Scientific Litelligen 



4. On a new mode of formation of Para-o.n/hn, 

 Ira IIkmsex, Assistant in the Chemical Laborator 

 (Communicated for this Journal.)— A short tinu' 

 showed that by fusing sulphohcnzoato of potassiu 

 I)Otash oxybcnzoic acid is fonned. Su])sc(iucntlv He 





orlc.- n 





tals yielded on evaporation a nii^tnrc, coii^istiiio- of. 

 ■aoxyhenzoic aci.l. which, altlu.no-h crv-tallizod on 



these propertio with t 

 entity beyond a (h)ubt. 

 Is yielded on evap< 



could very Veadiivb", 





sulphuric'acid wal addell toVlu 

 for a short time. On now dih, 



me pos^ibU^ that the imthod of I 

 uence upon the nature of the rosnltii 



sulphobrnzoic acid accordino- ti> t 

 lie u. Pliarrn., cxlviii. 30. f Ibid., cliii. 



