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desire to alleviate suffering humanity, and to support to the utmost 

 of his power wise schemes for the better ordering of those state and 

 municipal affairs with which chemical science or art has relations ; but 

 he had no wish for mere notoriety, or for the overthrowing of adver- 

 saries, or for the forcing of crude thoughts or schemes upon an unwill- 

 ing public. His purpose was simply to seek out the truth aud to 

 exhibit it. That the truth would prevail in due course, he had no 

 doubt or fear. By those of us who knew him well, he will always be 

 remembered, not only as an accomplished chemist, but as a loyal, 

 devoted friend, and a thoroughly conscientious Christian man. 



Papers by William Ripley Nichols. 



1868. On the Chromites of Magnesium. Am. Journ. Sci. [2], xlviii. (1869), 



16-20 ; Zeitsch. Chem., 1869, 187. 



1869. On the Composition of the Acid Oxalates of Potassium, Ammonium, and 



Sodium. [With next title, Graduating Thesis.] Proc. Am. Assoc, 

 xviii. 159-163; Cliem. News, xxii. (1870), 14; Zeitscli. Chem., 1870, 

 532; Chem. Centrb., 1870, 546; Viertelj. prak. Pharm., xix. (1870), 

 556. 



1869. On the Solubility of the Oxalates of Sodium, Potassium, and Ammonium. 



Proc. Am. Assoc, xviii. 1G3-169; Chem. News, xxii. (1870), 244; 

 Chem. Centrb., 1870, 674; Viertelj. prak. Pharm., xix. (1870), 599; 

 Zeitsch. Chem., vii. (1871), 120. 



1870. With J. Trowbridge. Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1869. 



1870. Action of Cochituate Water on Lead Pipes. Rep. Mass. State Board of 

 Health, ii. (1871), 32-40; Am. Chem., i. (1871), 409-412. 



1870. Report of Examination of Mystic Pond and its Sources of Supply. Report 



Mass. State Board of Health, ii. (1871), 387-390. 



1871. Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1870. As in 1870. 



1872. With George Derby, M. D. Sewerage : Sewage : The Pollution of 



Streams : The Water Supply of Towns. Rep. Mass. State Board of 

 Health, iv. (1873), 19-132. 

 1872. An Elementary Manual of Chemistry, Abridged from Eliot and Storer's 

 Manual, with the co-operation of the authors. 12mo, pp. 287 and Ixiii. 

 New York, 1872. Several later editions. 



1872. A Compendious Manual of Qualitative Analysis by Charles W. Eliot and 



Frank H. Storer. Revised, with the co-operation of the authors, by 

 W. R. N. 12mo, pp. 128 and lii. New York, 1872. Several later 

 editions. 



1873. On the present Condition of certain Rivers of Massachusetts, etc. Rep. 



Mass. State Board of Health, v. (1874), 61-152. Reprinted in Rep. on 

 Additional Supply of Pure Water. Boston City Doc, No. 38, 1874. 



1873. Report of Chemical Analyses of Brookline, Mass., Water Supply. Bos- 



ton, 1873. 



1874. On the Waters of Flax Pond and its Tributaries. Rep. of Joint Standing 



Com. of City Council, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 28, 1874. Am. Chem., v. 

 (1875), 451. 



