990 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Manuring, surface, reasons for 847 



Manures, experiments with 456 



liquid 270 



Maple sugar, bow to make 482 



Materials, strength of building 903 



Mayer, A. M., lecture by 143 



Meadows, mulching 514 



Meat extracts and beef tea 748 



Meats, preservation of 5S9 



Mellithic acid 711 



Mesquite bean 371 



Metric system, peoples adopting it . . 939 



Metrological reform 931 



Microscope, improved 564 



Midden, everybody should have. . . 405 



Miik business 480 



Milk transportation . . .' 437 



Mines on the shore of Lake Superior, 616 



Molecularity 875 



Molecules and atoms 866 



Morrill, L. A., papers by 516, 553 



Mortar, selenitic 756 



Morton, H., lecture by 121, 910 



Moss in meadows 305 



ridding pastures of 253 



Moths, black 459 



Mountain, land on Cumberland 404 



Motive power, electricity as a 595 



Mowing machines, test of 114 



Mushrooms 557 



Musical intonation 813 



Musk, artificial, etc 784 



N. 



Naphegyi, G., paper by 550 



Nature, no projectile force in 886 



Newberry, J. 8., paper by 942 



New Jersey, peaches in 463 



New Mexico, sheep raising in 444 



Nitrate of silver and charcoal 670 



Nitrogen group of elements, spectra 



of the 669 



O. 



Offal, butchers, turning into manure, 339 



Oil, colza 668 



cotton-seed 332 



■ Orange culture 334 



growing 374 



growing in Louisiana. . . , . . 420 



osage and other hedges 558 



osage hedges 309 



hedges for the prairies 316 



Oregon, farming in 297 



Organs, enharmonic 815 



Ott, A., papers by 672, 772 



Oxygen not the only supporter of 



combustion 200 



•Oyster-shell lime 452 



Ozone, test for the presence of 624 



Painting, new method of 589 



Pans, milk, no advantage in shallow, 276 



Page. 



Paper, sponge 669 



Paraf, Alfred, paper by 973 



Parker, John A., paper by 886 



Pasture, to renovate 535 



Peach culture, profit of 489 



Peaches in New Jersey 463 



Pears, for preserving 331 



preserving 313 



Pecans and mesquite beans 1 371 



Perception and expression, time oc- 

 cupied in 643 



Petroleum, to calculate the heating 



power of 669 



a great boon to man .... 232 



Phin, John, paper by 584 



Phosphorescence, animal 668 



Phosphorus, antidote to 709 



Photographic action, rapidity of 581 



Photographical section, proceedings 



of 977 to 986 



Pigs, Cheshire or Yorkshire, im- 

 proved 472 



food for 250 



Pipes for under drains choked by 



grass 555 



Planet, another discovered 667 



Plantation, improving a worn 329 



Plants, exhalation 591 



killed by frost , 649 



pruning 303 



Plaster 495 



Plowing 378, 409 



steam, in England 484 



Plows, and plowing, subsoil 459 



Polytechnic Association, transactions 



of 561 



Portland cement, strength ot 594 



Potatoes 308, 500 



early 281 



rose, two crops in one 



season 263 



experiments with 352 



keeping sound 343 



preserving sweet 319 



second crop 460 



what variety to plant 539 



Potato, late ros^ 372 



pest and Paris green 277 



Poultry fountain 285 



pumpkin seeds bad for .... 331 



raising 386, 513, 531 



and caponizing .... 368 



Psychic force, on the so-called 625 



Puget Sound, inquiries from 471 



Pump, compound propeller 749 



Pyro-electricity of crystals 756 



Q. 



Quantity of heat developed by com- 

 bustion 203 



R. 



Radiation of heat 922 



Railway, suspended 980 



