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INDEX TO VOL. XI.

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Under this head are included "Scientific Societies," "Reviews of Books," "Useful and Scientific Notes," "Extracts from Correspondence," and

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Coal dyes, 407; coal formation of the
Lofoden Islands, Norway, 523

Coating for fire-arms, 504

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Culture of the potato, 285

Curious discovery, 119; facts, 23, 47;

questions, 427; sentence, 475

Current of air for blowpipe, 143
Cutter-bar, plan for, 187
Cymbals, 576

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ICE, artificial, 203, 431

Illuminated part of the moon, 91

Illuminating gas, 575

Improved Dobereiner hydrogen lamp, 407

Improvements: in galvanic batteries, 523;
telegraphic, 359

India-rubber inexhaustible, 431

Indian: architecture, ancient, 212; medi-
cinal plants, 95; medicine, new, 552
Indigenous medicinal plants, 95
Induction coil, 258

Industrial art, schools of, 65
Influence of sewing-machines on health,
47: influence of the sun on glass, 225

Inspection of boilers, 309

Institution, National Lifeboat. 9
Instruments: brass, 498; optical, 359
Interesting facts, 23, 47, 65, 143

Inventor, the, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168,

192, 216, 239, 264, 288, 312, 336, 360, 384,
432, 456, 480; inventors' models, 504;
inventors, rewards to, 359
Lodine from Chili saltpetre, 624

Iron chimneys, 23; iron, electro-deposited,

43; iron, galvanisation of, 551; iron,
rusting. 431; iron ship-building, 431;
iron, spitting of, 503; iron and steel
rails, 407; iron, tinning, 359
Isthmus of Cornith, 23

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Measurement, standard of, 119

Mechanical movements, 523; Mechanical

Society, Amateur, 47, 383

Medical opinion, 17, 65

Medicinal plants, Indian, 95
Medicine, new Indian, 552
Medulla oblongata, 383
Meteorites, 115

Methods of copying statuary. 47; de-
termining focal length of concave lens,
309; obtaining air or gas for blowpipe,
143; obtaining gelatine, 23, 71; purifying
gas, 575

Microscopical, 355, 512

Milk, 263; milk, manganese in, 359; milk,
preserved, 552

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New: Acton factories and workshops, 576;
building material, 504; coating for fire-
arms, 504; disinfecting apparatus, 147;
electric machine, 576; gun, 559; Indian
medicine, 552; kind of cotton, 23; lubri-
cating apparatus, 129; method of ob-
taining gelatine, 23, 71; naval light, 479;
photometer, 464: planisphere, 167; pro-
jectile, 263; test paper, 585; use for
yeast, 479

Nomenclature of stars, 383
Nommes de plume, 42

Norfolk geology, 570

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Oakum as a surgical dressing, 576
Observing Astronomical Society, 431
Obtaining air or gas for blowpipe, 143;
obtaining gelatine, 23, 71

Oil, glycerine, a substitute for, 333; oils:

olive, 503; paraffin, 17

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Problems, algebraical, 17

Process for re-sharpening files, 167

wh Projectile, a new, 263

495 Proposed museum at Burnham, 551

QUESTIONS, curious, 427

RAILS, steel and iron, 407

Railway signals, 504; railway system, the
pannier. 70; railways: Brazilian, 333;
Rigi, 498

Rainfall in France, 359

Rare lens, a, 17

Readings from the globes, 235, 259

Real and apparent death, 551

Recipes: domestic, 71, 156, 191, 311, 408,
508, 575; home made yeast, 65; tested,
235, 258, 333

Reform of potato culture, 285

Reflected light, 263

Rendering wood incombustible, 263

Renewing old kid gloves, 479; renewing
ribbons, 479

Repairing leaky roofs, 551
Re-polishing jewellery, 407
Re-sharpening files, 167
Restoring life, 141

Reversion spectroscope, 552

Biology versus Theology, 509

Building Societies and Borrowers, 509
Continental Farming and Peasantry, 57
Contributions to the Mineralogy of
Victoria, 438

Curiosities of Mathematics, 606
Disposal of Town Sewage, 509
Drawing for Carpenters and Joiners,

322

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Sugar beetroot, 70; grape, 431

Suggestions, 91

Sulphur, amorphous and crystalline, 71
Sun, the, 47; sun, distance of, 255; sun-
flower, the, 191; sun's influence on

glass, 225; sun spots, 91

Surgical use of oakum, 576.

