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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, March 11, 1859. 



Charles Wheatstone, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



William Odling, M.B. 

 secretary to the chemical society. 



On Magnesium, Calcium, Lithium, and their Congeners. 



The majority of the metaJs known at the beginning of the present 

 century were observed to occur naturally in the earthy or oxidised 

 state. The alkalies and earths proper, from their many analogies to 

 the metal-yielding earths, were long suspected to be the oxides of 

 certain unknown metals, whose tendencies to maintain the oxidised 

 condition were stronger than those of any metals which had up to 



