SCIENCE. 



iii 



CLUB RATES. 



Analyst 



Appleton's Monthly 



American Naturalist 



American Journal of Science 



American Journal of Microscopy 



American Machinist _'_ 



American Monthly Microscopical Journal 

 American Manufacturer and Iron World- 

 Boston Journal of Chemistry 



Chicago Medical Review 



Chicago Field _ 



Druggist _ 



Druggists' Circular 



Educational Monthly (Barnes ) 



Engineering News 



Engineering and Mining Journal 



Education 



Engineering Magazine. 



Harper's Magazine 



Harpers Weekly 



Harper's Bazar 



Harper's Young People 



Humboldt Library 



International Review 



Subscrip 

 tion. 



With 

 Science. 



$2.00 



$5.50 



3.00 



6.26 



4.00 



7.20 



6.00 



8.50 



1. 00 



4.70 



3.00 



6.70 



2.00 



4.80 



4-«S 



7.00 



1. 00 



4-7S 



2.00 



5-5° 



4.00 



7.0° 



1.60 



5-25 



••5° 



5-25 



1.50 



5.20 



3-°° 



6.25 



4.00 



7.00 



4.00 



7.00 



5.00 



8.25 



4.00 



7.00 



4.00 



7.20 



4.00 



7.20 



1.50 



S.20 



3.00 



6.2s 



5.00 



8.00 



Iron - 



Journal of the Telegraph 



London Lancet 



Magazine of American History 



Mining and Scientific Press 



Nature 



N. Y. Medical Journal 



New England Journal of Education 



North American Review 



Operator 



Popular Science Monthly 



Sanitary Engineer 



Practical American 



Pacific Rural Press 



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Scientific American 



" " Supplement 



" with Supplement 



Southern Medical Record 



Student 



St. Nicholas 



Young Scientist 



Subscrip 

 tion. 



With 

 Science. 



7.50 



9-34 



2.00 



5-5° 



5.00 



7.50 



5.00 



8.00 



4 00 



6.40 



6.00 



9.15 



4.00 



7.00 



3.00 



6.40 



5 -co 



7-7S 



1. 00 



4.80 



5.00 



8.00 



3.00 



6.50 



1.50 



5.00 



4.00 



7.00 



4.00 



7.20 



■5° 



4.40 



3.20 



6.56 



5.00 



8.00 



7.00 



9.60 



2.00 



5-4° 



1 00 



4-75 



3.00 



6.40 



.50 



4.30 



Dr. Scott's Electric Hair Brush. — A good hair brush cannot be bought for 

 much less than the sum for which Dr. Scott's electric brush can be secured. 

 This brush, aside from the curative properties claimed for it, is a well made arti- 

 cle, handsome in appearance and first-class in every respect. It is not a metallic 

 brush, but is made of pure bristles. Its electrical qualities are very strong, and 

 will manifest themselves by causing the needle of a magnetic compass to vibrate 

 even with a thick book on the top of a table intervening. Violent vibrations of 

 the needle can be caused by passing the brush quickly back and forth within 

 four or five inches of the compass. It is claimed for this brush that its use will 

 cure headaches and neuralgia, will remove dandruff, and in most cases will pre- 

 vent the hair from falling or turning gray. In support of this claim many testi- 

 monials from responsible persons are adduced. Evidently its use would be of 

 great benefit wherever electricity would prove beneficial, and could not in any 

 event result in harm. — Boston Journal, May 28, 1881. 



SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. 



Vol. II, No. 63, 



September 10, 1 88 1 



CONTENTS. 



Water Supply of Cities (Edit.) ; The Connection of the Biological Sciences with Medi- 

 cine, by Professor T. H. Huxley; Notes on Experimental Chemistry, Professor A. 

 B. Prescott ; The Paris Electrical Exhibition, by Dr. F. Glaser ; The American 

 Chemical Society ; The Successful Administration of Nitrous Oxide, Dr. E. How- 

 land ; Some Needed Reforms in the Use of Botanical Terms, by Charles E. Ridler ; 

 Books Received; The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, by 

 Dr. John Evans ; Meteorological Report for New York for week ending September 

 3d, 1881; Notes, &c, &c, &c. 



WEBSTER. 



The following from Webster, page 11K4, shows 

 the value of the Illustrative Definitions in 



Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 



1, flyingjib; 3, jib; 3, fore-top-mast-stay sail; 

 4, fore-course; 5, foretop sail; 6, foretop-gallant 

 sail; 7, fore-royal; 8, fore sky-sail; 9, fore-roy- 

 al studding sail; 10, foretop-gallant studding- 

 sail; 11, foretop-mast studding-sail; 13, main- 

 course; 13, maintopsail; 14, maintop-gallant 

 sail; 15, main-royal; 16, main sky-sail; 17, 

 main royal studding-sail; 18, main top-gallant 

 studding-sail; 19, maintop-mast studding sail; 

 20, mizzen-course; 21, mizzen-top sail; 33, 

 mizzen-top-gallant sail; 33, mizzen-royal; 34, 

 mizzen sky-sail; 25, mizzen-spanker. 



The pictures in Webster under the 13 words, 

 Beef, Boiler, Castle, Column, Eye, Horse, 

 Moldings, Phrenology, Ravelin, Ships, 

 (pages 1164 and 1219) Steam engine, Tim- 

 bers, define 343 words and terms far better 

 than they could be defined in words. 



New Edition of "WEBSTER, has 

 118,000 Words, 3000 Engravings, 

 4600 New Words and Meanings, 



Biographical Dictionary 



of over 9700 Names. 



Published by G.&C.MERRIAM, Springfield, MaA 



