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more than three thousand marks per kilo, we shall become 

 conscious of the economic bearings of this and analogous 

 discoveries. Scientifically considered, the manufacture of 

 artificial musk does not stand upon the same plane as the 

 synthetic construction of vanillin, coumarin, or ionon. 

 With these substances the chemist has succeeded in dis- 

 covering, by dint of laborious researches, their correct com- 

 position, and has then reproduced the natural product in 

 a more advantageous way. Perfumes, on the other hand, 

 like mirbane oil or artificial musk are simply imitations of 

 the corresponding natural substances, and chemically unre- 

 lated to them. 



