TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Report of Vice-Presidenl . 3 



Report of Secretary .... 5 



Report of Tr.e.isurer ... 8 



A .sketch of the Life and Scientific Work of Lewis David von Schweinitz g 



The Effect of Pulverization on Fertilizer Samples 27 



On the Loss of Moisture in Bottled Samples 30 



An Improved Wash-Bottle for Chemical Laboratories 32 



Meteoroloi^ical Record at Chapel Hill for the year 1885 34 



On the Determination of Potash . . . 37 



Propenyl-iso-toluylen-diamme . . 40 



Effect of Freezing on Standard Solutions . 43 



Indian Antiquities of Caldwell County . 45 



Comparison between the Washington and Atlanta Methods for the Estima- 

 tion of Reverted Phosphoric Acid 48 



Analysis Comparing the Bituminous Coals of North Carolina and Tenn.. 51 

 On the Effect of Using Different Amounts of Acid Phosphate in the De- 

 termination of Soluble Phosphoric Acid . , . . 53 



On the Determination (A Moisture in Commercial Fertilizers.. 54 



On the Neutrality of S'^andard Ammonium Citrate 58 



Octyl benzol 60 



The Cigarette Beetle . . 68 



Notes on the Orchard Scolytus _ _ . ............ 74 



Wilmington Flora . . . 77 



A Thermometer for Class Illustration ... 143 



Sugar Beets from Kentucky 144 



Lithographic Stone from Tennessee 145 



Cyclones _ 146 



