Great Telescopes

New Buildings in Madras for the Revenue Board Offices

Fresh Grapes in Winter

Professor Tyndall on Light

Bessemer's Anti-Sea-Sick Ship

Early Traces of Men

Brown's Improved Beehive

Prime's Wash Boiler

Our Navy

The Moscow Exposition

Professor Tyndall as a Money Maker

A Slipped Eccentric and What Came of it

The Vienna Show in Congress

Rapid Transit in New York

Sunday Railway Trains

The New Year

Decisions of the Courts

Patent Office Decisions

Answers to Correspondents

Recent American and Foreign Patents

Under this heading we shall publish weekly notes of some of the more prominent home and foreign patents.

Communications Received