Index 



Jones, 18S; Constitution of Silver Nitrites, P. C. Ray 

 and A. C, Gafiguli, 189; Benzoic Sulphinide, F. I). 

 Chattaway, 189; Action of Heat on a-Hydroxycarboxylic 

 Acids, 11. R. I.'- Sueur, 189-90; Action of Ultra-violet 

 Light on Moist and Dried Mixtures of Carbon Monoxide 

 anil Oxvgen, S. Chadwick, J. E. Ramsbottom, and D, I.. 

 Chapman, 190; Estimation of Carbon Monoxide in Air 

 by Iodic Anhydride, Albert L4vy and A. Pecoul, 335 ; 

 Difficulties Presented by the Estimation of Carbon Mon- 

 oxide in Gaseous Mixtures, Armand Gautier and M. 

 Clausmann, 455 ; Silver Dioxide and Silver Peroxynitrate, 

 E. R. Watson, 190; Caro's Permonosulphuric Acid, T. S. 

 Price, 190; Distillation of Gold, the Alloys of Gold and 

 on a New Method of Preparation of the Purple of Cassius, 

 Henri Moissan, 191 ; New Solvent for Gold, J. Moir, 623 ; 

 Solution of Platinum in Sulphuric Acid, Marcel Delepine, 

 192 ; New Compound of Fluorine and Bromine, Paul 

 Lebeau, 192 ; Action of Phosphorus Pentachloride on 

 3-Naphthol, E. Berger, 192 ; Crystallised Ha-matin, MM. 

 Piettre and Vila, 192 ; Diastatic Hydrolysis of Xylane, 

 Gaston Seilliere, 192 ; Biochemie der Pflanzen, Prof. Dr. 

 Fr. Czapek, F. Escombe, 193 ; Corr., F. Escombe, 341 ; 

 New Methods of Testing Explosives, C. E. Bichel, 194 ; 

 Dewar's Method of producing High Vacua by Means of 

 Charcoal, Lord Blvthswood and H. S. Allen, 207 ; 

 Physical and Chemical Properties of Solutions of Chloro- 

 form and other Anaesthetics, Prof. B. Moore and Dr. 

 Herbert E. Roaf, 213; Chemische Technologie, Dr. Fr. 

 Heusler, 243 ; Elements of Quantitative Analysis, Dr. 

 < 1. H. Bailey, 244; Insoluble Potassium Compounds Con- 

 tained in Humic Materials, M. Berthelot, 262 ; Hydro- 

 cyanic Principle of the Black Elder, L. Guignard, 262 ; 

 Influence of some Factors on Experimental Partheno- 

 genesis, Yves Delage, 262 ; Benzoyl Nitrate, F. E. 

 Francis, 262 ; Chemical Dynamics of Alcoholic Ferment- 

 ation by Yeast, A. Slator, 262 ; Intramolecular Change 

 Leading to the Formation of Naphthalene Derivatives, 

 E. F. J. Atkinson and J. F. Thorpe, 262; Solubility of 

 Zinc Hydroxide in Alkalis, J. Moir, 262 ; the Slow Com- 

 bustion of Carbon Disulphide, N. Smith, 262 ; Determin- 

 ation of the Rare Gases in Natural Gaseous Mixtures, 

 Charles Moureu, 263 ; Action of Acetylene on Iodine 

 Pentoxide, Georges F. Jaubert, 263 ; Action of Glucose 

 on Selenious Acid, MM. CEchsner de Coninck and Chau- 

 venet, 263 ; Action of Ammonia Gas on the Tribromide 

 and Triiodide of Phosphorus, C. Hugot, 263 ; New Mode 

 of Preparation of Barium, M. Guntz, 263 ; Exercises in 

 Quantitative Chemistry, Harmon Northrop Morse, 268; 

 Cheirality of F'orm of Crystals of Epsom Salt, Dr. H. C. 

