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Royal Institution, January 1826.

On the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Naphthaline ,

[Read February 16, 1826.]

a paper "On new Compounds of Carbon and Hydrogen," lately honoured by the Royal Society with a place in the Philosophical Transactions, I had occasion briefly to notice the peculiar action exerted on certain of those compounds by sulphuric acid. During my attempts to ascertain more minutely