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RESEARCH FOR ARSENIC AND ANTIMONY. 
“ It is manifest from the above that the Society has at 
command many facilities for affording a considerable amount 
of education requisite for veterinary surgeons, and, conse¬ 
quently, could form a permanent establishment for that pur¬ 
pose at far less outlay than is otherwise possible. But as 
the Committee believe the Society has no funds available to 
meet the additional expense which so desirable an object 
would involve, and as the public mind is fully alive to the 
importance of an institution of the kind being permanently 
established in this country, the Committee strongly recom¬ 
mend that a general subscription be forthwith set on foot to 
enable the Society to carry into effect the object contem¬ 
plated. 
(Signed) a Dunlo.” 
The above report is to be brought before the next general 
meeting of the Society, to be held during the week of the 
show, commencing 2d April .—The Irish Farmers 5 Gazette . 
FACTS AND FALLACIES CONNECTED WITH THE RESEARCH 
FOR ARSENIC AND ANTIMONY; WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR 
A METHOD OF SEPARATING THESE POISONS FROM 
ORGANIC MATTER. 
By Alfred S. Taylor, M.D., F.R.S. 
[Continuedfrom p. 171.) 
It is reasonable to suppose that when this paragraph was 
written, Mr. Herapath had no suspicion that copper wire 
known as No. 13 contained arsenic, or, indeed, that in em¬ 
ploying or recommending it for Reinsch’s process, there was 
any necessity of testing it for arsenic. He gives explicit 
directions for testing the acids and zinc for arsenic, but no 
suggestion for testing the copper. In short, Mr. Herapath, 
so far as the copper is concerned, adopts no other method of 
preliminary examination for arsenic than that propounded by 
Reinsch in 1841, which has been used by all toxicologists 
since that date. This, it is well known, consists in boiling 
the polished or clean copper with the diluted acid before 
adding any portion of the suspected poisonous material. 
Having procured from three of the first London chemical 
dealers three samples of the wire No. 13 size, as recom¬ 
mended and used by Mr. Herapath, I found in each sample 
