"raded Caps BLUE TOWER, LEONORA CHRISTINA IN THE (Illustrated)..........................R. H. Stoddard 514 893 .O. M. Spencer 507 CEMETERY, PROTESTANT, AT FLORENCE (Illustrated). CHILDREN'S CHURCH, THE (From the German) ................James Freeman Clarke 361 The Oronsay Cross.. UNITED STATES.-Congress: Special Session of Sen- ate of Forty-third Congress closed, 136; Senators Caldwell, Clayton, and Bogy's Cases disposed of, 136; Transportation and Mississippi Levee Commit- tees to sit during Recess, 136; Levee Statistics, 136; Postal-Car Service, 136. Civil Service: Resignation of Mr. George William Curtis and Mayor Medill, 136. State Legislatures-New York: New Charter for New York City passed, 136; Usury Laws, 136, 137, sional Criminals Act, 309, 471; Canals, 309, 941; New York and Brooklyn Consolidation, 369; Immi- grants' Support and Head-Tax, 309; Erie Railroad Inquiry Report, 309; Bills signed, 788; Adoption of Children, 788; Local Option and Civil Damages Bills, 471; Industrial Exhibition Company, 471; Constitu- tional Amendments, 471; Bills rejected, 471; Tax for Sectarian Institutions, 471; Charities Commis- sion, 471; Prison Association, 471; Adjournment, 13795FORICAL RECORD—Continued. tion, 137; State Taxation increased fifty per cent., CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.-Mexico, 310, 789. Carleton's Farm Ballads, 129. Morris's Love is Enough, 130. Taylor's Lars, 130. Bulwer's Kenelm Chillingly, 130. Miss Thackeray's Old Kensington, 131. Frothingham's Religion of Humanity, 132. Reid's Foot-Prints of Satan, 132. Gregg's Enigmas of Life, 132. Murray's Music-hall Sermons, 132. Dr. Guthrie's Works, 133. Faith and Free Thought, 133. Recent English Books, 133. Mrs. Ames's Me- morials of Alice and Phoebe Cary, 134. Harper's Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1872, 134. Medhurst's The Foreigner in Far Cathay, 134. Siam, the Land of the White Elephant, 135. Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Health - Keeper, 135. Thompson's The Depths of the Sea, 298. Tyndall's Lectures on Light, 299. Flammarion's Atmosphere, 299. Stenhouse's The Rocky Mountain Saints, 299. Hughes's Memoir of a Brother, 299. Life of Samuel J. May, 300. Roe's Play and Profit in My Garden, 301. H. H.'s Bits of Talk about Home Matters, 301. Farjeon's London's Heart, 301. Mrs. Dorr's Expi- Summary of Scientific Progress, 145. Congression- al Action respecting Forests, 148. Ground Currents and the Aurora of 1872, 148. Protective Fluid of Cymbex, 148. Prehistoric Sacrificial Mound in Aus- tria, 148. Distribution of Atropine in the Plant, 140. Injurious Emanations from Manufactories, 149. Rain-Fall in the United States, 149. Therapeutic Qualities of Hyoscyamus, 149. Cure for Catarrh, 150. Explosiveness of wet Gun-Cotton, 150. Mete- oric Shower of November 27, 1872, 150. Rain-Gauge at Sea, 150. The Sequoias of California, and their History, 150. Do Flies eat Pollen ? 151. Discovery of Thallene and other solid Hydrocarbons, 151. Fichtelite, 151. Rate of Increase of Heat in pene- trating the Earth, 151. Signs of Death, 152. Prep- aration of Koumiss from condensed Milk, 152. Ac- tion of Ozone on Vulcanized Rubber, 152. Excre- tion of Carbonic Acid from the Skin, 152. Antiquity of Man in Britain, 152. Treatment of Intermittent Fever by Carbolic Acid, 153. Explosive Antimony, non-religious Funerals, 629; German Indemnity A Fair Saxon, 460. Mrs. Whitney's Other Girls, 460. Howell's A Chance Acquaintance, 460. About Rouge et Noir, 461. Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man, 461. Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Coun- try, 461. A Fo'c's'le Yarn, 461. Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, 461. Beecher's Sermons, 617. Tyer- man's Oxford Methodists, 617. Tristram's The Land of Moab, 618. Ridgaway's Life of the Rev. Alfred Cookman, 618. Miss Alcott's Work, 618. Count Kostia, 619. A Ship in the Fens, 619. Castelar's Old Rome and New Italy, 621. Miss Phelps's What to Wear, 621. Miscellaneous, 621. Miss Braddon's Strangers and Pilgrims, 775. Reade's A Simpleton, 776. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, 776. Holland's Arthur Bonnycastle, 776. Turgenieff's Dimitri Rou- dine, 777. Mrs. Macquoid's Too Soon, 777. Dick- ens's Pickwick Papers, 777. Hervey's System of Christian Rhetoric, 778. Commentaries, 778. At- lases, 778. Pike's Sub-tropical Rambles, 779. Books on Architecture, 780. Hamerton's The Intellectual Earth from the Sun's Heat, 153. Exhalation of Moisture by Plants, 153. Yellow Color of Silk, 153. Summary of Scientific Progress, 302. Nitrite of Amyl, 307. Bromide of Calcium in Medicine, 307. Heated Iron in resuscitating the drowned, 307. Flo- ra of the Pliocene of Central France, 307. Preser- vation of unstable Remedies in Combination with each other, 308. Position of Limulus in the Animal Kingdom, 308. Rearing of Ostriches for the Feath- ers, 308. Endemann Process of preserving Meat, 308. Solidification of Nitrous Oxide, 308. Summa- ry of Scientific Progress, 462. Recent Discoveries in Acoustics, 466. Novel Relations among the Planets, 467. Influencing the Advancement of Science, 468. Discordance in Arctic Temperatures, 468. The vari- able Size of the Sun, 468. The Origin of Meteors and Comets, 468. Artificial Respiration in Asphyxia and in Snake Bite, 469. Maynard on the Mammals of Florida, 469. A new Relation between Electricity and Heat, 469. Rain-Fall in Jerusalem, 469. Upper Phenomena of Crystals, 628. Absorption of the Solar Atmosphere, 628. Summary of Scientific Prog- ress, 780. Trimethylamine in Rheumatism, 782. The Dissipation of Electricity in Gases, 783. Spectroscope-Micrometer, 783. Blow-pipe Furnace, 783. A new Double-image Micrometer, 784. Rela- tion of the Air to Clothing and Soil, 784. Vegeta- ble Parchment, 785. Alcoholic Fermentation, 785. Cheap Substitute for Double Windows, 785. Arti- ficial Humous Substances, 785. Chloral in Gout, 786. Union of Iron and Steel, 786. Putrefiers and Antiseptics, 786. Summary of Scientific Progress, 932. The Adirondack State Park, 936. Poey's Clas sification of Clouds, 937. Protection of Ships' Com- passes, 937. Becquerel on the Nature of Electricity, EDITOR'S SCIENTIFIC RECORD-Continued. ..Junius Henri Browne 833 GRAEFE, ALBRECHT VON, MY BLINDNESS AND.........Rev. William H. Milburn 595 |