INDEX. 



A. 



Address, anniversary, by N. P. Banks, 37 



at the opening of the 29th fair, 25 



Agriculture, botany and vegetable life, 307 



American guano company, 223 



American Institute, finances, 1858, _ 9 



sixteenth annual report, 7 



■ trustees and committees, 1857-58, 3, 4 



American porcelain, 212 



Andrews' anti-friction centrifugal pump, 154 



Atlantic telegraph, _ 626 



Ayres' cattle well, _ 612 



cylindrical filter, _ 163 



model of farm gates, __ _ 223 



self-acting bucket, _ 222 



B. 



Baker's island guano, _ 232 



Banks' anniversary address before the Institute, 37 



Bartholomew's pan and hopper closet valve, 160 



self-acting safety valve bibb cock, _ 162 



Batchelder's improved argand gas burner,. 193 



Bees, to keep moths from, 583 



Boardman's blind wiring machine, 137 



coal burning locomotive, 108 



Bottom's watch makers' lathe, 117 



Boydell's steam engine, 649 



Boyden's new seedling strawberry, 253 



Breeding of cattle, 429 



[Am. Inst.] 45 



