Studies in  plant and organic chemistry
Subtitle: and literary papers, with biographical sketch.
Publisher: Riverside Press
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Browning, Robert, -- 1812-1889.; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892; Art -- Philosophy; Botany; Drama; Truth; Plants -- Analysis.
Table of contents: value: Biographical sketch.-  Studies in plant and organic chemistry: Introduction.  Some observations on the nutritve value of condiments. Preliminary analysis of the bark of Fouquieria Splendens.-  Chemical study of  Yucca Angustifolia.  Certain chemical constituents of plants onsidered in relation to their morphology and evolution.  On Haematoxylin in the bark of Sarca Indica.  Plant analysis as an applied science.  Plant chemistry as illustrated in  the production of sugar from Sorghum.  The chemical basis of plant forms.  Comparative chemistry of the higher and lover plants.  On  the occurrenece of solid hydrocarbons in plants. UÜber eine neue Bildungsweise von aromatischen Nitrilen.  Zur Kenntiniss der Mandelsäure und ihres Nitrils.  Zur Kenntniss der Addition von Brom und Chlor zu Fester Crotonsäure.  Zur cConstitution des Phlooretins.  A review of recent synthetic work in the class of Carbohydrates.-  Literary papers: Science and philosophy in art.  The drama in relation to truth. Woman  and freedom in Whitman.  The conception of truth among the Greeks and in Browning.