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THE GERMAN NATIONAL MONUMENT.—WAR AND PEACE.	1
THE ART ASPECTS OF MODERN DRESS.	1
ARTISANS’ DWELLINGS, HORNSEY.	4
ENLARGING ON ARGENTIC PAPER AND OPALS.	5
THE MANUFACTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC LENSES.	9
IMPROVED DEVELOPERS FOR GELATINE PLATES.	10
THE PREPARATION OF LARD FOR USE IN PHARMACY.	11
ANTI-CORROSION PAINT.	12
CARBON IN STEEL.	13
APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING STARCH FROM POTATOES.	14
A SIMPLE APPARATUS FOR DESCRIBING ELLIPSES.	14
THE MANUFACTURE OF CHARCOAL IN KILNS.	16
ALL VARIETIES OF KILNS	17
HEAT DEVELOPED IN FORGING.	19
A NOVEL PROPELLER ENGINE.	21
THE NEW RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT, THE POTI.	26
A NEW STEAMER PROPELLED BY HYDRAULIC REACTION.	26
A NEW FORM OF FLEXIBLE BAND DYNAMOMETER.	29
SEE’S GAS STOVE.	31
RECTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL BY ELECTRICITY.	32
PLASTIC CARBON FOR BATTERIES.	35
RECENT STUDIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ALKALOIDS.	35
ON THE TREATMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEADACHE.	43
THE USE OF THE MULLEIN PLANT IN THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.	46
ACTION OF MINERAL WATERS AND OF HOT WATER UPON THE BILE.	49
VIVISECTION.	49
INSANITY FROM ALCOHOL.	51
PLANTAIN AS A STYPTIC.	56
DANGER FROM FLIES.	57
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS.	57
THE BABIROUSSA.	58
ON THE MINERALOGICAL LOCALITIES IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY.	59
PART IV.	59
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.	63
DAMMARA AUSTRALIS	66
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPLANT TREES.	67
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $5 A YEAR.	68
PATENTS.	68

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