dial, Ilow to Make a 33 



Superstition, Chinese .... 80 



Supra- Renal Capsules, The Functions of the 78 



Surface Condensations of Glass 69 



Swine, Feeding of 24 



Table, A Useful 150 



Tables, Laboratory 5 



Tanning 133 



Tea-Drinking, Excessive 46 



Teeth as Conservators of Nerve Force 186 



Teeth, Changes in the 15 



Teeth, Degeneration of the Human 188 



Teething : Is it a Common Cause of Disorder? 15 



Telegraph-poles, To Preserve 86 



Telegraphy, Speed of 100 



Telescopic Object Glass, A Large 181 



Temperature, Taking and Losing the 144 



♦Tent of Living Vines, A 119 



Tetanus Neonatorum, Treatment of 14 



Thallium in Platinum 54 



Thames River, The Water of the 4 



Then and Now '. * 64 



The People and the Schools 123 



♦Thermometer, A Rotary 37 



Thermometer and Barometer, Difference between 41 



♦ Thermoscope, A Simple 54 



Toads 



Toilet Recipes of Ancient Egy 



88 



Egypt 152 



To Make Varnish Adhere to Metals 118 



Tomato Fritters 119 



Tomato Omelets 166 



Tomatos Stuffed 119 



Train Mileage in America and Europe 150 



Transatlantic Glances 84 



Transplanting Large l*Ines 152 



Trap-door Spiders and their Nests 115 



Tree Pruner, Another 184 



Tricycle, The New Steam 6 



Trip, A Quick 150 



Triple-Screw Propellers , 150 



Trumpet, An Electric 6 



Turkey, The Brush 4 



Typhoid Bacilli, Detection of 144 



Typhoid-Fever, Temperature in 4S 



Urea 109 



Uterine Colic, Treatment of *. 14 



Uterine Hemorrhage, Efli'ects of Quinine on. 14 



Valve for Flasks, Improved Automatic 178 



V^arlous Diseases, The Prognosis of 96 



Varnish , Black 54 



Vaseline, Chemical Nature of 15 



Venetian Ship- Railway, A 102 



♦ Ventilator, A New Form of 21 



Verifying Graduated Glass Tubes 134 



Viaduct, The Garabit 150 



Vinegar, Toilet 48 



Vine- Pruning 88 



Vines, The Time to Prune 120 



♦ Violet, The Bird-Foot 71 



Volapuk 167 



♦Volcanic Eruption in Japan, The Recent 173 



Warmth, Artificial ^ 



Wasps and Bees 88 



Waste Silk for Steam-Pipe Covering 164 



Watches, Electrical 84 



Water-Clock, A Wonderful .-,. 6 



Water, Turbidity of 36 



Watering Plants 120 



♦ Wax-Tree, The Japanese 87 



Weeds, Imported 120 



Western Blizzard, Recent 44 



Western Cattle-Trail, The ]52 



What Flowers will Grow in the Shade 72 



What the Cow Gives us 135 



White Lead 5 



Whole Wheat as an Article of Diet 7, 29 



Whooping-Cough 7 171 



Why do they ? 148 



Wick, An Incombustible 164 



Wife, The Doctor's 47 



Window Plants 120 



Wine, Alcohol in 48 



Wood-Carving, To Remove Paint from 164 



Wood, Darkening the Natural Hue of 164 



Wolcott Gibbs, Professor 116 



Workshop Hints 6, 118 



Wrench, The Monkey 6 



Yankee versus European Cooking 104 



Zigzags in Railway Construction 165 



