combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene, &c. 35 
place, they will be made independent of all speculative views, 
and that new names will be derived from some simple and 
invariable property, and that mere arbitrary designations will 
be employed, to signify the class to which compounds or sim~ 
pie bodies belong. 
on this subject, in co-operation with my brother, as it is his intention to refer to them, 
in an answer to Mr. Murray’s paper. 
I shall conclude, by saying, that this ingenious chemist, has mistaken my views, i 
supposing them hypothetical; I merely state what I have seen, and what I have found 
There may be oxygene in oxymuriatic gas; but I can find none. I repeated Mr. 
Murray’s experiments with great interest; and their results, when water is excluded, 
entirely confirm all my ideas on the subject, and afford no support to the hypothetical 
Ideas, which he has laboured so zealously to defend. 
