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ord " of " Harper's Magazine," and for the " Annual " for many years. 

 We subjoin a list of the most important of the scientific papers which 

 he has published : 



1. "The Forces of Nature"; a Lecture before the Chemical Society of 

 Union College. (Albany, 1863.) 



2. " Account of the Casting of a Gigantic Rodman Gun at Pittsburg " 

 (American Journal of Science, II., xxxvii., 296, April, 1864). 



3. "Report of a Trial for Poisoning by Strychnia" (American Journal of 

 Medical Sciences, October, 1864). 



4. " Formic versus Carbonous Acid " (American Journal of Science, II., 

 xliv., 263, October, 1867). 



5. " On Normal and Derived Acids " (American Journal of Science, II., 

 xliv., 384, November, 1867). 



6. " A Text-book of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Inorganic " 

 (New Haven, 1870). 



7. "Notices of Papers in Physiological Chemistry" (American Journal of 

 Science, II., xlvi., 233, 379; xlvii., 20, 258, 393; xlviii., 49). 



8. " Abstract of the Second Series of Meissner's Researches on Electrized 

 Oxygen" (American Journal of Science, II., 1., 213, September, 1870). 



9. "On Molecular Classification" (American Chemist, i., 359, April, 1871). 



10. " On the Rational Formulas of the Oxides of Chlorine and of Oxides 

 analogously constituted" (American Chemist, ii., 1, July, 1871). 



11. "Note on the Spectrum of the Aurora" (American Journal of Science, 

 III., ii., 465, December, 1871). 



12. "Correlation of Vital and Physical Forces"; a Lecture before the 

 American Institute. (New York, 1871.) 



13. "The Chemical Testimony in the Sherman Poisoning Case " (American 

 Chemist, ii., 441, June, 1872). 



14. " On the Spectrum of the Aurora of October 14, 1872 " (American Jour- 

 nal of Science, III., v., 81, February, 1873). 



15. " A New Vertical Lantern Galvanometer" (Proceedings of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society, xiv., 440, May, 1875). 



16. " The Molecule and the Atom " ; an Address to the Chemical Subsection 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Buffalo 

 meeting (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, xxv., 85, August, 1876). 



17. " Results of the Spectroscopic Observation of the Solar Eclipse of July 

 29, 1878 " ; a Report to the Director, Dr. Henry Draper (American Journal of 

 Science, III., xvii., 121, February, 1879). 



18. " On a New Method of measuring the Pitch of a Tuning-Fork " (Proceed- 

 ings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, xxvii., 118, 

 August, 1878). 



19. "On the Total Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878" (Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society, xviii., 103, November, 1878). 



