MAN 



425 



NIT 



Inorganic constituents of plants, 



105, 126. 

 Compounds, stability of, 301. 

 Iodine^ 126. 

 Iron^ oxide of, attracts ammonia, 



103. 

 Jrrioration of meadows, effect of, 



127, 16^). 

 Itch insect, 122. 



JACKSONy analysis of horse-dung, 

 177. 

 On peat compost, 258. 

 Java, soil of, 244. 

 Juices of vegetables, 27. 



Lactic acid, production of, 321. 



Lava, soil from, 149. 



Leady salts of, compounds with 



organic matter, 383. 

 Leaves, absorb carbonic acid, 43. 

 Ashes of, contain alkalies, 154. 

 Cessation of their functions, 68. 

 Change color from absorption of 



oxygen, 68. 

 Consequence of the production 



of their green principle, 173. 

 Decompose carbonic acid, 142. 

 Their office, 135. 

 Power of absorbing nutriment, 



how increased, 67. 

 Quantity of carbon received by, 



45. 

 Contain azotized matter, 188. 

 Lentils, analysis of, 159. 

 Life, notion of, 392. 

 Light, absence of, its effect, 49. 

 Chemical effects of, 105, 142. 

 Influences decomposition of car- 

 bonic acid, 53. 

 Lime, phosphate of, 183, 184, 212. 

 Limestone, analysis of, 153. 

 Lixiviation, 182. 



Lucern, phosphate of lime in, 159. 

 Benefits attending its culture, 

 172. 

 Lucas, his experiments, 249. 



MaCAIRE-PRINCEP, his experi- 

 ments, 164, 256. 

 Magnesia, phosphate of, in seeds, 



62. 

 Maine, analysis of soil of, 246. 

 Mannite, 139. 

 Manure, 174, 208. 



Animal, yields ammonia, 95, 278. 

 Artificial, 204, 212, 237. 



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Manure, components of, should be 

 known, 144. 



Carbonic acid from, 99. 



Human, 284. 



Of the Chinese, 193. 



Effect of, 173. 



Bone, 183. 



Daniell's artificial, 237. 

 Manuring of vines, 253, 254. 

 Maple juice, ammonia from, 94. 



Trees, sugar of, 94. 

 Meadoios, irrigation of, 127, 169. 

 Medicine, action of, remedies in, 



186. 

 Meconic acid, 115. 

 Melam, 70. 

 Melamin, 70. 

 Melitic acid, 363. 

 Mellon, 70. 

 Merrimack Manuf. Co., first use of 



phosphate of soda by, 286. 

 Metallic compounds required by 



plants, 60. 

 Metamoj-phosis, 291. 

 Miasm, defined, 407. 

 Michaels, St., carbonic acid at, 79. 

 Minerals attract ammonia, 103. 

 Morbid poisons, 389. 

 Motion, its influence on chemical 



forces, 296. 

 Mould, vegetable, 363. 



Conversion of woody fibre into, 

 364. 



Condenses ammonia, 104. 

 Mouldering of bodies, 365. 

 Must, fermentation of, 340. 



Naples, soils of, 152, 285. 

 Mght-soil, 193, 199, 259, 284. 

 Nile, soil of its vicinity, 168. 

 Nitrate of soda as a manure, 206. 



Theory of its formation, 277. 



Of Peru, 270, 277. 



Experiments with, 271. 

 Nitrated wheat, 272. 



Flour, 275. 

 Nitric acid from ammonia, 336. 



Animals, 88. 



How formed, 335. 

 Nitrification, 334. 



Condition for, 336. 

 Nitrogen from animals, 87. 



Absorption of by plants, 267. 



Account of, 25 



Application of substances con- 

 taining it, 99. 



Assimilation of, 85, 97. 



