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According to Sack it is not improbable that, as many animals and plants show _ 4 
natural musk aroma, a long list of natural musk bodies will be found yet, just as we 
know a long list of artificial musk bodies. 
Coumarin. L. A. Jordan and J. F. Thorpe*) report on the formation of coumarin 
derivatives and the production of stable coumarinic acids. As only very complicated 
coumarin derivates are included, we confine ourselves to draw the attention to the 
voluminous treatise. | 
When phenols are oxidized in alkaline solution with persulphates, a new hydroxyl 
enters in p-position, or, if p-position is already occupied, in o-position to the first- 
named hydroxyl. G. Bargellini and L. Monti?) have now studied the influence of 
persulphates on coumarins. At ordinary temperatures, and in alkaline solution, 
coumarin yields with potassium persulphate in the presence.of a little ferrous sulphate 
5-hydroxycoumarin of the m. p. 248 to 250°. The oxidation of a few coumarin derivatives 
is described, but for further particulars we must refer to the original paper. 
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Musk, Tonkin. The statistical figures for the year 1914 for the exports of musk 
from Shanghai are now before us; they are as follows: — 
| Germany 
Year Paris London New York and Total 
Austria 
Catties Catties Catties Catties Catties 
1914 | 260 94 250 14 618 
as against 
1913 260 127 308 14 709 
1912 320 183 287 36 8206 
1911 4106 | 155 316 20 907 
1910 722 | 239 287 65 1313 
1909 480 181 186 60 887 
Below we give’ the figures covering the musk exports of the first half of 1915: — 
Germany | 
Jan. /June Paris London New York Re _ |. Total 
3 : 
Catties Catties Catties Catties Catties 
1915 10 23 377 — ALO . 
as against { 
1914 255 94 136 14 499 
1913 208 121 297 14 640 
1912 132 107 126° 20 385 
The only feature worthy of note is the decrease of the business with Paris and 
London as compared with the considerable increase in the turnover with New York. 
Our friends are of opinion that this might be due to the fact that since the beginning 
of the war the French and English perfumery industry have been pushed out of many 
1) Journ. Chem. Soc. 107 (1915), 387. — 2?) Gazz. chim. ital. 45 (1915), I. 90; Chem. Zentralbl. 1915, I. 1116. 
