Unpublished paper, 'On the oxidation of glycol and on some salts of glyoxylic [oxoacetic] acid' by H [Heinrich] Debus Debus describes a series of experiments he has undertaken on glycol and some salts of glyoxylic acid. Subject: Chemistry Received 16 March 1859. Communicated by John Tyndall. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the oxidation of glycol, and on some salts of glyoxylic acid'. 1859