 Pocklington, 270; Death of Dr. H. J. P. Sprengel, 

 F.R.S., 274; Obituary Notice of, 302; the Coagulation 

 of Colloidal Solutions of Ferric Hydroxide, F. Giolitti, 

 278 ; New Type of Compound in the Group of Rare 

 Metals, C. Matignon and E. Cazes, 287; Electrolytic 

 Preparation of Spongy Tin, D. Tommasi, 287 ; Cuprous- 

 silicide, Em. Yigouroux, 287 ; Reduction of Chlorides of 

 Silver and Copper by Calcium, L. Hackspill, 287; Pre- 

 paration of Ethylenic and Acetylenic Hydrocarbons, E. 

 Chablay, 287 ; Hordenine, a New Alkaloid extracted from 

 the Germs of Barley, E. L£ger, 288 ; Action of Hordenine 

 Sulphate on Soluble Ferments and on Micro-organisms, 

 L. Camus, 383 ; Radio-activity, Prof. E. Rutherford, 

 F.R.S., Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 289; Higher .Mathe- 

 matics for Students of Chemistry and Physics, with 

 Special Reference to Practical Work, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 

 290; First Steps in Quantitative Analysis, J. C. Gregory, 

 293 ; Chlorides in Nerve Cells and Fibres, Prof. A. B. 

 Macallum and Miss M. L. Menten, 311; Refractory 

 Metals in the Electric Furnace, Prof. Henri Moissan, 

 325; Unsuccessful Attempt to Liquefy Helium, Prof. 

 Olszewski, 325 ; Influence of the Reaction of the Medium 

 on the Activity of Amylase and on the Composition of 

 Saccharified Starch, L. Maquenne and Eug. Roux, 335 ; 

 Group C(OH) of the Tertiary Alcohols, Louis Henry, 

 335 ; the Whitening of Wheaten Flour, E. Fleurent, 331; ; 

 Influence of Colouring Matters on Form of Crystals, 

 P. Gaubert, 335 ; Variations of Phosphoric Acid and 

 Nitrogen in the Juices of the Leaves of Certain Plants, 

 G. Andre, 335 ; Utilisation of Nitrogen in Air by Plants, 

 Trios. Jamieson, 531, 607; A. D. H., 608; New Mode of 

 Formation of Silicon Soluble in Hvdrofluoric Acid, Paul 



Lebeau, 335 ; a Silicide of Thorium, O. Hbnigschmid, 

 335 ; Combustion of Acetylene by Oxygen, Paul 

 Mauricheau-Beaupre, 335 ; the Electric Production of 

 Nitrates from the Atmosphere, Prof. Sylvanus P. Thomp- 

 son, F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 355; Refractive Indices 

 of Crystallising Solutions, H. A. Miers and F. Isaac, 

 357; Effect of Constitution on the Rotatory Power of 

 Optically Active Nitrogen Compounds, M. B. Thomas 

 and H. O. Jones, 357 ; Determination of Available Plant 

 Food in Soil by the Use of Weak Acid Solvents, A. D. 

 Hall and A. Amos, 357; Silicon Thiocyanate, J. E. 

 Reynolds, 357 ; New Compounds of Fluorine, E. B. R. 

 Prideaux, 357; Causes of " Blowing" in Tins of Con- 

 densed Milk, Dr. G. H. Pethybridge, 358 ; Rapid Pre- 

 parations of Solutions of Hydriodie Acid, F. Bodroux, 

 359 ; Alloy of Thorium and Aluminium, O. Honigschmid, 

 359; Researches on the Halogen Compounds of the 

 Borates of Barium and Strontium, L, Ouvrard, 359 ; 

 Nutrition of Green Plants by Amides in the Absence of 

 Carbon Dioxide, Jules Lefevre, 359 ; Jahrbuch der 

 Chemie, 364; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. 

 Alexander Muller, 371 ; New Method of Directly Trans- 

 forming a-Benzoylamino-p-hydroxycinnamic Acid into 

 Tyrosine, Dr. P. W. Latham, 374 ; the Critical Tempera- 

 ture and Value of ML/c9 of some Carbon Compounds, 

 J. C. Brown, 382 ; Oxidation Products of the Hydroxy- 

 benzoic Acids, A. G Perkin, 3S2 ; Hvdroxylamine-a/3- 

 disulphonates, T. Haga, 382 ; Benzenediazo-iJ>-semi- 

 carbazinocamphor and its Derivatives, M. O. Forster, 

 382 ; Relations between Absorption Spectra and Chemical 

 Constitution, part i., Chemical Reactivity of the Carbonyl 

 Group, A. W. Stewart and E. C. C. Baly, 382 ; part ii., 

 the Quinones and a-Diketones, E. C. C. Baly and A. W. 

