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The other woods found in these turf beds are in a 
much worse state of preservation. 
The remains of birches (Betula alba), alders (Alnus 
glutinosa), and hazelnut (Corylus avellana) are quite 
numerous. 
The same species exist at present in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
It is in this pine wood, which is still growing so 
plentifully as to give a name to the mountains of north 
Bavaria (Fichtelgebirge), that this fossil resin is found. 
It occurs principally in the form of shining scales 
between the annual rings, which have separated from 
one another. The method of extracting it, and its cry- 
staline form we will consider farther on. 
In 1837 Trommsdorff 1 received from Mr. Fikentseher 
a fossil resin, which was found under exactly the same 
circumstances , in the well preserved stems of buried 
pines. 
The analysis, which he caused to be made, shows 
however that it is the same substance which was found 
some years later in a brown coal bed near Utznach in 
Switzerland, and that it differs both in its composition 
and in its melting point, 107 0 C., from the resin which 
we have analyzed. 
In 1841 Bromeis 2 examined a fossil resin, which 
was also received from Mr. Fikentseher, and which was 
found, like the previous, in the light brown colored pine 
stems, between the annual rings, often in the form of 
iAnnalen d. Phar. Vol. XXI, p. 126. 
2 Annalen d. Phar. Vol, XXXVII, p. 304. 
