444 EF. H. Storer—Ferment-theory of Nitrification. 
suggestion that four outflowing streams might have coexisted.” 
The italics are my own. 
In conclusion I wish to state that this paper is based on the 
special reference to finding an outlet of the ancient Salt Lake. 
Mr. Gilbert has spent portions of at least two seasons in the 
study of this special subject in the northern portion of the 
basin, and it is evident that his investigations are still unsatis- 
factory. 
Art. LXIV.—WNote on the Ferment-theory of Nitrification; by 
F. H. Storer, Harvard University. 
THE results of the following experiments bear so immedi- 
ately upon the recent observations of Schliésing* and Waring- 
ton,t noticed in the April number of this Journal, that I am 
led to publish them by themselves, out of their legitimate con- 
nection with other experiments upon which I have been for 
some time engaged. My experiments were made for the pur- 
- ; No. 6 ammonium chloride, 
black oxide of manganese nd 
a 
peat and pure water; No, 8 leached peat and ammonium chlo- 
* Comptes Rendus, ixxxiv, 301. 
Journal of London Chem Soc., 1878, i, 44. 
+ In the manner described in the note on page 182 of vol. xii of this Journal. 
