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TO THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
Willoughby Walke, Esq., First Lieutenant, Fifth Artillery, Artillery School, Fort
Monroe, Virginia.—A valuable collection of modern high explosives, as used for military
and naval purposes.
Professor F. P. Venable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.—Specimens
of pure zirconium salts.
Arno Behr, Esq., Chicago Sugar Refining Company, Chicago, Ill.—Handsomely crystallized
xylose, and well crystallized commercial dextrose from starch.
Professor William L. Dudley, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.—Cotton seed
deprived of lint by patent process, and disintegrated fibre from the same.
William C. Peyton, Esq., Santa Cruz, California.—Specimens of Lebel smokeless powder,
and cordite.
Charles B. Kendall, Esq., Passaic Print Works, Passaic, N. J.—Cotton cloth printed
with special mordants, for experiments in illustration of calico printing.
Walter T. Page, Esq., Omaha and Grant Smelting Works, Omaha, Neb.—Valuable
series of specimens illustrating smelting and refining methods, the Parkes process for desilverization
of lead, etc., in use at the Omaha works.
Merck & Co., New York.—Specimen of Iodole.
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Company, New York.—Specimen of peroxide of sodium
for bleaching.
Dr. George M. Dawson, F. R. S., Ottawa, Canada.—Typical soils from British
America.
Prof. N. Menschutkin, St. Petersburg.—Black earth from Russia.
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