NOVEMBER 19, 1897. ] 
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COU- 
MITTEE ON INDEXING CHEMICAL 
LITERATURE.* 
Tur Committee on Indexing Chemical 
Literature presents to the Chemical Section 
its fifteenth annual report, covering the 
twelve months ending August; 1897. 
WORKS PUBLISHED. 
Recalculation of the Atomic Weights. By FRANK WIG- 
GLESWORTH CLARKE. New edition revised and 
enlarged. Constants of Nature, Part V. Smith- 
sonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1075. City of 
Washington. 1897. Pp. vi+370. 8vo. 
Index to the Literature of the Periodic Law. In: ‘ De- 
velopment of the Periodic Law.’ By F. P. VEN- 
ABLE. Easton, Pa. 1896. 12mo. 
Partial Bibliography of Argon. By C. LE Roy 
PARKER. Accompanying his paper: ‘Our Pres- 
ent Knowledge of Argon.’ J. Am. Chem. Soe. 
xix+124 (February, 1897). 
Bibliography of Agricultural Chemistry (American). 
Bulletins of the Office of Experiment Stations, 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
In our fourteenth annual report the following cor- 
rection should be made: for Bulletin No. 9 read Bul- 
letin No. 19, and add Bulletin No. 27 (1897). 
A card-index to Experiment-Station Lit- 
erature is issued by the Office of Hxperi- 
ment Stations ; this is sent gratis to all the 
agricultural colleges and experiment sta- 
tions in the United States, and is sold to a 
limited number of individuals and institu- 
tions. Hleven thousand cards had been dis- 
tributed prior to September, 1896. 
The detailed index included in each vol- 
ume of the ‘Experiment Station Record ’ 
contains numerous references to chemical 
articles published by the experiment sta- 
tions in the United States and in foreign 
countriés. 
Abstracts of Chemical Work in Agricultural Science, 
published in: ‘Experiment Station Record,’ is- 
sued by the Office of Experiment Stations, United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
These abstracts were begun in Vol. I., 
No. 1. (September, 1889). Abstracts of 
foreign investigations were added, beginning 
*Presented at the Detroit meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
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with Vol. IIl., No. 8 (March, 1891), and 
these have been included, with a quite 
rapid growth in the field covered, up to the 
present time. The work is in charge of 
Dr. E. W. Allen, who is assisted by Mr. W. 
H. Beal in the department of fertilizers 
and soils, and by the Committee on Ab- 
stracting of the Association of Official Agri- 
cultural Chemists. 
The Review of American Chemical Research, edited by 
Professor Arthur A. Noyes, begun in April, 1895, 
and formerly published in the ‘ Technology Quar- 
terly,’ is continued in the ‘ Journal of the American 
Chemical Society.’ 
Periodicals Relating to Chemistry and Physics in the 
New York Public Library and Columbia University 
Library. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Vol. I. 
No. 6. June, 1897. Page 152. 
A very convenient check-list compiled with biblio- 
graphical accuracy, especially useful to students re- 
siding in New York and vicinity. 
Bibliography of the Analysis of Chrome-iron Ore, Ferro- 
Chromium and Chrome-steel. By S. RIDEAL and 
S. RoseNBLUM. Chem. News, Vol. 73, p. 2. (Jan- 
uary 3, 1897.) 
A Bibliography of the Chemistry of Chlorophyll, by L. 
Marchlewski, accompanies his monograph : ‘ Die 
Chemie des Chlorophylls.’ Hamburg and Leipzig. 
1895. 8vo. 
REPORTS OF PROGRESS. 
A Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group, 
1748-1896, by Professor James Lewis Howe, has 
been completed, and after examination by your 
Committee has been recommended to the Smith- 
sonian Institution for publication. The work is 
now going through the press. 
A Review and Bibliography of Metallic Carbides, by Mr. 
J. A. Mathews, of Columbia University, was sub- 
mitted to your Committee, and after examination 
by each member the MS. was returned to the au- 
thor for minor improvements. The suggestions of 
the Committee were promptly accepted by Mr. 
Mathews, and the revised work has been recom- 
mended to the Smithsonian Institution for publica- 
tion. 
A Bibliography of Basie Slags, Technical, Analytical 
and Agricultural, has been completed by Karl T. 
McElroy, of the Division of Chemistry, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. The channel of publica- 
tion has not been determined. 
