Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 June 2, 189a. J 



Index 



Sabatier, 41 ; Butylene Monobromides, E. Reboul, 47 ; the 

 Direct Combination of Metals with Chlorine and Bromine, 

 Gautier and Charpy, 47 ; a New Hydroxylamine, Dr. de Bruyn, 

 48 ; a Text-book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology, 

 W. D. Halliburton, Dr. E. H. Starling, 51 ; Two New 

 Phospho-iodides of Boron, H. Moissan, 67 ; Action of Aqueous 

 Solution of Ammonia on Phthalic Chloride, Hoogewerff and 

 van Dorp, 72 ; a Double Chloride of Copper and Lithium, A. 

 Chassevant, 72 ; Existence of Acid or Basic Salts of Mono- 

 basic Acids in very Dilute Solutions, D. Berthelot, 72 ; Arith- 

 metical Exercises in Chemistry, Leonard Dobbin, 76 ; Mond 

 and Langer on Iron Carbonyl, 89 ; Berthelot on the Oxidation 

 of Nickel Carbonyl, 89 ; Chemical Society, 92, 213, 262, 382, 

 429, 452, 525, 550, 623 ; Prof. Bunsen and the Chemical 

 Society, 469 ; Magnetic Rotatory Power of Solu tions of 

 Ammonia and Sodium Salts of Fatty Acids, Dr. W. H. 

 Perkin, F.R.S., 92 ; Action of Water Gas on Iron, Roscoe 

 and Scudder, 92 ; Dissociation of Liquid Nitrogen Peroxide, 

 J. T. Cundale, 92 ; Ortho- and Para-nitro-ortho-toluidine, 

 Green and Lawson, 92 ; Gedda Gums, the Dextro-rotatory 

 Varieties, C. O'SuUivan, 93 ; Some Compounds of Oxides of 

 Silver and Lead, Emily Aston, 93 ; Electrolysis of Potassium 

 Acetate Solutions, Dr. T. S. Murray, 93 ; New Method of 

 Preparing 3-dinaphthylene Oxide, Hodgkinson and Limpach, 

 93 ; Van der Waals's Generalizations regarding Correspond- 

 ing Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes, Prof. Sydney 

 Young, 93 ; Heat of Formation of Hydrazine and Hydrazoic 

 Acid, Berthelot and Matignon, 95 ; the Dielectric Power, 

 Julien Lefebvre, 95 ; Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric 

 Acid, George Lunge, Ph.D., Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 

 121 ; a Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, Samuel 

 P. Sadtler, 125 ; Further Researches upon Azoimide, N3H, 

 A. E. Tutton, 127 ; Phosphides of Boron, Moissan and Besson, 

 136 ; the Bromine Derivatives of Methyl Chloride, A. Besson, 

 143 ; the Ammonia in the Air and Rain of a Tropical Region, 

 Marcano and Muntz, 143 ; Attraction of Liquid Oxygen by 

 Faraday Magnet, Prof. Dewar, 154 ; Curious Compound of 

 Lead Sodium and Ammonia, Joannis, 158 ; Vapour Tensions 

 of Cobalt Chloride Solutions, Georges Charpy, 167 ; Thermal 

 Data concerning Active Malic Acid and Potassium and Sodium 

 Malates, G. Massol, 167 ; Ammonia in Atmospheric Waters, 

 Albert Levy, 168 ; Chemical Constitution of Adenin and 

 Hypoxanthin, Dr. Kriiger, 168 ; two New Methods of pre- 

 paring Free Solid Hydroxylamine, M. Crismer, 1 85 ; the Three 

 Basicities of Phosphoric Acid, D. Berthelot, 192 ; a Green 

 Solid Chromic Sulphate, A. Recoura, 192 ; Crystallization of 

 Tetraiodide of Carbon, M. Moissan, 209 ; Phosphorous 

 Oxide, ii., Thorpe and Tutton, 213; Frangulin, ii., Thorpe 

 and Miller, 214 ; Structure and Chemistry of Flames, Smithells 

 and Ingle, 214 ; the Structure of Luminous Flames A. 

