October 11, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Dr. Alfred TuckerrQan expects to com- 

 plete the MS. of his Index to the Mineral 

 Waters of all ^Rations in a few months. 



Prof. F. W. Clarke is making progress 

 with a new edition of the Eecalculation of 

 the Atomic Weights. 



Dr. H. Cari-ington Bolton reports having 

 done much work on the Supplement to his 

 Bibliography of Chemistry, the MS. now 

 comprising about 6500 titles. 



Mr. C. LeEoy Parker, of the Columbian 

 University, Washington, has undertaken 

 an Index to the Literature of Attempts to 

 Decompose Nitrogen. 



Mr. Geoi'ge Estes Barton, of the same 

 institution, is at work on a Bibliography of 

 Glycerol; and Mr. George Baden Pfeifler, 

 also of the Columbian University, is en- 

 gaged on a Bibliography of Picric Acid and 

 the Nitrophenols. 



At the request of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Dr. H. Carrington Bolton has under- 

 taken to edit a new edition of his ' Cata- 

 logue of Scientific and Technical Period- 

 icals, 1665-1882,' published in 1885 in the 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 

 The new edition will bring down to date 

 the old periodicals and include new ones 

 established since 1882. The work is well 

 under way. 



Mr. W. D. Bigelow, of the Chemical 

 Division of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, has completed the MS. of an Index 

 to Methods for the Detection and Estima- 

 tion of Fusel Oil in Distilled Liquors. The 

 channel of publication has not been deter- 

 mined. 



In a communication to the chairman,, 

 Professor W. Percy Wilkinson, of Mel- 

 bourne, states he is engaged on an OEnolog- 

 ical Bibliography, to include works relating 

 to the vine, viticulture, wine-making, vine- 

 diseases and wine-analysis, published in 

 Germany, France, England, America, Italy, 

 Portugal and Spain. He expects the bibli- 

 ography to number 2000 titles and will give 



full details as to date, size, editions, etc. 

 It is to be published bj^ the Royal Society 

 of Victoria. 



Monsieur G. Fr. Jacques Boyer, editor of 

 the Revue Seientifique, Paris, announces the 

 preparation of a Bibliography of Phj'sical 

 and Chemical Science ; information as to its 

 scope and period is lacking. 



Those interested in the chemical applica- 

 tions of electricity should note the following: 



' Elektrotechnisclie Bibliographic; monat-, 

 liche Rundschau liber * * * der Elektro- 

 technik. Von Georg Maas,' Leipzig, 1893. 



Also: ' Leiner's Elektrotechnischer Kata- 

 log * * * von 1884 bis 1893.' Leipzig, 

 1893. 8vo. 



The following special bibliography has 

 recently appeared in France : ' Bibliographie 

 de la technologic chimique des fibres textiles. 

 Proprietes, blanchiment, teinture, matieres 

 colorantes, impression, apprets. Par J. 

 Garcon. Paris, 1893. 8vo.' This work 

 has been honored with a prize by the 

 ' Societe industrielle de Mulhouse.' 



Although not j)ertaining to chemistry, 

 we maj' briefly note the appearance of an- 

 other special bibliography; ' Bibliographie 

 der psycho-physiologischen Litteratur des 

 Jahres, 1893. Hamburg, 1891. 8vo.' Pub- 

 lished in the Zeitschrift fiir die Psychologic 

 und Physiologic der Sinnesorganen. 



Attempts to establish a comprehensive 

 Index to Chemical Litei*ature in the form 

 of a periodical are not altogether successful, 

 lacking the important element of perman- 

 ence. The ' Index ' announced by Dr. 

 Bechhold, of Fraukfort-on-Main, noticed in 

 our Twelfth Report, has not made its ap- 

 pearance; the ' Biblioteca Polytecnica ' by 

 Szczepanski ceased at the close of one year; 

 the ' Universal Index ' hy Wien and Brock- 

 haus reached only nineteen numbers. Dr. 

 J . Ephraim advertises the following : ' Index 

 der gesammten chemischen Litteratur ( Wis- 

 senschaft und Technologic), Berlin,' but no 

 number has yet appeared. 



