194 PHARMACOPEIAL DRUGS . 



When Professor Fliickiger visited America, July, 

 1894, he hoped to obtain historical data that would 

 enable him to give the records of several interesting 

 American productions. Failing in this, he associated 

 in his behalf the writer, who agreed to furnish the his- 

 torical record of these drugs, Dr. Fliickiger assuming 

 their chemical responsibility, after the manner of 

 Fliickiger and Hanbury's Pharmacographia. After a 

 few papers on American drugs had been contributed by 

 the writer, the work was interrupted by the death of 

 Dr. Fliickiger. His papers passed into the possession of 

 Professor Ed. Schar, of Strasburg University, who 

 translated several of the writer's contributions into the 

 German, for the pages of Berichte der deutschen pharma- 

 ceutischen Gesellschaft. The original of one of these, on 

 the subject of the American, or California manna, ap- 

 peared in the American Journal of Pharmacy, July, 

 1897. This we present in full, as properly belonging to 

 the subject of manna, which would otherwise be 

 incomplete. 



AMERICAN MANNA (The California Manna) 



MENTIONED BY FATHER picoLO. (With a summary.) 

 Query by Prof. Fliickiger: 



"What was the manna mentioned by one Father 

 Picolo 1 in California and alluded to by Proust, in Ann. 

 d. Chim., 57 (1806), p. 145? 

 Answer by John Uri Lloyd. 



DEAR PROF. FLUCKIGER: I find, on reference to the paper 

 cited, that the statement is as follows: 



Proust. Ann. d. Chim. 57, p. 145. On the Sugar of the Grape. 



1 "Picolo, Francois Marie, a Sicilian Jesuit, was born in Palermo, March 24, 1654, 

 entered the Society of Jesus in 1673, and made the four vows in Mexico in 1689. He 

 founded the Mission of Jesus of Carichic, where he resided for fourteen years, and after- 

 wards united with Father Jean de Salvatierra in order to open the missions in California. 



"After a stay of forty years with the missions, he received the reward of his toil on 

 February 22, 1729." 



