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NESTLE'S RECIPES

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CONFECTIONS"

NESTLÉ'S

The VARIOUS RECIPES which have been appearing from time to time in the advertising colums of this Journal were taken from » NESTLE Pablication knowu as "CREAM CONFECTIONS.”

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ARTIFICIAL PEARLS." A JAPANESE INDESTRY, INTERESTING EXPERIENCE,

investigations has appeared in the daily Press. Some of these investigations re- mind me of the little boy who, having learned that trains were propelled by steam, lighted a fire in his go-cart. pub a kettle on it, and expected it to run by An article on Japanese artificially.elf. Undoubtedly experienced pearl induced pearls appears in Nature. This tamiling with the shella of

merchants, and, indeed, any zoologist who author is Dr. H. Lyster Jameson, th greatest authority in England on pestis and mother-of-pearl fisheries.

He pass

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and mother-of-pear/ic)

to

the different

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species and

races of pesti oysters, can usually distinguish pearls from the Bom considerable part of life in investigating the fisheries of pearl oyster (Margaritifera Martensit) the Persian Gul and Pupus,

ris of from the pearls in

other species,

just ne Australia. He is now technical ad Central American, etc., pearls from cuch they can distinguish Ceylon, Australian. viser on in-shore fisheries to the Minis-other by slight differences in colour and try of Agriculture and Fisheries and to lustre; but this test only reveals that the Development Commission of the pearls come from the Japanese pear! Treasury. One thing is clear from his oyster, sad cannot be used illuminating article: To distinguish & naturally

distinguish And. artificially-produced Japanese cultured pearl from a natural Japanese pearls from each other;

and 10 one it is, at present, necessary to break would be useless for distinguishing pourls it up. And another thing, if the produced by the Japanese process in other Japanese process is improved necording species of pear! oysters from pearls to Dr. Jameson's suggestions, and is naturally produced by the same species. transplanted to Australia or to the Per This natural difference is greatly intensi- sian Gulf, there is every" reason to ex- fed when the pearls are examined" in pect that a pearl may be produced by ultra-violet light, for which purpose an artificial cultivation equal to that which apparatus has been designed and the oyster supplies by natural induce already on the market. I hope abortly to be able to examine some naturally pro- For some years (says Dr. Lyster Jameduced Japanese pearls with this appara- son) Mr. K. Mikimoto, the pioneer in

I anticipate that they will agree the application of scientific knowledge to with the artificially produced Japanese the panri oyster on a commercial scale, other localities, as this test, like the rule-

pestle, and

not with natural pearls from has been producing in Japan and selling of thumb test based on the general colour under the name of "Mikimoto pearls,' pearls of this description. There was nominate differences in the structure of the

and lustre, appears to depend on the. secres about this Mr. Mikimoto not acre in different species and races only sold them as artificially-produced pearl oysters. pearls, but also published in one of his The behaviour of polarised light when eatalogues a short description and dia pasard through sections of the natural gram explaining his process:

and the Mikimoto pear! respectively was For many years Mr. Mikimoto experia foregone conclusion Erom our know. monted with a view to the production of ledge of the structure of their centres. a complete pearl, not attached to the When examined with polarised light shell. a modification of this process, between crossed Nicols. the section of a and obtained his firs. successful results natural pearl, of course, shows through- about 1912, as announced by me at the out the cross of extinction characteristic Dundee meeting of the British Associa of concentrically crystallized bodies tion in that year. From information sup. (exerpt in those parts which are too plied to me by Mr. K. Ikeda, one of opaque to transmit light). A section of Mr. Mikimoto's staff. in a letter from shows the four arms of the cross in the

Mikimoto

pearl. on the other hand, Tokio dated May 30th 1914, it appears outer part, which is concentrically laid that the first considerable crop of these down; but the mother-of-pearl bead

round cultivated pearls was harvest pears alternately dark and light as the “ ed in the autumn of 1913. Their produe slide is rotated, according as the part tion is now an important part of the the exterior to which its lamine are cf original Japanese industry.

