SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 458
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 11, 1884
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 458.
Scientific American established 1845
Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.
Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I.
CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.—Chemical Nature ofStarch Grains.
The Amalgamation of Silver Ores.—Descriptionof the Francke tina, or vat process for amalgamation of silverores.—By E.P. RATHBONE.—6 figures.
Interesting Facts about Platinum.—Drawstones used for drawing wire of precious metals.
II.
ENGINEERING, MINING, ETC.—Modern LocomotivePractice.—Paper read before the Civil and MechanicalEngineers' Society.—By H. MICHELL WHITLEY—10figures.
New Screw Steam Collier, Frostburg.—1figure.
Destruction of the Tardes Viaduct byWind.—With engraving.
Joy's Reversing and Expansion Valve Gear.—1figure.
The Steam Bell for Locomotives.—2figures.
Diamond Mining in Brazil.—With engravingsshowing the dam on the Ribeirao Inferno at Portao de Ferro, and thearrangement of the machinery.
III.
ELECTRICITY, ETC.—The Frankfort andOffenbach Electric Railway.—With 3 engravings.
Possibilities of the Telephone.—Its use byvessels at sea.
Pyrometers.—The inventions of Siemens andothers.
IV.
ARCHÆOLOGY.—The Cay Monument atUxmal.—Discovered by Dr. Le Plongeon on June 1,1881.—With engraving.
V.
ASTRONOMY.—The Temperature of the SolarSurface Corresponding with the Temperature Transmitted to the SunMotor.—By J. ERICSSON.—With 2 engravings of the sunmotor.
VI.
HORTICULTURE.—Halesia Hispida, a HardyShrub.—With engraving.
Windflowers or Anemone.—With engraving.
VII.
MEDICINE, HYGIENE. ETC.—What we Really Knowabout Asiatic Cholera.—By J.C. PETERS, M.D.
Dr. Koch on the Cholera.
Malaria.—The natural production of malariaand the means of making malarial countries healthier.—By C.T.CRUDELI, of Rome.
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