Adipocere in India

were saponified; the second case was an European adult, who fell (September 1881) into the river the body was found after two days, and " all external portions of the body were found to be saponified." The third case was that of an European sailor, who fell into the Hooghly on 6th October 1883 ; the body was found after eight days and ten hours; " the external parts, heart, liver, spleen, &c., were saponified." The fourth case was also a sailor drowned in the river on 2nd February 1885; the body was not recovered for fifteen days, and was " then in an