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Conducted by HENRY C. BURDETT. 



Edited by J. BRETLAND FARMER, M.A. 



WITH THE CO OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMITTEE :— 



H. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute for Technical 

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W. R. DUNSTAN, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, St. Thomas' Hospital and Pharmaceutical Society, 

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FEBRUARY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



EMANCIPATION FROM SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM. By W. OSTWALD, Professor 



of Chemistry in the University of Leipzig ... 



THE DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC USE OF MALLEIN. By G. A. BUCK- 

 MASTER, M.D., Lecturer on Physiology at St. George's Hospital, London ... 



THE SPACE RELATIONS OF ATOMS (Concluded). By ARNOLD EILOART, Ph.D., 

 D.Sc. .. ' 



THE SUPRARENAL CAPSULES. By W. D. HALLIBURTON, M.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 of Physiology in King's College, London 



THE CLASSIFICATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS. By ALFRED HARKER, M.A., Fellow 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge 



PAWLOW'S RESEARCHES ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SECRETION. 



STARLING, M.D., Lecturer on Physiology at Guy's Hospital, London 



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II. CHEMICAL LITERATURE FOR DECEMBER, 1895 



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