Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884

In the Street of Tombs the monuments are lying or standing as they were found; each year shows many changes in Athens, a tomb last year in the Ceramicus may be this year in a mu...

The old and cumbersome methods of crushing oil seeds by mechanical means have during the last few years undergone a complete revolution. By the old process, the seed, having bee...

1st. A cesspit should never be located under a dwelling. It should be placed outside, and as far removed from the immediate neighborhood of the dwelling as circumstances will al...

Taking circumstantial and pathological evidences into consideration, the hope of the person thus poisoned rests solely upon lack of vitality in the serpent and its venom, and in...

In any soil or position the hornbeam will grow readily, except exceedingly dry or too marshy spots. On chalky hillsides it does not grow so freely as on clayey plains. Under the...

V. ARCHÆOLOGY.--Grecian Antiquities.--With engravings of the Monument of Philopappus.--Tomb from the Ceramicus.--Tower of the winds.--The Acropolis.--Old Corinth.--Temple of Jup...

The view that vaccinia is attenuated variola is well known, and has been extensively adopted by English physicians. If the opinion means anything, it signifies that the two dise...

The energy contained in an oxide of copper and potash battery is very great, and far superior to that stored by an accumulator of the same weight, but the rendering is much less...

It is recommended that this work be gone over several times for practice, until the appearance and order of the characters and the details of the method become familiar; that, w...