| TABLE OF CONTENTS. |
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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. 14 ...
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