INDEX 



Acid explained, 328 



Actinium, 155 



Actinium, disintegration of, 157 



Adjective dyes, 327 



Adsorption, 204, 320, 454 



Age of the earth, 168 



Airships, 244 



Albuminous substances, 424 



Alizarin, 327 



Alkaloids, 340 



Aluminium, 261 



Amino-acids from proteins, 434 



Amphoteric electrolytes, 194 



Amygdalin, 418, 450 



Anaesthetics, 335 



Andrews' experiments on gases, 86 



Aniline, 314 



Anthocyanin, 443 



Anthocyanidin, 443 



Antifebrine, 336 



Antipyrine, 337 



Antitoxins, 453 



Apparatus, 76 



Argon, properties of, 138 



Arrhenius, biographic notice, 472 



on conductivity, 186 



theory of free ions, 189 

 Arsenical poisoning, Commission, 64 

 Aspirin, 336 



Asymmetric carbon, 215 



nitrogen, 220 



silicon, 221 



phosphorus, 221 



sulphur, 221 



tin, 221 



Atomic weights, International list of, 



125 



Atoxyl, 339 

 Atropine, 341 

 Avogadro's law, 104, 109 

 Azo-dyes, 331 



Baker on influence of moisture on in- 

 flammability, 390 

 Balances, 76 

 Barbitone, 337 



Barley grain, membrane of, 52, 174 

 Barlow and Pope on valency, 222 

 Base explained, 328 

 Becquerel on phosphorescence, 141 

 Beer, duty on, 63 



brewing of, 48 

 Beet sugar, 181, 412 

 Bellite, 387 



Benzene rectifying plant, 308 

 Berthelot, biographic notice, 472 



on explosives, 389 



Birkeland and Eyde electric arc, 405 



Black, 103 



Blasting gelatine, 385 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 62 



Boyle, 103 



Bragg on crystal structure, 226 



Brewing school, 47 



Brown, H. T., on chemistry in the 



leaf, 457, 459 

 Brownian movement, 232 



Caffeine, 338 



Calcium carbide, 83, 400 



Camphor, 354 



Cannizzaro, 104 



Carborundum, 83 



Carminic acid, 447 



Carrotene, 444 



Catalysis, 196 



Catalytic action of acids, 197 



alumina, 208 



copper salts, 212 



enzymes, 448 



fire-brick, 209 



iron oxide, 200 



manganic oxide, 197 



nickel, 203 



nitric oxide, 198 



osmium, 201 



palladium, 204 



platinum, 196, 199, 202 



water, 198 



Cavendish's experiments on air, 136, 



403 

 Cavendish on inflammable air, 242 



483 



