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CONTENTS.
| The "Géant" Balloon | 162 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Necrology of Aeronautics | 181 |
| PART III. | |
| SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS—APPLICATIONS OF BALLOONING | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Experiments of Robertson, Lhoest, Saccarof, &c. | 193 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Ascent of M. Gay-Lussac alone—Excursions of MM. Barral and Bixio | 202 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Ascents of Messrs. Welsh, Glaisher, and Coxwell | 205 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Balloons made useful in Warfare | 211 |
