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gr. 0°7192 at 15°5°, was prepared from American ligroin. It gave 
on analysis C 84°3, H 15:4; C,H,, requiring C 84, H 16 per cent. 
addition-products of the benzene series, as in the Caucasian petro- 
an examination; and from s 
;H,,NO,. Hence the nitro-product of the American petroleum 
belongs to the marsh gas series, while that of Caucasian is de- 
rived from the ethylene series C,H, NO,.— Ber. Berl. Chem. @es., 
xlii, 2028, Nov. 1880. G. F. Be 
5. nulin.—Kiiant has published a research upon inulin 
i e 
tions which require a long warming with water or need the pres 
ence of dilute acids, the inulin is replaced by levulose. BY 
r, compoun cal 
atoms, saccharic (perhaps gluconic) acid ; while levulose similarly 
treated affords bodies with a less content of carbon; glycolic and 
