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               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549


                            FORM 8-K


                         CURRENT REPORT 
            PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
            THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


     Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)
                     August 22, 1995 


           E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
  (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)


   Delaware              1-815             51-0014090
(State or Other       (Commission       (I.R.S. Employer
Jurisdiction of       File Number)     Identification No.)
Incorporation)

                    1007 Market Street
                Wilmington, Delaware 19898
         (Address of principal executive offices)


Registrant's telephone number, 
       including area code: (302) 774-1000


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                         SIGNATURE



       Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this 
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned 
hereunto duly authorized.




                      E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
                                 (Registrant)


                        /s/ D. B. Smith
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                                 D. B. Smith
                            Assistant Controller



August 22, 1995


Item 5.  Other Events

       In connection with Debt and/or Equity Securities 
that may be offered on a delayed or continuous basis under 
Registration Statements on Form S-3 (No. 33-48128, 
No. 33-53327 and No. 33-61339), we hereby file the 
following press release.



  Exhibit 
  Number                 Description of Exhibit        

   99            Press release of registrant in response 
                 to the $115,000,000 fine issued by U.S. 
                 District Judge Robert J. Elliott of 
                 Columbus, Georgia on August 21, 1995 
                 against the registrant for allegedly 
                 withholding key evidence in a 1993 trial 
                 which was part of the continuing Benlate 
                 DF fungicide litigation.  The 1993 trial 
                 was settled before the jury reached a 
                 verdict.





                       EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit
Number                         Description              

 99              Press release of registrant in response 
                 to the $115,000,000 fine issued by U.S. 
                 District Judge Robert J. Elliott of 
                 Columbus, Georgia on August 21, 1995 
                 against the registrant for allegedly 
                 withholding key evidence in a 1993 trial 
                 which was part of the continuing Benlate 
                 DF fungicide litigation.  The 1993 trial 
                 was settled before the jury reached a 
                 verdict.



                                          EXHIBIT 99


       "We are greatly disappointed by the judge's ruling, 
but not surprised since this court has ruled against 
DuPont on essentially every issue beginning with pretrial 
hearings.  We will appeal this unreasonable decision."

       "Unfortunately, the plaintiff's attorneys in this 
proceeding have not focused on the question of injury to 
plants but rather on claims of discovery abuse.  They have 
repeatedly protested that documents were not submitted on 
a timely basis, in the proper order, or in a manner most 
convenient to them.  Millions of documents have always 
been open and available to these plaintiffs attorneys as 
they have been in the dozens of other cases involved in 
the 'Benlate' litigation.  Unlike most other courts which 
have dismissed or never even been asked to consider such 
complaints, this court has condoned and accepted 
Plaintiffs' Attorney Neal Pope's 'discovery abuse' 
strategy and, has scolded and sanctioned DuPont lawyers 
for being unable to meet every whimsical demand of these 
plaintiffs."

       "We want to assure all DuPont customers, 
shareholders, employees and the general public that no 
DuPont employees nor any of the company's attorneys ever 
concealed or withheld any data illegally or 
inappropriately.  And that Alston and Bird, our attorneys 
in Georgia and elsewhere, acted honorably and ethically in 
this regard.  However, it is obvious that, even with our 
best efforts, we will not be able to satisfy this court."