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tion of over 400 pages of metabolism ex- 

 periments in which the balance of income 

 and outgo was determined, made by W. 0. 

 Atwater and C. F. Laugworthy, and issued 

 from this Office. The bulletin is a digest of 

 about 3,600 experiments with man and ani- 

 mals in which the balance of one or more 

 of the factors of income and outgo was de- 

 termined. While this work may at first 

 thought seem somewhat afield, it is chem- 

 ical in its character as well as physiological, 

 and has involved in some cases quite exten- 

 sive chemical studies." 



The ' Digest Metabolism Experiments' 

 herein named forms Bulletin No. 45 of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, and consti- 

 tutes a comprehensive bibliography of the 

 subject. 



The Committee chronicles the publication 

 of the following bibliographies bearing more 

 or less on chemical researches : 



Contributions to the Bibliography of Gold. By 

 A. LivEEsiDGE. Australasian Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 

 Brisbane, 1895. 8vo. 



Analyst (The). The organ of the Society 

 of Public Analysts. General- Index to the 

 Proceedings of the Society of Public 

 Analysts, Vol. I. (1876), and to the 

 Analyst, Vols. I.-XX. (1877-1896). 

 Compiled by J. Cuthbeet Welch. Lon- 

 don, 1897. 8vo. Pp. i+181. 

 Arranged on the dictionary plan, authors, 



subjects and cross-references in a single 



alphabet. 



Bibliographie des travaux scientijiques (sciences 

 mathematiques, physiques et naturelles) 

 publics par les Societes Savantes de la 

 France. Par J. Deniker. Tome i, part 

 2. Paris, 1897. 4to. 

 Part 1 was published in 1895. Most im- 

 portant for original papers published in 



France. 



Biographisch- Liter arisches Handworterbuch zur 

 Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. Von 



J. C. PoGGENDOEFF. Drittcr Band (die 

 Jahre 1858 bis 1883 umfassend). Her- 

 ausgegeben von B. W. Feddersen und A. 

 J. von Oettingen. Leipzig, 1897-98. 

 Eoy 8vo. 



This valuable addition to Poggendorff's 

 well-known biographical dictionary is use- 

 ful to chemists inasmuch as it gives the- 

 titles of original papers by the principal 

 chemists of the world published during the 

 period specified. 



Works in preparation and reports of progress. 



A subject- and author- index to the first' 

 twenty volumes of the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society is being compiled by 

 Mr. Sohon, who expects to complete the 

 MS. in December, 1898. 



A First Supplement to the Select Bibliography 

 of Chemistry, 1492-1897, by Henry Carring- 

 ton Bolton, is now going through the press. 

 It will form a volume of the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections of about eOQ 



A Second Supplement to the same biblio- 

 graphy, to contain chemical dissertations 

 only, is well advanced, about 8,000 titles 

 being already in hand. 



Dr. A. C. Langmuir reports the comple- 

 tion of his MS. Index to the Literature of Zir- 

 conium. 



Dr. C. H. Joiiet reports the near comple- 

 tion of his Index to the Literature of Thorium. 



Mr. George Wagner reports progress on a 

 Bibliography of Oxygen. 



The manuscript of an Index to the Litera- 

 ture of Thallium, 1861-1896, by Miss Martha 

 Doan, lately of Cornell University, was sub- 

 mitted to the Committee through Professor 

 L. M. Dennis, and after critical examination 

 it has been unanimously recommended to 

 the Smithsonian Institution for publication. 



Dr. Alfred Tuckerman is engaged upon 

 new editions of his Indexes to the Literature of 

 the Spectroscope, and of Thermodynamics, 

 which are to be continued to the year 1900. 



