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51 ining it further h Pound in 1 B b rati f til 1 purpl ing matter w hich pro\ I to b w hat \\ aoM know the " Mauve ch At thai tun <'ii!\ fifty yeai n ». uoh thin an artii ial dye \\ unknown, and ire must marvel al the wonderful in III and enei \ of this boy who ped the significance of Ins di lovery and made

it the I inniu of the at industry of

* Utar d . After further studj of the uevi apound and after praoti tl test in the dj f silk he ive up his position - Hoffmann isistan! and bo m the manufacture of the now dye, He was fortunate n havin a father who had enon h faith in the undertaking to risk almos! his whole fortun n the venture, for it would have been hardly possible, then, io seoure from ute rs enough capital (ov so hazardous u enterprise, \i thai time benzene, the raw material the manufacture, was not to be had in the market, of definite quality, and its disill > from tr had to be developed, n Kurther, after the dye had been prepared it w. quite different fi m the d\ es thou in i md methods for its application to ill and other ids had to be worked out. Ml th liflieulties were finallj ovei M O H I w [thin two 3 trs the mauve was sup p 1 for the d\eh oi silk As soon as in othoi turned their at ten! n in the now direction, Three 3 trs , r 1, nt.i was ill overed in France I ,, after other d\ 1 were prepared 1 rhin, by I [offmann and others, [lotV 1, ,, v m of dy< are espe< dl\ « inti siin I 11 h( thought that I rkin 1 mnkin ini-t.ii when he lefl him