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Sep 13

Grapes in warm water 1877

Ten cleaned & ten not cleaned ripe grapes weighed in after cleaned ones had got quite dry

Not cleaned = 52.794 gramms Cleaned 52.021 gramms

Taken out 8.30 AM Sept 15 & weighed dry = 53.24. 238 Cleaned = 52.54 538

Not Cleaned gained 45 = 444 444 517

Cleaned gained 52 = 517

Gain of not cleaned is to gain of cleaned as 100 : 116.6

N.B The second weighings were only to centigramms

From Sep 13 to 15 The bottles were put in Sachs warmer with nightlights burning under, A third bottle of same size filled with water & contain in which a thermometer was immersed by hole in cork was put with them. The following were the temperatures. The grapes were dropped in to the empty bottles then all three bottles filled with tank water from same vessel of lukewarm water & placed in box.

When taken out four cleaned grapes were cracked only one not-cleaned & that very slightly

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{I found the night light burnt out so the T may have been a little higher. But the light could only just have burnt out as it was a 10 hour one & was lighted at 10.30 pm