The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . than when applied as ointments. OLEFINES. See Chemistry, Vol. V, pp. 558, 559- OLEOMARGARINE. See Oleomargarine,Vol. XVII, p. 760; and Butter, in these Supple-ments. OLEOMETER, an areometer or balance fojascertaining the densities of fixed oils. It con-sists of a very delicate thermometer-tube, thebulb being large in proportion to the stem, s-oweighted and graduated as to adapt it to thedensities of the leading fixed oils. On the scaleis marked the principal oils of commerce, withtheir specific gravity oppo
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . than when applied as ointments. OLEFINES. See Chemistry, Vol. V, pp. 558, 559- OLEOMARGARINE. See Oleomargarine,Vol. XVII, p. 760; and Butter, in these Supple-ments. OLEOMETER, an areometer or balance fojascertaining the densities of fixed oils. It con-sists of a very delicate thermometer-tube, thebulb being large in proportion to the stem, s-oweighted and graduated as to adapt it to thedensities of the leading fixed oils. On the scaleis marked the principal oils of commerce, withtheir specific gravity opposite. The standardtemperature of the oleometer is 59° F. OLIBANUM. See Frankincense, Vol. IX, OLIFANT RIVER, a forked stream of CapeColony, which rises in the mountains N. E. olCape Town, and, after a northwesterly course of150 miles, enters the Atlantic. Area of drainagebasin, 13,000 square miles. Another streambearing the same name rises in the Transvaal,and goes east to join the Oori. OLIGARCHY, a form of Government; ,.Vol. XI, pp. 10 et seq. OLIGOCH^TA —OLIVER 285. OLIGOCH^TA, a family of worms. SeeAnnelida, Vol. II, pp. 68, 69. OLIPHANT, Caroline. See Nairne, Baron-«ss, Vol. XVII, p. 167. OLIPHANT, Laurence, a British traveler,(sovelist and mystic; born in 1829. He was the son of Sir Anthony Oli-phant, chief justice ofCeylon, and was relatedto Mrs. Oliphant, thenovelist, who wrote hisLife, in 1891. In earlyyouth he traveled inIndia, and visited theNepaulese court, an ac-count of which he pub-^ lished in 1852, in yi _/^/</--ney to Khatmandu. Onhis return to England heLAURENCE OLIPHANT. gtudicd law, and wascalled both to the Scottish and to the Englishbar, but never practiced. In 1852 he paid a visitto Russia, an account of which he published inthe following year, in The Russian Shores of theBlack Sea. He then became private secretary tothe Earl of Elgin, at the time Governor-General©f Canada, whom, later, he accompanied on hisembassy to China. The fruits
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