Chemicals, Waste Products and 

 Agricultural Chemistry. 



REISSUE OF CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. 

 SCHEELE. First Published in English in 1786. Trans- 

 lated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, with Additions. 300 

 pp. DemySvo. Price 5s. ; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 

 6s. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



Memoir : C. W. Scheele and his worlt (written for this edition by J. G. Mcintosh) — On 

 Fluor Mineral and its Acid— On Fluor Mineral— Chemical Investigation of Fluor Acid, 

 with a View to the Earth which it Yields, by Mr. Wiegler — Additional Information 

 Concerning Fluor Minerals — On Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum — On 

 Arsenic and its Acid — Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin — On Silex, Clay and Alum — Analysis 

 of the Calculus Vesical — Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via Humida— Cheaper and 

 more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis Algarothi — Experiments upon Molybd^ena 

 — Experiments on Plumbago^Method of Preparing a New Green Colour — Of the De- 

 composition of Neutral Salts by Unslaked Lime and Iron — On the Quantity of Pure Air which 

 is Daily Present in our Atmosphere — On Milk and its Acid — On the Acid of Saccharum Lactis 

 — On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or Tungsten — Experiments and Observations 

 on Ether — Index. 



THE MANUFACTURE OP ALUM AND THE SUL- 

 PHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF ALUMINA AND 

 IRON. Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in Dyeing 

 and Calico Printing, and their other Applications in the Arts, Manufac- 

 tures, Sanitary Engineering, Agriculture and Horticulture. Translated 

 from the French of Lucien Geschwind. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. 

 Royal 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d. ; Other 

 Countries, 15s. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these Metals- 

 Aluminium and its Compounds — Iron and Iron Compounds. 



Manufacture of Aluminium Sulpliates and Sulpliates of Iron— Manufacture of 

 Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums — Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron. 



Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron — Uses of Aluminium Sulphate and 

 Alums — Application to Wool and Silk — Preparing and using Aluminium Acetates — Employment 

 of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising Wool — The Manufacture of Lake Pigments — Manu- 

 facture of Prussian Blue — Hide and Leather Industry — Paper Making — Hardening Plaster — 

 Lime Washes — Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc. — Purification of Waste Waters 

 — Uses and Applications of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric Sulphates— Dyeing— Manu- 

 facture of Pigments — Writing Inks — Purification of Lighting Gas — Agriculture — Cotton Dyeing 

 — Disinfectant — Purifying Waste Liquors — Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid — 

 Fertilising. 



Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium— Analysis of Various Aluminous 

 or Ferruginous Products — Aluminium — Analysing Aluminium Products — Alunite 

 Alumina — Sodium Aluminate — Aluminium Sulphate — Iron — Analytical Characteristics of Iron 

 Salts — ^Analysis of Pyritic Lignite — Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates — Rouil Mordant — Index. 



AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS : Their Manufacture 

 and Uses. By Camille Vincent, Professor at the Central School of 

 Arts and Manufactures, Paris. Translated from the French by M. J. 

 Salter. Royal 8vo. 114 pp. Thirty-two Illustrations. Price 5s.; 

 India and Colonies, 5s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 6s. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



General Considerations: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; Human Urine 

 as a Source of Ammonia— Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from Sewage- 

 Extraction of Ammonia from Gas Liquor— Manufacture of Ammoniacal Com- 

 pounds from Bones, Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and Peat— Manufacture of 

 Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate and Carbonate— Recovery 

 of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother Liquors— Index. 



