NEW YORK, OCTOBER 11, 1884
Reading edition
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 458.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.—Chemical Nature of Starch Grains.
The Amalgamation of Silver Ores.—Description of the Francke tina, or vat process for amalgamation of silver ores.—By E.P. RATHBONE.—6 figures.
Interesting Facts about Platinum.—Draw stones used for drawing wire of precious metals.
II. ENGINEERING, MINING, ETC.—Modern Locomotive Practice.—Paper read before the Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society.—By H. MICHELL WHITLEY—10 figures.
New Screw Steam Collier, Frostburg.—1 figure.
Destruction of the Tardes Viaduct by Wind.—With engraving.
Joy's Reversing and Expansion Valve Gear.—1 figure.
The Steam Bell for Locomotives.—2 figures.
Diamond Mining in Brazil.—With engravings showing the dam on the Ribeirao Inferno at Portao de Ferro, and the arrangement of the machinery.
III. ELECTRICITY, ETC.—The Frankfort and Offenbach Electric Railway.—With 3 engravings.
Possibilities of the Telephone.—Its use by vessels at sea.
Pyrometers.—The inventions of Siemens and others.
IV. ARCHÆOLOGY.—The Cay Monument at Uxmal.—Discovered by Dr. Le Plongeon on June 1, 1881.—With engraving.
V. ASTRONOMY.—The Temperature of the Solar Surface Corresponding with the Temperature Transmitted to the Sun Motor.—By J. ERICSSON.—With 2 engravings of the sun motor.
VI. HORTICULTURE.—Halesia Hispida, a Hardy Shrub.—With engraving.
Windflowers or Anemone.—With engraving.
VII. MEDICINE, HYGIENE. ETC.—What we Really Know about Asiatic Cholera.—By J.C. PETERS, M.D.
Dr. Koch on the Cholera.
Malaria.—The natural production of malaria and the means of making malarial countries healthier.—By C.T. CRUDELI, of Rome.
Story of Lieut. Greely's Recovery.—Treatment by Surgeon Green.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS.—Bayle's New Lamp Chimney.—With engraving.
Lieut. Greely before the British Association.