THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. -VOL. I. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. EDITED FOR THE SOCIETY BY EDMUND RONALDS PH.D. LECTURER ON CHEMXSTRY AT THR MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL-VOL. I. Ir 0N D0N HIPPOLYTE BAILLIERE PUBLISHER 219 REGENT STREET. PARIS J. B. BAILLIERE 13 RUE DE L’GCOLE DE M~DECINE. 1849. LON DON Printed by Schiilze and Co. 13 Poland Street. PREFACE. IN order to promote the more speedy and regular circulation of the communications made to the Society amongst its members the Council has resolved to publish the Memoirs and Proceedings which up to this time have appeared at irregular intervals in the form of a QUARTERLY JOUBNAL.It has been resolved that Notices and Abstracts of the more important papers upon Chemical Subjects which may appear in foreign Journals shall be appended to each number of this Quarterly Journal and that the January Number for each year shall contain an alphabetical list of the heads of all Chemical Papers which have appeared during the year both at home and abroad up to the time of publication of the Journal. DECEMBER 30 1848. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY UP TO THE TIME OF PUnLICATION OF THE JOURNAL. Nov. 20 1848.-The following papers were read ‘‘On the Ashes of Esculent Vegetables,” by John T. Herapath Esq. ‘‘ Analyses of Black-Ash Soda-Ash &c.” by Frederick Mus-pratt Esq. A Note on the paper of Mr.Vaux “As to the Presence of Traces of Copper and Lead in Coal,’’ by J. Yhilips Esq. December 4 1848.-“ On a Balance Galvanometer,’’ by W. S. Warde Esq. “Analysis of the Water supplied to the Highgate district,” by W. A. Mitchell Esq. ‘‘On the Action of Barytes on Salycilic Ether,” by G. Baly Esq. December 18 1848.-John Thomas Cooper Vice-president in the Chair. A paper was read by Dr. -Hofmann IC On the Volatile Or-ganic Bases,” Part IV.