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INDEX 



Koch's cholera baoillas, 122 

 Kossel, 197 

 Kiihne, 25 



Lab, 178 

 Laccase, 175, 176 

 Laccol, 176 

 Lactalbumin, 183, 208 



Lactase, 130 



Lactic acid fermentation of sugar, 13 

 acids, 61, 149, 151, 155, 157 



Lacto-globulin, 208 



Lactose, a disaocharose, 84 ; acid 

 fermentation of, 145-149 ; for- 

 mation of lactic acid from, 61 

 inversion of, by acids, etc., 92-94 

 unaffected by yeast juice, 137 

 preparation of, 95 



Lsevo-lactic acid, 154 



Laevo-Totatory, 75 ; zinc lactate, 151 



Lsevulose {see Fruit sugar) 



Latour, Gagniard de, 134 



Latrine tanks, 287 



Lavoisier, 132 



Le Bel, 76 



Leather, 19 



Leguminosae, 125, 260 



Leptomitus lacteus, 308 



Leptotrioheae, 18 



Letts, on appUcation of denitrifica- 

 tion in sewage purification, 299 ; 

 on fermentation of Viva latissima, 

 238 ; on pollution of estuaries, 

 283 ; on prodiiotion of nitrous 

 oxide in contact beds, 298 ; on 

 reduction of sulphates, 237 



Leucin, 195, 196 



Libavius, 132 



Liehig, 96, 134, 135 



Liebig's meat extract, 23 



Lignine, 22 



Lignite, 167 



Lime, 259 



Lipase, 170, 171, 172, 173 



Lippich, 108, 109 



Liquor pancreaticus, 170 

 pepticus, 189 



Lister, 20 



Little Drayton sewage filter, 294 



Lockett, 228 



Loevenhart, 172, 174 



Loew, 254 



Lucerne, 260 

 Lypolytic enzyme, 264 

 Lysin, 197, 198 



MacGonkey, 309 

 MacGregor, 150 

 Madagascar manna, 92 

 Madder plant, 1 

 Madras, water supplies of, 309 

 Maize, 100 

 Malonic acid, 63 



Malt, characteristics and manu- 

 facture of, 101 ; distribution 

 of amylase in, 120 ; prepara 

 tion of amylase from, 104 

 extract, action on leaf extract, 

 125; on starch, 103-104, 

 117 ; preparation of, 102 

 sugar, 94 

 Maltase, 14, 126, 129, 270 

 Maltose, cupric oxide reducing power 

 of. Ill ; detection of, 113 ; hydro- 

 lysis by maltase, 128-129 ; in- 

 version of, 94 ; occurrence in plant 

 assimilation, 269-270 ; prepara- 

 tion of, 95 ; product of sacchari- 

 fication of starch, 104 ; produc- 

 tion from starch by Aspergillus 

 niger, 123 ; in leaves of tro- 

 paeolum majus, 125 ; solution 

 factor of, 108 

 Manchester Ship Canal, 240 

 Mangin, 161 



Mann, H. H., Ill, 250, 251 

 Manna, 91, 92 

 Mannite or mannitol, 91, 137, 154, 



155, 156 

 Mannose, 91, 142, 143 

 Mariotte, 37 

 Marsh gas, 2, 147 

 Martin, Dr., 140 



filter, 140 

 Massachiisetts State Board of 



Health, 225 

 Matunga installation, 285 

 McKay, 238 

 Melanin, 209 

 Mercaptan, 239 

 Methyl alcohol, 84, 98 

 esters, 98 

 glucosides, 98 

 Methyl-amine, 56, 59 



