IISTDEX TO VOLUME XXIII. 



Ill 



Meteorites 116 



♦Meteorite, The Great Brazilian 113 



Meteorology. Monthly Report 11, 27, 43, 59, "J, 92, 107, 



124,139,154,109, 185 



Microbes, Ancient Reference to 183 



Microbes in Vichy Water 1S3 



M icrobe-killer, The 89 



Microscope Prize, The 1U5, 139 



Milk and some of its Products 94 



Milk, Bacteria in 142 



Milk, Setting for Butter 104 



Milk, Variations in Composition 120 



Milk, Condensed 158 



M ind Healing, Practical 32 



Mintral, A New ti9 



Minute, Why Sixty Seconds make a 100 



Mixture, A Kew P^reezin^ 12 



Monthly Summary of Medical Progress . . .15, 29, 45, 62, 79, 



95, 110, 126, 143, 156, 173, 189 



Moon, Magnified Photographs of the 153 



Mrirtar, Ser\'iceable 6 



Morphine Habit, The 128 



Mosaics, Beautiful Imitations of 6 



Motion at Kest 53 



Motors, Electric 57 



Mushroom, The 39 



Musical Instruments 167 



Myths, Chinese 115 



Nail, A Double Pointed 54 



Narrow Escape, A 164 



Naphthaline 118 



Natural Gas Mains, Uoss of Pressure in 84 



• N'ebulx', News from the 175 



\ iagara. Events at 18 



Nickel and Cobalt, New Elements in 121 



Nickel and Slot Machine, Ancient 153 



Nitre Deposits, Formation of. 176 



Nitrogen 17 



Nitrogen in the Soil, Amount of 120 



Oatmeal as Food 72 



Oats, Good, How to tell ^ 182 



Obituary 64 



Ocean, Depth of the 09 



Ocean Steamers, Fast 105 



Oil Cake 104 



Operation, A very Bad 174 



Organic Matter, The Incineration of 54 



Osmosis, Experiments in 116 



Oxygen Waste 167 



' >2okerite, American 132 



' Pantograph, A Simple 42 



Paper, Iridescent 102 



Paper, Parchment, To soften 150 



Paper, Fire and Water I'root 71 



Paris Exhibition, The 107-130 



Paris Letter 19,58,90, 107, 123, 130, 154, 169, 185 



Parsnip Balls 56 



Pasteur Institute, The 26 



Paremento Rubber 71 



Peach Stones as Fuel 8S 



♦Pelargonium, The Horse -shoe 181 



Pennsvlvania Railroad, Employees of Sfi 



Pepper, Red 1 16 



Perceptive Powers, Variations in 128 



Permanganate Solution, Standardising 102 



♦Perpetual Motion 117 



Petroleum and Natural Gas 51 



Phoiir>graph, A New Use for 116 



Phonograph, A Photographing 116 



Phosphorescence 184 



Photographic Chemical, A New 150 



Photographic Dry Plates, Sell Developing 41 



Photograi))iy, Instantaneous 70 



♦Photography, Recent Novelties in 81 



Physical Diagnosis, The Phonograph in 63 



Physicians, Russian 04 



Pile Dwellings, American 132 



PAGE. 



Plants, Medicinal 190 



Plants, Syringing 182 



Platinum Crucible, Removal of Fused Masses from 54 



Poisons 13 



Poisons, A General Antidr)te for 16 



Polarity of Certain Dike Rocks 132 



Pollens and Fertilization of Flowers, Notes on 42 



Polariscope, The 57 



Poultry, Warm Food for 40 



Potassium and Sodium 69 



Practice of Medicine, State Regulation of 57 



Practical Recipes 6,70, 102 



Proof Reading, Mental Phenomena of 73 



Pseudomorph, An Interesting 184 



Puzzles, Scientific, Answers to 90 



Puzzles , Scientific 75 



Qiiackery, Two Noted Examples of 61 



equality Cakes 24 



Quantivalence, The Physiological Value of 15 



Q^iiartz as an Insulator 1.55 



questions and Answers 12,44,60, 76,93, 125, 140, 155, 170 



Quicksilver Ore in Russia 68 



Race, A Curious 



Rails, Electric Welding 



Rails, Durability of Steel 



Railroad across Asia Minor 



Railroads, Chinese.' 



Railroad Notes 



Railway from London to India 



♦Railway, A Media;val 



Railway, The First in China 



Railway Construction in Japan, Some Ditficulties of. 



Railway Speed in England 



Railway Speed, Fastest Recorded . .". 



Railway Stations, Largest in the World 



Rare Metals and Their Uses 



Rat Proof House, A 



Ray of Light, The Force of a 



Reason Why, The 



Reading Lamp, Automatic 



Relations of Medical Men to the Public, Peculiar,... 



