Mr. G. Bird on certain new Comhmations of Albumen. 109 



the present results are sufficiently important to justify us in 

 submitting them to the public through the medium of your 

 Magazine. We remain, Gentlemen, yours, &c. 



Toomavara, Tipperary, T. Knox, 



July 1836. Geo. J. Knox. 



Explanation of Figures. 

 Fig. 1. The vessel with the receiver in the stand which 

 holds down the receiver by means of spiral springs A. 



Fi". 2. Vessel with cover oftj showing the orifice and the 

 small depressions in which the gold-leaf, &c. were placed. 

 Fig. 3. Receiver without stopper. 

 Fig. 4. The stopper. 



Fiff. 2. 



Fig.l. 



FiiT. 3. Fig. 4. 



XXV. On certain new Comhinations of Albumen, with an 

 Account of some curious Properties peculiar to that Substance. 

 i?// Goi.DiNG BiKD, F.L.S., F.G.S., Senior Fellow of the 

 Physical Society of Gm/s Hospital, t^r.* 

 1. TN the course of the following observations I shall avoid 

 ■■- any unnecessary reiteration of facts already well known 

 to chemists, and confine myself to referring to them only 

 when they are required to explain any circumstances con- 

 nected with those new modifications or combinations of albu- 

 men which have fallen under my notice. Our knowledge of 

 the properties of albumen, although more extended than that 



# Communicated by the Author. 



