INDEX. 



A. 



Paots. 



Abbreviations in writing 782 



Absorption by the skin 573 



Acoustics 624 



Acetic acid, pure 621 



Acetyline, polymers of 596 



Acid in food 312 



Actinescence 624 



Actinic and luminous rays 880 



Actinometer, new 679 



Address at opening of 37th exhibi- 

 tion 126 



Address at close of 37th exhibition, 133 



Adulteration of saffron 579 



Aeroiscope 609 



Agate, drawings on 638 



Agricultural books, for farmers.... 191 



engineering 910 



Agriculture, department of. 386 



response of com'r of . . 395 



in Maryland 359 



in Salem, N. J 330 



Alabaster 707 



Alazarin 651 



Aldehyde, raethylic 782 



Alcohol indicator 783 



Ale, new use for 679 



Allen on the mowing machine 476 



Allison's insulator 115 



Alloys of lead and tin 1005-1009 



Alumina and iron oxides in soils. . . 903 



hydrates of 837 



Aluminum, new properties of 766 



alloy of in dentistry, 575, 589 



bronze 667, 670 



Amalgamation of gold 743 



Amalgam, copper 791 



Amber 1011 



American rifles 610 



Amputation, treatment in cases of. . 790 



Anatomical preparations 728 



Anaethesia, local 629 



Anaesthetic, new 678, 952 



Anemometer 737 



self-registering 561 



Aneroid barometer 706 



Angora goat 271, 350 



Aniline colors, discharge for 597 



production of 571 



Animalculae, effect of anti-septics on. 897 



Animal electricity 730 



Animal mechanics ... 897 



Paoe. 



Annate 882 



Anthony on sensitive preparations. . 1027 



Anthrophotoscope 724 



Antimony 789 



oxidation of 753 



Anti-incrustation of boilers 614, 699 



Ants 280 



Apples 276 



Beauty of the West 213 



from Northern Indiana. ... 296 



winter 556 



Apple orchards, profits of 321 



management of 376 



parer, Goodell's 59, 272 



seeds, how to start 272 



tree borer 208, 521 



trees, blight on 233 



wash for 238 



root grafting of 486 



Arcade railway 567 



Arch, great stone 600 



Arsenic separated from tin 622 



Artesian wells in Algeria 663 



Artichoke, sugar from 591 



Artificial limbs and surgical applica- 

 tions 71 



Artificial teeth and dental instru- 

 ments 72 



Ashes 348 



Asteroid, another 1005 



Asteroids 675 



Asphalt pavement 701 



Atlantic cable 635 



slope, rain on 667 



Automatic boiler feeder 70S 



Autumn leaves, how to preserve .. . 362 



Axle, improved 204 



B. 



Babcock & Wilcox's steam engine, 83 



686 



Balloon, a great 638 



Baltimore oriole 161 



Banks' boiler gauge 697 



Barbour on steam boilers 850 



Bark, leaching of 755 



lice 510 



Barometer, aneroid 706 



time registering 346 



Barrels, apple 140 



