iv CONTENTS. 



Difference in the Power of Plants to decompose 



Ammonia ..... 266 



Practical Inferences . • . . 268 



Use of Phosphate of Soda . • • . 286 



Daniell's Artificial Manure . . • 287 



PART SECOND. 



ON THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF FERMENTATION, DECAY, AND 



PUTREFACTION. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. — Chemical Transformations . . . 289 



n. — On the Causes which effect Fermentation, Decay, 



and Putrefaction . . . . . 292 

 m. — Fermentation and Putrefaction . . . 300 

 IV. — On the Transformation of Bodies which do not con- 

 tain Nitrogen as a constituent, and of those in 

 which it is present .... 305 

 V. — Fermentation of Sugar . , . .313 

 VI. — Eremacausis, or Decay . . . 322 

 Vn. — Eremacausis of Bodies destitute of Nitrogen : For- 

 mation of Acetic Acid . . . 329 

 Vni. — Eremacausis of Substances containing Nitrogen: 



Nitrification .... 334 



IX. — On Vinous Fermentation : Wine and Beer . 338 



X. -—On the Decay of Woody Fibre . . 357 



XI. — On Vegetable Mould . , . .363 



Xn. — On the Mouldering of Bodies : Paper, Brown Coal, 



and Mineral Coal .... 365 



Xni. — On Poisons, Contagions, and Miasms . 373 



Appendix to Part II. . . . . . 415 



Tables, — Showing the Proportion between the Hessian 



and English Standard of Weights and Measures 416 

 Index . . . , . . 419 



