460 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Note and Correction to Mr. T. Sterry H nt : ye on Types, this 
vol. p. 256-264.—To follow the note on :-—“The formation 
of a nitrite in the experiments of Cloez appears a yo independent of the 
presence of ammonia, and to require only the elements of air and water 
(Comptes Rendus, \xi, 935). Some experiments now in progress lead me 
to conclude that the appearance of a nitrite in the various processes for 
ozone, is due to the power of nascent oxygen to destroy by oxydation 
the ammonia generated by the action of water on nitrogen, the nitrous 
nitryl; so that the odor and many of the reactions assigned to ozone or 
ascent oxygen are really due to the nitrous acid which is set free when 
nascent oxygen encounters nitrogen and moisture. On the other hand, 
nascent hydrogen, which readily reduces nitrates and nitrites to ammo- 
nia, by destroying the regenerated nitrite of the nitryl, produces ammo- 
nia in many cases from atmospheric nitrogen.’ 
ab errors of the press occur in the first seven lines of p. 264—which 
rrected in the following paragraph : 
«Without owen the still more basic sulphates of zinc and copper, 
. described by Kane and Schindler, we have the following salts, which in 
accordance with Wartz’s pigeesier correspond to the annexed radicals: 
OE BIRBIG sr 2H O, =S8,0, monatomic. 
2. Bibasic, — - - - - §,H,0, =s.0, diatomic. 
3. Quadribasic, - - .- S,H,O,,=S,0, tetratomic. 
4. Sexbasic, vial a 92 ot. & 6 pip exatomic. 
5. oe . - - - Bi ma 891482 —O, octatomic. 
Philadelphia, March 28, 1861. 
4. Kentucky Geological Reports.—On page 294 we spoke of the fourth 
volume of the Kentucky Reports now in one as the ‘ concluding’ volume. 
As the survey of Kentucky is far from complete, it is to be hoped 
that new appropriations of money will diate Dr. Peter and his associates 
to Ai with the work. The chemical part of the fourth volume, cov- 
ering 390 pages and a vast amount of chemical Tabor, has just r ed 
“us, and will be noticed ane 