 Smithells, 214 ; Mydatic Alkaloid Hyoscyamine in Lettuce, 

 T. S. Dymond, 214; Cryptopine, Brown and Perkin, 214; 

 Action of Sodium on Ethereal Salts, iii., Benzylic Ortho- 

 toluate, R. W. Hodgkinson, 214; New Compounds of Carbonyl 

 Platinum Chloride and Bromide with Ammonia Derivatives, 

 Dr. Foerster, 236 ; Molecular Weight of Gadolinia, 237 ; 

 Metallic Borates, H. LeChatelier, 240; a Silicon Chlorosulph- 

 ide, A. Besson, 240 ; Influence of Isomorphism on Behaviour 

 of Double Salts during Solution, Dr. Bakhuis Roozeboom, 

 240; the Chemistry of Paints and Paintings, A. H. Church, 

 F.R.S., Dr. Hugo Miilier, F.R.S., 241 ; Colour and Spectrum 

 of Free Gaseous Fluorine, Moissan, 260 ; Metallic Hydro- 

 sulphides, Linder and Picton, 262 ; Physical Composition of 

 some Sulphide Solutions, H. Picton, 263 ; Solution and 

 Pseudo-Solution, ii., Picton and Linder, 263 ; Change in 

 Acidified Solution of Sodium Thiosulphate, when Products 

 retained within System, A.Colefax, 263 ; Action of Sulphurous 

 Acid on Flowers of Sulphur, A. Colefax, 263 ; a and 3 

 Modifications of Chloro- benzene Hexachloride,F. E.Matthews, 

 263 ; Sulphochlorides of Isomeric Dibromonaphthalenes, 

 Armstrong and Rossiter, 263 ; Action of Alcohols on 

 Sulphonic Chlorides as means of producing Ethereal Salts of 

 Sulphonic Acids, Armstrong and Rossiter, 263 ; Action 

 of Bromine on Mixture of Ortho- and Paranitro-o- 

 acenaphthalide, Armstrong and Rossiter, 263 ; Camphrone, 

 Armstrong and Kipping, 263 ; Metaxylenesulphonic Acids, ii., 

 G. T. Moody, 263 ; Direct Combination of Nitrogen with the 

 Alkaline Earthy Metals, Maquenne, 264 ; Nitration of 

 Hydrocarbons of the Methane Series, Konovaloff, 264 ; 

 Magnesium Nitride, Dr. Merz, 280 ; Manganates of Potash, 

 G. Rousseau, 288; Outlines of Practical Physiological 



Chemistry, F. Charles Larkin and Randle Leigh, 292 ; 

 Problems in Chemical Arithmetic, E. J. Cox, 293 ; New 

 Liquid Compound of Carbon, Oxygen, and Chlorine, M. 

 Fauconnier, 306 ; Lithium Nitride, Dr. Merz, 307 ; Origin of 

 Flame Coloration, Prof. Smithells, 306 ; Composition of 

 lolite, O, C. Farrington, 310 ; a Series of Caesium 

 Trihalides, H. L. Wells, 310 ; Action of Carbon 

 Monoxide on Iron and Manganese, M. Guntz, 311 ; 

 Chloride of Sodium in Plants, P. Lesage, 312 ; the Indexing 

 of Chemical Literature, 324 ; Remarkable Series of Com- 

 pounds of Halogen Salts of Caesium, with two more Atoms 

 of Chlorine, Bromine, or Iodine, Wells and Penfield, 325 ; the 

 Characteristic Equation of Water Vapour, Ch. Antoine, 336 ; 

 the Estimation of Molybdenum, E. Pechard, 336 : Guide to 

 the Examinations in Chemistry, W. Jerome Harrison, 342 ; 

 Two New Compounds of Carbon, Chlorine, and Bromine, 

 M. Besson, 351 ; Barium and Strontium Nitrates, M. 

 Maquenne, 360 ; Action of Metals on Salts dissolved in 

 Organic Liquids, Raoul Varet, 360 ; Experiment illustrating 

 the Power of Palladium of occluding Hydrogen, Prof. 

 Wilson, 380 ; Certain Ternary Alloys, v., C. R. A. Wright, 

 F.R.S., 381 ; the Luminosity of Coal Gas Flames, V. B. 

 Lewes, 382 ; the Action of Dilute Nitric Acid on Coal, R, J. 

