VIII. HORTICULTURE.--A New Stove Climber.--_(Ipomæa thomsoniana)_

Sprouting of Palm Seeds.

History of Wheat.

IX. MISCELLANEOUS.--Technical Education in America.--Branches
of study most prominent in schools of different States.

The Anæsthetics of Jugglers.--Fakirs of the Indies.--Processes
employed by them.--Anæsthetic plants.

Epitaphium Chymicum.--An epitaph written by Dr. GODFREY.

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IMPROVED FILTER PRESSES.


Hitherto it has been found that of all the appliances and methods for
separating the liquid from the solid matters, whether it is in the case
of effluents from tanneries and other manufactories, or the ocherous and
muddy sludges taken from the settling tanks in mines, some of which
contain from 90 to 95 per cent. of water, the filter press is the best
and the most economical, and it is to this particular process that
Messrs. Johnson's exhibits at the Health Exhibition, London, chiefly
relate. Our engravings are from _The Engineer_. A filter press consists