I claim as new:

1. The herein described process of manufacturing phosphorescent

materials, which consists in heating sea shells red-hot, treating them

while heated with a bath of brine, then, after removal from the bath,

mixing sulphur and phosphide and sulphide of calcium therewith, and

finally subjecting the mixture to a white heat, substantially as and for

the purpose described.

2. The described process, which consists in placing clean and red-hot

clam shells in a saturated solution of sea salt, and then drying them,

for the purpose specified.

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