* * * * * The "Scientific American" is printed with CHAS. ENEU JOHNSON & CO.'S INK. Tenth and Lombard Sts., Philadelphia, and 59 Gold St., New York. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: [Symbol: right Index] and [Symbol: Left index] are used where the text had a picture of a hand with the index finger pointing right or left, respectively. Table of Contents: Article named "Buffalo, the domestication of" page 197 was not included in the original. Table of Contents: Article named "Steamship, ocean, large" page 196 was not included in the original. Table of Contents: Article named "Specimen, a rare geological" page 196 was not included in the Table of Contents.