Am7u°i"'i9oS*m'}  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry.  309 
Ceylon  is  distinctly  an  isle  of  spice.  Here  are  displayed  thirty 
to  forty  different  trade  grades  of  cardamoms,  also  the  seed  and  wild 
cardamom  pods ;  cloves,  ginger,  mace,  the  natural  nutmegs  that 
have  neither  been  limed  nor  peeled,  turmeric,  Ceylon  cinnamon  in 
bales,  cacao,  betel  nuts,  cocoanuts,  cinchona  bark,  etc.  The  lemon 
grass  and  yellow  and  greenish  citronella  oils  of  many  native  distillers 
are  shown,  also  cocoanut  oil.  A  hundred  grades  of  tea,  and  last, 
but  not  least,  the  far-famed  delicacy,  birds'  nests.  This  exhibit 
might  properly  be  called  a  drug  merchant's  sample  house. 
Porto  Rico  has  the  usual  run  of  tropical  produce,  such  as  cacao, 
ginger  (both  the  white  and  the  yellow),  tamarinds,  cassia  fistula,  bay 
leaves,  cocoanuts,  rubber  and  annatto. 
Honduras  exhibits  a  large  trunk  of  the  rubber  tree,  rubber, 
bundles  of  sarsaparilla,  cascarilla,  in  fact,  a  whole  division  devoted 
to  many  strange  drugs. 
Costa  Rica  displays  fibres,  woods,  barks,  fruits.  Many  bundles 
of  india  rubber,  with  a  bottle  of  the  latex,  from  which  the  rubber 
is  obtained,  make  up  a  separate  division.  Many  drugs,  as  cinchona, 
cassia  fistula,  pepper,  ginger  rhizomes,  untreated  and  on  the  point 
of  sprouting.  Annato  seeds  in  the  bursting  pod — imagine  a  jimp- 
son-weed  burr  flattened  and  you  have  some  idea  as  to  the  shape  of 
the  annatto  pod.  The  seeds  are  red  in  color,  very  angular  and 
somewhat  larger  than  a  mustard  seed.  The  annatto  paste  is  also 
represented. 
The  Fish,  Forestry  and  Game  Building  is  just  north  of  the  Agri- 
culture Building ;  the  dressed  woods  are  most  prominent,  still  the 
barks,  roots,  resins,  etc.,  come  in  for  their  share  of  attention. 
Egyptian  Soudan  is  the  home  of  gum  arabic  and  all  qualities  and 
forms  of  this  drug  are  shown,  also  rubber,  sesame  and  ivory  tusks. 
Most  interesting  is  a  sample  of  common  salt  made  from  the  saline 
earth  found  in  the  Soudan ;  the  color  is  grayish  white.  It  comes  in 
forms  indicating  that  in  the  moist  state  the  salt  had  been  packed  in 
horns. 
The  Siamese  evidently  hold  drugs  of  secondary  importance ;  sam- 
ples of  gum  benzoin,  gamboge,  dammar,  unpeeled  sticklac  and  india- 
rubber  are  placed  high  up  in  a  dark  case. 
Ceylon  has  a  trader's  case  of  tanning  materials  such  as  myrobalans 
and  cashew  nuts,  acacia  and  cinnamon  barks,  rock  alum ;  also  flour 
made  from  the  sweet  potato,  plantain,  cassava  and  tapioca.  The 
deadly  cobra  is  shown  in  the  jungle  scene. 
