Excerpt from Notes for a History of Lead, and an Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead and Lead Oxides This compilation is the result of a promise to a friend to prepare a paper upon the history OF lead, to be read at a social meeting of a trade club. My interest in the subject persisted after the paper was prepared, and I continued to collect notes, at such times as a busy man of affairs could spare, with no purpose or plan other than to gratify a thoroughly aroused interest in the subject, and as a relaxation and a relief from the friction and perplexities of business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.