PREFACE.

Alembic Club Reprints—No. 1.

EXPERIMENTS

UPON

MAGNESIA   ALBA,
QUICKLIME,

AND SOME OTHER

ALCALINE SUBSTANCES.

By JOSEPH BLACK, M.D.,

Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, 1766-1797.

(1755.)

Edinburgh:

Published by THE ALEMBIC CLUB.

Edinburgh Agent:
WILLIAM F. CLAY, 18 Teviot Place.

London Agents:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO. LTD.

1898.