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Vol. 44.—No. 1152.) 2 Friday, December 23, 1881. Slide Duel
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Oa the Effet of the Spe@rum on the Haloid Salts of Silver, and
on Mixtures of the same, by Capt. W. de W.Abney,R.E.,F.R.S. 297
Prelimina-y Report to the Solar Physics Committee on the Sun.
spot Observations made at Kensington, by J. Norman Lockyer 297
On a New Electrical Storage Battery, by Henry Sutton.......... 298
On the Estimation of Neutral Fat and Palmitic and Oleic Acids
in Palm Oils and Autoclaved Material, by F. Sear, A.I.C...... 209
Chemical Methods for Analysing Rail-Steel, by Magnus Troilius 299
CHEMICAL SOCIETY. uvvanesnsnssnsn, “--sesresessss 301
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLAS( resssaes 302
NoTices or BOOBS sys inwgprrispysn pus san sess shippas sas sagnsps 302
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CuemMicAL NoTICES PROM FOREIGN SOURCEBS....c.. .ieeieraes 30
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