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Old Locomotives at the Columbian Exposition

The Motive Power will Stay at the Head of the Train

Technological Schools: Their Purpose and its Accomplishment

By Robert H. Thurston

The First Photo Mechanical Reproduction

By Julius F. Sachse

Textile Fibers

A Few Curiosities

Varnishes and Varnishing

The Exhibition of Paintings at Chicago

In the Bank of England

The New Congressional Library

The War in Africa

By Archibald R. Colquhoun

Oceanography: The Pacific Bed

By Richard Beynon

Electrical Action of Light upon Silver

By Colonel J. Waterhouse

The John Hunter Centenary

Marechal De Macmahon

Therapeutical Superstition

By George T. Welch

Pilocarpine: Its Physiological Action and Therapeutic uses. With Exhibition of Specimens Showing Change in the Color of the Hair

By D. W. Prentiss

Of the Pleasures of Eating, and of the means that may be Employed for Increasing Them

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