The Golden Cup Oak. Serpulas, or Sea Worms. One engraving. The King Tody Bird. One engraving. Life Without Air. Cadaver-poison of the Australian Natives. The Contortion of Rocks from Heat Mechanically Generated. The Stiffening of Plant Stalks. Immense Labor Performed by Bees. The Torrey Botanical Club. The Big Trees of California. Explorations in Greenland. The Umbrella Bird. One engraving. The Argan Tree. A Spruce-destroying Beetle. A Geological Discovery in Deep Water. The Mound Builder's Unit of Measure. Progress of Horticulture. Bishop Ferrette on the Cedars of Lebanon. Special Senses in Insects. Natural History Notes. New Cave Discovery in Kentucky. Longevity of the Horse. Left-handedness. Bee Culture in Egypt. The Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper. Two engravings. The Crafty Hermit Crab. One illustration. VI.--MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. Nitrate of Amyl in Sea Sickness. Milk cure for Lead Colic. Milkweed Juice for Raw Surfaces. The Use of Snails in Medicine. The Art of Prolonging Life. The Deleterious Use of Alum in Bread and Baking Powders.--Alum being Substituted for Cream of Tartar. The Treatment of Hydrophobia. New Use for Warts. Removal of the Entire Scalp by Machinery. The Probable Starting Point of the Yellow Fever. Piedra. Heredity. Scientific Reliance on Soap. The Medical Ice Hat. Ventilation of Bed Rooms. The Filtration of Drinking Water. The Texas "Screw Worm." VII.--THE PARIS EXHIBITION, SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, ETC. Success of American Exhibitors at Paris. The Main Building at the Exhibition. With one full page illustration. The French Industrial Exhibition of 1878. Awards and Honors at Paris. Ingram Rotary Press. One illustration. A Grand World's Fair in New York. A Mexican Exhibition. Australia to have a World's Fair. Closing of the French Exhibition. Hydraulic Motors at the Exhibition. With two engravings. The National Academy of Sciences. The Official Reports of the Paris Exhibition. American Society of Civil Engineers. VIII.--INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.