INDEX TO VOLUME I. 
PAGE 
Acorn Barnacles, a Curious Experience "with. 137 
^oUan Harp, How to Make an 110 
Alms, Our 4 
Alligator Eggs, Hatching 112 
American Institute 123, 152 
Animalcules in Water, Will it Show the 23 
Apparatus, Makeshift, Its Successes and Failures. . 1 
Aquaria ' 83 
Aquarium, The 93 
How to Make one of Microscopic Objects. ... 92 
Archer Fish, The 106 
Articles in Preparation 109 
Atlantic, Crossing the, in a Twenty-foot Boat 14 
Barometer Handkerchief 138 
Baskets, Home-made Hanging 142, 158 
Battery, a Fifteen-Cent 71 
A Ten- Cent 39, 58 
Beauty and Strength 14 
Beginners ia Microscopy, Simple Hints for 55 
Black Finish for Brass ... 11 
Black Walnut. Artificial , 152 
Brass, Black Finish for 11 
Brass Lacquering 12 
Brick, Looking Through a 150 
Boat, A Good Ten-Dollar 65, 79 
Boat, Crossing the Atlantic in a Twenty-foot 14 
Boards, Drawing Ill 
Book Notices: 
Engineering Constructions, A Treatise on. By 
J. E. Sbields 12 
Handy Book, The Gas Consumer's. By Wil- 
liam Richards 12 
House Painting, The Art of. By John Stevens. 28 
The Amateur Mechanics' Practical Handbook. 
By Arthur H. G. Hobson 43 
Robinson's Epitome of Literature. By F. W. 
Robinson 43 
The Teh phone 43 
The Boy Engineers. By the Rev. J. Lukio 59 
Hints to Plumbers and Householders. By W. 
L. O'Grady 72 
Manual of Telegraphy. By Prof. J. E Smiih.. 99 
The Outlines of Natural Philosophy. By Edwin 
J. Houston 99 
Off on a Comet. By Jules Verne - 99 
A Treatise on Files and Rasps Ill 
Physical Technics. By Dr. J. Frick 151 
The Amateur's Handbook of Practical Infor- 
mation , . 151 
Botany, How to Begin the Study of 87 
Burns, A Cure for 98 
Canada Balsam Microscopes 8, 107 
Canaries, Parasites on 11 
Case HdrdeniuK 98 
Cement for Stone or Marble 135 
Cements, General Rules to be Observed in Using. 2, 13 
Characteristics of Various Woods 27 
Christmas, Gilts, Masked 153 
Clothes-Moths, and How to Get Rid of Them 97 
College Workshops 3 
Collecting Microscope 120 
Condensing Lens. A Cheap 70 
Copying Drawings, New Photographic Process for. . 95 
Correspondence 6, 58, 71, 111 
Crystallization 109 
Crjstallize Paper and Glass, To 151 
Current Notes 98, 111, 151 
Day Dreaming, To Prevent 107 
Deferred, Unavoidably 35 
PASK 
Diatom, What is a , 34 
Drawing Board that will not Warp, How to Make a. 96 
Drawirg, How to Read a 29, 46 
Drawings, A Simple Method of Copying 95, 162 
Dresses, Fire- proof ! 163 
Edge Tools, The Art of Sharpening 6, 24 
Education 53 
A Good 30 
Eels, Paste 42, 108 
Entomology, How to Study 73, 89, 104, 128, m 
Entomologists, Mounting Board for 83 
Entomologist's Pliers 57 
Errors, Long-Lived ... 11 
Exchanges 12, 28, 44, 60, 72, 8., 84, 100, 112, 124, 136 
Exchangers, To Our 94 
Exhibition of National Academy of Design 72 
Paris 11 
Experiment, An Interesting 106 
An Instructive 99 
Fallacies, Popular 68 
Fire, A Shower of 41 
Filing, Hints on 110, 122, 134, 164 
Files, Soldering Broken 151 
Fire proof Dresses , . . , 163 
Forceps, Cheap Stage 26 
Fossils, Counterfeit 44 
Fourth of July Pistols 94 
Flowers, Cut, Stand For 
Frog Plate, A. New Form of lig^ 
Frog Spawn, The Development of 54 
Galvanic Battery, a Ten-Cent 39, 58, 
Genius, Mechanical 25 
Girls, A Word to the 69 
Mechanical Work fo.' 44 
Glass Apparatus, Making 37 
Iridescent m 
Ware, Packing 151 
Working,, 149. 
Glue, Studio 152 
The Rules for Using 121 
Ground Glass, Imitation, That Steam will not De- 
stroy 149 
Gymnastics, Literature vs 11 
Hanging Baskets, Home-made 142, 158 
Heavens, The, for October 132 
The, for November 145 
The, for December ifio 
Heller's, Miss, Second Bight 62 
Herbaiium, How to Make an 101, 116, 127 
Hoax, A Sanguinary 43 
House Fired by a Milk Can 83, 98 
How to Read a Drawing . 29, 46 
Hydra, The 93 
Indian Canoes, How to Make. ... 113. 
Indian Ink, Indelible m 
Ink, (Sympathetic or Secret 148 
Tt) at will not Freeze 12 
Inquiries and Answers 44, 60, 84, 99, 124, 136 
Instrument, Musical, A Simple 45 
Iron and St- el. To Polish , 164 
Iron Bird Shot , 11, 58 
Jewelry, Clieap, Poisoned by 10 
Journal, Our, and its Influences , 35 
Kite, The Champion, and How it was Made 62, 75 
Labels, Cementing, to Metal 98 
Laboratory and Workshop, 6, 24, 37, 56, 83, 95, 109, 
122, 134, 148. 
Lamps, Self-Lighting 10 