 Friswe 1, 383 ; a Pure Fermentation of Mannitol and Dulcitol, 

 Frankland and Frew, 383 ; Synthesis of Hexahydro- 

 terephthalic Acid, Mackenzie and Perkin, 383 ; Magnetic 

 Rotation of Dissolved Salts, W. Ostwald, 383 ; the Dissocia- 

 tion of Nitrogen Peroxide, W. Ostwald, 383 ; Corydaline, 

 Dobbie and Lauder, 383 ; Silver Compounds of Thiourea, 

 J. E. Reynolds, 383 ; Determination of Freezing: Point of 

 very Dilute Solutions, as applied to Cane-sugar, M. Raoult, 

 384 ; Refraction of Liquefied Gases, James Chappuis, 384 ; 

 Decomposition of Sulphurous Acid by Water at very High 

 Temperatures, M. Scheurer-Kestner, 384 ; Chlorosulphide 

 and Bromosulphide of Lead, F. Parmentier, 384 ; Manual 

 of Chemical Technology, Rudolf von Wagner, 386 ; Interest- 

 ing Compound of Carbon and Barium, M. Maquenne, 403 ; 

 a New Method of Organic Analysis, M. Berthelot, 408 ; 

 Action of Alkaline Metals on Boric Acid, H. Moissan, 408 ; 

 Variation with Temperature of Dielectric Constant of Liquids, 

 D. Negreano, 408 ; Zeitschrift fUr Anorganische Chimie, 

 421 ; the Preparation of Amorphous Boron, M. Moissan, 

 421 ; on the Progress of Chemistry in Australasia, W. M. 

 Hamlet, 423; A. Liversidge, F.R.S., on the Rusting of 

 Iron, 424 ; Pedetic Motion in relation to Colloidal Solution, 

 W. Ramsay, 429 ; the Acid Action of Drawing-papers, W. 

 N. Hartley, 430 ; the Interactions occurring in Flames, Sir 

 G. G. Stokes and Dr. Armstrong, 430 ; Properties of Alco- 

 holic and other Solutions of Mercuric and other Chlorides, S. 

 Skinner, 430 ; the Isothermals of Mixtures of Gases, Prof, 

 Tait, 431 ; Researches on Ethyl Monochlor-, Monobrom-, 

 and Monocyanacetoacetate, Haller and Held, 432 ; Tartronic 

 Acid and Tartronatcs of Sodium and Potassium, G. Massol, 

 432 ; Prize offered by Schnyder von Wartensee's (Zurich) 

 Foundation, 443 ; Chromosulphuric Acid, M. Recoura, 445 ; 

 Phosphorous Oxide, A. E. Tutton, 446 ; Search for a Cellu- 

 lose-dissolving Enzyme in Digestive Tract of certain Grain- 

 feeding Animals, H. T. Brown, 452 ; on the Influence of 

 Oxygen and Concentration on Fermentation, A. J. Brown, 

 453 ; Limettin, W. A. Tilden, 453 ; the Acid Action of 

 Drawing-papers, Prof. Hartley, 453 ; the Heats of Forma- 

 tion of Potassium Carballylates, G. Massol, 456; the Com- 

 position of Haemocyanin, M. Zune, 456 ; Milk Ferment 

 Identical with " Kefyr " in use in Canada and United States, 

 C. L. Mix, 471 ; New Mode of Synthesizing Tartaric Acid, 

 M. Genvresse, 472 ; the Density of Aqueous Solutions, 

 Georges Charpy, 480 ; a Study of the Velocity of Decomposi- 

 tion of Diazo-compounds of Water, P. T. Muller and J. 

 Hausser, 480 ; the late Prof. Stas's "Silver" (the results of 

 further Stochiometrical Investigations), Prof. Spring, 497 ; 

 the Action of Dry Hydrochloric Acid Gas on Dry Carbon- 

 ates, Wilson and Hughes, 503 ; Researches on Samarium, 

 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 504 ; Periodic Heat Maxima 

 observed in Spectra furnished by Flint and Crown Glass and 

 Rock Salt, M. Aymonnet, 504; some Well-defined Alloys of 

 Sodium, M. Joannis, 504 ; Citric Acid, G. Massol, 504 ; 

 Pyrogenous Hydrocarbons formed in the Compressed Gas 

 Industry, A. Brochet, 504 ; a Treatise on Chemistry, Sir 

 H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., and C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 509 ; 

 Prof. Ignace Vonberg, 518; the Properties of Amorphous 

 Boron, A. E. Tutton, 522 ; Rule for determining whether a 



