Recent Developments in Electric Lighting

“Malarial” Fever in New England

Benjamin Peirce

Designs Produced by Crystallization

The Revival of American Commerce

Fireproof Ferryboats

Hints to the Young Steam Fitter

Drying by Steam.

Apparatus for Combining Rectangular Vibrations

New Grain Meter

Decisions Relating to Patents

Fall of a Meteoric Stone

A New Fire Apparatus

The Wool Sorter's Disease

Miscellaneous Inventions

Long-Billed Parrot and Banksian Cockatoo

Batoidei, or Rays

Cremation of the Dead

Mechanical Inventions

American Razors

Tin Plate Industry—The Process of Manufacture

Communications Received