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  2. Natural History.

    IT will be in the recollection of most of your readers that a French savant in Amiens, M. Boucher de Perthes, discovered in 1847 many rude flint implements in the valley of the Somme ...

    Article : 2,322 words
  3. Fine Arts.

    WE propose to set before our readers a short series of papers relative to Vases, the consideration of which will, it is thought, be found well deserving of a prominent position in the study of Art; and especially in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,218 words
  4. Engineering and Manufactures.

    ON Friday morning, the 28th. ultimo, the Secretary for Public Works (the Hon. James Byrnes) and some other gentlemen visited the engineering establishment of Messrs. Vale and Lacy, situate at the foot of ...

    Article : 344 words
  5. A Dangerous Water-pipe.

    The following remarks of the Boston Journal of Chemistry are worthy of careful study:—Attention has been called several times in this journal to the dangerous character of galvanized iron pipe, when employed for conducting ...

    Article : 458 words
  6. Machinery v. Hand-Labour.

    "I HOLD in my hand a table-knife," said the hon. David A. Wells, speaking at a free-trade banquet in New York, "Let us see what abuses have been perpetrated in regard to it. Here is an ivory handle. Well, we don't grow any ...

    Article : 399 words
  7. DEATH OF SIR JAMES PALMER.

    IT is with, great regret that we have to announce the decease of Sir James Palmer, late President of the Legislative Council, who died shortly before 9 o'clock on Monday night at Hawthorn. Sir James had been in failing ...

    Article : 831 words
  8. Military Road Steamers.

    During the past nine months especial attention has been given by the War Department to the subject of steam traction on common, roads ; but in fact for a number of years past the application of steam to ordinary roads has ...

    Article : 930 words
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