Table, a valuable, 516, 624

Tam-tams, 576

Taste, 95

Uses of old horses, 17: uses of paper, 504;

uses of vine leaves, 309

Ussher's (Dr.) advice, 47, 65

Utilisation of waste material, 187

VACCINATION, Chinese, 261

Vaccinine, 504

Valuable table, a, 546, 624

Value of chloral, 407

Valves, setting, 498

Varnish-brushes, 594; varnish for wood,
407; varnishing the violin, 65

Velocipede construction, 379: the

"English," 115; the Phantom," 212,
258; velocipedes, 164, 285, 309
Vermilion, 47

Vessels' bottoms, composition for, 34
Victoria Legal Friendly Society, 431
Vine leaves, 309

WANDSWORTH telescope, the, 235

Warming carriages, 263

Waste gas in blast furnaces, 431; waste
material, 187

Watch-cleaning. 17; watch-making by
co-operation, 119

Water, clearing, 167; water type, the, 71
Waterproof facing for brick-buildings, 95;
water-proof packing paper, 503, water-
proof stone, 586

Wealth of England, the, 479
Weighing-machine, hydrostatic, 333
Weight of man in winter, 119

What is wanted in modern art, 167

Wheel, the Phantom," 187

Wine, logwood in, 479

Winter weight of man, 119

Wolfe's "original" contributions, 258

Wood: carving, 503; blue mahoe, 139,

187; preserving, 263; varnish for, 407;
wooden pails, painting, 286

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ACCORDION stand, 262 452, 546

NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES.

[Many of the subjects under this head will also be found in "Letters to the Editor."]

Acids: carbonic, 550, 572, 596; fluorie, 478,
501; hypochloric, 20; nitric, 45; nitrous,
598; oleic, 142; picric, 550, 573, 596
Act, Metrical, 166, 335, 380

Adhesive material, 69, 117
Adjustment of microscope, 526, 549
Adulteration: food, 382, 594; oil, 406, 453;
turpentine, 166, 189

Eolian harp, 119, 165

Aerated waters, 335, 526
Aerostatics, 623

Affection of the teeth, 118, 141, 164
Africa (South), climate of, 214
Agricultural Exhibition, Oxford, 69
Ailanthus, 599

Air current, 623; air, foul, 502, 548, 595;
air gun, 238, 311, 404, 499, 550, 596; air,
speed of, 23, 68: air stove, 94; air
string pump, 335, 380; air v. steam, 575

Alabaster glass, 406

Alarum for Dutch clock, 238, 452

Albumen in milk, 21

550

American cloth bag, 262

Ammonia, sulphate of, 22

Analyses: glass, 623; water, 238, 285, 311,

380

Anastatic printing, 335

Anatomical models, 383

Anatomy, 94

Ancient painting, 455

Angle-iron hoops, 115, 117; angle, trisec-
tion of, 142

Aniline colours, 69; aniline dyes for fea-

thers, 142

Annuity, 475

Apparatus: distilling, 478, 501, 521: gas
generating, 941; heating, 622; hydraulic,
623

Apparent anomaly, 95, 117, 140

Apparent paradox, 43, 91

Appold's centrifugal pump, 94. 140

Aquariums, 20, 66, 70, 93, 117, S3, 406,
454, 594

Aquatic botany, 215, 260

Archery, 166

Archimedes' lever. 143

Architecture, naval, 191, 259, 285, 382

Area of safety valve, 214, 259, 260, 283
Arithmetical queries, 189, 213, 236, 262,

