1180 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts , and Letters . 
Vanderkleed, C. E. 1911 
Report of the Committee on Adulterations. 
Proc. Penna. Pharm. Assoc., 34, p. 117. 
Two samples of capsicum are reported to have yielded 14.7 to 17.93 per 
cent., respectively, of oleoresin; one sample of subebs, 22.14 per cent; 
eleven samples of African ginger, 7.128 to 9.484 per cent; and eight 
samples of Jamaica ginger, 3.4 to 6.6 per cent. (p. 132.) 
- 1912 
Extractum Filicis. 
Caesar and Loretz, Jahres-Ber., Sept. 1912, p. 128. 
The firm’s method for estimating the crude filicin is given. 
- 1912 
Capsicine. 
Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Anaylt. Notes, 7, p. 18. 
Five samples of capsicine examined were all entirely soluble in 10 vol¬ 
umes of 90 per cent, alcohol. 
- 1912 
Male fern extract. 
Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Analyt. Notes, 7, p. 51. 
Sixteen samples of male fern extract examined in 1912 were free from 
castor oil and of satisfactory purity. They showed a refractive index of 
1.507 to 1.509 at 15°C, and gave a filicin content of 22.9 to 26.3 per cent., 
when assayed according to the method given in the Swiss Pharmacopoeia. 
- 1912 
Capsicum. 
Johnson & Johnson, Lab. Notes, 1912, p. 14. 
The yield of ether extract obtained from capsicum is reported to have 
varied from 16 to 19 per cent. 
-— 1912 
Cheap extract of male fern found badly adulterated. 
Merck’s Report, 21, p. 29 [Apothecary, 24, p. 14.] 
a. sample of cheap extract of male fern examined by Merck was found 
to be adulterated with 25 per cent, of castor oil, and to contain only 8 per 
cent, of crude filicin. 
