MATERIALS FOR A MONOGRAPH ON INULINE. 
[Contributions from the Missouri Botanical Garden. No. 1.] 
J. CurisTIAN Bay. 
As the knowledge of vegetable physiology proceeds it is very 
difficult for one man to look up all the literature on a certain 
subject that has been published up to date, and especially in 
the chemical physiology. This circumstance in connection 
with the fact that America is not yet provided with such 
extensive libraries as have been accumulated in Europe, has 
induced me to collect my bibliographical notes on a number 
of questions in vegetable physiology and to follow up the 
literature year by year. In a series of physiological papers 
from Missouri Botanical Garden I intend to publish the ma- 
terial for monographs on the most important questions in 
vegetable physiology, beginning with the chemical physiology. 
These bibliographical monographs will, as far as they go, 
be complete up to the end of the year 1890, containing besides 
lists of special papers also references to the leading text 
and hand-books in ourscience. They will be of use especially 
for physiologists, but also for chemists; I have spent much 
time in making my lists as complete as possible. Most 
of the papers I have seen myself in the large libraries of 
Copenhagen, Denmark, but of course everything I could not 
verify. 
The beginning of this series will be made with the materials 
for a monograph on inuline; No. 2 will contain the biblio- 
graphy of the tannoids. 
Reports of societies and current journals I generally abbre- 
viate, but, in order to avoid misinterpretations, not always. 
In the following list the abbreviations used in this first paper 
will be found. 
A. or L, A.=Liebig’s Annalen fuer Chemie und Pharmacie. 
A. de chim.—Annales de Chimie. 
A. chim. phys.—Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 
A. sci. nat.=—Annales des seiences naturelles, 
B. Z.=Botanische Zeitung. 
