240 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
1870, published an analysis of gas from West Bloomfield, 
ING Yeah results were as follows: 
TABLE No. 3. 
Methane i ecu cide s-2-s,aghy seeutele, ceokers oie one eRe 82.41 
Carbon dioxid $y ew ioe oto ee 10.11 
Nitro@ens Sisk tai ee dle eee Le eee 4.31 
ORV SEM re ales oS Sie muslin te ere oles eee ee: 0.23 
Uikuvoourmgnsbayer IonyChROeWANOINS 3 oo0gc0000000000006 2.94 
100.00 
Specific gravity, 0.693. 
The methods used by this analyst were some absorption 
methods devised by himself and Prof. B. Silliman. 
An analysis of gas from Olean, N. Y., by Robert Young, is 
given by Wm. A. Tilden.!?? No reference is made to the orig- 
inal paper: 
TABLE No. 4. OLBAN, N. Y. 
Methane. (is cco vaso téxcw ss ¢ 9 scscse oe ae 96.50 
Carbon=monoxid:?. i... ck 6 dels celeste eth Tee 0.50 
OXYGEN. eee 6c b0 a suse eure eh tel cis een Re 2.00 
llluminatinoshydrocarbons ieee eee 1.00 
100.00 
Francis C. Phillips examined a sample collected from the 
mains of the Fredonia Natural Gas Light Company May 12, 
1883 :128 
TABLE No. 5. FREDONIA, N. Y. 
Nitvoo en 5,5 csecors, ss 4.ctons @aeieveve cies eee Oe 9.54 
ELV ALOR ON ee hsie nce a rekoheiel shoversereaelo eres porno eee 0.00 
Carbon dioxid | aie oc0tseyeselG often uh <cieiee ie eeoee 0.41 
AMMONIA ® 05i5 ss.coacesnleruiene ausue oo ek ro pole ere 0.00 
Hydrogen’ sulfid) <2 voi ons titnwe ss sicker sic 
0) 654-4511 a eR AL A ie irny Minin o co 65.00 0-00 0 trace. 
Parafiins os 053 sce 3 8s 3s Sus eee Oe Ere 90.05 
100.00 
The composition of paraffins by weight— 
CaP DOM iv iis Sceeceais ohensnsiettexscateiccnne eet ete Ee 78.14% 
TAY CHOP CM ye. oases susgeccu, Rowe sacl cee ne ae oe 21.86% 
The only recent analysis which we have been able to find for 
New York gases is one made on the gas from Trenton lime- 
121. Silliman’s Journal, 1870, (2) 49, p. 336. 
122. Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 4, 39 (1885). 
123. Second Geol. Surv. of Pa., Ann. Rep. for 1886, pt. 1, p. 801. 
