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occupied  seven,  Great  Britain  two  and  a  lialf,  Belgium,  Prussia  and 
Germany  each  one,  Austria  and  Switzerland  one,  Spain,  Portugal,  Den- 
mark, Greece,  Sweden,  Norway  and  Russia  another,  Italy,  Turkey, 
China,  Japan,  Persia  and  Africa  another,  whilst  the  United  States, 
Mexico,  Brazil  and  the  South  American  republics  together  occupied  but 
the  half  of  a  IGth.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  France  and  England, 
situated  on  either  side  of  the  main  entrance,  occupied  more  than  half  of 
the  building,  and  exhibited  the  most  extensive  and  varied  collections. 
In  class  44  there  were  about  1582  exhibitors,  of  whom  358  were  French, 
108  English  and  only  30  Americans.  Austria  had  150,  Italy  199,  Prus- 
sia 125,  Turkey  98,  Belgium  85,  Russia  71,  Holland  40,  Spain  57,  Brazil 
98,  Algiers  44,  Switzerland  37,  Sweden  and  Norway  38,  the  remainder 
being  distributed  among  ten  or  twelve  other  nationalities. 
The  French  Section. — The  manufactures  of  Class  44  in  this  section 
represent  a  gross  annual  production  in  France  of  240,000,000  of  dollars, 
including  all  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  products,  whether  used  in  medi- 
cine or  the  arts.  Among  the  depositors  of  pharmaceutical  products  M. 
Menier,  of  Paris,  made  an  extensive  display.  He  is  widely  known  as  a  drug- 
gist and  manufacturer  of  pharmaceutical  preparations.  The  collection 
was  rich  in  alkaloids  and  organic  principles,  among  which  strychnia,  brucia, 
cocaina,  codeia  and  the  cinchona  alkaloids  were  prominent,  tlie  strych- 
nia in  unusually  large  crystals,  vacuum  extracts,  powders,  etc.,  including 
the  froth  like  extracts  of  French  pharmacy,  made  in  vacuo. 
M.  Berjot,  of  Caen,  exhibited  a  series  of  »these  extracts  particularly 
noticeable,  together  with  beautifully  dried  leaves,  flowers,  roots,  etc., 
prepared  for  dispensing,  and  expressed  oils  of  croton  seeds,  castor  beans 
and  almonds. 
M.  G  uilliermond  &  Son,  of  Lyons,  bad  a  variety  of  chemical  and  phar- 
maceutical preparations  of  couiura,  cinchona,  etc.,  and  the  apparatus 
used  by  him  in  assaying  cinchona  barks. 
M.  Dorvault's  collection  was  quite  extensive,  including  many  salts  of  al- 
kaloids, among  which  valerianate  of  quinia  was  conspicuous.  Perman- 
ganate of  potassa  and  other  mineral  salts  were  well  crystallized. 
M.  Dorvault,  author  of  "  d'Officine,"  a  French  dispensatory,  has  long 
been  the  Director  of  the  Pharmacie  Central  de  France,  an  extensive 
establishment  in  the  east  central  portion  of  Paris,  not  far  from  the  Seine, 
where  every  need  of  the  dispensing  pharmaceutist  is  supplied,  from  the 
rarest  organic  and  mineral  chemicals  to  the  most  complex  syrups  or 
theriacs  of  earlier  pharmacy.  Taking  advantage  of  an  invitation,  and  the 
company  of  our  friend  Dr.  Jenkins,  of  Louisville,  we  entered  this  estab- 
lishment, on  a  forgotten  street,  about  noon,  as  the  card  indicated,  and 
were  received  in  the  oflice  very  politely  by  M.  Dorvault,  who  personally 
conducted  us  through  the  entire  establishment,  including  the  packing 
rooms,  the  wholesale  department,  where  orders  are  filled  ready  for  pack- 
ing, the  store-rooms,  where  drugs  were  kept  in  bins,  barrels  and  cans, 
