Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist. 303 
Composition of Three Samples of Artificial Manure, marked 
No. 1, 2, and 3. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No 
3. 
17-46 
13-33 
10 
23 
Water of combination and *organic matter . . 
18-82 
25-51 
22 
65 
Biphosphate of lime (monobasic phosphate ofl 
4-97 
6-45 
18 
91 
Equal to bone-phosphate (tribasic phosphate of) 
(7-79) 
(10*10) 
(29- 
60) 
7-29 
17-60 
12 
05 
Sulphate of lime, alkaline salts and magnesia 
35-17 
28-96 
32 
06 
16-29 
8-15 
4 
10 
100-00 
100-00 
100 
00 
•88 
•68 
1 
66 
1-07 
•83 
2 
02 
The comparative monej-value of these manures, according to 
the preceding analyses, is : — 
£ s. 
For Xo. 1 4 0 iser ton. 
„ No. 2 4 10 „ 
„ No. 3 9 5 „ 
The price at which they were actually sold, delivered carriage 
paid at the nearest station, was ; — 
£ s. 
No. 1 7 10 per ton. 
No. 2 7 5 „ 
No. 3 8 0 „ 
Thus No. 1 was sold at 3/. 10s. per ton above its real value. 
No. 2 at 21. Ids. above its value, and No. 3 was cheap at 8/. 
per ton. 
The following are the papers contributed by me to the pages 
of the March and September numbers of the ' Journal ' for 
1875 :— 
1. On the Composition and Properties of Drinking Water 
and Water used for general purposes. 
2. Annual Chemical Report for 1874. 
3. On the Composition of Phosphatic Minerals used for 
Agricultural purposes. 
