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Section C. — Chemistry. 



A. C. Peale, TV. H. Seaman and C. H. TVhite. Eeport on methods of stating 

 water analyses. 



H. C. DeS. Abbott: Preliminary analysis of a Honduras plant named "Chichi- 

 pate." Certain chemical constituents of plants considered in relation to their 

 morphology and evolution. 



L. M. Norton : Action of heat on ethylene. 



B. B. Ross and L. W. W. Wilkinson : Determination of nitrogen in commer- 

 cial fertilizers. 



C. F. DeLandero and Paul Prieto : On some laws of chemical union. 

 TVilliaji Frear : Notes on composition of soiling rye. 



Lillie J. Martin: Preliminary analysis of leaves of Juglans nigra. 



A. Springer : The torsion analytical balance. 



TV. McMurtrte : Blue milk and ropy cream. 



0. C Johnson: The non-precipitation of lead salts by mercuric chloride. 



C. F. Mabert : Composition of certain products from the Cowies electrical fur- 

 race. The composition of certain well waters in Cleveland containing lithium, 

 v i certain substituted acrylic and propionic acids. 



P. Carrington Bolton : A problem in chemical bibliography. 



. M. Babcock: A new viscometer. 



R. W. Wiley: On the melting point of fats. On the areometric method of 

 estimating fat in milk. 



Y. C. Vaughan: Tyrotoxicon (cheese poison); its occurrence in milk and its 

 products, and a method of detecting it. 



H. Carmichael: The quantity of arsenic contained in common wall paper. 

 The copper reduction test for the quantitative estimation of arsenic. Certain new 

 methods o' filtration. 



Thomas Taylor : Contributions to the crystallography of animal and vegetable 

 fats. 



Adolf Kayser ; Pneumatic process of converting sodium chloride and sulphate 

 into sodium carbonate by means of the oxides of carbon. 



C. Richardson and C. A. Crampton: On the presence of cane sugar and allan- 

 toin in the ungerminated embryo of wheat. 



0. H. Landreth: The importance of ultimate analyses of coal over proximate 

 analyses in calorific determinations. 



.E. H. S. Bailey : On the viscosity of fats and oils. 



TV. H. Chandler: The construction of chemical laboratories. 



W. Hodgson Ellis : On the determination of caffeine. 



W. H. Pitt : The relations of air and water. 



Section D. — Afechanical Science and Engineering. 



Wm. Harkness : On the strength and proportions of toothed wheels. 

 J. Bcrkitt Webb: Maximum stresses in bridge inclines. Report of committee 

 of the Section on the best methods of teaching Mechanical Engineering. 



1. Lancaster : The soaring bird. 



L. M. Hatjpt: River and Harbor improvements with special reference to the 

 New York entrance. 



W. Nelson : Some difficulties to be overcome in making the Panama Canal. 



Wm. A. Rogers : Report of committee of the Section on the use of accurate 

 standards in the machine shop. On the use of the microscope in the machine 

 shop. 



R. H. Thurston: On the education of engineers, and on the degrees conferred 

 by schools of engineering. On the friction of the steam engine. The great Brush 

 dynamo of the Cowies Co. 



G-. I. Alden : The relation of manual processes to primary and higher educa- 

 tion. 



Wm. Kent : Proposal for an American Academy of Engineering. 



J. A. Brashear: On a method of heating vertical flue boilers by natural gas. 



DeYolson Wood: A deduction from the equation of the "moment of the mo- 

 mentum," in the case of turbines. An example of cylinder condensation at differ- 

 ent speeds. 



