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It jntiM stin and spiring I - tie cerned with tciucati al mat m gee how far [he i h labors is b iched tO and made part f the inanuf. . turinir pl:inta f thi* id otl r untries. It has 1« n claim* I that tin- i ) la ] ratories have tn th«» foundal stones upon which th reat ructu I tt. I forman chemical industry has 1 en i ared, and the claim can n< be question L It was inspiring, upon a visit to • of the great chemical works of Germany, where more than 3,000 hands v re employed, b see an entire, large, well-arrang 1, well lighted and ventilated building devoted wholly to abstract r search in lines relal 1 to the industry, occupi 1 by h u n d r of chemists engaged in the work f < which the building was provide 1. And it was even more interesting to foil the results of the research carried on in the s 1 laboratories of that gi at building. In this connection we may call att lion to the brilliant work lately report 1 by Professor Harries, of the Technical High School of Charlottenburg, i rmany, in tli study of the constitution of caoutchouc, or india rubber. By oxidation of the pure gum with ozone he was able to pr 106 what he named its diozonide. and this hv proper treatmenl was com rfc I into l i« linie aldehyde, which in turn \va oxidi d to levulinic aci< This, Professor Hnrri • reminds us, can be obtained more readily 1 i"" Cheaply from slareli than trOBJ any other material, and he BUI ts that bj series of deoxidations and condonsal m starch may be oonvertod into oaoutohouo, Which lias become so .. f,,| MI1(| -],..„„, 1U