 Stewart, 382 ; part iii., Nitranilines and Nitrophenols, 

 E. C. C. Baly, W. H. Edwards, and A. W. Stewart, 

 382 ; Sublimation of Sulphur at Ordinary Temperatures, 

 R. J. Moss, 383 ; Rotatory Powers of Hexahydrobenzy- 

 lidene and CEnanthylidencamphors, A. Haller and F. 

 March, 383 ; Condensation of the Acetylenic Nitriles with 

 Alcohols, Ch. Moureu and T. Lazennec, 383 ; Cyclo- 

 lirw lac ctone, P. Freundler, 383; Engineering Chemistry: 

 a Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis for the use 

 of Students, Chemists, and Engineers, Thomas B. Still- 

 man, 387 ; the Form of Atoms in Relation to their 

 Spectra, Prof. F. von Lindeman, 392 ; the Mineral Con- 

 stituents of the Soil Solution, F. K. Cameron and J. M. 

 Bell, 398; Development of the Swedish Chemical In- 

 dustries, 399 ; Determination of the Molecular Weight 

 of Silver Vapour by Nernst's Torsion Balance-, H. v. 

 Wartenburg, 400; Behaviour of Platinum and Iridium in 

 Chlorine Water and in Dilute Hydrochloric Acid, 403 ; 

 the Sanitary Value of a Water Analysis, Prof. Leonhard 

 P. Kinnicutt, 404 ; Calcium Iodomercurates, A. Duboin, 

 4'iN : Sulphides of Phosphorus, H. Giran, 408; Strontium, 

 MM. Guntz and Roederer, 408 ; Recombination of the 

 Ions in Saline Vapours, G. Moreau, 408; Zur Erkenntniss 

 der Kolloide, Ueber irreversible Hydrosole und Ultra- 

 mikroskopie, Richard Zsigmondy, Dr. J. A. Milrov, 410; 

 Memorial to Dr. W. H. Perkin, 419, 444; the Perkin 

 Jubilee and Chemical Industries, Sir Henry V,. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S., 438; Thermochemistry, Prof, van 't Hoff, 421; 

 Ionisation in Gases from Coloured Flames, Percival 

 Lewis, 424 ; Fusion and Distillation of Metals of the 

 Platinum Group, Prof. Henri Moissan, 424 ; Society of 

 Chemical Industry, 430, 525, 598; Carburetted Water 

 Gas in the Bunsen Burner, M. Chikashige, 430 ; Loss 

 of Nitre in the Chamber Process, J. K. H. Inglis, 430; 

 Removal of Nitrous Acid from Concentrated Nitric and 

 Sulphuric Acid, O. Silberrad and B. J. Smart, 430 ; 

 Spontaneous Crystallisation of Supersaturated Solutions, 

 H. Hartley, 431 ; New Tropeines, H. A. D. Jowett and 

 A. C. O. Hann, 431; Modification of the Volumetric Esti- 

 mation of Free Acid in the Presence of Iron Salts, C. 

 Chester Ahlum, 431; Resolution of 2 : 3-Dihvdro-3- 

 Methylindene-2-Carboxylic Acid into its Opticallv Active 

 Isomerides, A. Neville, 431 ; Cuprous Formate, A. Angel, 

 431 ; Solubility of Triphenylmethane in Organic Liquids, 

 H. Hartley and N. G. Thomas, 431 ; Condensation of the 

 Acetylenic Nitriles with Phenols, Ch. Moureu and I. 

 Lazennec, 431 ; Function of Organic Matter in Nitrifica- 

 tion, A. Muntz and E. Laine, 431 ; Synthesis of Tertiary 



