III. TECHNOLOGY.—The Achison Stone Cutting Machine. 1 engraving.—The Deep Mines of the World.—Shoemakers' Wax.—Gruber's New Method of Germination. 1 engraving.—Improved Process for Treating Wood, etc., for Paper Manufacture.—Bronzing Plaster of Paris Casts.—Sal Soda for Unhairing Hides and Skins.—Sieburger's Paste.—To Tan Lace Leather with Softsoap.
Practical Dyeing Recipes: Blue white zephyr, Scotch blue on worsted, Scotch green on worsted, jacquineaux on worsted, drab on worsted, gold on venetian carpet yarn, red brown slubbing, scarlet braid, slate braid, light drab on cotton, blue on cotton, brown on cotton, chrome orange on cotton carpet yarn, black on common mixed carpet yarn for filling, black on cotton and wool mixed yarn.
Damar Varnish for Negatives.—To Make Vignetters by Means of Gelatino-Chromate.—Resorcine Colors.—Phosphate Soaps.—Substitution of Different Metals in Ultramarine Colors.—A Harmless Green for Paper Hangings.—Siegwart's Bath for Etching Glass.—Composition of French Bronzes.—A New Enemy to the Tea Plant.—The Bradford Oil Sand.
IV. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.—Apparatus for Titration, 1 figure.—Palladium.—Hæmocyanin.—Test for Alcohol in Ethereal Oils and Chloroform.—Reaction of Tartaric and Citric Acid.—A Peculiar Observation.—Insolubility of Iodate of Lead.—Mode of Preventing the Contamination of Water with Lead.—Separating Phosphorus from Iron and Steel.—Production of Alcohol without Fermentation.
V. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, HEAT, ETC.—Some Facts in regard to Telescopic and Stereoscopic Vision.—The Centenary of the Birth of Sir Humphry Davy. His boyish days. His first chemical experiments. His first lecture at the Royal Institution. A very entertaining biographical sketch.—Light and Heat in Gas Flames.—Nickel Needles for Compasses.—The Nature of the Elements.—A New Compound Prism for Direct Vision Spectroscopes.
VI. MEDICINE AND HYGIENE.—Filaria in the Eye. By Chas. S. Turnbull, M. D.—The Species of Tapeworm now Prevalent.—Nitrous Oxide under Pressure.
VII. NATURAL HISTORY, GEOLOGY, ETC.—A Gigantic American Deep-sea Crustacean, 1 engraving.—Glaciers in the United States.—The Toulomne Cave.—Achæological Explorations in Tennessee. By F. W. Putnam. 6 figures.—Memorably Cold Winters.—Life at Timber Line. By Professor C. E. Robins, Summit, Colorado.—The Walled Lake in Iowa.
VIII. ASTRONOMY.—Is the Moon Inhabited? By Camille Flammarion. The various opinions that have been held in regard to the moon. The best we can do with our present telescopes. The means we possess for judging of the condition of the moon. Recent changes on the moon. Photographs of the moon and their defects. Facts that have been observed by the persevering eyes of astronomers.
A NEW STEAM TILLER.
Steam is now made to perform almost everything in the way of heavy labor, to the saving of muscle and energy that may be more profitably employed; and since inventive genius has devised means of governing steam with absolute accuracy, there seems to be no limit to its economical application.
A recent invention in steam engineering, which exhibits in a marked degree the controllability and adaptability of steam, is Mr. Herbert Wadsworth's steam tiller, an engraving of which we present herewith.