Of the Scientific American Export Edition for November, 1878.

I.—INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES AND PATENTS.
The Incoming Commissioner of Patents.
A South Australian Offer for an Improvement.
The Forster-Firmin Amalgamator. Three engravings.
Lyman's Trigonometer. One figure.
Patent Law.
The Benefits of Patent Rights.
Hop Picking by Machinery.
Description of Recent Most Important Agricultural Inventions.
Displays of Ingenuity at the Boston Mechanics Fair.
Description of Recent Most Important Mechanical Inventions.
New Wilson Oscillating Sewing Machine. Seven figs.
A Nail Gun.
Who will Invent a Satisfactory Milking Machine?
The Hermetical Sanitary Closet. One engraving.
New Refrigerator Basket. Two engravings.
New Fireproof Shutter. One engraving.
Inventors Needed in England.
New Foot Power. One engraving.
New Wool Scouring and Rinsing Machine. One eng.
New Measuring Jacket. Three engravings.
New Rheostat. Two engravings.
The Paris International Patent Congress.
Patent Rights, and Who Oppose Them.
New Gas Regulator. Three engravings.
Combined Traction Engine and Steam Fire Engine. One engraving.
Van Renne's Caloric Engine and Pump. Three engs.
The Watson Pump. One engraving.
The Swedish Buckeye Machine.
Pipe Wrench and Cutter. Two engravings.
Drilling Square Holes. Four figures.
Description of Recent Most Important Engineering Inventions.
New Mortising Machine. One engraving.
New Steam Fire Engine. One engraving.
New Bank Note Paper Wanted.
The Proposed Addition to the Patent Office. Two engravings.
A Year's Work in the Patent Office.
New Rule in Trade Mark Cases.
Electric Light in Chancery.
Novel Egg Opener. Two engravings.
Patents for Protecting the Dead.
Electric Light Patents.
A New Platen Gauge. Four engravings.
New Draughting Pencil. Two engravings.
Gas and Water-tight Cloth.
New Regulator for Clock Pendulums. Two engs.
Steam Engine Governor. One engraving.
Description of Recent Most Important Miscellaneous Inventions.
Notices of New Inventions.
Patent Office Library. II.—MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING.
Chard's Lubricene and Cups.
The Electric Light and the Gas Companies.
Fuel Gas.
New Ways to Use Iron Wanted.
Progress and Prospects of the East River Bridge. Two engravings.
A Steam Tricycle.
New Artesian Well, Victoria, Spain.
A Long Train.
How a Good House Should be Built.
Jetties Under Water.
How the Capitol at Albany, N. Y., is to be Warmed and Ventilated.
What a Perfect Railway Brake Should do.
The Secret of It.
Florida Ship Canal.
The Torpedo Vessel Destroyer. One illustration.
Steam from Petroleum.
The Motion of a Wagon Wheel.
Building in Steel.
Locomotive for the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. One illustration.
The French Dam Below Pittsburg, Ohio.
The Adelphi Explosion.
"Forney" Locomotive for the New York Elevated Railway. One large engraving.
The Steam Value of Oil Fuels.
The Mechanical and other Properties of Iron and Mild Steel.
French Wheelbarrows. Twenty-five engravings.
Small Steamboats.
Life Preservers.
A Gas Clock.
Another Mountain Railway.
Preservation of Iron.
The Salisbury Furnace for Petroleum.
Danger from Lubricating Oils.
The Testing of Boiler Iron.
Tramway Rail Experiments. Two engravings.
Aluminum and Platinum in the Manufacture of Watches.
Great Machine Tool Makers.
Gas as a Substitute for Solid Fuel. III.—MINING AND METALLURGY.
The Formation of Quartz.
Depth of Nevada Gold and Silver Mines.
California Mining vs. Farming.
New Form of Iron Manufacture.
Comstock Silver Lodes. IV.—CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS.
Dangers from Impure Potassium Iodide.
The Poplar as a Lightning Conductor.
The Mariner's Compass.
Crude Sulphur from Iron Pyrites.
Antimony for Batteries.
Delicate Test for Water.
The Polarization of Electrodes.
Fragarine.
Balata Gum.
Astronomical Notes. Giving the Positions, Rising,
and Setting of the Planets for November.
Professor Morton on the Electric Light.
The Electrical Department in the Mechanic's Fair, Boston.
The Satellites of Mars.
Gold Amalgams.
Another New Electric Light.
Albumen of the Serum and that of Egg, and their Combinations.
A Mirror Telegraph.
Some Modifications of the Microphone and Telephone. Four engravings.
A Chance for Electric Competition.
Advantages of Experimental Study.
The Black Spot of Jupiter.
The Electric Light. With five engravings.
Spontaneous Combustion.
Recent Military Balloon Experiments.
Burner for Electric Light. One engraving.
Artificial Ball Lightning. One engraving.
To Make Corks Air-tight and Water-tight.
Electric Time Service for New York. Four engravings.
