Analyjh of Hmnan and Atumal Bones. 13^ 



peculiar refult';, which cannot be compared with the analyfis 

 here given, I intend, having already collefted notes on that 

 Tubjecl, to make a particular analyfis of this fubllance com- 

 pared with that of other fubftances of an analogous nature. 



It is to be obferved that I always operated on 100 parts of 

 each fubftance, and that all the produfts, the quantities of 

 Avhich I determined, had been previoufly dried as much as 

 poffible. 



Being defirous to afccrtain whence arofe the lofs experi- 

 enced in each analyfi'*, I fubjeited to a ftrong heat 100 parts 



* The proJuft whicli I place under the Iiead of Gelatinous jVfatter, is 

 not entirely compoled of that lubftancc. In my opinion it contains a por- 

 tion of a fubftar.cc analogous i« ito nature to tl.ut w h:ch forms the polypiers 

 koown unJtr t!i^- nam: oS lirh'/pbyrf!. 



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