SECTION III. — HISTORY. II 3 



GiBBS, WOLCOTT. 



Report on the Recent Progress of Organic Chemistry. In Proceedings 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. ix, 1856. 



GlESSEN (Laboratorium). 



See Hofmann, J- P. 



GiGLI, TORQUATO. 



*Storia della chimica da Lavoisier fino al 1840. Milano, 1886. pp. 63, 

 i6mo. 



Biblioteca del popolo, vol. 201. 



Gilbert. 



Coup d'oeil sur les poisons et les sciences occultes, depuis I'antiquit^ 

 jusqu'au XVIIIe siecle. Moulins, 1S77. 8vo. 



Gilbert, Ludovicus Guilielmus. 



Dissertatio historico-critica de mistionum chemicarum simplicibus et 

 perpetuis rationibus, etc. Sect. I. Lipsiae, 1811. 8vo. 



Gildemeister, J. 



Alchymie. In Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft. 

 Leipzig, 1876. Bd. xxx. pp. 534-538- 



The learned author discusses the etymology of the word elixir, and shows 

 that it signifies the substance capable of effecting transmutations, or the 

 so-called Philosophers Stone. The citations are in Arabic text. He 

 identifies the celebrated alchemist Artephius with the poet Al-Toghrai. 



GisH, J. B. 



Recent Advances in Chemistry. In Trans. M. Soc. Kansas. Lawrence, 

 1879. Vol. XIII, pp. 78-82. 



Gladstone, J. H. 



The Birth of Alchemy. In The Argonaut, January, 1876, p. i. 



An interesting sketch of Chinese alchemical knowledge in remote times. 



Gmelin, Johann Friedrich. 



*Allgemeine Geschichteder Gifte. Drei Theile. Leipzig, 1776-7. pp. 

 350 ; 8-316 ; [xvi]-525 -j- sixteen pages of errata ! i2mo. 

 Part II treats of mineral and part III of vegetable poisons. 

 Beytrage zur Geschichte des teutschen Bergbaus vornehmlich aus den 

 mittlern und spatern Jahrhunderten unserer Zeitrechnung. Halle, 

 1783. 8vo. 

 De primis chemiae pneumaticae originibus. Gottingce, 1797. pp. 32, 

 sm. 4to. 



This contains also a life of the author. 