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Bankal wood, 94, 117

Banner, regilding, 142

Bar, boring, 358, 547; bar, cutter, 143,

165, 285; bar micrometer, 22, 382

Barley grown from oats, 527, 549

Barometer tubes, 22, 190, 191, 235, 310,

356, 427, 452, 498; barometer, water,

479, 502, 526, 575; barometers, 431, 498,

502, 525, 526, 548, 571, 595, 621

Barrel organs, 287, 475, 523; barrels, gun,
287, 475, 574, 620

Barton's buttons, 142; Barton's feed-water

heater, 430, 476

Barytas, borate of, 22

Bat handles, 119; bats, cricket, 22, 287,

334

Bath: ebonite, 478; hot or cold, 575;
painting, 623; shower, 69; toning, 573,
574, 597, 620: baths, 118

Batteries: bichromate, 479, 527, 575, 598,

620; Bunsen's, 502, 595; Callaud's, 358,

381; connections for, 623; Daniell's, 406,

454; defective, 142, 165, 118, 382, 406;

electro-magnetic, 599; Faure's, 622;

galvanic, 69, 93, 118, 141, 311, 334, 407,

454; gilding. 118. 164, 187, 215, 335;

Halse's, 550: Leclanche, 166, 189, 213;
magnetic, 406, 454, 502; manganese, 69,
93, 118, 502, 525, 550, 574, 596, 597, 598,
620, 623 plumbago bottle, 479, 502;
Remak, 502: Smee's 527; sulphate of
copper. 455, 501; sulphate of lead, 22,
67, 115, 142, 188; sustaining, 599, 622;
zinc plate for, 20; batteries, 212, 215,
501, 571, 622

Beads, amber, 454, 477, 499
Beam, oak, 69, 93

Bearings for turning harmoniums, 94;
bearings, white metal, 18

Beech, 20

Beer, 117; beer, ginger, 238, 261; beer from

herbs, 599

Bees, 262, 286, 310, 334, 335, 355, 358, 379,

381, 428, 478, 550, 573, 575, 597, 598, 620;

bee's-wax, 22, 142, 574

Belgian and French periodicals, 18

Bellows, 262; bellows for harmonium,

287, 499, 550

Bells: dumb, 215, 260; electric, 43, 69, 212

Bench, carpenter's, 45

Bennett's chuck, 21, 94, 117

Beverages, summer, 94, 117, 140

Bible herbal, 119, 164

Bichromate batteries, 479, 627, 575, 598,

620

Bicycles, 310, 356; bicycles: hack-wheel.

480; brake for, 382, 429; Kilmarnock,

430; painting, 21, 66; tires for, 262;

wheels for, 44, 142, 188

Billiard board, 46

Bills, mill, 21, 43, 551, 573

Binders' cutting press, 21, 44; binders'

tools, 600, 622

Binding: books, 287, 334, 383, 427; magnetic

wire, 575

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Bookbinders': glue, 238, 261, 427; plough,

190, 259; bookworms, 287, 379

Boomerang, the, 46, 92
Boots, kid, 215, 404, 542, 475
Borate of barytas, 22
Boring: bar, 358, 547; cylinders for model
engine, 454, 477; ears, 214: glass, 119,
141, 235; model cannon, 21; wooden
handles in lathe, 142, 165, 188
Botany, 167, 189, 190, 237, 310, 358; botany,
aquatic, 215, 260

