JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
JULY,  i897. 
THE  CALIFORNIA  MANNA.1 
By  John  Uri  Z,i,oyd,  Ph.M. 
mentioned  by  father  picolo.    (With  a  summary?) 
Query  by  Prof.  Fiiickiger  : 
"  What  was  the  manna  mentioned  by  one  Father  Picolo  in  Cali- 
fornia and  alluded  to  by  Proust,  in  Ann.  d.  Chim.,  57  (1806),  p.  145  ?" 
Answer  by  John  Uri  Lloyd. 
Dear  Prof.  Fluckiger  : — I  find,  on  reference  to  the  paper  cited» 
that  the  statement  is  as  follows  : 
Proust.    Ann.  d.  Chim.,  57,  p.  145.    On  the  Sugar  of  the  Grape. 
The  manna  seems  to  abound  in  America,  according  to  the 
reports  of  travellers.  Plerera  says  :  "  It  falls  in  the  season  in  the 
quantity  of  a  dew,  which  congeals  like  sugar,  and  which  is  so  whole- 
some that  it  is  named  Manna.    Father  Picolo,  one  of  the  first 
1  When  Prof.  Fiiickiger  visited  America  (July,  1894)  he  hoped  to  obtain  his- 
torical data  that  would  enable  him  to  give  the  records  of  several  interesting 
American  productions.  In  this  he  failed,  and  he  then  associated  in  his  behalf 
the  services  of  the  author  of  this  paper.  After  much  of  the  work  had  been 
done,  the  death  of  Prof.  Fluckiger  interrupted  the  investigation. 
These  papers  (some  of  them)  passed  into  possession  of  Prof.  Ed.  Schaer,  of 
the  Strasburg  University,  wTho  translated  into  German  the  accompanying  work 
by  Professor  Lloyd  on  American  Manna,  for  the  pages  of  the  Berichtc  der 
deuischen  pharrnaceutischen  Gesellschaft. 
We  present  herein,  with  the  knowledge  and  consent  of  Prof.  Schaer  and  the 
author,  the  original  paper  on  American  Manna. — Editor  Am.  Jour.  PHARM. 
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