Unpublished paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of food' by James Bell
Reference number: AP/62/1
Date: 1883

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This paper contains the results of researches on butter, cheese, milk, cereals, bread and lentil flour. Bell had previously indicated that it was probable the soluble and insoluble fatty acids in butter fat did not exist as simple glycerides, but in the complex form of compound ethers -- palmitic and oleic acids being combined in the same molecule with butyric acid. The results of a further investigation into the character of butter fat are given, which tend to confirm this theory of its constitution. Butter fat is proved to vary in composition far beyond the limits previously supposed, and a table of representative samples is given, showing the ordinary variations which occur. Ordinary fats are contrasted with butter fat, and it is suggested that the latter, from its complex character, probably performs some more specific office in the system than the former.
Annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives Dec 20/83'. Includes printed pages and tables in the text.
Subject: Chemistry
Received 4 April 1883. Read 26 April 1883. Communicated by [Edward] Frankland.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 31 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Contributions to the chemistry of food'.
- Reference number
- AP/62/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1883
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 87 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Date: 31st December 1883
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1883.0032
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Archived papers: volume 62, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1882-1883
1882-1883 Reference number: AP/62
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