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_ ported d 2200 tons of ginger, worth 44863 #, almost entirely to Great Britain. ae 
xport figures could be obtained for Melegueta pepper. 
SS Liberia ‘sent 7200 kilos of ginger to Germany, in 1908. 
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“How to secure the iccncs of synthetic aromatics by the French industry” — 
: is the title of a lecture, given on April 24th. 1915 at a public meeting of the “Société 
- @ Encouragement pour Vindustrie nationale”, by J. Dupont'). He is of opinion that the 
3 _ French” industry - will succeed in future to cover France’s requirements of artificial 
¥ aromatics. He strongly opposes the assertion found in the French press since, and 
even before the beginning of the war, that synthetic perfumes forcedly belong to the 
products styled “German rubbish” (camelote allemande) and calls attention to the fact 
that not everyone of them is of German invention and that they are not at all necessarily = 
-erude and common goods. He even holds that the introduction of synthetics con- ps 
tributed to the social progréss, fostering a tremendous increase in the use of perfumes — = 
_ through making these luxuries, formerly reserved to the “upper ten” , accessible to the 2 
- lower classes. Owing to the chemical aromatics, the perfumer is in a position to74 28 
offer cheaper articles and to secure a wider range of customers. The consumption of f 
natural perfumes increases at the same rate, for the synthetics do not usurp the place a 
_ of the natural products but combine with them in order to obtain greater Se or: ! 
to form new compositions. — | Se 
After a survey of the countries using synthetics, in which he states that they aie 
et 
at depend upon German, French, Swiss and Dutch factories”), he deals with the 
_ situation in France. The first question is, What share has France in the manufacture a 
of synthetics? It is easy to establish the quantities imported, for there is a special 
_ number for them in the customs tariff. The imports came up to the following values: aoe 
- 
Be ay : | Frs. 1424000.— in 1912, | 
= . 7 1429 000. =, 1913, ae =— 
= = as (42 O00 1914, 
_ whereas the exports given as 2) 
See -- -Frs.- 492:000.— in 1912, - ; = 
v= 165 000.— 52° 19130, . hee 
2 313 O00.-= «1904 : ce i See 
_ must be far from exact, as_he thinks that even the most modest among the French ~ — 
factories exports more than the totals given. According to ‘his opinion, the fault lies 
_ with the exporters, who scarcely ever declare “synthetic aromatics” but use more 
; _ general terms. Dupont holds that those concerned ought to cease with this practice, 
as being detrimental to themselves, for the importance of this branch of industry is © 
thus, in an official document, lowered in the eyes of foreigners. Another important 
_ source of mistakes eS he states, from the fact that post parcels only appear in 
bulk in the statistics’). 
| 3 French manufacturers had often been reproached with their disinclination to travel, 
es incapacity to understand the wants of their customers and their unwillingness to 
1) Bull. Sciences pharmacol. 22 (1915), 278. — %) He indicates the number of factories as 12 for. 
Germany, 8 for France, 4 for Switzerland, and 2 for Holland. — *) Presumably because the contents of the 
parcels are not indicated in the statistics. : 
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