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acetate of ethyl and butylene. Ethylated acetate of ethyl, by boiling 
with concentrated eaustic potash yields ethylated alcohol, which has the 
properties of the butyl-aleohol obtained by Wurtz from the fusel oil of beet 
sugar. Lieben thinks it probable, however, that this body is only isomeric 
with butyl-aleohol and is identical with butylene-hydrate. _ By the ac- 
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ion of iodhydric acid upon biethylated ether, ~2- 3° ~2°"§ &} 6, 
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Lieben has obtained biethylated iodid of ethyl, from which it is probable 
that biethylated ethyl-alcohol will be obtained. This would be a second- 
ary or tertiary alcohol isomeric with normal butyl alcohol. The author 
promises a continuation of these researches which can hardly fail to re- 
sult in the formation of a great number of new alcohols with their cor- 
responding acids,—Sitzungsber. der Wiener Acad., liv, 225, quoted in 
‘ W. G. 
5. G@raphitoidal Boron, a compound of aluminum.—Sr. Cratre De- 
VILLE communicated to the French Academy at its session on the 21st of 
January the fact that in connection with Wohler he had recently ascer- 
tained that the variety of boron called graphitoidal, originally described by 
em, was not pure boron, but a definite compound o ron with alumi- 
num. It is formed in the preparation of crystallized boron by means of 
aluminum, especially when the temperature is not sufficiently high. This 
Jour. Med. Bruz., 1865, 359. 
7, Hydrocarbons from animal fats.—Warren and Srorer have eX 
amined the products resulting from the destructive distillation of a lime 
uced by the saponification of “ menhaden oil,” from the Alosa 
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