The results, by the official method, of 13 axid 14d, and 21 and 228 are very singular and inexplicable to LIS. These four ( d and e, each in duplicate) were weighxl out at one sitting axid dried in a bath, heated by boiling water, which was in action constantly from morning till night for days before and after this particular lot was dried (alone). The weights came to a standstill and the percentages in one case agreed closely, yet the figures are something like half the true values, They are

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... ven here merely as a matter of record, although we were vnable to fixid a cause for the queer conduct.