| TABLE OF CONTENTS. |
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| I. | [CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.--Making Sea WaterPotable. --By THOS. KAY] |
| [The Acids of Wool Oil] |
| [The New Absorbent for Oxygen] |
| [Depositing Nickel upon Zinc.--By H.B.SLATER] |
| II. | [ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Foundations inQuicksand, Lift Bridge over the Ourcq Canal.--3 figures] |
| [St. Petersburg a Seaport.--A canal cut fromCronstadt to St. Petersburg.--Opening of same by the Emperor andEmpress.--With full page engraving] |
| [The New French Dispatch Boat Milan.--Withengraving] |
| [The Launching and Docking of Ships Sidewise.--4figures] |
| [Improved High Speed Engine.--12 figures] |
| [The National Transit Co.'s Pipe Lines for theTransportation of Oil to the Seaboard.--With map anddiagram] |
| [The Fuel of the Future.--History of naturalgas.--Relation to petroleum.--Duration of gas, etc.--With table ofanalyses Closing Leakages for Packing.--Use of asbestos in stuffingboxes] |
| III. | [TECHNOLOGY.--Luminous Paint.--Processes ofmanufacture Boxwood and its Substitutes.--Preparation of same formarket, etc.--A paper written by J.A. JACKSON for the InternationalForestry Exhibition] |
| IV. | [ARCHÆOLOGY.--An Assyrian Bass-Relief 2,700years old] |
| V. | [NATURAL HISTORY.-The Flight of the Buzzard.--ByR.A. PROCTOR] |
| VI. | [BOTANY, ETC.--Convallaria.--A stemlessperennial.--By OTTO A. WALL, M.D.--Several figures] |
| VII. | [MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.--Gaiffe's New MedicalGalvanometer.--1 figure] |
| [The Suspension of Life in Plants andAnimals] |
| VIII. | [MISCELLANEOUS.--Composite Portraits.--6illustrations Hand-Craft and Rede-Craft.--A plea for the firstnamed.--By D.G. GILMAN] |
