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]