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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 810
NEW YORK, JULY 11, 1891
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXXII, No. 810.
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. BOTANY.--Cocos Pynaerti.--A new dwarf growing palm.--1 illustration.
II. CHEMISTRY.--The Application of Electrolysis to Quantitative
Analysis.--By CHARLES A. KOHN, B.Sc., Ph.D.--Applicability of
these methods to poison determinations.
III. CIVIL ENGINEERING.--The Kioto-Fu Canal in Japan.--A
Japanese canal connecting the interior of the country with the
sea.--3 illustrations.
The Iron Gates of the Danube.--An important engineering work,
opening a channel in the Danube.--1 illustration.
The New German Ship Canal.--Connection of the Baltic with
the North Sea.--Completion of this work.--1 illustration.
Transit in London, Rapid and Otherwise.--By JAMES A.
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