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(1788-07-05): The Académie's commissioners report on the translation of Kirwan's Essay. "Nous sommes redevables de ce pénible travail à une personne [Madame Lavoisier] dont le zèle pour les sciences est bien connu et à laquelle elles ne sont point étrangè
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(1788-07-08): Letter of the Archbishop of Tours to Lavoisier on the saltpetre commission (thanking him for removal of dangerous powder supply from the Tour de la Chateau).
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(1788-07-16): Distillation of horn.
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(1788-08) (1788-11): Lavoisier drafts a memorandum (destined not for publication, but for the Prémier Ministre Necker) outlining a plan for selecting representatives to the States-General (which he proposed to call Assemblée Nationale).
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(1788-08-09): Letter of Lavoisier to the intermediary commission of the Assembly of Orléans. Expresses enthousiasm over promised States-General convocation and the possibility for humanitarian reforms.
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(1788-08-21): Lavoisier and Berthollet report very favorably on Fourcroy's Elémens d'histoire naturelle et de chimie, third edition, vol. 5.
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(1788-08-25) (1788-08-26): Oxidation of sugar, copal gum, flour, milk, by the black oxide of manganese. Various attempts at organic analysis.
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(1788-09-03): A report on retting of flax and the possible pollution of streams by the process. The Académie's commission finds they have insufficient information to rule on the problem, but they feel that the prohibitive legislation of 1784 was premature
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(1788-09-09): Fermentation of sugar; prepared the 9th, continued the 11 September and 8 October. The final weighings are indicated but the calculations are missing.
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(1788-09-13): A manuscript report in Lavoisier's hand on the analysis of indigo samples carried out by himself and Berthollet.
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(1788-09-17) (1788-10-04): Distillation of various organic substances: horn, wax, oil, ivory.
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(1788-10-22) (1788-10-24): Experiment to determine the quantity of oxygen contained in potassium chlorate (murate oxygéné de potasse) and red oxide of mercury.
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(1788-10-23): Benjamin Franklin receives a portrait made by Madame Lavoisier.
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(1788-10-27): The accident of Essone during the experiment on use of potassium chlorate for gunpowder. Le Tort and Madmoiselle Chevraud killed in the explosion.
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(1788-11-14): Attempt to analyze starch and meat by distillation.
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(1788-11-28): Lavoisier presents an account of ten years experimental work at Fréchines to the Société d'agriculture.
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(1788-12-16): Jacques Louis David receives 7000 livres for the completion of his painting of Lavoisier and his wife.
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(1788-12-17): At the Académie Lavoisier reads a memoir on recent horizontal strata deposited by the sea.
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(1788-12-23): A report signed by Lavoisier on M. Barbier's proposal for a more efficient means of operating the pumps that bring water to Paris by using coke (charbon épuré) as fuel.
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(1788-12-23): Lavoisier, de Morveau, Adet and Hassenfratz ask the Académie to the examine the first volume of the Annales de chimie. The report of Darcet, Vandermonde and Hauy will be read April 3 for the first volume and June 27 for the second.
P-V, 178
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(1789): Before the end of the year Lavoisier joins the Société des Amis des Noirs, founded by Brissot de Warwille and Clavière.
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(1789-01): Lavoisier reports to the Académie on the work of Guyton de Morveau, hoping to obtain a position of "associé libre" for him in the coming election (January 31). However Bouganville was elected.
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(1789-01): Publication of the first issue of Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie.
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(1789-01-17): At the Académie Lavoisier requests commissioners to report on his Traité élémentaire de chimie.
P-V, 1789, fol. 9.
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(1789-01-24): At the Académie Lavoisier reads a Mémoire sur la combustion du fer dans l'air vital.
P-V, 1789, fol. 11.
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