426 Scientific Intelligence. 
On fractional distillation, the portion passing between 178° and 
180° was a colorless, slightly oleaginous, aromatic liquid, whose 
analysis gave numbers corresponding to octylic alcohol. It is in- 
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oil is known in the Portuguese colonies—contains 671 per cent of 
nitrogen, which is evolved as ammonia on distillation.— Bull. Soe. 
Ch.., TL xi, 41, Jan. 1869, G. F. B. 
15. Tritylic (propylic) alcohol produced by fermentation.—Some 
doubt existing in the minds of chemists as to the actual production 
of tritylic alcohol in the ordinary alcoholic fermentation of beet 
root, IsaporE Prerre and Pucnor have prepared in this way 
nearly a dekaliter of this substance remarkably pure. The alcohol 
MANN has succeeded in effecting this reduction by acting upon 
acetic oxyd (anhydrid) with finely pulverized sodium-amalgam. 
and in the liquid is found acetate of sodium and ethylic alcohol. 
The reduction takes place as follows — : 
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0) ginze }°—8= Sr oke) enHostHa=("* ys): 
—Ann. Ch. Pharm., exlviii, 249, Nov. 1868. 7? G. F. B 
17. On the alcohol obtained by the saponification of castor oil. 
The question whether heptylic or eierlic ACH is produced by 
bisulphite bein, without action upon it. po 
phosphorus a lodine, the alcohol was converted into iodid, and 
ide the aleohol itself, compounds having higher and lower boiling points 
obtained. The i ras unsaturated hydrocarbons, 
y octylene, boiling at 125° ¢, 
