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A. MÜNTZ, of the French National Agronomical Institute, announces that he has discovered traces of alcohol as a natural product in cultivated soil, rain-water, sea and river-water, and the atmosphere. He has detected the product, it is true, only in the most



infinitesimal quantities, but he has established the fact of its existence by analyses which are at once simple, clear, and convincing.