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INDEX 



Koch's cholera bacillus, 122 

 Kossel, 197 

 Kuhne, 25 



LAB, 178 



Laccase, 175, 176 



Laccol, 176 



Lactalbumin, 183, 208 



Lactase, 130 



Lactic acid fermentation of sugar, 13 

 acids, 61, 149, 151, 155, 157 



Lacto-globulin, 208 



Lactose, a disaccharose, 84 ; acid 

 fermentation of, 145-149 ; for- 

 mation of lactic acid from, 61 ; 

 inversion of, by acids, etc., 92-94 ; 

 unaffected by yeast juice, 137 ; 

 preparation of, 95 



Lsevo-lactic acid, 154 



Laevo-rotatory, 75 ; zinc lactate, 151 



Lsevulose (see, Fruit sugar) 



Latour, Gagniard de, 134 



Latrine tanks, 287 



Lavoisier, 132 



Le Bel, 76 



Leather, 19 



Leguminosae, 125, 260 



Leptomitus lacteus, 308 



Leptotricheae, 18 



Letts, on application of denitrifica- 

 tion in sewage purification, 299 ; 

 on fermentation of Ulv a latissimu, 

 238 ; on pollution of estuaries, 

 283 ; on production of nitrous 

 oxide in contact beds, 298 ; on 

 reduction of sulphates, 237 



Leucin, 195, 196 



Libavius, 132 



Liebig, 96, 134, 135 



Liebig's meat extn ct, 23 



Lignine, 22 



Lignite, 167 



Lime, 259 



Lipase, 170, 171, 172, 1"3 



Lippich, 108, 109 



Liquor pancreaticus, 170 

 pepticus, 189 



Lister, 20 



Little Drayton sewage filter, 294 



Lockett, 228 



Loevenhart, 172, 174 



Loew, 254 



Lucerne, 260 

 Lypolytic enzyme, 204 

 Lysin, 197, 198 



MacConkey, 309 

 MacGregor, 150 

 Madagascar manna, 92 

 Madder plant, 1 

 Madras, water supplies of, 309 

 Maize, 100 

 Malonic acid, 63 



Malt, characteristics and manu- 

 facture of, 101 ; distribution 

 of amylase in, 120 ; prepara- 

 tion of amylase from, 104 

 extract, action on leaf extract, 

 125; on starch, 103-104, 

 117 ; preparation of, 102 

 sugar, 94 



Maltase, 14, 126, 129, 270 

 Maltose, cupric oxide reducing power 

 of, 111 ; detection of, 113 ; hydro- 

 lysis by maltase, 128-129 ; in- 

 version of, 94 ; occurrence in plant 

 assimilation, 269-270; prepara- 

 tion of, 95 ; product of sacchari- 

 fication of starch, 104 ; produc- 

 tion from starch by Aspergillus 

 niger, 123 ; in leaves of tro- 

 paeolum majus, 125 ; solution 

 factor of, 108 



Manchester Ship Canal, 240 

 Mangin, 161 



Mann, H. H., 177, 250, 251 

 Manna, 91, 92 

 Mannite or mannitol, 91, 137, 154, 



155, 156 



Mannose, 91, 142, 143 

 Mariotte, 37 

 Marsh gas, 2, 147 

 Martin, Dr., 140 



filter, 140 

 Massachusetts State Board of 



Health, 225 



Matunga installation, 285 

 McKay, 238 

 Melanin, 209 

 Mercaptan, 239 

 Methyl alcohol, 84, 98 

 esters, 98 

 glucosidee, 98 

 Methyl-amine, 56, 59 



