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lactic series, one on the acids of the acrylic series, and four on 
fatty acids. Each of these series of researches forms a continuous 
work and is prefaced by an analytical reswmée, prepared for this 
volume, giving the author’s mature views on reviewing the 
discussed in five memoirs. Every student of public hygiene as 
well as chemists will profit by the study of these chapters. 
he memoirs on the influence of atmospheric pressure on com- 
bustion, and on the spectra of gases and vapors form the opening 
chapters in the section on Physical Chemistry, which is continued 
lately made accessible) promote the progress of science not alone 
by the actual work done by them in original research, but possibly 
quite as much by the unconscious influence such collected memoirs 
exert by furnishing models of investigation worthy of imitation 
and stimulating others to a generous riva 
12. : 
ry. B. S. 
ide to the Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of 
the Urine, &c.; by Drs, Neupaver and Voazt, with a Preface 
by Professor FRESENIUS; translated from the seventh enlarged 
and revised German edition by Dr. Elbridge G. Cutler of Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital and assistant in the Medical School of 
arvard University. Revised by Dr. Edward 8. Wood, Professor 
of Chemistry in the Medical School of Harvard University. 551 
0.).—A new 
chem 
little to say that this translation will come into general use where- 
ever medical chemistry is taught as well as among chemists and 
physicians whose investigations demand a knowledge of the best 
methods of analysis and pathology in this direction. B.S 
13. C. Grevitte Wits, F.R.S., of London, has just added a 
Supplement to his Hand-book of Chemical Mani, ion. 88 pp. 
