Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1904. 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry. 
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PHARMACY  AND  CHEMISTRY  AT  THE  WORLD'S  FAIR. 
By  Carl  G.  Hinrichs,  Ph.C. 
[.  GENERAL  SURVEY. 
The  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  can  safely  be  said  to  be  the 
largest  World's  Fair  ever  held.  As  to  grounds  and  as  to  space  cov- 
ered by  buildings,  it  exceeds  Chicago  and  Paris.  Exhibitors  have 
spared  neither  time  nor  expense  to  make  their  exhibits  interesting 
and  attractive.  Especially  in  the  mining  and  machinery  divisions 
has  an  attempt  been  made  to  show  motion  exhibits ;  thus  what 
would  attract  the  specialist  only,  becomes  of  interest  to  the  average 
sightseer.  Processes  of  various  manufactures  are  shown  in  actual 
operation.  In  the  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  arts,  however,  pro- 
cesses  are  mainly  indicated  by  the  products  formed  in  the  successive 
steps,  taken  in  the  course  of  manufacture  to  the  finished  chemical. 
If  one  comes  to  the  Fair  with  the  expectation  of  finding  the 
chemical  and  pharmaceutical  exhibits  collected  in  the  Liberal  Arts 
Building,  as  the  Fair  management's  classification  states,  he  will  be 
disappointed.  Subjects  of  pharmaceutical  interest  are  to  be  found 
everywhere,  every  building  shows  some  products  of  the  soil  or  of 
man's  handiwork  that  are  distinctly  pharmaceutical. 
How  closely  the  leading  exhibitors  have  adhered  to  the  general 
classifications  may  be  indicated  by  taking  the  case  of  the  magnifi- 
cent display  made  by  the  German  chemical  industry.  You  would 
hardly  expect  to  find  this  display  in  the  Electricity  Building.  The 
connection  between  articles  of  common  chemical  manufacture,  of 
technical  and  analytical  furniture,  glassware,  balances,  optical  instru- 
ments, porcelain  goods  and  the  various  instruments  of  precision 
used  by  chemists,  with  electricity,  is  surprising  to  the  chemists  and 
pharmacists.  But  if  you  pass  through  the  exhibit  a  small  case,  con- 
taining  some  200  chemicals  made  with  the  current  will  be  found, 
and  here  is  then  the  ostensible  reason  that  all  of  Germany's  great 
chemical  industry  has  been  located  in  this  building.  Most  of  these 
articles  the  writer  was  informed  can  not  be  made  at  a  profit  by 
electrolysis,  still  they  enabled  the  Germans  to  locate  in  the  most 
prominent  building  on  the  grounds,  and  not  in  the  Liberal  Arts 
way  back  by  the  fence. 
As  pharmacy  draws  upon  the  three  kingdoms  of  nature  for  its 
first  products,  and  works  these  up  in  various  ways,  we  really  find 
