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INDEX 



Phenylanilidoessigsaurenitril, 295. 

 Phenylchloracetonitril, description of, 293. 

 Phenyltrimethylphenylacetonitril, 289. 

 Philosophy of life, 103. 

 Phloretin, Constitution of (paper), 313. 



Phlorizin, description of, 343. 



Phlox Carolina, compounds in, 282. 



Phloxol, a crystalline camphor, 207. 



Picramnine, a new alkaloid, 207. 



Pinner, Professor, 48. 



Plant Analysis as an Applied Science (pa- 

 per), 175. 



Plant cells, 260. 



Plant chemistry, lecture on, 25; in relation 

 to sorghum sugar, 210. 



Plant forms, chemical basis of, 112, 232. 



Plants, chemical classification of, 23, 169; 

 growth of, 59; Miss Abbott's arrange- 

 ment of, 113; chemical constituents of, 

 1 68, 233, 264; Comparative Chemistry 

 of (paper), 257. 



Plasmodia, explained, 245. 



Plato, influence of, 409. 



Polyclinic, Philadelphia, 115. 



Polyporus, acid of, 247. 



Polysaccharides, explanation of, 323. 



Polytechnicum of Zurich, 72. 



Porro-Mxiller operation, 13. 



Pringsheim, Professor, visit to, 51. 



Progression, law of, 276. 



Protoplasm, living and dead, 232. 



Pyrophaeal, 252. 



Quinine, manufacture of, 190. 



Radiometer, discovery of, 85. 



Rattlesnakes, 22. 



Ree, Frau, 40 et seq. 



Rein, Professor, visit to, 82. 



Religious trend of thought, 93. 



Renoir, pictures of, 356, 362. 



Resins named in al, 137, note. 



Retzius, Professor, 32. 



Rochegrosse, picture by, 391. 



Rohmann, shows use of blood serum 



33 1 - 



Roscoe, Sir Henry, 26. 

 Rotation of crops, explained, 239. 

 Royal Society, meeting of, 85. 

 Rundstrom, Inez C., 30. 

 Rye, nutritive value of, 195. 



Salm-Horstmar, experiments of, 240. 



Salt Lake City, visit to, 12. 



Sand, George, 18. 



Sap, flow of, 238. 



Saponin, study of, 61; discoveries in, 112 



a constructive element, 168; in Saraca, 

 173; distribution of, 174; complexity of , 

 253; presence of, 252, 253. 



Saraca Indica, coloring principle for, 171, 

 205, 255. 



Scheibler, discovery of arabinose, 337. 

 chiff, Hugo, investigations of, 313. 



Schleiden, Dr. J. M., cited, 175. 



Schunck, Dr. Edward, 27. 



Schwendener, Professor, 52; visit to, 54. 



Scientific Notes, 19. 

 Separation" (poem), 100. 



September Day (poem), 94. 



Sewing-machines, 43. 



Shelley, Browning's admiration of, 395. 



Silica as possible living matter, 278. 



Silicic acid, importance of, 242. 



Smith, Dr. W. J., 79; Mrs. Smith, 71, 80. 



Smitt, Professor, 33. 



Snakes, feeding of, 19. 



Sorghum, sugar from, 198; changeable dis- 

 position of, 222. 



Spectroscope, n, 21. 



Spencer, Herbert, 10. 



Starch in plants, 274. 



Stearns, Frederick, & Co., manufactures of, 

 189. 



Steenstrup, Professor J., 37. 



Stereo-chemistry, 324. 



Stockholm, impressions of, 35. 



Strohmann, Professor, 66; visit to, 61. 



Sugar-canes, wax in, 24. 



Sugars, manufacture of, 196; artificial 

 production of, 320; table of, 334; value 

 of the higher, 337. 



"Sunshine on the Delaware" (poem), 96. 



Sweden, manners in, 29, schools of, 31; 

 Royal Academy of, 33; titles in, 34. 



Swedenborg, E., suggests geometrical form 

 of matter, 324. 



Switzerland, parties in, 76. 



Tannin, appearance of, 270. 



Tartaric acid, depicted, 326. 



Tea, distribution of, 191; importation of, 

 191. 



Thomson, Dr. William, 9, 18. 



Thun, visit to, 74. 



Tolylphenylacetonitril, synthesis of, 287. 



Topelius, Miss, 30. 



Trimble, Professor Henry, 14; discovery 

 by, 280. 



Triangulation, idea of, 350, 352. 



Truth, conception of, 88; among the Greeks 

 and in Browning (paper), 393; as re- 

 lated to the drama (paper), 364. 



Tufts College Medical School, 101. 