Bottle battery, plumbago, 479, 502; bottle

caps, fastening, 359; bottles, steaming,

358; bottle, Woulffe's, 287, 499

Bottling fruits, 335, 499

Bourne on the steam engine, 574, 598
Bow, spring, 69, 117

Boxes: iron moulding, 311; musical, 118,
164, 187, 235, 259, 311, 357

Brace bits, tempering, 454, 477, 500

Brake, bicycle, 882, 429; brake-piece, 574,
620

Brass: bronzing, 67; circle, graduating,

238, 404, 618; coins, 215, 260, 262, 527,

549, 572; flannel and, 478, 501, 547; flux

for 599; fret-cutting rolled, 94. 117; in-

struments, 238, 261, 285; mixing, 45;

moulds, 166, 213, 498; Parsons's white,

311; plates, 94, 527, 596; soldering, 335,

380; stamping sheet, 22; tubes, 502,

526; brasswork, lacquering., 190 427,

451, 623; brasswork of microscope, 549,

596

Brazilian railways, 287, 310

Brazing: bandsaws, 358; cast-iron, 66,
118, 213; soldering or, 455, 500; spelter,
455, 478; brazing and tinning. 478
Breaking: bones, 214; weight of oak
beam, 69, 93

Breakers, contact, 46, 69, 92 116, 119, 599,
621

Bream-fishing, 430, 454 476

Brewing, 69, 93, 118, 140, 212, 311, 357, 406,
618

Brick oil, 382, 406, 429; bricks and pottery,

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Cause of the earth's revolution, 599

Ceiling, dirty, 22, 68, 115
Celestial globes, 622

Cells: galvanic, 262, 286, 310; porous, 118,
285, 335

Cement, 547; cements: for aquarium, 20,
66; for bottle caps, 359; bullion iron,
335, 380; Derby, 21, 44; diamond, 93:
dentists', 599; flexible, 551; for iron
room, 43, 66; for joining boards, 143,
189; litharge and glycerine, 302; New-
ark's, 142; for paraffin lamp, 18, 20
Centrifugal force, 190; punip, 94, 140
Ceramic manufacture, 22, 67
Chain adjustment to microscope, 526, 549;
chains, gold, 215

Chairs: arm, 16; rocking, 430

Chalk and water, 214, 333

Chamber music, 69, 93

Chandelier, glass, 526

Change wheels, 454, 500, 550, 572, 575, 620

Changing: colour of primroses, 215, 260,

309, 333; red coral to pink, 478; sur

name, 575, 620

Charcoal: biscuits, 359, 405; fine, 22;

pure, 526, 549; for rubbing down

silvered circles, 45, 68

Chart, mounting, 358, 428

Cheap gas, 215, 260, 383

Chemical, 22, 262, 286, 310, 358, 406, 455,

471; chemical solutions, 166, 404, 481,

477

Chests: ice, 262; tea, 94, 117

Chiming, 46; chiming clock, 119, 165, 235;

Chimney, 527,

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machines: Holtz's, 599, 622; Winter's,
47; electrical tubes, 502

Electricity: frictional, 573; gas-lighting

by, 21; generation of, 45, 68, 92; medi-

cal, 287, 475; as a remedy for epilepsy,

358, 381, 383; works on, 45, 68, 69, 116

Electro-gilding, 574; electro-magnetic
battery, 599; electro-magnetism, 311,
334; electro-plating, 118, 575; electros,
190, 455, 501, 523; electros of coins, 575;
electrotypes, 46, 68; electro-typing, 262,

404

Electrolysis, 550, 573, 623
Electroscope, 454, 500
Ellipses, 502, 548, 595, 618; ellipsograph,
358, 381

Elliptical cutting frame, 622
Embroidering machine, 527, 572, 595, 618
embroidery, perforating, 46, 116
Emery: grindstones, 214, 498; on leather,
215, 452; sticks, 550

Emigrants' inquiries, 190, 191, 214, 236,

335

Emigration, 118, 262, 335, 358, 359, 405,
430, 454, 477, 547

Emulsion, pancreatic, 574
Enamel, 18, 118, 262, 475; enamelling:
cast iron, 46; slates, 622; watch cases,
549

Encke's comet, 22, 44

Engine chimney, 166, 427: engine and
boiler for launch, 22; engine indicating,
287, 523
Engineer, gas, 550, 572; engineering, 406;
engineering in Germany, 21, 67, 91; en-
gineers' examinations, 574.

