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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, ART, SCIENCE,MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MANUFACTURES.

1	Agricultural inventions	1
40	Aspirator and compressor*	11
38	Astronomical notes	11
25	Baby elephant takes a bath	7
22	Bath, shower, portable, new*	6
11	Boiler explosions, prevention of*	4
37	Canal boat, improved	10
17	Carpetings, etc., printing gold on	5
30	Chloral hydrate, simple test for	7
13	Chloroforming during sleep	5
34	Corn magnets	10
14	Dipper, watering, improved*	4
29	Drowned, perseverance with the	7
15	Electric lamp, improved*	5
25	Elephant, baby, takes a bath	7
36	Engineering inventions	10
6	Epidemic, strange, a	2
33	Exhibition, international, Sydney*	8