60 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1918. 
® C. Koechlin, Bull. Soc. Mulhouse, 55 (1888). 
7 Cross & Bevan, Journ. Soc. Chem., Ind. 12, 966 (1893). 
§ Stern, Zrans. Chem. Soc. §'7, 74 (1895). 
® Tollens & Murmurow, Ber. 34, 1431-4 (1901). 
W Morck & Walker, Journ. Franklin Inst. 136 (1907). 
1 Schwalbe, Zeit. fur angew Chem. QQ), 2170 (1907). 
! Buttner & Neumann, ibid. 21, 2609 (1908). 
13 Ost. & Wilkening, Chem. Zeit. 34, 461 (1910). 
4 Cross & Bevan, 8th Int. Congress Applied Chem. 18, 101 (1912). 
15 Harrison, Journ. Soc. Dyers and Cols. 28, 238 (1912). 
16 Willstatter & Zechmeister, Ber. 46, 2401 (1913). 
7 Denham & Woodhouse, Trans. Chem. Soc. 1735 (1918); 2357 (1914); 244 (1917). 
18 Cunningham, ibid. 173 (1918). 
19 Cross & Bevan, ibid. 182 (1918). 
*0 Guignet, Comp. Rend. 108, 1258. 
*1 Fort & Pickles, Jonrn. Soc. Dyers § Cols. 31, 255 (1915). 
“ Briggs, Journ. Soc. Ch. Ind. 78 (1916). 
Oxycellulose. 
Oxidising agents attack cellulose, producing bodies’? 7 11-24 simi- 
lar in many respects to hydrocellulose, ® § ° 1° 24 2 26 in fact no test 
has yet been found which definitely distinguishes between these 
substances. The suggestion has been made” that oxycellulose con- 
sists of a form of cellulose containing adsorbed reducing substances 
whieh may or may not be similar to those present in hydrocellulose.® 
It is interesting to note that oxycellulose is formed by the action of 
light on cellulose.*7 3 
Cross and Bevan” 78 observed that bleached cotton retained the 
power of liberating iodine from potassium iodide much longer 
than the presence of a trace of hypochlorite would account for.*° 
They considered that a peroxide was formed. Ditz* * made a similar 
observation in the action of ammonium persulphate on cotton. This 
effect may be due to adsorption by the fibre-colloid.*! *8 
A similar effect has been noticed in the action of ozone on 
cellulose.*4 
(F) Oxycellulose. 
1 Cross & Bevan, Cellulose. 
? Schwalbe, Die Cellulose, pp. 221-257. 
3 Witz, Bull Rouen, 10, 447 (1882) ; 11, 2216 (1883), 
4 Vetillart, ibid.. 11, 234 (1883). 
5 Permetier, idid., 11, 236 .(1883). 
§ Schmid, Dingler’s Journ. 250, 278 (1883). 
7 Cross & Bevan, Zrans. Chem. Suc. 43, 22 (1883) ; 46, 206, 291, 897 (1884). 
8 Witz & Osmond, Bull. Soe. Chem. 45, 309-15 (1886). 
* Witz & Osmond, Ber. 19 (3), 318 (1886). 
0 Nastjukoff, Bull Mulhouse, 62, 493-510 (1892). 
1 Cross, Bevan, & Beadle, Ber. 26, 2520 (1893). 
Bull, Zrans. Chem. Soc. '71, 1090-1097 (1897). 
13 Vignon, Bull Soc. Chem. (3), 19, 790 (1898). 
M4 Von Faber & Tollens, Ber. 32, 2592 (1899). 
1 Bumcke & Wolffenstein, Ber. 32, 2493 (1899). 
16 Nastjukoff, Ber. 33, 2237 (1900). 
 Nastjukoff, Ber. 34, 719 (1901). 
18 Murmurow, Sack & Tollens, Ber. 34, 1427 (1901). 
19 Vignon, Bull Soc. Chem. (3) 25, 136 (1901). 
” Kurz, Ziet. fur Farb. and Textilchemie, 1, 46 (1902). 
21 Vignon, Bull Soc. Chem. (3) 29, 513 (1903). ; 
2? Berl & Klaye, Zeit Schiess and Sprengwesen, 2, 381, 387 (1907). 
*3 Ditz, Journ. Prakt. Chem. "78, 348 (1908). 
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