The Hosmer Motor.
Polarized Light.
Phosphorescent Timepieces.
The De Meritens Magneto-electric Machine. Two figures.
Cellulose as a Material for Washers. V.—NATURAL HISTORY, NATURE, MAN, ETC.
The Golden Cup Oak.
Serpulas, or Sea Worms. One engraving.
The King Tody Bird. One engraving.
Life Without Air.
Cadaver-poison of the Australian Natives.
The Contortion of Rocks from Heat Mechanically Generated.
The Stiffening of Plant Stalks.
Immense Labor Performed by Bees.
The Torrey Botanical Club.
The Big Trees of California.
Explorations in Greenland.
The Umbrella Bird. One engraving.
The Argan Tree.
A Spruce-destroying Beetle.
A Geological Discovery in Deep Water.
The Mound Builder's Unit of Measure.
Progress of Horticulture.
Bishop Ferrette on the Cedars of Lebanon.
Special Senses in Insects.
Natural History Notes.
New Cave Discovery in Kentucky.
Longevity of the Horse.
Left-handedness.
Bee Culture in Egypt.
The Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper. Two engravings.
The Crafty Hermit Crab. One illustration. VI.—MEDICINE AND HYGIENE.
Nitrate of Amyl in Sea Sickness.
Milk cure for Lead Colic.
Milkweed Juice for Raw Surfaces.
The Use of Snails in Medicine.
The Art of Prolonging Life.
The Deleterious Use of Alum in Bread and Baking
Powders.—Alum being Substituted for Cream of Tartar.
The Treatment of Hydrophobia.
New Use for Warts.
Removal of the Entire Scalp by Machinery.
The Probable Starting Point of the Yellow Fever.
Piedra.
Heredity.
Scientific Reliance on Soap.
The Medical Ice Hat.
Ventilation of Bed Rooms.
The Filtration of Drinking Water.
The Texas "Screw Worm." VII.—THE PARIS EXHIBITION, SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, ETC.
Success of American Exhibitors at Paris.
The Main Building at the Exhibition. With one full page illustration.
The French Industrial Exhibition of 1878.
Awards and Honors at Paris.
Ingram Rotary Press. One illustration.
A Grand World's Fair in New York.
A Mexican Exhibition.
Australia to have a World's Fair.
Closing of the French Exhibition.
Hydraulic Motors at the Exhibition. With two engravings.
The National Academy of Sciences.
The Official Reports of the Paris Exhibition.
American Society of Civil Engineers. VIII.—INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.
Should the Nation Engage in Manufactures?
American Export of Agricultural Machinery.
Corundum.
American Made Goods Exhibited as European Manufactures.
The California Tea Fields.
An Odd Craft.
Progress of our Foreign Trade.
The Condition of Manufacturing Interests in Germany.
Labor in Chicago.
Apples for Europe.
Adulterated Graham Flour.
Addition to our List of Food Fishes.
Preservation of Milk.
Electrical Test for Oils.
Parsnips.
Russian Pottery. Two engravings.
Notes from the South.—Facts about the Cotton Worm.
The Mediterranean Trade.
American Competition in Great Britain.
Rapid Increase in French Woolen Industries.
The Rockport Granite Quarries.
Trade Mark Treaty with Brazil.
Early Manufacture of Steel Pens.
New and Stale Bread.
Leather from Sheep Stomachs.
New Source of Rubber.
A National Law Governing Adulteration Needed.
How to get Pure Teas.
Skilled Labor in New York City.
French Subsoil and Clearing Plow. One figure.
Opening for Trade in Madagascar.
Handling Grain in Buffalo.
The Blue Process of Copying Tracings.
We Buy of them that Advertise.
Unprofitable Agents.
Various Uses of Paper.
Improved Grinding Mill and Crusher. Two engravings.
The Cultivation of the Common Nettle.
The Economic Products of Seaweed.
The Japanese Wax Tree in California.
Preservation of Food by Gelatin.
Pearl Millet.
To Turn Oak Black.
Dairy and Poultry Produce in America.
Australian Gum Trees.
Frauds in Wine Making.
Removal of Iron Coloring from Liquors.
The Utilization of Iron Slag.
Relative Cost of Coal Transportation by Water and by Rail.
How to get Rid of Ants.
The Science of Milling. IX.—PRACTICAL RECIPES AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Progress in England and America.
An Improvement on Tea Chromos.
A Correction.
The Stability of Modern Civilization.
Future Rifle Shooting.
"Bruce," the Manchester Fire Horse.
The Trial of the "Pyx."
Early Gold Payments.
Workingmen in England and France.
Washington Memorials in Northamptonshire. Three engravings.
Culinary Uses of Leaves.
A Remarkable Bank Robbery.—Scientific Safeguards Neglected.
Cleopatra's Needle.
A Steam Juryman.
Roads in Baden.
Indications of Progress.
Practical Education in Russia.
Table Forks.
The Cost of Insecurity.
Improved Copying Pencils.

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