310  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry.  { Am'jJu°iy' i«5f,rm*" 
Japan  has  a  many-sided  fish  industry,  the  modes  of  fishing  pur- 
sued, the  smacks  and  products,  make  an  interesting  exhibit.  Sev- 
eral dozen  different  kinds  of  fish  oils  such  as  herring,  cod-liver, 
sperm,  whale  and  sardine  oils  are  made  by  the  Japs. 
Venezuela,  among  a  hundred  odd  drugs,  shows  copaiba  oil, 
vanilla,  asphalt,  copal,  kola,  cusparia,  divi-divi ;  also  the  extract, 
cinchona  and  simaruba.  A  peculiar  turtle  oil  that  has  a  buttery 
consistency  and  color  is  among  the  oddities ;  a  root  called  "  Flam- 
esco  "  is  said  to  be  used  in  syphilis. 
Brazil  has  a  large  collection  of  barks  as  used  in  the  tanning  of 
leather.  The  many  barks,  seeds,  etc.,  used  in  that  country  for  medi- 
cines, and  to  which  not  much  attention  is  paid  outside  of  that  coun- 
try, are  shown. 
Georgia,  noted  for  several  centuries  as  the  home  of  naval  stores, 
has  a  handsome  exhibit  in  this  line.  The  mode  of  tapping  the  pine, 
the  tools  used,  the  big  copper  stills,  worms  and  containers  em- 
ployed in  the  turpentine  industry  are  instructive.  A  hundred  trade- 
brands  of  resin,  resin  oils,  spirits  as  used  for  various  purposes  are 
shown. 
In  the  Liberal  Arts  Building  French,  English  and  American 
chemical  manufacturers  are  represented  by  elegant  exhibits,  many 
of  which  are  characteristic.  The  production  of  finely  crystallized 
and  consequently  very  pure  compounds  is  the  rule.  The  industries 
represent  all  phases  of  the  chemical  technology. 
The  South  Metropolitan  Gas  Company,  of  London,  S.  W.,  shows 
the  relative  amounts  of  the  various  products  obtained  by  the  frac- 
tional distillation  of  gas  tar.  Such  are  benzol,  toluol,  cresols,  naph- 
thalin,  anthracene,  pitch,  etc. 
The  British  Cyanides  Company  exhibits  beautifully  crystallized 
and  very  transparent  prussiate  of  soda  ;  this  salt  crystallizes  some- 
what larger  and  has  a  somewhat  paler  tint  than  the  corresponding 
potassium  salt  here  also  shown. 
R.  &  J.  Garroway  have  an  assortment  of  the  sulphates :  ferrous, 
soda,  alumina  ;  also  large  blocks  of  sal  ammoniac  are  shown. 
The  tropical  cocoanut  is  worked  up  by  J.  Crosfield  &  Sons,  of 
Warrington,  England,  select  samples  of  coprah  beans,  coprah  hulls, 
butter,  layers  of  the  press  cake  sold  as  cattle  food ;  also  the  pre- 
pared edible  butter  colored  yellow. 
Soda  and  sodium  silicate  as  made  by  Loewig's  process  are  shown. 
