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ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.

Some Conflicting Theories

Petroleum has been, known and goveted since the time of Herodo šus, who described, the of pits near Babylon, and in the last half-century its importance to mankind has swayed open and secret diplomacy. Probably, no (other natural product has been studied more diligently or has called into existence à more expert army of enginears, them- ists, and geologists, says the Times scientific correspondent. It is being sought in every country, in barren uplands and in tropical forests: its distribution in geolo- gical formations is known with (remarkable accuracy: the chem- ical and physical properties of all the forms in which it occurs have been investigated with a ininute] thoroughness. And yet there is still difference of opinion as to how it came into existence, or even as to whether it is of animal, of vegetable, or of mineral origin. Dr. E E Spielmann, in a recent little volume ("The Genesis of Petroleum": Bann) cites fewer than 100 papers op origin. printed in scientific journ- als between 1912 and 1922, and Fet hesitates from giving & decisive verdict.

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More than a century ago ven Humboldt propounded the theory that petroleum was of inorganic origia, a kind of emanation or distillation from product of

rocks primera! immense depth Much later the distinguished chemists Berthelot and Mondeleef ascribed its. formation to parely chemical action, at great depths, on the analogy of the action of water on metallic carbides as in the manu- facture of water gas." Similar theories have found more recenti support. It has been assumed that the centre of the earth is occupied by a mass of very impure iron in a liquid form, at great pressure. When surface. Japan é Shanghai water percolated down to the iron 0.9.A., Japan & Shanghai mass it would have a temperature Europe vin. Nagaoktam (Letters only of from 1,000 to 1.500 degrees London bib De)

Australia & Mapila centigrade, and be under a pres. sure of 2,000 atmospheres, con- ditions which would lead to the formation of solid and liquid bydrocarbons such as compose Heibow & Pakbo petroleum But there is no real] Paktuïa Haiphong. evidence for the existence of the Sanska Manila central mass of iron: oil is not swalow... found in any of the deep strata, Saigon & Bangisk and the presence, in most varieties Ja of petroleum. of nitrogen. phory phorus, and sulphur is diffenit to go explain on this theory

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An increasing majority of those who have studied the chemistry of petroleum and the natural con- ditions under which it occurs have formed the opinion that it is of organic origin. At first such views tended to the belief that it

of a product

natural distillation of coal

of Shanzhei

Manila... similiar carbonaceous matter. Distillation under rather wide conditions of temperat- ure and presstire has resulted, in the laboratory, in the production of liquids similar to natural oil. But there is not enough evidence of the existence of high tempera- tures such as might be the result of volcanic action in a majority of the natural sources of petro- leum, and, on the other hand, there is little evidence as to the Straits, Egypt & Europe via Marseillas equivalence of high temperatures acting for a few hours in the laboratory and low temperatures i acting through geological ages.

So long ago as 1794 Haquet wrote that the greater part if not the whole of the oil in the Gali- cian fields had come from the decomposition of marine animals. Actually in the laboratory liquids resembling petroleum have been obtained by the distillation of menhaden (fish) oil. Arthe pre-: sent time conditions have been observed which suggest that petroleum is still being formed by decomposition. On the Sardinian Japa

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WHO WAS FIRST "LORD MAYOK”? The Dartmouth Family's

Claim.

(1215) the first mayor's proces- sion, to the place took place.. To-day. It is held for precise- ly the same purpose. Ther Edward III. gave permission to

the mayor to have gold or silver. The title of "Lord Mayor" slips maces carried before him. The glibly off the tongue, but no one same king constituted him in can tell us when the mayor be 1327 the justice of the gaol Prom. Madison. Then, is 520 p.mcame a "Lord" Mayor or who delivery at Newgate, and as such

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(Dua Maronille 4th Feb)

first enjoyed that dignity, writes, he remaine, taking his place ...Wed., 5 inuu, 10 30 am. a correspondent of the Observer. beside the Judge at the Old The distinction was never con- Bailey. And still ister, in the Parcels Wid 9th 5pm.ferred by a grant, and the claim reign of Richard II, the poil tax Thurs., 10 inst.

Registration 915 am by Lord Dartmouth's family that of 1379 assessed him an eari and Letters in their remote ancestor, Thomas the aldermen as barons. When (Das Vancouver 29th Jan) Legge, who was Mayor of London the Sovereign enters the City,

in 1354, was its first Lord Mayor the Lord Mayor wears the State- Parcels 11th 5 p.m.is with corroboration.

robes of an earl, Fat.. 12 inst.

But we have haverot discover- Begistration 945

Everyone knows, of course, Lettern 10 30m who was the first Mayer of Eored yet why it was that people (Das Marseiller 9th Feb ). don. This was Henry Fitzailwin. came at last to call him the one of the treasurers for raising Lord Mayor. No definite grant Richard L's ransom, and mayor did it, and no man can be point- Registration 8.45 min 1189. Up to that time the chiaf ed to as having been the first Lord 9.30am magistrate had been the "reeva" Mayor. But the explanation (Doe Thursday Is. 27th Jan.)

or portreeve, as indeed, he was seems to be this: The custom called in William the Con-gradually arose of prefixing "lord" Wed: 16 inst.

queror's charter to the City, and to his ordinary style, just as it. Registration, 8 45 .. reeve still survives in the had arisen in accentuating such Latters 9.30 am.word sheriff." But mayor he titles as Lord Justice, Lord War- (Due Marseille 16th Feb)

remained till at the end of the den, Lord High Admiral Lond fifteenth century people be-Chamberlain, and Lord Chancel gan to speak of the Lord lor. It became an adjective of Mayor. The earliest evidence emphatic courtesy attached to

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and Swedish coasts it has been Manila, Australia & New Zealand via

Thursday Island.... found in seaweeds rotting in the

Yostrino M.

sun and merely under atmospheric

pressure.

In the Black Sea and

in the Gulf of Mexico organic Strsita, Ceylon, Mauritius, Marquee, matter chiefly algae, is forming

huge layers of rotting organic substances.

Similar conditions

N. Africa India ria Dhanuskĥodi,

Egypt & Earope vis Marseille · Hakone M.

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Lesters

on a huge scale have occurred repeately in geological times. In California, for example, Eocene beds contain a broad expanse of marine shells more than 4,000 organisms with a considerable sulphur, and nitrogen and the of it in literature is perhaps found high office. In the old charater, feet in thickness and containing preponderance of animal matter. peculiar optical activity of in Bale (1554) Maister Harry, even the King's Christian nama organic matter sufficient for the The remains of these marine petroleum can all be explained my Lord Mayre's fool and later received it thus Lord Edward Forigin of all the oil in those fields organisms have accumulated at by this theory of origin. If then Rider (1589), The Lord Mayor King of England and France

The evidence seems to show the bottom of salice or brackish decompositions took place in or Chief Justice Fraefectus and it is almost certain that the formation of petroleum, seas and lagoons and have been fine mud which became clay, the Meanwhile, the Mayor's prus reason of the custom foun like that of coal, took place at subjected to decomposition by oil would remain there, if it had been growingKing the Lacts that the

very Earl's pre moderate temperatures and ataerobic bacteria with the form sand, it would migrate. The pressures of,ao great amount, lation of gases and soluble web-varied composition of pet

sence the sa although varying in different stances. The fats have been Lis to be referred to localities. But while coal has transformed to soluble glycerine nature of the been produced almost exclusively and fatty acids, and the presence the from vegetation on land or infof the salt has modified the geo fresh-water swampe, has come chiefly from ma

ordinary course

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petroleum changes pr

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