80 Composition of the oil from Bir Bahoti. [ March, 1905, 
quantities that their results need confirmation. What is probably 
the case is that owing to the greater solubility of the lithium salt 
such a separation is possible when the amount of myristic acid is. 
not in yery large proportion to the stearic and palmitic acids, but 
that when it is large the method needs modification. The author 
proposes to investigate this question. 
