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someric oxalate. This after reerystallization, viclded, on being 
decom spond by ‘ee hydrate, a liquid base boiling at 198°, not 
iving a red with arsenic acid, and having re ormula ©€,H 
is that of the sch late, minus one deolseals of water. The body is 
therefore intermediate between the oxalate and the corresponding 
oxamid. It possesses the characters of anamid; salts of calcium 
do not precipitate it; boiling solution of sodic hydrate — 
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melts and losing another molecule of water, becomes the true amid 
which is insoluble in water, is not attacked by sodic hydrate, boils 
at 240° and volatilizes without decomposition. The compound 
R oposes for it provisionally the name pseudo-toluidine 
It is a colorless d cently distilled, but becomes slowly 
colored in t. e air—though less vat than ani i has a feeble 
though peculiar odor, is highly refractive, does not affect polar- 
ized light, has a density at 16°3° of 1-002, boils at 198° when dry, 
but at 195° if a trace of moisture be present, It appears to 
identical neither with saéthyyl Sillistgs sae ich boils at 192° and is 
