SECTION III. — HISTORY. I49 



PuLsiFER, William H. [Cont'd.] 



A compendious treatise on the history of the metal in all ages, its mining, 

 metallurgy and uses. Cf. Hofmann, K. B. 



QUETELET, AdOLPH. 



Histoire des sciences mathematiques et physiques chez les Beiges. 



Bruxelles, 1864. pp. 479, roy. 8vo. 

 Sciences mathematiques et physiques chez les Beiges au commencement 



du XIX siecle. Bruxelles, 1866. pp. iv-754, roy. 8vo. 



Rammelsberg, C. [Translator]. 



See Johnston, James F. W. 



Ratton, J. J. L. 



A Handbook of Common Salt. Madras, 1877. 8vo. 



Contains brief historical sketch. Cf. Schleiden, M. J. 



Rattray, Jacob. 



Dissertatio exhibens vitrei thermometri historiam simul et acroamati- 

 cam delineationem. Lugduni Batavorum, 1679. 410. 



Rau, Albrecht. 



*Die Grundlage der modernen Chemie ; eine historisch-philosophische 



Analyse. Braunschweig, 1877. pp. 114, 8vo. 

 Die Lehre von der chemischen Valenz und ihr Verhaltniss zur electro- 

 chemischen Theorie. Eine historisch-kritische Studie. Leipzig, 

 1879. 8vo. 



Reed, William. 



The History of Sugar and Sugar-yielding Plants. Together with an 

 epitome of every notable process of sugar extraction and manu- 

 facture, from the earliest times to the present. London, 1866. 

 pp. viii-206, i2mo. 



Regnault. 



L'origine ancienne de la physique nouvelle. Amsterdam, 1735. 3 vols., 

 8vo. 



Reiber, Ferdinand. 



Etudes Gambrinales. Histoire et archeologie de la biere et principale- 

 ment de la biere de Strasbourg. Paris, 1882. 8vo. 



Reinhold, Johann Christian Leopold. 



De galvanismo specirpen I, IL Lipsiae, 1798. 4to. 



Contains the history and literature to date of issue. 

 See Sue, Pierre (le jeune). 