Engines: back draught in, 190; bogie,

479; for canoe, 287, 427; carding, 166,

213; condensing, 215, 475, 478; Cornish,

406, 453, 476; dimensions of, 143, 189;

electric, 118; faulty, 191; galvanic, 94,

140; horizontal, 166, 430, 476; lead for,

118; model steam, 21, 143, 166, 213, 236,

454, 477; portable, 94, 140: power of,

574, 598; reversing, 478; side lever, 18;

steam, 474, 598

English; concertina, 335, 499, 502; veloci-

pede, 142, 188, 190

Engraved brass plates, 94, 527, 596

steel plate, 358, 381

Engraving: balance metal plates, 502;

on metal, 45, 68; on slate, 22, 44, 115;

on wood, 262, 527; engravings: mildew

on, 22; transferring to wood, 527, 547

Enlarging cartes-de-visite, 311

Entomological, 237, 427, 452

Epilepsy and electricity, 358, 381, 383

Equal temperament, tuning by, 431, 477

Equations, 18, 23, 45, 68, 69, 93, 117, 139

Equatoreal mounting, 142

Equisonant flute, 382, 429

Equivalents, 527

Escape of gas, 527, 596; escapement,

lever, 215, 260, 335

Etching: on glass, 46, 68, 116; razors, 66

Ethereal solution, 46, 68, 164

Examination papers: Customs', 189, 213;

South Kensington, 551, 573, 597; exa-

minations: Civil Engineers', 574: Civil

Service, 599; College of Surgeons,

287, 357, 406, 454, 477; microscopical,

311; Science and Art, 575, 597, 622;

University, 239, 261

Exhausted electrical tubes, 502

Exhibitions: Agricultural, 69; Working,

Men's, 21, 44

Expansion of steam, 599

Experience with aquariums, 70, 93

Explosive compound, 118

Extract of dandelion, 238, 285; extracting
honey from the comb, 526 549, 571, 595

Eye, the, 94; eyepieces: for Gregorian

telescope, 311; Huyghenian, 382; eyes,

weak, 455, 477, 501

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Faceted gold chains, 215

Facings of cylinder valves, 574, C20; for
harmonium keys, 46

Fading of aniline colour, 69

Fairy fountain, 382, 405, 453, 499

Fan, blast, 21, 67, 430, 500, 502, 548; fans,

silent, 262

Fancy wood, inlaying, 167

Fast colour for sheepskins, 262

Fastening: emery to leather, 215, 452;
bottle caps, 359; brooch pin, 94, 117,
140; stencil colours on paper, 117, 187;
tap in kitchen boiler, 575, 620

Faulty engine, 191

Faure's battery, 622

Feathers, 70; feathers: dye for, 142; in

wood, 17

Feed-water heater, 430, 476, 478, 547;

feeding boilers, 358, 381, 405

Feet, tender, 550, 572, 596, 619

Felt and amadou plaster, 21; felt hats,

526, 595; for pianos, 238; skirts, seam-

less, 190

Fern cases, 23, 214, 259, 358, 381, 431, 618;
fern leaf, impression of, 600, 622; ferns,
69,93

Ferrycyanide of potass, 501
Fertilisation of stock seed, 382

Fibres: Gomutub, 262, 286; rhea, 94;
tropical, 335, 380, 618

Field of barley grown from oats, 527, 549
Figures, lay, 623

Filter, large, 119; filtered water, 479, 501,

525

Finding sizes of wheels, 310, 358

Fine charcoal, 22

Finishing black cloth, 575

Fireclay, 358, 453, 455, 499

Fires, Kapper's, 191

Firing stained glass, 66

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Fossils, 45, 575, 598

Foucault's contact-breaker, 69

Foul air, 502, 548, 595.

