INDEX

Aëronautics, see [Balloon company]

Air, distribution of warm—society [10]

Aluminium, ulterior advantages of [14]

Arago, French savant, forestaller of telegraphy [19]

Arcades, general [11]

Arnhem’s rise and fall as a city [93]

Bacon’s letter: “De mirabili potestate artis et naturae” [4]

Balloon, General—company [58]

Bikkers on “The philosophy of verbal monopoly” [73]

Books of the nineteenth century [34]

Brandt and Künckel, discoverers of the phosphorus [15]

Calculatoria [105]

Camera obscura [16]

Celestinus, Claudius—his work [5]

Channel, bridge across the [78]

Colonies, loss of Dutch [94]

Courtois, french savant, discovers iodine [17]

Darwin’s evolution theory alluded to [45]

Davy, Sir Humphry—his safety lamp [16]

Dialect, travelling [67]

Education, compulsory [39]

Energeiathecs [31]

Enkephalometers [87]

Examinations, Government and University [89]

Galileo [2]

Galvani, his discovery [18]

Genealogy of species [44]

Glass, endless [11]

Gravesande, Dutch savant [2]

Gun-cotton invented [17]

Heliochromes [22]

Humanism [73]

Huyghens, Dutch savant [2]

Iodine, when and by whom first discovered [17]

Java, important Dutch colony [96]

Künckel, see [Brandt and Künckel]

La Condamine imports india-rubber from America [19]

Library, national [32]

Light, solar [47]

Locomotion, general [73]

Londinia [10]

Mill, John Stuart—criticised [118]

Monopoly, “philosophy of verbal,” see [Bikkers]

Mozart, his “Don Giovanni” [56]

Musschenbroek, Dutch savant [2]

New Holland, united states of [127]

Newton [2]

New Zealand of the future [121]

Niepce de Saint Victor [23]

North Holland submerged [79]

Observatory, astronomical—in Persia [103]

Oerstedt, forerunner of telegraphy [18]

Page, his discovery [52]

Phantasia [6]

Photography, forerunners of [16]

Porta, inventor of the camera obscura [16]

Railway nets, extensive [100]

Reis, his invention [52]

Scheele, forerunner of photography [16]

Schönbein prepares collodion [17]

Science, pure [20]

——, encouragement of by Government [20]

——, so-called official [21]

Scott, Léon, his phonautograph [53]

Spheres, communication between the various [108]

Stevin, Dutch savant, referred to [2]

Suffrage, universal [111]

Telescopes of the twenty-first century [76]

Telegraphy, forerunners of [17]

Telephon [51]

Thales, forerunner of telegraphy [17]

Time, Aleutic [7]

Tin mines in the moon [107]

Trade, free [73]

Travelling dialect [67]

Tycho, lunar district so-called [107]

Utrecht, enlarged [83]

“Verre sans fin,” see [Glass, endless]

Volta, his discovery [18]

War, no more [69]

Wöhler discovers aluminium [15]

Women, rights of [115]

World-day [9]