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Williams aims to answer two questions with his paper: whether the base produced by destructive distillation of cinchonine, and having the formula C7 H9'"N, is isomeric or identical with the lutidine from Dippel’s oil [bone oil]; and how far the chinoline series of bases, isomeric with the leukoline series, extends beyond lepidine.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 12 May 1864. Read 16 June 1864.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 13 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Researches on isomeric alkaloids'.

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AP/46/7
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1864
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Greville Hanson Williams

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Charles Greville Hanson Williams, Unpublished paper, 'Researches on isomeric alkaloids' by C [Charles] Greville Williams, 1864, AP/46/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_46_7/unpublished-paper-researches-on-isomeric-alkaloids-by-c-charles-greville-williams, accessed on 16 November 2025

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