Excerpt from Year-Book of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journals, From July 1, 1875, to June 30, 1876; With the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference at the Thirteenth Annual Me The synthesis of camphor is dealt with in an able paper by M. Ribau, who confirms Berthelot's observation that camphene may be converted into camphor by the action of suitable oxidizing agents. The product of the reaction was found to possess all the ordinary properties of laurel camphor, from which it differs in the direction of its rotatory power only. It was, moreover, proved to be a true camphor by its conversion into camphoric acid being effected in the usual way. M. Ribau thinks that a camphor turning the plane of polarization in the same direction as laurel camphor might be ob tained from the dextrogyre camphene derived from English oil of turpentine, his own experiments having been conducted with a levogyre camphene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.