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