1866.] 



Oil the Acids of the Lactic Series. 



25 



March 1, 1866. 



Lieut.-General SABINE, ] 



la accordance with the Statutes, 

 election into the Society were read, as 



Patrick Adie, Esq. 

 Alexander Armstrong, M.D. 

 George Bishop, Esq. 

 Sir Charles Tilstone Bright. 

 Samuel Brown, Esq. 

 Francis T. Bucklaud, Esq. 

 John Charles Bucknill, M.D. 

 Lieut. -Col. John Cameron, R.E. 

 Sir Thomas Edward Colebrook, 



P. R. Asiat. Soc. 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq. 

 Henry Dircks, Esq. 

 Thomas Howe Edmonds, Esq. 

 Rev. Frederick William Farrar, 



M.A. 



Alexander Fleming, M.D. 

 Peter Le Neve Foster, Esq. 

 Sir Charles Fox. 

 "William Withey Gull, M.D. 

 WilUam Augustus Guy, M.B. 

 Julius Haast, Ph.D. 

 Capt. Robert Wolseley Haig, R. A. 

 James Hector, M.D. 

 Jabez Hogg, Esq. 



President, in the Chair. 



the names of the Candidates for 

 5 follows : — 



Edward Hull, Esq. 

 John William Kaye, Esq. 

 John Robinson M^Clean, Esq. 

 Hugo Miiller, Ph.D. 

 Charles Murchison, M.D. 

 James Robert Napier, Esq. 

 Rear- Admiral Erasmus Ommaney. 

 George Wareing Ormerod, Esq. 

 William Henry Perkin, Esq. 

 Thomas Lambe Phipson, Ph.D. 

 Ven. Archdeacon Pratt, M.A. 

 Charles Bland Radcliffe, M.D. 

 Capt. George Henry Richards, R.N. 

 Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D. 

 Thomas Richardson, M.A. 

 William Henry Leighton Russell, 

 Esq. 



Rev. WilHam Selwyn, D.D. 

 Rev. Richard Townsend, M.A. 

 Rev. Henry Baker Tristram. 

 Edward John Waring, M.D. 

 Henry Watts, Esq. 

 Charles Wye Williams, Esq. 

 Henry Worms, Esq. 



The following communication was read : — ■ 



'^Researches on Acids of the Lactic Series. — No. I. Synthesis of 

 Acids of the Lactic Series.^^ By E. Frankland, F.R.S., and 

 B. F. DUPPA, Esq. Received February 14, 1866. 



X Abstract.) 



In the first part of this paper the authors give the details of the synthe- 

 tical production of numerous acids of the lactic family, which have been 

 briefly described in a series of notes already published in these Proceedings 

 during the years 1863, 1864, and 1865. In the concluding portion of the 

 present paper, they discuss the theoretical considerations which arise out 

 of these investigations. They call attention to the existence of a group of 

 elements, to which they give the name oxalyl and the formula (C Ho), 



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