356  News  Items  and  Personal  Notes 
Badische  Anilin 
F.  Bayer  &  Co. 
Hoechts  
Cassela  &  Co.  .  . 
Stede  Treptow . . 
Greisheim  
Weiler  ter  Meer . 
Total  
Present 
Stock 
Marks. 
90,000,000 
90,000,000 
90,000,000 
45,000,000 
33,000,000 
25,000,000 
10,400,000 
383,400,000 
New  Stock 
Common 
Marks. 
90,000,000 
90,000,000 
90,000,000 
45,000,000 
33,000,000 
25,000,000 
10,400,000 
383,400,000 
New  Stock 
Preferred 
Marks. 
72,000,000 
72,000,000 
72,000,000 
36,000,000 
26,400,000 
20,000,000 
8,320,000 
306,720,000 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1920. 
Total 
Marks. 
252.000,00a 
252,000,000 
252,000,000 
126,000,000 
92,400,000 
70,000,000 
29,120,000 
1,073,520,000^ 
PRODUCTION  OF  VANILLA  IN  THE  SOUTH  INDIAN 
OCEAN. 
By  Vice-Consul  K.  A.  Feibelman, 
TANANARIVE,  MADAGASCAR,  JANUARY  1 9,  1920. 
The  production  of  vanilla  beans  in  Madagascar  and  dependen- 
cies, including  the  Comoro  Islands,  and  in  the  islands  of  Reunion 
and  Mauritius  for  the  season  1919-20,  has  been  established  as 
follows : 
Madagascar  and  dependencies:  Pounds. 
Comoro  Islands   403,204 
East  Coast   423,503 
Nossi-Be   110,230 
Total   936,937 
Mauritius   2,646 
Reunion   198,414 
Statistics  just  received  by  the  consulate  from  the  governor  of 
the  Seychelles  Islands  indicate  that  the  vanilla  production  in  that 
archipelago  is  estimated  at  6,614  pounds  of  cured  vanilla  for  the 
year  191 9. — From  Commerce  Reports,  March  19,  1920. 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES. 
De^ce^ase)  of  Frank  G.  Ryan. — The  decease  of  Frank  G.  Ryan, 
President  of  Parke  Davis  &  Co.,  at  his  home  in  Detroit  on  April  20th, 
is  announced.  An  appropriate  memoir  of  this  eminent  and  influ- 
ential character  in  the  drug  trade  will  be  published  in  an  early 
number  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
