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INDEX TO VOLUME V. 
PAGE 
Absurdities, Scientific. 117 
Air-Gun, Feat with 104 
Alcoholic Varnishes 15 
Aluminium Silver 107 
Amber Varnish 46 
American Institute 93 
Angle-Worms 47 
Animal Intelligence 135 
Animals, Aquatic, Transporting. . . .* , 74 
Ant, The Parasol 94 
Aquarium, Aerating the Water of. 21 
Aquarium, Newts for the 100 
Archimedes 107 
Art College for Women 4 
Astronomy for Amateurs 13, 27, 58, 69 
Balloons, Soap-Bubble 15 
Balls, Elastic Glass 34 
Battery, Burning Iron Wire by 32 
Battery Electric, To Make 82 
Bee Poisoners, Caution to 73 
Belting, Notes on 95 
Bird Skins, To Remove Grease from 131 
Bird Skins, To Soften 29 
Bird Stuffing, Notes on 145 
Black Dye for Wood 46 
Blacksmith and Solomon 148 
Blue Prints 30 
Blue Process for Drawings 3 
Blue Process, Addition to 29 
Blunders, Scientific 26 
Bones, To Bleach 105 
Boole Notices. 
Lectures in a Workshop 12 
Easy Experiments in Chemistry 27 
Practical Microscopy 44 
How to be Weather Wise 142 
Boring Wooden Handles 25 
Bouquets, How to Keep 119 
Boys — Give them Tools 121 
Boy Inventors J25 
Brass, Blackmg 152 
Brass, Cleaning and Dipping 30 
Brass, Protectmg 32 
Bronze Statues, To Clean 83 
Bronzing Copper 46 
Bronzing Plaster Casts 47 
Bullet Holes in Windows 46 
Burning Iron Wire by Battery 32 
Burnishing 80 
Cabinet, Hanging 18 
Carving, Wood, Amateur 64 
Cement, Adhesive 131 
Chamois, To Clean 80 
Cherry Wood, Wild 119 
Christmas Gifts 122 
Chuck, Home-Made 4 
Clay tot Modeling 15 
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Cloth, Feather 130 
Condensing Lens, Cheap - 8 
Copper, Bronzing 46 
Copper, Iridescent. 44 
Corks, Improved 15 
Corresjiondetice. 
Alexander G Gibbs : 12, 94 
Alan, W. T 43 
Crystals, Snow 43. 
Departure, Our New 142 
Diamantine 95, 
Diapason, The French 3S 
Drama, Scientific 97 
Drawings, Blue Piocess for 3. 
Drawings, Varnish for 60 
Drive, A 66 
Drops, Rupeit's 35, 
Ebonizing Wood 81 
Effort, Unconscious 35. 
Electric Battery, How to Make 82 
Electric Bell, To Make 83 
Electric Light, Largest 45 
Electrical Experiments 2 
Electric Lamps, Iridium for 45 
Engravings, Cleaning 44, g-> 
Exchanges 16, 32, 48, 60, 72, 84, 96,. 107, 120, 132, 144 
Executing Criminals by Electricity 104, 
Fair of the American Institute 93 
Feather Cloth. 130 
Files, Treatment of New 31 
Fire Escape, A Simple 61 
Fires, Lighting 152 
Fish Ponds 138, 
Fishes, Food for 15 
Fishes, Taming 10 
Flour for Killing Cabbage-Worms 130 
Flowers of Liquid Films 3 
Flowers. Save the 98 
Flying Machines 147 
Fuel and Timber, Planting for 1 18 
Gifts, Christmas 122 
Girls as Housekeepers 38 
Glass, Bullet Holes in 46- 
Glass, Cutting, Grinding, and Engraving 9. 
Glass, Polishing 83 
Glass Working .34, 49. 
Glue Liquid 31 
Glycerine as an A nti- Freezing Agent 118 
Gold-PIating, Cold 13^ 
Handles, Boring Wooden 25: 
Hardening, To Test 118 
Heat, Mechanical Equivalent of 84 
Hyacinth Culture xir 
Hydrofluoric Acid WounO 46 
