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| I. | [ARCHITECTURE—Bristol Cathedral—The history and description of this ancient building, with large illustration.—1 illustration.] | 9904 |
| II. | [BIOGRAPHY—Oliver Evans and the Steam Engine.—The work of this early pioneer, hitherto but slightly recognized at his true worth as an inventor.] | 9896 |
| III. | [CHEMISTRY—The Chemistry of the Cotton Fiber—By Dr. BOWMAN—An interesting investigation, showing the variation in composition in different cottons.] | 9909 |
| [Synthesis of Styrolene.] | 9910 |
| [Notes on Saccharin.] | 9910 |
| [Alcohol and Turpentine.] | 9910 |
| IV. | [ENGINEERING—Auguste's Endless Stone Saw—A valuable improvement, introducing the principle of the band saw, and producing a horizontal cut—10 illustrations.] | 9896 |
| V. | [ELECTRICITY.—A Current Meter—The Jehl & Rupp meter for electricity described—1 illustration.] | 9903 |
| [Mix & Genest's Microphone Telephone—The new telephone recently adopted by the imperial post office department of Germany—3 illustrations.] | 9902 |
| [Storage Batteries for Electric Locomotion—By A. RECKENZAUN—A valuable paper on this subject, giving historical facts and working figures of expense, etc.] | 9903 |
| [The Telemeter System—By R.F. UPTON—The system of Ö.L. Clarke, of New York, as described before the British Association—A valuable tribute to an American inventor—1 illustration.] | 9900 |
| VI. | [METALLURGY.—The Newbery-Vautin Chlorination Process—A new process of extracting gold from its ores, with details of the management of the process and apparatus—1 illustration.] | 9907 |
| VII. | [MISCELLANEOUS.—A Gigantic Load of Lumber—The largest barge load of lumber ever shipped—The barge Wahnapitæ and her appearance as loaded at Duluth—1 illustration.] | 9907 |
| [Apparatus for Exercising the Muscles—An appliance for use by invalids requiring to exercise atrophied limbs—1 illustration.] | 9908 |
| [Practical Education.—A plea for the support of manual training schools.] | 9906 |
| [Waves—The subject of ocean waves fully treated—An interesting resume of our present knowledge of this phenomenon of fluids.] | 9906 |
| VIII. | [NAVAL ENGINEERING—The New Spanish Armored Cruiser Reina Regente. —Illustration and full description of this recent addition to the Spanish navy.—1 illustration.] | 9895 |
| [The Spanish Torpedo Boat Azor—Illustration and note of speed, etc., of this new vessel—1 illustration.] | 9895 |
| IX. | [OPHTHALMOLOGY—The Bull Optometer—An apparatus for testing the eyesight.—The invention of Dr George J. Bull.—3 illustrations.] | 9908 |
| X. | [SANITATION AND HYGIENE—The Sanitation of Towns—By J. GORDON, C.E.—A presidential address before the Leicester meeting of the Society of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors of England.] | 9909 |
| XI. | [TECHNOLOGY—A New Monster Revolving Black Ash Furnace and the Work Done with It—By WATSON SMITH—The great furnace of the Widnes Alkali Company described, with results and features of its working—4 illustrations.] | 9900 |
| [Apparatus Used for Making Alcohol for Hospital Use during the Civil War between the States—By CHARLES K. GALLAGHER—A curiosity of war times described and illustrated.—1 illustration.] | 9900 |
| [Confederate Apparatus for Manufacturing Saltpeter for Ammunition —By CHARLES K. GALLAGHER—Primitive process for extracting saltpeter from earth and other material—1 illustration.] | 9900 |
| [Electrolysis and Refining of Sugar—A method of bleaching sugar said to be due to ozone produced by electric currents acting on the solution—1 illustration.] | 9903 |
| [Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland Cement—By FREDERICK RANSOME, A.I.C.E.—An important paper recently read before the British Association, giving the last and most advanced methods of manufacture.] | 9901 |
| [Roburite, the New Explosive—Practical tests of this substance, with special application to coal mining.] | 9897 |
| [The Mechanical Reeling of Silk.—An advanced method of treating silk cocoons, designed to dispense with the old hand winding of the raw silk.—3 illustrations.] | 9898 |
