and as. a perfume. Almost all the Chinese musk comes from Tibet, the chief 
ets being Sungpan and Tachienlu. Sometimes, when bands of robbers make the 
one fourth of the wilole output. Small queduries: of musk are taken to various 
inns are pervaded by its odour. Musk is pulpit Atolaaae in China more than any other 
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wt ere the greatest quantities of musk are collected. 
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sm We lead balls, peas, &c., so that the pod often only has the smell of the original 
con tent. Further, musk is collected in the western Himalayas and exported to India. 
; commonest. kind is the Cabardine or Siberian musk, sent from central Asia into 
sia. It is said not to originate from the true musk deer and has an inferior aroma. 
The musk deer is spread over a wide part of central Asia, where it prefers the 
hi nigh regions. In summer, it is scarcely ever found below 800 feet of altitude. It 
mounts as high as the border-line of the birch, rhododendron and juniper bushes, in 
which it hides in day-time. 
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 Pollantin. One of the plants giving rise to the American autumnal catarrh is 
> so-called ragweed, Ambrosia artemisifolia, L., a composita occurring in Germany 
90, although only sporadically as an pores plant. It does not come into consider- 
isi, of the ambrosia Sten: It came fom abnis that had been eraneren between 
August 21st and September 294. Previous to the investigation, the pollen was deprived 
neter of from 0.0095 to 0.02 mm. It was not possible to prove the presence of 
jout 610 million grains. About 11.83 per cent. of the pollen substance were taken up 
Dy iy ether. Hot absolute alcohol dissolved 20.9 per cent. of the pollen previously 
ited with ether. The substance dissolved in alcohol contained 1.58 per cent. of 
ydrocarbons, calculated as glucose. There was 0.37 per cent. of phosphorus present 
in the pollen, 0.03 per cent. of it being soluble in alcohol. The content of nitrogen 
imounted to 4.99 per cent., 1.08 per cent. being soluble in alcohol. Salt solutions 
ct extrac ed 2.6 per cent. of nitrogen, proteines (0.6 to 0.8 per cent.) as well as basic bodies 
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e siti eae eee Besides, the (Clincse” use musk as a Pyeniedy against 
plac eS along the Lungngan route, where every coolie seems to have musk and the 
A The largest herds of musk ideer are found on the southern slope of the Koko-Nor, 
There are three kinds in commerce, the best being the Chinese or Tonquin musk, 
8.2 per cent. of water by drying it over sulphuric acid. The ambrosia pollen has a 
9 per cent.). A 0.2 per cent. alkali solution deprived the pollen, previously extracted 
rth a a salt solution, of 0.8 to 1.1 per cent. of nitrogen ; a iper cent. sulphuric. acid 
exported chiefly from Shanghai. It is adulterated with dessicated blood, leather chips, — 
ay starch in the pollen by means of the iodine reaction. 1 gram of pollen consists | 
