INDEX. 



383 



Embryo, 684, 724. 

 Epsom salts, 250, 876. 

 Equivalent, 125, 138, 144, 369. 

 Excrement, 607, 787, 799, 812. 

 Excrements of sea fowl, 814. 

 Exhaustion of soils, 748, 986. 

 Expansion, 62, 65. 

 Explosions of fire-damp, 132. 



Paints, distiller's, 403. 

 Fallowing, 752. 

 Farmyard dung, 802, 1002. 

 Fat, 601, 613. 

 — of animals, 594, 936. 

 Feathers, 820. 



Feeding off with sheep, 756, 813. 

 Ferment, 366. 

 Fermentation, 15, 364, 423, 765. 



— acetic, 375, 393, 



408, 478. 



— lactic, 377, 570. 



— of bread, 438, 447, 



452. 



— produces carbonic 



acid, 121, 364, 

 372. 

 putrid, 845, 380. 



— vinous, 364, 372, 



385, 440. 

 Fertility, 750. 

 Fibre, woody, 319. 

 Fibrin, animal, 564. 



— vegetable, 347. 

 Finings, 593. 

 Fir-ashes, 1006. 

 Fire, 36. 



Fire-damp, 69, 132. 

 Fish refuse, 816. 

 Fixed oil, 506. 



Fixing ammonia, 790, 876, 888. 



Flame, 61, 93, 100. 



Flax, 319. 



Flesh, 564. 



Flint, 262, 550. 



Flooring malt, 692. 



Flour, 348, 440, 909. 



— damaged, 456. 

 Flowers, 716. 



— effect of, on the air, 716. 



Fluorides, 193. 



Fluorine, 193. 



Food of animals, 611. 



— chemical use of, 605. 

 — - of plants, 782, 784. 



Formation of seed, 712. 

 Formation of soils, 649, 750. 

 Foul smells, 182, 773. 

 Freezing, effects of, 65. 

 — of water, 63. 

 Fruit, 336, 341, 712, 729. 



— ripening of, 717. 

 Fuel, 86. 



Fumigating by chlorine, 185. 

 Fumigation by sulphur, 176. 

 Fungi, 796. 

 Fur, from water, 232. 



G. 



Galvanized iron, 314. 

 Game, preserving, 807. 

 Gas, 26. 



— coal, 83, 134,537. 



— inflammable, 132. 



— manufacture of, 134. 



— liquor, 854, 886. 



— strength of, 889. 



— tar, 537. 

 Gastric juice, 608. 

 Gelatine, 589. 

 Geneva, 406. 

 Germination, 682, 697. 



— accelerated, 696. 



Gin, 406. 

 Glass, 219, 262. 

 Glauber's salts, 224. 

 Gliadine, 347. 

 Gloucester cheese, 586. 

 Glue, 590. 



— refuse, 820. 

 Gluten, 346, 349. 

 Glycerine, 513. 

 Gold, 292, 314. 



— chloride, 293. 



— of pleasure, 938. 



— mosaic, 308. 

 Gooseberries, 496. 

 Grain of wheat, 907. 

 Grains, spent, 418. 

 Grape sugar, 340, 382, 371. 



