578 
INDEX. 
Arsenic,  iodide  of        ......  346 
Artificial  meerchaum    .......  184 
Artificial  formation  of  glycerin           .          .          .          .          . .  428 
Asphalte           ........  466 
Atmospheric  electricity,  on  a  cause  of  .          ....  180 
Baildon,  II.  C.    Descriptive  notice  of  some  French  pharmaceutical 
specialities       ......  347 
Bark,  spurious  Winter's           ......  1 
Bark,  tree  producing  the  red  cinchona            ....  33 
Bark,  on  a  new  cinchona         .          .          .          .          .          .  115 
Barytes,  crystallized  hydrate  of          .          .          .          .          .  129 
Bastick,  William,  on  the  detection  of  quinia  and  other  alkaloids  in  the 
fatty  oils          ......  146 
Battey,  Robert,  on  the  medical  plants  of  Cherokee  Georgia     .          .  59 
Baudrimont,  H.  E.,  on  a  new  sulphide  of  carbon         .          .          .  447 
Benzinated  solution  of  alumina           .          .          .          .          .  128 
Benzoate  of  soda  in  gout  and  rheumatism       ....  314 
Berihe,  M.,  on  the  transformation  which  calomel  undergoes  by  water, 
alcohol  and  heat         .          .          .          .          .  171 
Berthelot,  M.,  on  the  conversion  of  mannite  and  glycerin  into  sugar  .  450 
Bibra,  M.  Von,  chemical  researches  on  hair  and  horny  substances     .  147 
Bichloride  of  tin  on  starch,  action  of   .          .          .          .          .  455 
Bismuth,  subcarbonate  of         .....  403 
Bituminous  dialytic  liniment     ......  315 
Blancard's  iodide  of  iron  pills  ......  87 
Blockey,  John  S.,  on  the  solvent  powers  of  glycerin    .          .          .  556 
Blood,  analysis  of  the    .  -                 .          .          .          .          .  30 
Bones,  on  the  superphosphate  of  decomposed  ....  80 
Bone,  method  of  coloring  it  red           .          .          .          .          .  262 
Bookworms       ........  182 
Boron,  on         .......  339 
Botany  Bay  gum  from  Xanthorrhcea  hastilis    ....  226 
Bringhurst,  Ferris,  on  lapis  calaminaris           ....  308 
Brunnquell,  Richard,  on  a  new  process  for  ferrocyanide  of  potassium  .  112 
Burmese  varnish  tree    .......  138 
Bytteria  febrifugae  and  its  active  principle       ......  332 
Caffeicacid       .......          .  375 
Caffein  .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .  -  375 
Caldwell,  James  M.,  on  the  seeds  of  Strychnos  ignatia  .          .          .  294 
Calvert,  Prof.,  on  carbazotic  acid         .....  118 
Calomel,  action  of  alkaline  chlorides  on          ...  391 
Canavan,  John,  remarks  on  Boutigny's  process  for  protiodide  of  mercury  9 
Caoutchouc       .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .  468 
Capsicum  annuum,  analysis  of  .          .          .          .          .          .  303 
Carbon,  on  a  new  sulphide  of  .          .          .          .          .          .  447 