Fountains: artificial, 287; fairy, 332, 405,
453, 499

Frames: elliptical cutting, 622; gilt, 574;
revolving, 262, 475; umbrella, 527;
vertical saw, 21, 115

French language, 573, 597, 619; method
of testing oil, 406, 453; periodicals, 18

Fresh water fish, 599

Fret-cutting rolled-brass, 94, 117; fret
work, polishing, 46

Friction, 550; friction in steam cylinders,

406; frictional electricity, 578

Fruits, bottling, 335, 499

Frustrum, weight of, 142, 165, 188, 213, 235

Fuel for portable engine, 94, 140

Fumes, tobacco, 117

Furnaces: draught in, 430; gas blast, 455,

501; gas muffle, 406, 430; for heating

moulds, 527; small, 164

Furniture cream, 479, 525; furniture,
printers', 237

Furs, cleaning, 622

GALENA, siliceous, 22

Galvanic cells, 262, 286, 310; bands, 47,

94, 235, 262, 452, 618; batteries, 69, 93,

118, 141, 311, 334, 407, 454; engine, 94,

140

Galvanised vessels, 358, 381; galvanising :
cast-iron, 166, 236, 287, 310; nails, 454;
galvanism, 835, 499

Galvanometers, 45, 68, 310, 381, 407, 454

Garden paths, 479, 501, 525; watering,

287, 334; gardening, town, 550, 572, 596,

619

Gas: for balloon, 166, 427, 451; burners for,

18; cheap, 215, 260, 388; for cooking,

214; engineer, duties of, 550, 572;

escape of, 527, 596, furnace, blast, 455,

501; generating apparatus, 94; for heat-

ing boilers, 287, 475; for heating green-

houses, 66; holder, 551, 618; pressure

gauge, 599; joint, swivel, 622; lighting

by electricity, 21; meters, 335, 406, 454,

499, 551, 571; muffle furnace, 406, 430;

pressure-gauge, 599; stoves, 69, 93,

359; tar, 598, 621; from vegetables, 358;

weight of, 286; works, 21, 215

Gasketing, square, 118

Gates, wrought-iron, 45

Gauges: gas pressure, 599; kitchen boiler,

118, 235; steel, 358

Gearing: bucket, 623; internal, 521;

wheel, 310, 356, 383

General fishing rod, 382, 406

Generating: electricity, 45, 68, 92; gas, 94

Geneva cylinder, 45, 139, 190, 214

Geographical, 167, 189, 213, 236

Geology, 46, 92, 116, 358, 523, 547, 549, 596,

619, 621

Geometrical: drawing, 262; metaphysics,

45; geometry, 22, 67, 69, 93, 116, 622

Geranium propagation, 599

German silver, 237, 260; Germany, en-

gineering in, 21, 67, 91

Germs, destroying, 527

Gilding, 406; gilding: batteries, 118, 164,
187, 215, 335; book edges, 550, 572;
electro, 574; plateglass, 166, 213; water
406

Gilt: frames, 574; mouldings, 69
Ginger-beer, 238, 261

Girder patterns, 166, 213, 259

Glass: alabaster, 406; analysis, 623; black,
450; boring, 119, 141, 285; burning, 94,
430, 476, 599: chandelier, 526; etching
on. 46, 68; fixing prints on, 406; gilding,
166, 213; object glasses, 21, 22, 44, 67,
70, 91, 139, 335, 358; paintings, 167, 335,
380; solder for, 23; stained, 22, 66, 67,
115; stencilling on, 142; water, 478, 501;
writing on, 69, 93, 116

Glaze for pottery, 190, 236
Glazier's diamond, 119

Globe, celestial, 622; globes, reading from,
511, 357, 430, 477

Glue: bookbinders, 238, 261, 427: drying,

311, 357; liquid, 18; marine, 43: melt-

ing, 550, 572, 573, 596; water-resisting,

Goma oil, 550

Gomutub fibre, 262, 286

Good reed or organ pipe, 622

Governors, 69, 215, 260

Graduating brass circle, 238, 404, 618
Graining stuff, 287, 334

Grand piano, Dr. Kitchener's, 94
Granite: cutting, 355, 359, 382; polishing,
45, 164

