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Notes  and  News.^ 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      June,  1913. 
mint  plant  now  being  cultivated  in  Okayama  in  Japan,  and  which 
is  stated  to  produce  the  best  peppermint  oil.  The  sample  has 
now  come  to  hand,  and,  although  the  foliage  is  somewhat  broken 
and  it  is  not  easy  of  identification,  yet  we  have  every  reason  to 
believe  that  it  is  not  the  variety  that  has  hitherto  been  sent  from 
Japan,  but  that  it  is  in  all  probability  the  Chinese  form,  Mentha 
Canadensis,  var.  glabrata.  To  this  we  shall  refer  subsequently, 
however,  and  in  the  meantime  we  are  promised  also  specimens  of 
the  mint  plant  as  cultivated  in  Hokkaido. 
We  are  sanguine  that  the  identification  of  these  plants  may 
show  that  the  varieties  now  being  cultivated  are  different  to  those 
which  were  formerly  distilled,  and  that  in  this  way  one  may  account 
for  the  difference  in  the  constitution  of  the  essential  oil.  (See 
Perfumery  and  Essential  Oil  Record,  February,  1913,  pp.  32-33.)  — 
Perfumery  and  Essential  Oil  Record,  May,  1913,  p.  118. 
T.  W.  England. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
British  Medal  for  American  Research  Worker. — The 
Hanbury  medal  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  has  been  awarded 
to  Dr.  Frederick  Belding  Power,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.  The  medal  is 
awarded  biennially  for.  excellence  in  the  prosecution  or  promotion 
of  original  research  in  the  chemistry  and  natural  history  of  drugs, 
and  the  adjudicators  are  the  presidents  of  the  Linnean,  Chemical, 
and  Pharmaceutical  Societies,  and  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference,  together  with  one  pharmaceutical  chemist  (who  on 
the  present  occasion  was  Mr.  Edmund  White,  vice-president  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society),  nominated  by  the  last-named  two 
presidents. 
Dr.  Power,  who  is  a  director  of  the  Wellcome  Research  Labor- 
atories, is  an  American  by  birth.  He  was  a  student  at  Strasburg 
University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy, 
and  was  assistant  to  the  late  Professor  Fliickiger.  For  the  greater 
part  of  his  career  Dr.  Power  has  been  engaged  in  the  investigation 
of  drugs,  and  during  the  last  seventeen  years  has  written  150 
scientific  memoirs,  embodying  the  results  of  his  researches. — Ex- 
tract from  the  Times' dated.  May  20,  1913. 
