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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. VIII. No. 193. 



A Bibliography of the Metallography of Iron 

 and Steel. By Albert Ladd Colby. Pub- 

 lished in the Metallographist, Vol. 1, No. 

 2, pp. 168-178. April, 1898. 

 This includes 188 titles, arranged alpha- 

 betically by authors, and numbered chro- 

 nologically ; it is reprinted, extended and 

 re-arranged from The Iron Age, January 

 27, 1898, by the author. 



Hevietv and Bibliography of the Metallic Car- 

 bides. By J. A. Mathews. Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections, No. 1090. City 

 of Washington, 1898. 8vo. Pp. 32. 

 Published by the Smithsonian Institution 

 on recommendation of this Committee. 

 Under each metal forming a carbide the 

 author has given a brief synopsis of the 

 chemical data with references to the litera- 

 ture on that subject. There is an author- 

 index. 



A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Period- 

 icals 1665-1S95, together with Chronological 

 Tables and a Library Chech-List. By 

 Heney Carrington Bolton. Second 

 Edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections, No. 1076. City of Washington, 

 1897. 8vo. Pp. 1247. 

 This bibliography was first issued in 1885 

 and the second edition has been prepared 

 at the request of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. It embraces periodicals in every de- 

 partment of pure and applied science, in- 

 cluding, of course, chemistry and chemical 

 technology. The Chronological Tables give 

 the date of publication of each volume of 

 about 550 periodicals ; they enable one to 

 ascertain the date of a given volume in a 

 given series of a given work, or to deter- 

 mine the number of a volume when the 

 date only is given. The Library Check- 

 List shows in what American Libraries, 133 

 in number, complete sets of the periodicals 

 may be found. The second edition brings 

 the date down to 1895 ; its publication has 

 been delayed by the compilation of the 



Check-List. The periodicals catalogued 

 number 8603. 



Alkaloidal Estimation: a bibliographical in- 

 dex of chemical research prepared from 

 original literature for the Committee of 

 Revision and Publication of the Pharma- 

 copoeia of the United States of America, 

 1890-1900. By Paul I. Murrill, under 

 the direction of Albert B. Prescott. 

 Ann Arbor, 1898. 



A pamphlet of about sixty pages, not for 

 sale. 



The Review of American Chemical Research, 

 edited by Arthur A. Notes and pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the American 

 Chemical Society, completed Vol. III., in 

 December, 1897. Two indexes, an au- 

 thor- and a subject-index, increase its 

 value 



Mr. E. W. Allen, Acting Director of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, in reply to in- 

 quiries, sends the following communication: 

 " During the past year we have completed 

 Volume IX. of the Experiment Station 

 Record (1897-'98). This, like former vol- 

 umes, contains abstracts of and references 

 to articles on the methods and results of 

 work in agricultural chemistry published 

 in this country and in Europe. During the 

 past year the review of Russian scientific 

 periodicals has been added. About 2,000 

 cards of the Card Index of Experiment 

 Station Literature have been issued during 

 the past year, making a total of 16,000 cards 

 in this index at present. In addition to 

 several accounts of chemical studies of the 

 nutrition of man, the Ofiice has issued a 

 ' ' Report of preliminary investigations on 

 the metabolism of nitrogen and carbon in 

 the human organism with a respiration 

 calorimeter of special construction,' by AV. 

 O. Atwater, C. D. Woods and F. C. Bene- 

 dict, the work being carried on in part by 

 funds furnished by this Office. In this con- 

 nection may also be mentioned a compila- 



