Contribution towards the History of Paraffine. 

 Catalogue. — No. III. (continued). 



463 



Year. 



Locality. 



Remarks. 



1783 

 1785 

 1799 

 1805 

 1806 

 1810 

 1809 

 1814 

 1813 

 1817 

 1817 

 1822 



1824 

 1826 

 1826 



or 1827 

 1827 



or 1828 



1801 



? 



1637 

 1762 

 1814 

 1819 



England, 



France. 



Baton Rouge, Mississippi... U.S. 



Dordrecht Holland. 



Basingstoke, Hants England. 



.....France. 



South Atlantic. 



Doab India. 



Malpas, Cheshire England. 



Paris France. 



Baltic. 



Kadonah, near Agra India. 



Sterlitamak, Orenberg... Russia. 



Castres France. 



Waterloo, Seneca co., N.Y., U.S. 



Alport, Derbyshire England. 



Isle aux Tonneliers... Mauritius. 



Pulrose Isle of Man. 



Concord, New Hampshire... U.S. 



Russia. 



Aifghanistan. 



Lucerne Switzerland. 



Canada 



Years 850, 1110, 1548, 1557, 

 1652, 1686, 1718, 1796, 1811, 

 1819 and 1844. 



LVII. Contribution towards the History of Paraffine. 

 By Baron Keichenbach *. 



NEARLY a quarter of a century has now elapsed since I ex- 

 hibited the first specimen of paraffine to the German Asso- 

 ciation of Naturalists at Hamburgh in 1830^ and described the 

 mode of preparing this substance in Schweigger's Journal of 

 Chemistry. With the exception of some analyses by Ettling, 

 Lewy, and others^ very little has been communicated regarding 

 this body since that period. The very valuable properties of 

 paraffine, the power with which it resists the action of concen- 

 trated acids and alkalies, and even of potassium at a boiling 

 temperature, the brilliant whiteness of its flame, which deposits 

 no soot, its beautiful translucency and its lubricating quality, 



* From the Journal fur praktische Chemie, by Otto Linne Erdmann and 

 Gustav Werther, No. 17, October 1854. 



