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Title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888

Author: Various

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 643

NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 1888

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXV., No. 643.

Scientific American established 1845

Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.

Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. ARCHAEOLOGY.--The Subterranean Temples of India.--The
subterranean temples of India described and illustrated, the
wonderful works of the ancient dwellers in Hindostan.--3
illustrations. 10275

II. BIOGRAPHY.--General F. Perrier.--Portrait and biography of
the French geodesian, his triangulations in Algiers and
Corsica.--1 illustration. 10264

The Crown Prince of Germany--Prince William and his son.--
Biographical note of Prince William, the heir to the German
throne.--1 illustration. 10263

III. BIOLOGY.--Poisons.--Abstract of a lecture by Prof. MEYMOTT
TIDY, giving the relations of poisons to life. 10273

The President's Annual Address to the Royal Microscopical
Society.--The theory of putrefaction and putrefactive
organisms.--Exhaustive review of the subject. 10264

IV. CHEMISTRY.--Molecular Weights.--A new and simple method
of determining molecular weights for unvolatilizable
substances. 10271

V. CIVIL ENGINEERING.--Concrete.--By JOHN LUNDIE.--A practical
paper on the above subject.--The uses and proper methods of
handling concrete, machine mixing contras