578 
INDEX. 
Balsam  of  Copaiba,  new  variety  of                               ...  437 
Barry  Thomas  H.,  on  heavy  calcined  magnesia   .          .          .  .193 
Barreul  a?id  Jean  on  drying  oils,            .....  264 
Bassorah  galls       ........  237 
Bastiek,  William,  on  double  salts  of  iron            ....  307 
Beat&on,  James,  on  veratria         ......  3 
Bell,  Jacob,  apparatus  for  crushing  herbs            .          .          .          .  n 
Benzole,  its  use  in  the  preparation  of  vegetable  alkaloids          .          .  337 
Berthollet,  M.,  on  the  ethers        ......  124 
BicJcley,  Mortimer  H.,  on  Eupatorium  perfoliafum          .           .           .  493 
Biniodide  of  mercury,  solubility  in  cod  liver  oil            .          .          .  82 
Binoxalate  of  potassa,  manufacture  of               .          .          .          .  324 
Biography  of  Dr.  Dalton  .......  287 
Bismuth,  valerianate  of  .  .  .  .  .  .10 
Bischoff,  Thomas,  on  the  physiological  relations  of  urea           .          .  433 
Bi-sulphate  of  soda  a  substitute  for  cream  of  tartar  in  dyeing    .          .  471 
Bley,  Dr.  F.  L.,  on  bassorah  galls          .....  237 
Bleaching  wax       .          .          .          .          .          .          .  523 
Blisters,  leaves  of  Magnolia  tripetala  as  a  dressing  for    .          .          .  535 
Blood  spots,  their  recognition  on  linen  and  cotton  stuffs  .          .          .  527 
Boggett's  gas  spatula        .          .          .          .          .          .  .15 
Bonsall,  Chas.  T.,  on  solutio  Doveri       .....  220 
Booth,  Frof.  J.  C,  analysis  of  Churchill  alum  water     .          .          .  269 
Bouchardat  and  Belondre  on  the  cinchonas         ....  50 
Bonis,  J.,  on  caprylic  alcohol       ......  414 
Bower,  Henry,  on  ricinus  communis        .....  207 
Brandy,  American            ........  411 
Bread,  chemical  substances  for  the  fermentation  of                   .          .  42 
Brominated  oleic  acid       .          .          .          .          .          .  .316 
Bromine  and  iodine  in  Chili  nitre  ......  161 
Broughton,  John,  on  the  preparation  of  the  salts  of  nickel         .          .  402 
Brunner,  Prof.  C,  on  the  preparation  of  fuming  nitric  acid       .          .  418 
Buchner,  L.  A.  on  the  formation  of  salicylic  acid  in  the  flowers  of  spiraea 
ulmaria         .          •          .          .          .          .             ' .      .  59 
Buchu,  pharmaceutical  observations  on    .....  484 
Butter,  composition  of                 .          .          .          .          .          .  150 
Caoutchouc,  preparation  of,  in  Brazil       .....  257 
California  nutmeg,  notice  of  .  .  .  .  .24  7 
California  nutmeg,  remarks  on                .          .          .          .          .  497 
Californian  plants,  notice  of  some           .....  482 
Calloud,  M.,  on  a  process  for  coating  pills           ....  9 
Calcined  magnesia,  heavy            ......  193 
Calcined  magnesia,  analysis  of  Henry's  .....  199 
Calcined  magnesia,  analysis  of  Husband's          ....  199 
Calcined  magnesia,  analysis  of  Ellis's     .  .  .  .  .199 
Calomel,  its  incompatibility  with  iodide  of  potassium    .          .          .  222 
Calomel,  its  preparation  in  the  wet  way  .          .          .          .  .419 
Camphor  from  oil  of  sassafras      ......  166 
