Paper, 'Note on a new class of alcohols' by Aug [Auguste André Thomas] Cahours and A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann
Reference number: AP/38/8
Date: 1856

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The authors describe a series of experiments undertaken with the aim of producing the alcohol and ether of the acryl series.
Annotations in pencil throughout.
Subject: Chemistry
Received 31 January 1856. Read 7 February 1856.
This paper was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on a new class of alcohols'.
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- 1856
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Paper, 'Note on a new class of alcohols' by Aug [Auguste André Thomas] Cahours and A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann, 1856, AP/38/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_38_8/paper-note-on-a-new-class-of-alcohols-by-aug-auguste-andré-thomas-cahours-and-a-w-august-wilhelm-von-hofmann, accessed on 24 March 2025
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Archived papers: volume 38, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1855-1856
1855-1856 Reference number: AP/38
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