96 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY. 



BOUANT, E. 



Histoire de I'eau. Paris, 1882. 32010. 111. 



We have not seen this " History of Water," a subject that we should hardly 

 expect could be treated in a 32mo volume. We suppose cosmogony and 

 the Universal Deluge occupy a portion of the work having so ambitious 

 a title. 



BouDET, Felix. 



See Leblanc, F. et Dize. 



BOULLET, A. F. 



* De I'etat des connaissances relatives a I'electricit^ chez les anciens 

 peuples d'ltalie. Saint-Etienne, 1862. pp. 31, 8vo. 



The author claims extensive knowledge of electricity by the ancient Romans, 

 and quotes a passage from Ctesias (Indica, iv.) to prove that lightning- 

 rods were in use 416 B.C. In a note by Dr. Michalowski he shows the 

 resemblance between the Greek electron (amber) and two Hungarian 

 words, Elleuk and tron, which together signify : " He darts forth 

 lightning." The whole treatise is interesting, but imaginative. 



Brande, William Thomas. 



Dissertation Third : exhibiting a general view of the progress of chemi- 

 cal philosophy, from the early ages to the end of the eighteenth 

 century. [London, 1816.] pp. 79, 4to. 



Prefixed to the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. An American 

 edition was issued in Boston in 1818. pp. 120, 8vo. 



Historia de la quimica, tomada del Manual de Brande. In- 

 troduccion al curso de esta ciencia leido en la Uni- 

 versidad de Caracas por Jose M. Vargas. Publicada 

 por uno de sus discipulos. Caracas, 1864. pp. 55, Svo. 



Branthome. 



Ueberblick der Chemie nach ihrem gegenwiirtigen Zustande. Aus dem 

 franzosischen mit Anmerkungen von Joh. Bartholomaeus Tromms- 

 dorff. Strassburg, 1818. 8vo. 



Brendel, J. G. 



De instrumentis quibusdam chemicis Boerhaaveanis. Gottingae, 1747. 

 Sm. 4to. 



Breneman, A. A. 



Historical Summary of the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen. J, Am. 

 Chem. Soc, xi (1889). 



Contains bibliographic data. t- 



Breymann und Kirstein, 



Das chemische Laboratorium der Universitat Gottingen. Hannover, 

 1890. 4to. 111. 



