180 I. Remsen on Parasulphobenzoic Acid. 
and dangerous bugbear might, in consequence, be forced at 
least from that division of organic chemistry which comprises 
the so-called aromatic compounds. to the present the 
object in view has hardly been approached, inasmuch as attrac- 
tive byways were soon disclosed, and these were followed. 
Leaving then for a future paper the consideration of the sub- 
ject mentioned above, until its study shall have become more 
complete, I shall here give a description of one of the byways 
which drew me away from the main road. 
I. Paraoxybenzoie Acid from Sulphobenzoie Acid. 
ready been employed for the preparation of this acid, I con- 
verted a quantity of benzoic acid into sulphobenzoic acid, and 
properties taken together prove that the substance under coD- 
sideration is not oxybenzoic acid; and the proof that 1t 18 
* Zeitschrift fir Chemie, N. F. 7, 294. 
+See Barth, Berliner Berichte, iv, Jahrgang, S. 633; Ascher, ibid, iv Jahrgang: 
S. 650; Fittig, Zeitschrift fir Chemie, N. F. 7, 181. 
