Perils of Chemical Experiment 151 Philosophical Enthusiasm 31 Poetic Prophecies of Darwin and Milton 9 Poker across the Fire, The 130 Potato, Introduction of the, into France 88 Power of the Lever 59 Railway System Suggested, The 89 "Raining Trees" at the Cape 106 Raleigh, Sir Walter, a Chemist 58 Rapid Manufacture of a Coat 54 Reason for Silence, Fontaine's 44 Rosse's, Lord, Telescope 121 Rust, Protection by 100 St. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia" 62 Scientific Pilgrim, A 139 Self-taught Mechanist, A 149 Semaphore v. Electric Telegraph 146 "Shepherd to the King of England for Scotland" 32 Siberian Mammoth Remains, The 152 Smeaton's Independence, 23 Smeaton, his Reproof of Gaming 34 Snow Spectacles of the Esquimaux 148 Society of Arts, Origin of the 125 Spinning Feats 128 Steam-Gun in the 15th Century 46 Strychnine a Remedy for Paralysis 54 Sun, Total Eclipse of the, at Cuba, 102 Sun, Vast Spot on the 12 Talent and Opportunity 80 Tea, Identity of Black and Green, 99 Tea, The First Cup of, Drunk in England 40 Tebreez, Variable Climate of 52 Telegraph, Origin of the Electric 134 Telescope, Invention of the 97 Thames Tunnel, Construction of the 10 Travelling Carriage, A Novel 108 Travelling in the Himalaya Mountains 82 Travels of Volcanic Dust 33 Tropical Delights, Sydney Smith's 79 Tycho Brahe, Credulity of 97 Vast Mirrors Made in Russia 127 Vicissitudes of Mining in Mexico 79