Grass: China, 18, 22, 45, 159, 112, 188:
dyeing leaves, and, 233; gras-plot and
goat, 190, 309

Gravity battery, 358, 381

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Lace and buttons, 190

Lacquer, gold, 383; lacquering, 18; lac-

quering brass work, 623

La Crosse, 430, 618

Lactarine, 21, 93

Ladder problem, 238, 286

Ladles, shaping, 215

Lamborne's velocipede, 430, 547

Lameness in horses, 190, 379, 451, 498

Lamps: cement for, 18; hydrogen, 573;

moderator, 215; smokeless, 22, 67; sub-

marine, 66, 118, 141

Lancashire black, 430

Land question, 623

Landscape painting, 166

Language, French, 573, 597, 619

Lanterns: lens for, 20, 381; magic, 19, 21,

599; polariscope, 430

Lard and sausages, 622

Large: cylinder, mounting, 93, 117, 140;

filter, 119; telescopes, 142

Lathe and its uses, 238, 261; lathework,

359; lathes, 94, 142, 311, 335, 455, 478,

501, 524, 526, 549, 551, 573, 574, 598, 599,

618, 621, 623; lathes: dividing-plate for.

238, 261; internally-geared, 478; metal

pencil for, 94; screw-cutting, 262;

screwing, 286; shaping-nuts in, 23, 45:

working, 431

Latin, 21, 44, 91

Launch, engine and boiler for, 22, 67

Lay figures, 623

Lead: black, 23, 190; burning. 622; for

engine, 118; inscription on stone, 310,

380; ore, smelting, 430: pencils, 45, 92;

poisoning, 623; red, 359, 882; silver

from. 69 steel and, 358, 381; white,

262, 452; leaden coin, 119, 141

Leaf gold, 550, 572, 596; leaf of fern, 600,

622

Leather bag-making, 21: cutting, 310,
334; discolouration of, 550, 573, 597;
einery on, 215, 452; pulp, 22

Leaves, dyeing, 238

Leclanche battery, 166, 189, 213

Leg, artificial, 21

Legal point, a, 527, 549

Lemonade, 140

Length of pendulum, 623

Lenses: damaged, 45; grinding. 69; Im-

mersion, 527, 549; lantern, 20, 381

Leo's velocipede, 166

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Ley's tricycle, 238

Leyden jar. 165

Lid, cabinet, 466, 476, 523
Lifebelt, 22, 44, 67

Lifting: power, 21, 44; sacks, 69, 93, 140
Light, 20; light, polarised, 311, 357, 380,
428: lighting gas by electricity, 21
Light-houses, 214, 237

Lightning conductors, 479, 501, 525
Lime: phosphate of, 335, 380; refuse,
311; limewash on masonry, 454, 477,
499

Lincolnshire iron, 18

Lines: fishing, 526, 548, 571, 618; in

solar spectrum, 287

Lining-out shafting, 454, 547

Link motion, 550, 599, 633; links and

eccentrics, 259

Liquid: bone manure, 574; glue, 18; har-
ness blacking, 479

Litharge and glycerine cement, 309

Live stock, measuring, 262, 286

Loads on valves, 70

Loam-pans, 262, 499

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Manganese batteries, 69, 93, 118, 502, 525,
550, 574, 596, 597, 598, 620, 623

Manufactures: ceramic, 22, 67; gas from

vegetables, 358; hard soap, 479; oxygen,

238, 285; spice, 118; starch, 452

Manure, bone, 574

Map, 622; map projections, 166, 213, 406
Marine glue, solvent for, 43

Marking: boiler plates, 359; cotton cloth,
478, 524; ink, 262, 286, 333, 427

Marks, hall, 335, 357

Masonry, limewash on, 454, 477, 499

Matchmaking, 18

Material, adhesive, 69, 117

Mathematical, 406, 429, 453; mathemati-
cal: instruments, 527, 549, 619; tables,
119

Mather and Platt's patent piston, 478,

525

Matrix moulding, label, 238, 404

Matting, 46; Madagascar matting, 407

Measuring: labourers' work, 70, 98; live

stock, 262, 286; patterns, 43; roads,

431, 477; timber 20.

