Volume 9, Issue 210supp
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Features
A Timber Shoot in Bavaria
Pulleys and Pinions for Millstone Spindles
Steel vs. Iron for Ships
Apparatus for the Manufacture of Artificial Sandstone
Improved Calendering Rolls
Scouring Wool by Naphtha
Underground London
Nickel at the Exhibition of Applied Science, Paris
Volatility of Platinum in Chlorine Gas at High Temperatures
Action of Lime on Silica in Mortar
Preparation of Perfectly Pure Hypophosphite of Soda
The African Cable
Specific Heats and Melting Points of Various Refractory Metals
Decomposition of Chlorine
A Nickel Battery
Cellulose
Chloride of Lime Battery
Analogy between the Conductivity for Heat and the Induction Balance Effect of Copper-Tin Alloys
The Late Professor Clerk-Maxwell
The Illumination of Cavities by Geissler's Tubes
Optics
Some Important Topical Remedies and their use in the Treatment of Skin Diseases
Diphtheria and Milk
Novel Surgical Instrument
Obesity—A Few Thoughts on its Nature and Treatment
The Motor Functions of the Brain
The Distinctions between Croup and Diphtheria
Effects of Tea on the System
Lucern
The First Silo
Our Cotton Crop for 1879
Eccentricities of Birds
An Enormous Eel
Figures of Sesostris
A Cylinder of Cyrus the Great
The Cosmogony of Laplace
[Read before the American Philosophical Society, Sept. 19, 1879]