Index. 



347 



Napoleon I, 5. 



Napoleon, Louis, 85. 



National Observatory, 24. 



Natural History, of the State of New 

 York, 17, 19 ; should receive 

 more attention in our schools, 

 142. 



Natural Selection, etc., Gray's, 50. 

 Nature (periodical), 49, 155. 



Needham, , 139. 



Neptune, the planet, 139, 300. 

 Netherlands, Taine's, 82. 

 Neuse river, 123, 124. 

 Nevada, 177. 

 Nevis, 119. 

 New Bern, 124. 



Newburgh, house of, 107, 109, 126 ; 



Ruttenber's History of, 130. 

 New Forest, of Hampshire, 121. 

 New Foundland fishery, 120. 

 Newington, 121. 

 New Jersey, 158. 

 Newton, Sir Isaac, 205, 212, 238. 

 Newton (from), to Kirchoff, paper 



entitled, by L. C. Cooley, 205- 



212. 



New Village, 126. 



New York, 109, 119, 124, 125, 128, 

 129, 152, 170, 194 ; Colonial and 

 Documentary Histories of, 130 ; 

 Historical Society, 30. 



New York, State, recent additions to 

 flora of, 40, 190 ; Museum of 

 Natural History, zoological ad- 

 ditions to, 141 ; Herbarium, 41 ; 

 Uncinulae, synopsis of, by C. 

 H. Peck, 213, 217; Agricultu- 

 ral Society, 193. 



Nicaragua, 157. 



Nicholson, Colonel, 127 ; Dr. A. H., 

 Manual of Zoology, by, 133. 



Nitro-dextrin, prepared by Sobrero, 

 91. 



Nitro-glycerine, as used in the con- 

 struction of the Hoosac tunnel, 

 paper on, by George M. Mow- 

 bray, 90-105 ; experiments with, 

 94 ; force of, 104 ; prepared by 

 Sobrero, 91 ; preparation of, 95 ; 

 pure-tri, non-explosive when 

 congealed, 99 ; explosion of, at 

 Hoosac tunnel, 100. 



Nitro-Mannite, prepared by Sobrero, 

 91. 



Nitro-sugar, prepared by Sobrero, 



91. 

 Noah, 48. 



Nobel, Alfred, and brothers, 92. 

 Nobel, M.,101. 



Normanskill, the, 223. 

 North Carolina, 123, 124 ; Hewatt's, 

 110. 



Nut (Governor's) island, 125. 



Observatory, National, (see National 



Observatory). 

 Oclia Blanca (grass or leaves), 



164. 



Oersted, Hans C, 21, 291. 



Ogden, David, 8. 



Oken, Lorenz, 546. 



Olding, Dr., 145, 146. 



Ores, metallic, new method of assay- 

 ing, by the blow-pipe, described 

 by L. C. Cooley, 60-65. 



Oriskany creek, 224. 



Oxacaca, 156. 



Oxford, 118. 



Pacific coast, 171 ; ocean, 88, 156, 

 161,169 ; plains of Tehuantepec, 

 157, 158, 161, 167, 169 ; railway, 

 88. 



Packard, Dr. A. S., Jr., Guide to 

 the Study of Insects, by 134, 

 135. 



Palatinate of the Rhine, 106, 107, 

 118. 



Palatine, bridge, 130 ; church, 130 ; 

 emigration to England, in 1609, 

 paper on, by H. A. Homes, 106- 

 131 ; houses, London, 121 ; the 

 elector, 111, 114 ; township, 130 ; 

 settlements in New York State, 

 126. 



Palatines, the, 106, 108, 109, 110, 

 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 

 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 129, 130, 

 131 ; history of, 130 ; Popish, 

 119; Schoharie, 129. 



Paley, Dr., 324. 



Palladium, 174. 



Panama, 93 ; railroad, 170. 



Panella (sugar), 163. 



Papacy, the, 88. 



Papists, 119, (see Catholics). 



Paradlo, Prevost, death of, 76. 



Paraguay, Washburn's History of, 

 84. 



Paris, in 1851, Tenot's, 85. 

 Paris Exposition, 151. 

 Parish, St. Olave's, 112, 

 Parkman, Francis, 85. 

 Parthenogenesis, 50 ; explained, 334. 

 Passo del San Juan, town of, 169. 



Pasteur, , 139. 



Pastorius, , founder of German 



town, 109 



