Paper, 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts' by John Hall Gladstone Gladstone aims to identify what specific chemical action water exerts on a salt. He reports that his experiments have not led to any conclusive results. Marked on front as 'For the Proceedings'. Subject: Chemistry Received 19 November 1857. Read 10 December 1857. A version of this paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts'. A version of this paper was published by Gladstone in the Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London: Gladstone, John Hall. 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts.' The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume 11, number 1 (1859), pp. 36-49. 1857