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June,  1879. 
position  of  the  ozocerite  deposits  is  in  the  Wahsatch  Range,  on  the 
head  waters  of  the  Spanish  Fork,  east  from  the  South  End  of  Utah 
Lake.  The  material  has  been  found  saturating  beds  of  brown  and 
bluish  shales,  probably  of  Tertiary  age,  and  in  masses  of  various 
dimensions,  more  or  less  mingled  with  clay.  These  shales  extend 
from  the  San  Pete  valley  in  a  north-northeast  direction  for  a  distance 
of  fifty  or  sixty  miles,  and  the  width  of  the  area  or  basin  which  they 
occupy  is  at  the  middle  point  about  twenty  miles.  The  shale  beds 
richest  in  paraffin  vary  in  thickness  from  twenty  to  sixty  feet,  but 
there  is  no  considerable  accumulation  of  that  substance  on  the  surface, 
nor  would  this  be  possible,  as  it  would  be  destroyed  by  the  autumnal 
fires  which  sweep  the  country.  I  examined  portions  of  this  region  two 
years  ago  for  coal,  and  found  in  the  oil  shales  a  few  thin  seams,  and 
saw  the  wax-like  exudation  in  several  places,  but  only  in  small  quantity." 
Other  parties  in  Salt  Lake  informed  me  that  the  paraffin  itself  is 
sometimes  twenty  feet  thick,  and  that  the  quantity  is  enormous  ;  but 
Professor  Clayton  says  that  such  statements  are  not  authorized  by  any 
facts  which  have  come  under  his  observation. 
In  the  above  remarks  I  have  called  the  earth  wax  of  Utah  ozocerite. 
As  it  has  been  stated  to  be  zietrisikite,  I  may  say  that  on  my  return 
from  the  West,  my  son  and  assistant,  Spencer  B.  Newberry,  made  a 
series  of  careful  experiments  in  my  laboratory  of  these  hydrocarbons, 
and  with  authentic  specimens  which  I  have  received  directly  from 
Galicia.  He  found  that  it  had  a  melting  point  of  6i*5°C.,  that  it  was 
completely  soluble  in  a  large  volume  of  boiling  ether,  and  that  boiling 
alcohol  extracted  from  it  twenty  per  cent,  of  a  white  wax-like  sub- 
stance. It  seems,  therefore,  to  be  certainly  ozocerite  and  not  zietri- 
sikite, the  latter  melting  at  o,o0C.,  and  being  insoluble  in  ether. — Amer. 
Jour.  Science  and  Arts,  April,  1879,  p.  340. 
CALIFORNIA  HONEY. 
The  report  that  California  strained  honey  has  been  largely  adulterated 
with  glucose,  and  accordingly  condemned  in  English  markets,  naturally 
causes  some  unpleasant  feeling  among  the  bee-keepers  of  the  Pacific 
coast.  A  producer,  writing  to  the  "  Pacific  Rural  Press,"  offers  the 
following  test  for  detecting  adulteration  : 
"Take  a  quantity  of  honey  and  add  one  part  water,  dissolving  the 
