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Valeracetonitrile, the more volatile product, resembles the 
. a ding, but has a more fragrant odor; its sp. gr. is 79, and it boils be- 
: 2 tween 154° and 156°. Its behavior with acids is similar to the last. 
Sulphuric acid evolves acetic and valerianic acids while sulphate of 
ammonia is formed. Analysis gives for its composition, C,, H,, Ny O,. 
[Valeronitrile is a valerianic amid, and contains the elements of 
valerianate of ammonia, minus four equivalents of water; C,, H,, O,, 
NH,—4HO=C,,H,N. By the action of sulphuric acid, it assimi- 
lates the elem 
lents of water to form metacetonic acid and ammonia. C,H,N-+-4 
=C,H,0,+-NH,. According to M. Liebig, it is decomposed by oxyd 
of mercury, but he does not mention the results of its decomposition ; 
> as is probable, the oxyd takes up the cyanic elements and regener- 
ates alcohol, it will be interesting to subject valeronitrile to ils action, 
a8 we may expect to obtain the alcohol of the butyric series. } “es 
7. On the presence of Sugar of Milk in the Milk of the Carnivora; 
by Dr. A. Secicu, Aon Geode. June Ist, 1847, p. 212.)—Dr. 
of a dog which had been fed entirely upon the flesh of an old horse for 
we ean perfect crystals oe tk sugar, and the same result 
