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Later in 1828 Konlein 1 , who had charge of the 
working of this bed of coal, described a resin which he 
had discovered as early as 1822 in the stems of pines 
occurring in the brown coal. 
For this, not knowing that Stromeyer had already 
described a fossil resin from the same bed , under the 
name of Scheererit, he proposed the name of a Naph- 
taline resinense prismatique ”, from its resemblance to 
naphtaline. 
Neither Stromeyer nor Konlein gave an analysis of 
the resin which they described. 
In 1829 Macaire Princep 2 analyzed a resin which 
he, like Stromeyer, had received from Colonel Scheerer, 
as coming from the brown coal bed of Utznach. Its 
melting point was found to be but two degrees lower 
than that of Fichtelit. Macaire Princep accepted the 
name Scheererit which Stromeyer had proposed. 
Farther in 1838 Kraus 3 analyzed a substance which 
he had obtained from the same locality and which had 
been found in the well preserved pine stems. 
This resin in appearance resembled Scheererit, but 
the analysis showed it to be different in composition. 
In this as well as in the melting point it does not 
differ materially from the substance analyzed by Tromms- 
dorff, which was found in the turf beds of Redwitz. 
Schrotter, who considers the two idential, proposes 
the name Konlit for them. 
1 Ann. d. Phys. u. Chem. Vol. XII, p. 336. 
2 Ann. d. Phys. u. Chem. Vol. XV, p. 294. 
3 Ann. d. Phys. u. Chem. Vol. XLXII, p. 141. 
