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| I. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS--Machine Tools forBoiler Makers. 2 figures.--Improved boiler plate radialdrill.--Improved boiler plate bending roller.] |
| [Modern Ordnance. By COLONEL MAITLAND.--Rifledcannon.--Built guns.--Steel castings.--Breech loading.--Longguns.--Slow burning of powder.--Breechclosers.--Projectiles.--Destructive power of guns.] |
| [Oscillating Cylinder Locomotive. 2figures.--Shaw's oscillating cylinder locomotive.] |
| [Gas Motors and Producers. By C. W. SIEMENS--2figures.] |
| [The Bazin System of Dredging. By A. A. LANGLEY.--3figures.] |
| II. | [CHEMISTRY.--On the Mydriatic Alkaloids. By ALBERTLADENBERG. --I. Atropine.--II. The Atropine of Datura Stramonium.--III. Hyoscyamine from Hyoscyamus.] |
| [Detection of Small Quantities of Morphia. By A.JORISSEN.] |
| [The Estimation of Manganese by Titration. By C. G.SARNSTROM.] |
| [On the Estimation and Separation of Manganese. ByNELSON H. DARTON.] |
| [Delicate Test for Oxygen.] |
| [Determination of Small Quantities of Arsenic inSulphur. By H. SCHAEPPI.] |
| III. | [BIOLOGY, ETC.--Researches on Animals ContainingChlorophyl. --Abstract of a long and valuable paper "On the Natureand Functions of the Yellow Cells of Radiolarians andCoelenterates," read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. By PATRICKGEDDES.] |
| [The Hibernation of Animals, An interesting reviewof the winter habits of some of our familiar animals, insects,etc.] |
| IV. | [HORTICULTURE, SILK CULTURE, ETC.--How to PlantTrees. By N. ROBERTSON.] |
| [The Growth of Palms.] |
| [The Future of Silk Culture in the United States.Report of United States Consul Peixotto, of Lyons. A valuable andencouraging summary of the conditions and prospects of silk culturein the United States.] |
| V. | [TECHNOLOGY, ETC.--Compressed Oil Gas for LightingCars, Steamboats, and Buoys. An elaborate description of theapparatus and appliances of the Pintsch system of illumination. 14figures. Elevation and plan of works.--Cars.--Locomotive and carlamps.--Buoys.--Regulations, etc.] |
| VI. | [ART, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.--Cast Iron inArchitecture.] |
| VII. | [ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, ETC.--On the MechanicalProduction of Electric Currents. 12 figures.] |
| VIII. | [MISCELLANEOUS.--Dangers from Lightning inBlasting.] |
| [Sir W. Palliser. Obituary and summary of hisinventions.] |
| [The Tides. Influence of the tides upon thehistory of the earth.] |
| [Drilling Glass.] |
