RESEARCH FOR ARSENIC AND ANTIMONY. 
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assured they will now see that the time has not been by any 
means lost. They rested on their oars, not because they had 
any idea of abandoning the project to which they had put 
their hands, but simply that they did not wish even to seem 
to be in antagonism to so respectable a body as the Royal 
Dublin Society, and quite confident that they were but hus¬ 
banding their energies against the time when the field of 
operations would be left perfectly clear for themselves. The 
field is now clea^, and we believe we have good grounds for 
stating that it will be taken possession of in a manner which 
will leave even the impatient no cause to regret the delay. 
Not only have the directors been quietly preparing for the 
time which has now arrived, but they proceed to their work 
with all the countenance and encouragement which the Royal 
Dublin Society has so gracefully bestowed upon their efforts 
and exertions. 
No one who has at heart the interest of the country in this 
matter, even if he took no special interest in the college 
which has been projected, can look upon the conduct of the 
Royal Dublin Society on this occasion without increased 
sentiments of respect, nor without feelings of pride that the 
affairs of the country should be so sedulously looked after by 
a body of men governed by such praiseworthy principles. 
The sober, conscientious manner in which the matter was 
taken up at the beginning, and the graceful and courteous 
manner in which it is now, after mature consideration, 
dropped—or rather handed over to the company—are both 
in the most perfect keeping with our highest idea of what 
the character and conduct of such a body should be ; and we 
have no doubt the council of the Veterinary College will meet 
the conduct and the views of the Royal Dublin Society in 
that spirit which the graceful conduct of the latter is so w T ell 
calculated to inspire. 
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. 
(Continued from p. 237.) 
It was asserted, on the part of the defence in Smethurst's 
case, that electrotype copper was always pure, and that this 
