[1] Liebig thinks this probable. Ch. Briefe.
[2] The degrees of thermometer in this article are centigrade, and the
weights grammes.
[3] Lehmann, Lehrbuch.
[4] Lehrbuch, III. p. 187.
[5] Lehmann.
[6] The liquid from No. 3 was all absorbed by the pressing cloths, and
not collected.
[7] Since the above was written, I have received the Journal für Pract.
Chemic., Heft III. Band LXIII. in which some late results by Heintz on
this point are communicated. He artificially prepared chemically pure
stearine from the acid and glycerine, by Berthelot’s process, and found
that it had two melting points, first at 55°, then solidifying and
melting again when the heat reached 71.6°.
[8] Ann. de Ch. & de Ph., xvii. p. 390.
[9] See Kolliker, Mic. Anat., II. 1st Part, page 16.