ag2 Miuminating Gas fran Cotton Seed. 
flime,and the completeness of the parts is quite as surprisiug 
cas the magnitude of the whole. It is only doing justice to the 
‘proprietor to state that it is the result of individual pelenneee 
od apes operating at first on a small scale. 
= | Lithography. 
_ Lhave been much interested aye: in nawsiting a lithographic 
establishment here,which furnishes mu 
countrymen to attempt the imitation = Europea arty al- 
sbeugh. ac may | have say eestriphions to guide t them _ The 
Is th peighth Lpeatons of. os Journal; we published some 
ees. id yeriments of Professor Olmsted on an illuminating. gas, 
which he had obtained from Cotton Seed. 
quality of the gas, the facility with which it is obtained from 
e seed, and the exhaustless abundance of the material in 
the southern states, suggested the probability that this ar arti- 
cle, which as is said constitutes by weight nearl -e-fourth 
of the entire cotton crop, and which as we e are ass 
now, in most of the cotton districts, neglected as use 
might be found an eligible substance for gas-lights, saueealy 
al United Sta 
_ Not having Moma the experiments of Professor Olmsted, 
indersianding that a very inferior gas had been ob 
by 1 rei the decomposition in a manner different from 
that dir in the original memoir, we requested Professor 
Olmsted to repeat the experiment in the laboratory of Xele 
College. “The result was entirely satisfactory—the gas 
: easily a and abundan nly ebtained, and alforded a We gree afk il- 
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