American journal of pharmacy . past 500 years in the chemicalarts in the Fatherland. On the left is the office of Dr. Zwingen-berger, who was a director of the extended electrochemical plant ofVon Heyden, a firm well known to all pharmacists; the Germansdid well in having a chemical representative in charge of theexhibit. Next to the office is the weird laboratory of the alchemistmentioned in our first report. Opposite, the small 15 x 20-footexact duplicate of Liebigs Laboratory at Giessen—a room thatto-day would hardly do for the assistant to a professor in one of thegreat State laboratories.


American journal of pharmacy . past 500 years in the chemicalarts in the Fatherland. On the left is the office of Dr. Zwingen-berger, who was a director of the extended electrochemical plant ofVon Heyden, a firm well known to all pharmacists; the Germansdid well in having a chemical representative in charge of theexhibit. Next to the office is the weird laboratory of the alchemistmentioned in our first report. Opposite, the small 15 x 20-footexact duplicate of Liebigs Laboratory at Giessen—a room thatto-day would hardly do for the assistant to a professor in one of thegreat State laboratories. Still Liebig did all that marvelous workon the radicals of organic chemistry in this small laboratory. 568 Pharmacy and Chemistry Ani. Jour. December, 1904 Taught the greatest chemists of the world in that small room, leftthe analysis of organic compounds by combustion so perfect that hesaid every fool can now do this work; at least this is the sense ofhis expression, as we would say it in Missouri. Going now to the. Agriculture palace, we find the agricultural practice so lucidly por-trayed by Liebig strongly exemplified in the display of Stassfurtsalts. In more ways than one it is a remarkable story that the Stass- Am. Jimr. rimrm. ^Decoiiibor, IWl. I r/ioriiiiu V inid Chimistry 569 furt salt industry tells us, as may be read from the most excellentwork on this industry by Dr. G. Krause. Already in the days ofthe great Charlemagne, the region about the town of Stassfurt was


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