oO TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOI.UMK TWO (1885). 



Reports of Officers for 1884-1885 3-7 



Obituary of Dr. W. C. Kerr, 8 



Sketch of the Botanical Work of Rev. M. A. Curtis, T. F. Wood 9 



Ivatitude of Chapel Hill, J. W. Gore 32 



Manufacture of Acid Phosphate, W. B. Phillips 33 



Anah'sis of the Leaves of the Ilex Cassine, F. P. Venable 39 



Determination of "Total" Phosphoric Acid, F. B. Dancy 41 



Anal3'sis of Spieg-el Ei-sen, Max Jackson 46 



Occurrence of Citric and Malic Acids in Peanuts, K. A. de 



Schweinitz 47 



Meteorological Record of Chapel Hill, 1880--1884, F. P. Venable 48 



Reactions of Phosphorus, F. P. Venable 57 



Anal^'sis of Deposit from Salt-making-, W. B, Phillips 60 



Crystals of Dog-tooth Spar, W. B. Phillips 62 



Notes on Plant Transpiration, F. P. Venable 63 



Sodium Chloride as a Wash in Determining- Phosphoric Acid, 



F. B. Dancy 66 



Determination of Sugar in Urine, Jas. Lewis Howe 69 



Additioms to Curtis's Catalogue of Indigenous Plants, M. E. 



Hy ams 72 



Attempts at Forming Heptyl-ljenzol, F. P. Venable 77 



Mercurous Hypophosphite, E. A. de Schweinitz 78 



Eocene Deposits in Eastern North Carolina, W. C. Kerr 76 



Ammonia in Saliva, Max Jackson 85 



Geolog-y ol the Region about Tampa, Fla., W. C. Kerr 86 



Solubility of Barium Chromate, J. F. Wilkes 60 



NoTE.S: Taxodium in N. C. Ouarternar}', J. A Holmes 90 



Analysis of Kaolin, I. H. Manning 93 



Tv^risting of Trees, J. A. Holmes 94 



Sport in Eeaf of Bliphila Ciliata, Raf., M. E. Hyams. . 94 



Analysis of Specular Iron Ore, I. H. Manning 95 



Analysis of Hematite from Forsyth Co., A. E. Wilson. ... 95 



VOI.UMR THREE (1886). 



Reports of Officers 3-8 



Eife and work of Lewis David von Schweinitz F. P. Venable 9 



Pulverization of Fertilizer Samples, H. B. Battle 27 



Loss of Moisture in bottled Samples, H. B. Battle 30 



Improved Wash-bottle, H. B. Battle 32 



Meteorological Record at Chapel Hill, 1885, F. P. Venable 34 



Determination of Potash, F. B. Dancy 37 



Propenyl-iso-toluylen-amidine, J. M. Pickel 40 



Effect of Freezing on Standard Solutions. F. B. Dancy 33 



Indian Antiquities of Caldwell Co., J. M. Spainhour 45 



