Accounts Rendered of Work Done and Things Seen

John Young Buchanan (1844-1925) was a Scottish chemist and oceanographer, he worked extensively on the chemistry of marine environments. Originally published in 1919, this book gathers together a selection of Buchanan's papers on a broad variety of topics, some of them non-scientific. Numerous illustrative figures are also included and the contents listing contains extensive notes on each of the papers. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Buchanan, chemistry, oceanography and the history of science.1. Geography. In its physical and economical relations; 2. A retrospect of oceanography in the twenty years before 1895; 3. On similarities in the physical geography of the great oceans; 4. Relation between the temperature of the sea and that of the air above it; 5. The colour of the sea; 6. The occurrence of sulphur in marine muds and nodules, and its bearing on their mode of formation; 7. Note on the manganese nodules found on the bed of the ocean; 8. Manganese nodules in Loch Fyne; 9. On the composition of oceanic and littoral nodules; 10. On a method of determining the specific gravity of soluble salts by displacement in their own mother-liquor; and its application in the case of the alkaline halides; 11. The Mediterranean sea; 12. On the composition of some deep-sea deposits from the Mediterranean; 13. On the oxidation of ferrous salts; 14. The sunsets of autumn, 1883. Observed at sea in the cable-ship Dacia; 15. Sue la densite et l'alcalinite des eaux de l'Atlantique et de la Mediterranee; 16. Monaco a whaling station; 17. The cruise of the Princesse Alice; 18. The sperm whale and its food; 19. The oceanographical museum at Monaco; 20. Lakes; 21. On the distribution of temperature in Loch Lomond during the autumn of 1885; 22. The windings of rivers; 23. Volcanoes and earthquakes; 24. On a remarkable effect produced by the momentary relief of great pressure; 25. Preliminary note on the compressibility of glass; 26. On the compressibility of solids; 27. On an apparatus for gas-analysis; 28. Her Majesty's Ship Sultan; 29. Air tight subdivisions in ships; 30. The Northallerton accident, 1894; 31. The wreck of Santos Dumont No. 6 at Monaco, 14 February, 1902; 32. The daintiness of the rat; 33. Fish and drought.