Paper, 'Experiments on several spirits' by Chris [Christopher] White White recounts experiments involving distillations of different organic substances, including Frenchwood, rosewood, cork, oak, oakmoss, and dried fungus. White performed similar experiments with mustard seed, seacoal, raw silk, sponge, horse hair, wool, whalebone, feathers, egg whites and yolks, and ivory. Subject: Chemistry Read to the Royal Society on 14 November 1723. [1723]