Meat preserving, 94, 143

Mechanical movements, strange, 45

Mechanics, 455, 478, 501

Medal die, 69, 117; medal, copper, 454;

medal or coin, 358, 381

Medical, 623; medical: coil, 45, 68, 166,

189, 310, 311, 334, 382; clectricity, 287,

475; works, 70, 93

Melting: casting and melting metal, 287,

382, 452; cast steel, 46; glue, 550, 572,

573, 596; point, 527; spelter, 455, 478

Mending: ebonite bath, 478; gutta-percha,

19; tortoise-shell, 69

Mendoza pulley, 215

Mensuration of superficies, 502, 526, 548

Mercurial contact breaker, 69, 116

Meridian, true, 479, 547

Metal: bath, painting, 623; engraving on,

45, 68; hard white, 550; melting. 287,

380;

311.

382, 452; pencil for lathe, 94; plates,

soldering.

balance, 502;

soldering, soft, 311; twisting, 189, 259,

285; metal and wood-cutting machine,

22; metals, weight of, 551, 619

Metallurgy, 18; metallurgy of copper, 68

Metaphysics, geometrical, 45

Meters: gas, 335, 406, 454, 499, 551, 571;

water, 166, 475

Method of testing oil, French, 406, 453
Methylated spirit, 454, 477, 499, 523, 549,
571, 572, 594, 596, 618
Metrical Act, 166, 335, 380
Metronome, 69, 164
Micrometer, bar, 22, 382

Microscope, Perry's 335; microscopical,
21, 70, 117, 119, 143, 165, 311, 357, 380,
428, 430, 454, 455, 476, 478, 479, 525, 526,
549, 574, 596

Mildew on engravings, 22

Milk: albumen in, 21; testing, 43; milk-
ing cows, machine for, 502

Mill: bills, 21, 43, 551, 573; chisels,
hardening, 21; mill and forge work,
167; model mill, 430; portable mill, 550,

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Monogram die, 45, 68, 92, 116

Monoxide, carbon, 189, 213

Moon, eclipse of, 430, 477; moons of

Venus, 94

More steam wanted, 46, 92
Mortar and pestle, 66
Mortising, 70

Moss: Irish, 430, 455, 477

Moths: killing, 358, 381, 428; pepper
117, 139, 141

Motion of the earth, 621; link, 550, 599

623; rotatory, 479; of water, 18, 45, 97

116, 132

Motive power: double, 288, 310; for lath
623; for sewing machine,, 287; for velo
pede, 479

Moulding: boxes, iron, 311; label matri

288, 404; machine, 18

Moulds, 45; moulds: brass, 166, 213, 49
of coins, 479, 501, 525; heating, 527
Mount, picture, 238; mounting: cha
358, 428; equatoreal, 142; large cylind
93, 117, 140; microscopic objects,
454, 476, 479, 525; plane mirror,
549.

Mourning paper, 502

Mouthpiece, amber, 550

Movement, strange mechanical, 45

Muffle furnace, gas, 406, 430

Mule, copping, 166

Multitubular boiler, 19, 66

Mushet's steel, 237

Mushroom culture, 383, 429, 502, 526

Musical, 623; musical: box, 118, 164

235, 259, 311, 357; terms, 311, 334

Music chamber, 69, 93; music publis
94, 140

Muslin dress, 287, 475, 594

Muzzle for dogs, 359, 405

Myrabolans, 526, 548,571

NAIL-BAGS, 262; nail-makin

chine, 598; nails: galvanising,

wire, 190

Names: of parts of bellows, 262; on
118, 141, 187

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