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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



NATUExVL PEODUCTION OF ALCOHOL* 



By GASTON TISSANDIEK. 



MA. MUNTZ, of the French National Agronomical Listitute, an- 

 n ounces that he has discovered traces of alcohol as a natural 

 product in cultivated soil, rain-water, sea- and river- water, and the 

 atmosphere. He has detected the product, it is true, only in the most 



Fig. 1. 



infinitesimal quantities, but he has established the fact of its existence 

 by analyses which are at once simple, clear, and convincing. 



* Translated from " La Nature." 



