361 



Dr. Maxwell Simpson on some 



[May 14, 



Total Outfit. 



1 . <£740 



2 400 



3 300 



4 440 



5 1100 



^2980 



C. — Expenditure during and prior to the Organization of the 

 Expedition. 



Expenses in Europe , .£100 



Passage money for the officers to Australia 380 



Probable expenditure prior to the organization 400 



Total ^880 



Grand Total Expenditure. 



A £17,675 



B . . . . > 2,980 



C , 880 



£21,535 



II. " On some New Derivatives of Acetone.''^ By Maxwell 

 Simpson, M.D., F.U.S. Received April 18, 1868. 



The compounds which form the subject of the present paper came acci- 

 dentally under my notice whilst I was engaged in an unsuccessful attempt 

 to form leucic acid by a new synthesis. 



By saturating a mixture of acetone and absolute alcohol v/ith dry hydro- 

 chloric acid gas, I had hoped to form a body having the composition 



H^, OCl - C3 O + O -f HCi = C. H,, OCl + H^O, 

 and that this, when treated successively with cyanide of potassium and caustic 

 potash, would have yielded the desired acid according to the following- 

 equations : — 



a H^.OCl + KCy = a IT , OCy + KCl, 



and 



C, eCy+l I 0+ g I G = C„ H„ KO3 + NH,. 



By saturating the above mixture with hydrochloric acid, I obtained, it is 

 true, a large quantity of a chlorinated oil ; but I could not ascertain whether 

 it was the compound I expected or not, as I found it impossible to render 



