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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 623
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 10, 1887
Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXIV., No. 623.
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. ARCHITECTURE.--Notes on the Construction of a Distillery
Chimney--A new method of building lofty shafts, including a
metallic frame and brick lining--3 illustrations. 9949
The Commercial Exchange, Paris--The new Paris exchange now
in process of erection.--Present state of operations--1
illustration. 9954
II. ASTRONOMY.--The Yale College Measurement of the Pleiades.--
Dr. Elkin's work with the Repsold heliometer at Yale College. 9957
III. CHEMISTRY--New Method for the Quantitative Determination
of Starch.--By A.N. ASBOTH--Determination of starch by its
barium compound. 9956
Synthesis of the Alkaloids--A retrospect of the field of
work so far traveled over by synthetical chemists, and
future prospects.
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