308  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry.  {Amju°iy?i9(Marm' 
Drugs  will  be  found  in  the  Agriculture  and  Fish,  Forestry  and 
Game  Buildings. 
The  German  section  gives  an  idea  as  to  how  land  is  reclaimed, 
the  effect  of  various  fertilizers  on  like  soil  is  shown  by  the  products 
obtained.  Peat  and  the  products  obtained  by  subjecting  it  to  dry 
distillation  are  shown,  such  as  acetic  acid,  methyl  alcohol,  paraffine, 
cresol  oils  and  ammonium  sulphate. 
German  East  Africa  is  tropical  and  abounds  in  drugs,  such  as 
gutta  percha,  rubber^  copal,  vanilla,  tamarinds,  cacao,  cocoanuts, 
sesame,  cashew  and  betel  nuts,  archil  and  annatto,  ginger  and 
cinnamon. 
Italy  evidently  intends  that  it  will,  if  possible,  get  in  on  the  cam- 
phor proposition,  for  a  wall  case  shows  many  nicely  crystallized 
samples  of  camphor  as  prepared  from  trees  of  the  Laurus  Camphora 
grown  under  the  direction  of  the  experiment  stations. 
France  has  mainly  a  wine,  olive  oil,  mineral  water  and  chocolate 
display.  The  associated  colonies,  Algiers,  Reunion  and  Bourbon, 
show  drugs.  Algiers  has  evidently  a  bright  future  as  a  cork-pro- 
ducing State  ;  bales  of  the  finest  quality  are  shown.  Bourbon  has  a 
small  case  of  vanilla,  bottles  containing  the  bean  are  studded  with 
vanillin  sublimate  and  the  delicate  odor  is  noticed  through  the 
locked  case. 
The  Reunion  Botanical  Department  has  a  tasty  display  of  spices, 
benzoin  bark  used  for  tanning,  and  the  peculiar  jointed  roots  of  the 
citronella. 
Great  Britain  and  Colonies  exhibit  rubber  made  from  the  juices 
of  many  spurious  rubber  plants,  products  known  as  "  hard  Ashanti 
lump,"  "soft  akim,"  "salt  pond  nigger,"  "white  krepi  ball,"  also 
genuine  para  biscuit  rubber  made  from  the  Hevea  trees.  Nuts, 
shells  and  the  commercial  article,  the  kernel  of  the  palm  nut  and  the 
palm  oil,  are  represented. 
Japan's  breweries  make  a  big  show  of  the  celebrated  "  soy ; "  this 
is  a  sauce  much  used  by  the  Japanese.  The  peculiar  peppermint 
oil  so  rich  in  menthol,  and  menthol  in  crystals  of  several  inches  in 
length  are  very  prominent.  Various  seed  oils,  as  rape  seed ;  tea, 
tobacco,  pepper,  wax  and  honey,  are  of  importance. 
Formosa,  Japan's  colony,  is  tropical  and  grows  spices,  such  as 
ginger  and  turmeric.  The  camphor  wood,  a  large  pagoda  of  pressed 
camphor,  trade  packages  of  camphor  and  safrol  make  up  the  most 
interesting  part  of  this  exhibit. 
