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cement, 109 ; ozone, 109 ; do plants liberate 

 ozone? 110; improved process in calico-print- 

 ing, 110 ; alizarin as a test, 111 ; new method 

 of assaying lead-ores, 111 ; extraction of vana- 

 dium, 111; preservation of wine, 112; culti- 

 vation of sugar-beet, 112; new process for 

 measuring alcohol in wines, 112 ; spontane- 

 ous combustion of charcoal, 112; poison in 

 colored tapers, 113 ; silicon in pig-iron, 113 ; 

 new method of separating calcium from mag- 

 nesium, 113 ; colophthaline and coloph-alumi- 

 na, 114 ; artificial vanillin, 114 ; new synthesis 

 of glycocoll, 114 ; formation of black phospho- 

 rus, 115 ; relation of alkalies to putrefactive 

 changes, 115; chrysenine, 115; new method 

 of obtaining nitric oxide, 115 ; restoration of 

 deteriorated chloroform, 115; etching on cop- 

 per, 116; formation of urea, 116; tempering 

 steel, 116 ; new coloring matter, 116 ; cyanogen 

 in bromine, 117; soluble starch, 117; chlora- 

 lum as a disinfectant, 117; effect of acid on 

 iron wire, 117. 



XV. Salicylic acid, 104; properties, 105; 

 antiseptic, 105 ; action on vegetation, 106 ; 

 new process for purifying illuminating gas, 

 106 ; researches on the coloring principles of 

 madder, 107 ; improved process for preparing 

 sulphate of nickel, 107; water-analysis, 107; 

 influence on vegetation of arsenical poisons in 

 the soil, 107 ; improved manufacture of sul- 

 phuric acid, 108 ; a new coloring matter, 109 ; 

 detection of lead in the tin lining of vessels, 

 109 ; action of light on silver salts, 109 ; do. 

 on cane-sugar, 109 ; new test for the detection 

 of prussic acid, 109 ; explosion of methyl ni- 

 trate, 110 ; maltose, 110 ; new process for 

 determining the extraneous alcohol in wine, 

 110 ; new arsenical green paints, 110 ; action 

 of saline solutions on tin, 111 ; formation of 

 nitrogen compounds in nature, 111; atmos- 

 pheric peroxide of hydrogen, 111; chemical 

 changes attending the growth and ripening of 

 fruits, 111 ; detection of arsenic in organic 

 matter, 112; detection of artificially-colored 

 wine, 112 ; new method of preparing vermil- 

 ion, 112; improvements in chemical apparatus, 

 112; cotton gunpowder, 113 ; influence of am- 

 monia on the color of flowers, 113 ; source of 

 ammonia in the air, 114. 



CHENEY, CHARLES. XIV. Decease of, 641. 



CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD. XII. 

 Mineral character of region traversed, 335; 

 completion of, 496. 



CHILI. 



CHESEBRO, CAROLINE, American authoress. 

 XIII. Birth, 109 ; death, 109 ; education, 109 ; 

 first publications, 109 ; later works, 110 ; char- 

 acter, 110. 



CHESNEY, General FRANCIS RAWDON. XII. 

 Birth, death, 99; career, 99; works, 99. 



CHEW, ROBERT S., Chief Clerk of Depart- 

 ment of State. XIII. Obituary of, 576. 



CHICAGO FIRE. XI. Extent of, 393, 394; 

 summary of losses, 894 ; effect on insurance 

 companies, 394; relief sent, 394, 396 ; diagram 

 of burnt district, 395 ; meeting of Legislature, 

 396; relief granted for the city, 396; action 

 of General Sheridan, 396 ; Governor Palmer 

 remonstrates against military control, 897; 

 withdrawal of troops, 398 ; killing of Colonel 

 Grosvenor, 898; action of grand-jury, 398, 

 399; message of Governor to Legislature in 

 regard to, 399 ; letter of President to Govern- 

 or Palmer, 399, 400 ; reply of Governor, 400 ; 

 appointment of committee by Legislature, 400 ; 

 action of Legislature, 400, 401. 



XII. Pork-packing in. (See Pork-packing) 



CHICAMACOM1CO. I. Attack on the Federal 

 troops at, 289. 



CHICHESTER, Rt. Rev. ASHHURST TURNER GIL- 

 BERT, D. D., Bishop of. X. Birth, 99 ; death, 

 99 ; career, 99. 



CHICKERING, Colonel THOMAS E. XL Obit- 

 uary of, 570. 



tlllLDS, Colonel CEPHAS G. XL Obituary 

 of, 579. 



CHILDS, HENRY HALSEY. VIII. Birth, 108; 

 death, 108 ; pursuits, 109. 



CHILI. II. Its situation, 222; provinces 

 and population, 222; its claims to territory, 

 223; Araucanians, 223; tranquillity of the 

 country, 223. 



III. Population, 182; army, 182; finances, 

 182 ; difficulty with England, 182 ; burning of 

 a church, 183 ; action of the United States 

 representative, 183. 



IV. Officers of the Government, 180 ; pop- 

 ulation, 180 ; debt, 180 ; army, 180 ; commerce, 

 180 ; interest in the difficulties of Peru, 180 ; 

 German colonists, 180 ; minerals in the Andes, 

 180 ; pass through the Andes, 181. 



V. President and ministers, 156 ; Legisla- 

 ture, 156 ; area and population, 156 ; govern- 

 ment expenditures, 156 ; army and navy, 156 ; 

 imports and exports, 156 ; movements of ship- 

 ping, 156 ; number and tonnage of vessels, 156 ; 

 difficulty with Spain, 156-158 ; causes of com- 



