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PURIFICATION OP CHLOROFORM. 
Such is a general outline of the writer's plan. In a jour- 
nal nothing more can be given ; but those who are interest- 
ed in the matter will find little difficulty in expanding these 
views, or adapting them to special purposes. — Chemical 
Gazette, July 1st, 1850. 
[Why cannot our ingenious countrymen of the ocean 
counties of New England, apply the facts stated by Dr. 
Kemp to the algaceous plants of their own rock bound coast, 
and thus introduce a new and valuable item of manufacture? 
The subject is worthy of the attention of some of our pharma- 
ceutical brethren of Maine and Massachussetts, in a scientific, 
as well as in an industrial point of view. It would look 
well, in the enumeration of products of American origin in 
the World's exhibition of 1851 at London, to see Iodine in 
the list. — Editor.] 
ART. LXXVII. — ON THE PURIFICATION OF CHLOROFORM. 
By Mr. John Abraham. 
In Chambers' Journal for May 4, is a paper by Professor 
Gregory, of Edinburgh, on the subject of Chloroform, which 
has been copied into other publications and extensively 
read. 
He says, "as no absolutely pure chloroform has yet been 
sold, so far as we can ascertain, by any maker out of Edin- 
burgh, while the large majority of the makers have sold a 
very inferior article, it is not surprising that its use should 
have proved less satisfactory, for example, in London than 
here. To give an idea of the fact, we may state that we 
have examined recent specimens which contained only 
three fourths, one half, one fourth, one fifth, and even so 
low as one twentieth of their volume of chloroform." 
It is not stated where these specimens were obtained, but 
