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The Cavite Floating Dock

By Day Allen Willey

Gas Producer Power Plants

By Samuel S. Wyer

Glass Paving and Building Bricks

Some Interesting Scientific Novelties at the British Royal Society Soiree

The English Correspondent of scientific American

Plant Breeding

Herculaneum

Curiosities of a Seed-Warehouse

By Carnochan Douglas

Social Pioneers of Science

By T. H. S. Escott

The Physical Properties of Ice and Water

The Manufacture of Briquettes

The Preparation of Pure Gases

The Radiation Pressure of Light

Boiler Incrustation

Contemporary Electrical Science

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