Part II contains a bibliography of 160 titles, and was followed by a sup-

plement bearing the title :
Account of a copy of the First Edition of the Speculum Majus of Vin- cent de Beauvais, 1473. Read to the Archaeological Society of Glasgow, December 18, 1884. Glasgow, 1885. pp. 25, sm. 4to. One hundred copies reprinted from the Transactions of the Glas- gow Archaeological Society.
Some Early Treatises of Technological Chemistry. Read to the Philo- sophical Society of Glasgow, January 6, 1886. [From Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow,] Glasgow, 1888. pp. 34, 8vo.
14 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY.
Ferguson, John [Cont'd].
This may be regarded as supplementary to Professor Ferguson's Biblio- graphical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets, and exhibits the critical skill, bibliographical accuracy and erudition charac- teristic of this author's valuable writings. Compare, in Section III, Ferguson, John.
FiCTULD, Hermann.
Der langst gewunschte und versprochene chymisch-philosophische Probier-Stein auf welchem sowohl der wahrhafften hermctischen Adeptorum als der verfiihrerischen und betriegerischen Sophisten Schrifften sind probiert und nach deren Werth dargestellt worden, beschrieben in-Zweyen Classen, darvon die Erste bereits heraus- gegangen, gegenwartig aber von dem Authore von neuem iibersehen, corrigirt und von seinthero zu Handen gebrachten Authoren ver- mehret, die zweyte Class aber hinzu gefiigt worden ist. Franck- fort und Leipzig, bey Veraci Oriental! . Wahrheit und Ernst Lugenfeind, 1753. pp. 170 and 171, i2mo.
The first part contains biographical and bibliographical notes in 178 para- graphs, relating to adepts. The second part contains 182 paragraphs relating to sopkisters, or pretended alchemists, according to Fictuld's views. The notes, like those in this work, are of unequal value. The first edition was published in 1 740.
Frank, Oskar [Publisher].
Frank's Fiihrer durch die chemische, chemisch-technische und pharma- ceutische Literatur vom Jalire 1850-82 nebst einem alphabetisch- systematisch geordneten Inhaltsverzeichniss dazu, Wien, 1883. pp. xxx-244, i6mo.
A useful trade catalogue.
Friedlander, R. [Editor].
See : Naturse novitates.
FucHS, Georg Friedrich Christian.
Repertorium der chemischen Litteratur von 494 vor Christi Geburt bis 1806, in chronologischer Ordnung aufgestellt. Jena und Leipzig, 1806-11, 2 vols., 8vo, Vol. I, pp. viii-648 ; vol. 11, pp. vi-694. This work is highly praised by Petzholdt as exceedingly compendious and carefully prepared. It contains not only independent works, but also articles from periodical literature to which are added numerous bio- graphical and literary notes. Actually it extends only to 1799 inclusive, the third volume, 1800 to 1806, never appeared. Only the first volume contains an index. Published anonymously.
Versuch einer Uebersicht der chymischen Litteratur und ihrer Brangschen. Altenburg, 1785. pp. 143, i2mo.