Index. 



. 991 



Page. 



Red phosphorus, an absorbent 709 



Reports 0, 102 



Respiration 210 



Rheostat 953 



Road steamers 783 



steamer in Greece 876 



Rock-salt deposits of Stassfurt 752 



Rood, Ogden N., lecture by 180 



Roofing 852 



Russian sheet iron 700 



Rust, to prevent 334 



Rye, experiments in raising 495 



s. 



Salt mixture for corn 241 



Sand-blast for cutting glass or stone, 612 



Saws, lightning. . 450 



Scientific lectures 121 



Screw, self-locking 870 



Sea life, deep 572 



Seed changing 505 



larch, how to sprout 277 



Selenitic mortar 750 



Sewerage systems at present in use. . 050 



Sheep husbandry and the tariff 428 



oil meal for 534 



raising in New Mexico 444 



shearing 553 



Sheet iron, Russian 700 



Silica, in all its varieties, diamag- 



netie 750 



Silicon and boron, apparent volatiza- 



tion of 745 



Silver prints, permanence of 750 



Simpson, J. P., address by 116 



Smith, J. V. 0., papers by. . . . 362, 398 



Smut 504 



Soils and crops, Cape May 439 



testing, a simple system of. . . . 499 



Solar explosion 727 



spectrum, variation in the. . . . 668 

 Solidifying and melting points of 



fate 070 



Sorel, artificial stone 772 



Sound, lecture on 180 



Sounds for the aurora 713 



Sparrows, English, a nuisance V. . . . 271 

 Spectrum analytical method, deli- 

 cacy of the 593 



Sponge paper 609 



Spontaneous explosion, to prevent. 758 



Squashes, Hubbard 296 



Stars, double, distance of 730 



Stassfurt, compounds in the rock- 

 salt, deposits of 752 



Steam, blowing off 805 



boiler explosions. . 715,761, 806 



boilers 784, 923 



the explosion of, causes 



and prevention 685 



boiler, the Woodson 709 



engines, high pressure 817 



speed 819 



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 Steam engine, the improvement of, 

 and the education of engi- 

 neers 855 



heaters 924 



hygrometer 623 



Steel and malleable iron, manufac- 

 ture of 853 



Stellar motion illustrated 877 



Stetson, T. D., paper by 883 



Stewart, Henry, paper by 409 



Stock, cooking food for 494 



poor food for 426 



Stone for buildings, strength of. . . . 903 



Stoves 925 



Strawberries, fertilizing 405 



wild ' 307 



Sulphur mine 501 



Sumac, preparing 301 



Sun, chemistry of the 133 



Suspension bridge 017 



Swine, herd-book 384 



keeping '. 488 



T. 



Tangent galvanometer 948 



Telegraph, submarine, new record- 

 ing instrument 940 



Telescopes, proposed improvement 



in 671 



Tennessee table-lands 298 



Texas, incmiries about 406 



south-western 370 



Thanks, a vote of 596 



Thurston, R. H., report of, on boiler 



experiments 716, 766, 855 



Tillman, Samuel D., papers by, 561, 576 



587, 597, 623, 641, 007, 709, 727, 745 



752, 750, 813, 808, 878, 907, 922, 940 



Timber, Australian 579 



Tobacco culture 415 



Top-dressing 504 



lime as 436 



Transportation of milk 437 



Trap, codling moth 484 



Tree-peddlers 502 



Trees, barren pear 293 



chestnut and apple 465 



fruit, trouble with 307 



fruit and chestnut 511 



girdled, to preserve 245 



maple, tapping and plugging, 511 



peach, yellows in 556 



plum and cherry, knobs on . . 487 



black, knobs on 425 



young, keeping rabbits from. 257 



Trocar for cattle 458 



Trout, brook 498 



Trustees, reports of 1, 3 



Turnips, clover as manure for 34(5 



u. 



Under drain pipes choked by grass. 555 



