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WiNKLEK, C. — Handbook of Technical Gas Analysis. Containing concise instructions 

 for carrying out gas analytical methods of proved utility. Translated, with ad- 

 ditions, by G. Lunge. London, 1885. 8vo. 



WisLiCENUS, WiLHELM. — Ueber die Eiuwirkung von Cyankalinm auf Phtalide. Wiirz- 

 burg, 188'). 



WisSEK, Liout. John P. — History of Chemistry. Course of sciences applied to mili- 

 tary art. U. S. Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., 1885. square 8vo. 



Wolff, H. — Die Beizen, ihre Darstelluug, Priifung und Anwendung. Wien, 1885. 

 8vo. 



Wolff, L. — Applied Medical Chemistry. A manual for students and practitioners of 

 medicine. Philadelphia. 8vo. 



WoRMLEY, Tii. G. — Micro-Chemistry of Poisons, including their physiological, patho- 

 logical, and legal relations. With an appendix on the detection and niicro8coi)ic 

 discrimination of the blood. New edition, revised and enlarged. Pliiladelphia, 

 1885. 8vo. 



WnoBLEWSKi, SiGiSMOND DE. — Comment I'air a 6t6 liqu6fid ; rdponse ^ l'arti( le de M. 

 J. Jamin. Paris, 1885. 



WROB1.EWSKI, SiGiSMOND VON. — Ueber den Gebrauch des siedenden Sauerstofts, Koh- 

 lenoxyds sowie der atmosphiirischen Luft als Kiiltemittel. Wien, 1885. 8vo. 



WuLF, Paul.— Beitriige zur Kenntniss der fractionirten Destination. Berlin, 1885. 



WuRTZ, A. — Introduction h I'dtude de la chiraie. Paris, 1885. 8vo. 



WuRTZ — Friedel. — Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Charles Adolphe Wurtz. 

 Paris, 1885. 8vo. 



Zangerle, M. — Kemian alkoot. Porvoosa, 1885. 



NECROLOGY OF CHEMISTS: 1885. 



Thomas Andrews, born December 19, 1813, at Belfast ; died November, 1885. He held 

 the vice-presidency of Queen's College in Belfast, and was professor of chemistry 

 in the same institution. His original researches, chiefly in physical chemistry, 

 were numerous and valuable. 



Edw. H. von Baumhauer, died January 18, 1885, at Leyden. He, was born Septem- 

 ber 18, 1820, and for many years was professor of chemisti-y and pharmacy at 

 Amsterdam. He held also the office of perpetual secretary of the NetherlamI 

 Society of Sciences at Harlem. 



E. O. Brown, died December 5, 1885. He was one of the chemists in the Koyal 

 Arsenal, Woolwich, under Sir F. Abtd. His knowledge of the cheuiislry of ex- 

 plosives is said to have l)een unsurpassed. 



Arthur Caj>m, died in January, 1885. He w^as instructor in chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Ziirich. 



John Christopher Draper, born March 31, 1835; died December 20, 1885. He held 

 chairs of chemistry and of natural history in New York colleges, and published 

 several text-books on physiology and chemistry. His original researches were 

 chiefly in the domain of medical chemistry. 



Hermann von Feuling, vice-president of the German Chemical Society, died July 

 1, 1885. He was born June 9, 1812, in Liibeck. lu both research and literary 

 work Fehling has left an enviable record. 



Frederic Field, one of the original members of the London Chemical S<)<'iety, died 

 April 3, 1885. He was authority on South American mineralogy, mining, and 

 metallurgy, having resided in Chili for many years. His memoirs ou tliliereut 

 branches of chemistry are fifty-fivo in number. 



Albert Fitz, of Strassburg, died May 11, 1885. He was one of the pioneers in in- 

 vestigating the changes in organic bodies effected by microscopic plnnts. 



