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variety, but lacking the pure vanilla perfume of the former. — Han- 
dels-Ber., Gehe & Co., 1906, p. 31. 
An abstract from a British Colonial Office report for 1905, on the 
Seychelle Islands, includes some interesting matter relating to the 
production and export of vanilla. — Brit, & Col. Drug., Bond., 1906, 
v. 50, p. 195. (See also Oil, Paint and Drug Bep., 1906, Oct. 1, 
p. IT.) 
Smith, Harold Hamel, discusses the problems of the Tahiti vanilla 
market. He says this vanilla lacks delicacy, its perfume has not 
the fragrance desired by the consumer; then it never presents the 
crystalline efflorescences so appreciated by the public. — J. d’Agric. 
trop., Par., 1906, v. 6, p. 75. 
Gomolla, Richard, presents an illustrated article descriptive of the 
cultivation of vanilla in German East Africa. He discusses the 
plant and its habits, the conditions favorable to its cultivation, the 
care that is required, the average yield, method of collecting and 
preparing the fruit. Ztschr. f. Unters. cl. Nahr.- u. Genussm., 1906, 
v. 12, pp. 642-659. 
Kraemer, H., reports that whole vanilla beans have been marketed 
with the central pulpy portion pressed out. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 
1906, v. 54, p. 347. 
Hanus (Ztschr. f. Unters. cl. Nahr.- u. Genussm., 1905) outlines a 
method for the estimation of vanillin in vanilla. — Pharm. Zentralh., 
1906, v. 47, p. 153. 
Schimmel & Co. discuss the method proposed by Jos. Hanus for the 
quantitative estimation of vanillin in vanilla extracts and point out 
that the method is useless if other aldehydes are present. — Semi-Ann. 
Rep., 1906, p. 92, 
Circular No. 19 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Chemistry, defines vanilla bean as the dried fruit of Va- 
nilla planifolia Andrews, and requires that 100 cc. of vanilla extract 
contain the soluble matters from not less than 10 grams of the vanilla 
bean. 
Barnard, H. E., reports that of 189 samples of vanilla extract ex- 
amined 136, or 71.9 per cent, were found to be adulterated or below 
standard. Many druggists’ samples were made from vanilla bean, 
but because of faulty methods of preparation are low in vanillin con- 
tent and must therefore be classed as impure. — Rep. Indiana Bel. 
Health, 1906, pp. 263-269. 
Thurston reports the examination of 7 samples of extract of 
vanilla, none of which conformed to the U. S. P. VIII standard. — 
Proc. Ohio Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 69. 
Mayer, Joseph L., discusses the analysis of vanilla extract and out- 
lines a method. He thinks it unfortunate that the, Committee of Re- 
vision should have omitted a quantitative method of analysis for 
vanilla extract. — Merck’s Rep., N. Y., 1906, v. 15, pp. 160, 161. 
