Paper, 'Contributions to the chemical history of archil [orchil] and litmus' by Robert Kane Subject: Chemistry Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Contributions to the chemical history of Archil and of Litmus'. Written by Kane at the Royal Dublin Society. Communicated by Francis Baily. Received by the Royal Society on 30 April 1840. Read 4 June 1840. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843. 21 April 1840