CHEMICAL RESEARCHES ON THE ANIMAL FLUIDS. 23 



NOTES. 



Seventh Month. I. Much wind: very cloudy: rain at 

 intervals through the day and night. 2. Fair a. ra. Thun- 

 der showers with hail, p. m. 3. Cloudy: a few drops of 

 rain. 4. The wind veered gradually from N. by E. to S.W. 

 5. Wind moderate, 22. Thunder and hail***. 



RESULTS. 



Winds variable. 



Barometer: highest observation 30-39 inches; lowest 29-40 inches 5 



Mean of the period 29-975 inches. 



Thermometer: highest observation 75° j lowest 41°; 

 Mean of the period 5334-°. 



Evaporation (in^2 1 days, the rest being lost by an accident) 2-70 inches. 



Rain 3*04 inches. 



Plaistow. L. HOWARD. 



Eighth Month, 17, 18 J 2. 



IV. 



Chemical Researches on the Blood, and some other Animal 

 Fluids. By William Thomas Brande, Esq., F. R. S. 

 Communicated to the Society for the Improvement of Ani- 

 mal Chemistry, and h'y them to the Royal Society*, 



I, Introduction, 



JLn the following pages I shall have the honour of laying Analysis of 

 before this Society an account of some experiments upon a^in^al sub- 

 the blood, which were originally undertaken with a view to cult, 

 ascertain the nature of its colouring matter. The difficulties 

 attendant on the analysis of au^.mal substances have rendered 



* Philos. Trans, for 1812, p. 90. 



