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noxious vapours given off during putrefaction, contain the N, S, and 

 Ph of the animal substance, and that these elements are not liberated 

 in the simple form of ammonia, and sulphuretted and phosphuretted 

 hydrogen. I also remarked during this investigation, that, as putre- 

 faction proceeds, different volatile bodies are given off. 



Before concluding, I may add, that when the platinum salts are 

 heated in small test-tubes, they give off vapours, some acid and 

 some alkaline, possessing a most obnoxious and sickening odour, 

 very like the odours of putrefaction ; and that at the same time a 

 white crystalline sublimate, which is not chloride of ammonium, is 

 formed. 



As I foresee that these researches will occupy several years, I have 

 deemed it my duty in the mean time to lay the above facts before 

 the Society. 



March 1, 1860. 



Sir BENJAMIN C. BRODIE, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the Secretary read the following 

 list of Candidates for election into the Society : 



Frederick Augustus Abel, Esq. 

 Somerville Scott Alison, M.D. 

 Alexander Armstrong, M.D. 

 Thomas Baring, Esq. 

 Charles Spence Bate, Esq. 

 John Frederic Bateman, Esq. 

 Henry Foster Baxter, Esq. 

 William Brinton, M.D. 

 Edward Brown- Se'quard, Esq. 

 Thomas William Burr, Esq. 

 Richard Christopher Carrington, 



Esq. 

 Alexander Ross Clarke, Capt. 



R.E. 

 William White Cooper, Esq. 



Joseph Cubitt, Esq. 

 Henry Duncan Preston Cunning- 

 ham, Esq., R.N. 

 Thomas Rowe Edmonds, Esq. 

 James Fergusson, Esq. 

 Francis Galton, Esq. 

 Joseph Henry Gilbert, Ph.D. 

 Robert Philips Greg, Esq. 

 John Braxton Hicks, M.D. 

 Sir William Jardine, Bart. 

 Thomas Hewitt Key, M.A. 

 Waller Augustus Lewis, Esq. 

 Joseph Lister, Esq. 

 Edward Joseph Lowe, Esq. 

 David Macloughlin, M.I). 