Remedies, Indian 



Rifle Firing, Long Distance 



Roman Remains in England 



Rouge, French 



Rudimentary Organs 



Rust, To Prevent 



Ruthenium, The Atomic Weight of 



100 



150 

 119 



Sanitary Service, Tlie Government and the 



Saturn's Rings, as viewed by Science 



Scarecrow, A Mechanical 



Scarecrow, An Unimpressive 



School Age and School 1 lours, The 



Schoolmaster Abroad, The 



Scientific Exhibits, Interesting 



Scientific Brevities 5, 20, 36, 53, 68, 84, 100, 116, 



♦Scientific Experiments, Simple 



Scientific Gathering, With a 



Science in Relation to Alcohol, The N'erdict of 



♦Scientific Recreations 1, 17, 113, 



Scotch Cakes 



Sea Water and Sea Water Ice 



Seeds, Development of 



Selected Recipes 24, 



Show Bottle, a Variegated 



Silver, Allotropic Forms of. 101, 



Silica in Plants 



Sleeping Cars, Danger of Contagion in 



Smoke Stacks, Fire Proof Paint for 



Soil for Strawberries 



Soil, What Exhausts it 



Social Organism, The 



Spark, The Vital : What is It? 



Spider Hunting Wasp, A 



Spheres, Natural 



Stages in London, Electric Lighting of 



Steam, Electrified 



86 



, 150 



180 



149 



*>> 



22 



150 



167 



71 



56 



40 



53 



71 



134 



13 



125 



116 



5 



70 



141 



6 



41 



121 

 131 



24 



56 



14 

 150 



99 

 132 



49 

 177 



30 

 162 



24 

 2 



68 



56 



190 



105 



103 



183 



6 



8 



180 



45 



31 



131 



163 



5 



PAGE. 



Steam Boilers, Inspection of Interior, The 71 



Steaming, Boiling, and Simmering 40 



Steel versus Wrought Iron 70 



♦Strophanthus 61 



Substance, A New Sweet Tasting 48 



Sugar, Refining 5 



Sugar Refining Swindle 25 



Sulphur 6 



Sun, Total Eclipse of the 9 



Sun's Atmosphere, Copper and Zinc in 105 



Sun's Atmosphere, Existence of Oxygen in the 9 



Sunshine, Value of 94 



Tanning, Electric 105 



Taste, Delicacy of 128 



Tail, Instances of Occurrence in Man 89 



Tellurium, Atomic Weight of 153 



Telautograph, The 36 



Things that Never will be Settled 22 



Thin out the Grapes 56 



Those Dogs 24 



Thunder Storms 105 



Tin, The Atomic Weight of 9 



♦Time Keepers, Curious 133 



Tobacco Smoke on Bacteria, Effect of 48 



Tobacco, Use of 89 



♦Top, Hydraulic 145 



♦Total Solar Eclipse, A Photograph of the 58 



ToUiI Solar Eclipse 41 



♦Tortoise, A Gigantic Fossil I 



To which Kingcfom do They belong? 52 



Toilet Table, The 134 



Trees, Some Old 36 



Trees, Miniature 152 



Trees in Winter 55 



Trichina;, Detection of 128 



Trout Culture 120 



Tuberculosis 187 



Turnips as Food 104 



Turnips, German Dish of 24 



Uranium 162 



Vacation Work 89 



Vaccination, Pro and Con of 77 



Vanilla Rusk Pudding 24 



Varnish, To remove Water from 1.50 



Vaseline and Water 144 



Vegetables and Fruits 103 



Vegetable Refuse 166 



Vision, Limits of. 146 



Watch, Anatomy of a 134 



Watches, Prevention of Magnetism in 85 



Watches and Clocks, Electric 86 



Water, Arsenical 153 



Waters, Black 69 



Water, Combustion of 131 



Water Power, H ighest Head 86 



Water Supply, The Domestic 87 



Water Supply and Water Pollution 126 



Weather, The 114 



Weather Predictions 132 



Welsbach Gas Burner 89 



What a Leaf does 55 



Why Rails in Use Rust less quickly than Rails at Rest. . . . 22 



Window Cleaners 104 



Wine Making 39 



Winter Clothing 48 



Woods, Hardness of 166 



♦Wood [oinery. Novel 133 



Wood-Wool 182 



Wrought Iron, Expansion of 179 



Yellowstone Park, The 137, 153 



Young Tortoise with Two Heads, A 26 



Youth, To Renew. Brown-Sequard's alleged discovery. 121, 137 



Zircon , 



Zinc Ore in Arkansas . 



60 

 89 