Mr. Bramall is not yet in a position to parallel is in a dark or a light sector. make a definite statement as to the prac ticability or otherwise of applying some

Apart from the purely financial ques tion as to the degree to which the ad vent of artificially-induced pearls is like ly to affect the price of natural pearls,

of

two questions seem to have been agitat.fication of this procesi to the whole

throughout of concentrically deposited being so, and hay,sted above.

METHOD OF PRODUCTION.

He will, of course. publish his ing the public: Are these products results as soon as they are completed. parisund, Can a test be devised However, whether or not the pearls, pro- by which, without destroying them, ther duced by the Mikimoto process, which can be distinguished from pearls of are sow on the market. can be distin- natural origin? Of course, when a slice thous destroying them, by virtue of from naturally produced pearls, is cut across a natural pearl and a Miki- moto pearl the distinction is obvious. A their containing a large bead of mother natural pearl, except in those (in my

of-pearl, which behaves differently to experience exceptional) cases where a wards polarised light or towards some nucleus of foreign origin and of su easily remeder this in future by a modi-

other variety

of light. Mr. Mikimoto can ficient size to be identified (such as a Geation of his process, auch, for example, grain of sand) is prescut. consista |

4s one of those

Tani layers, which differ in degree of trans that, in the appropriate

in" view the fact parency or opacity in different speci-"Oriental, Australian, Central Ameri localitics, mens. The Mikimoto pearl, in its outer can, and other varieties of pearls could layers, has the same structure as the be produced by the same process, it is natural pearl, but has an artificially probable that, as time goes on, more and manufactured bead of mother-of-pearl, more of the pearls coming into the market composed of flat parallel lamine of nacre will have been produced, not by the old- in its centre.

fashioned methods of fishing for the "wild" pearl oyster, some of which The method by which Mr. Mikimoto methods have existed almost unchanged by him in Japan and other countries, and ed pearl oysters as that in which Japan Produces these pearls has been patented from time immemorial, but by such appli- cations of scientific knowledge to cultivat an application for a British patent has has given se conspicuous already been led, and is open for us imagine that a certain apparatus, alleged

.. lend: pection at the Patent Office. Now, Mr. to be in the possession of certain pearl which follows from my work in 1902, nad

which is said to bring out the which was further demonstrated by intensifying these natural distinctions. Alverdes's remarkable experiments ten But, so far as I know, no man of science. years later, that it is not the presence who is familiar with the minute structure of an irritating intrusive body that deter- and mode of origin of pearls hus sees this mines the formation of a pearl, but the apparatus. presence in the sub-epidermal tissues of the oyster of a closed sac of the shell-! secreting epidermis, the secreting surface of which is not continuous with the secreting surface of the epidermis which: lays down the shell; and that unless this Parliament or the unions should exert It is a serious state of affairs that epidermal sac is introduced by trans- plantation (as in Alverdes's and Miki- such tyranny as to restrict the necessary moto's methods), or is induced by the supply of skilled labour." said Arch- specific stimulation of a particular kind bishop Dubig, Roman Catholic Arch- of parasite (as in the pearls in Mytilus bishop of Brisbane, at the laying of the caused by the trematode Gymnophallus), at Clayfield, recently. Dr. Duhig stated foundation stone of a new presbytery or arises by some still uckuown cause that no builder could employ more than or causes (as in the Ceylon pearl oysterone apprentice to every four or no Irritating body introduced into the shell or tissues can be expected to become Journeymen or artisans. He had beet the nucleus of a pearl. From the biolo- given to understand that was the poligy gical aspect there are two classes of ed by Parliament. Why should the ndopted by most of the unions support pearly bodies. The trade distinguishes liberty of parents and sons be so res. different kinds of pearls according to tricted. .Schools were turning out an shape and size (fine pearls, baroque army of clerks and labourers, and when pearls, seed pearls, etc.). just as biolo- the want of skilled labour was felt they gists distinguish certain glasses cord would have to send abroad for men to Ing to where they arise (parenchyma at the places that should be filled by mantle pearls, muscle pearls), or to the Australians. It seemed as if people es kind of shell material of which they are caped, one class of tyranny only to come. composed (aacreous petris, columnar under another. Then years ago a brick- nearls, by postrarum pearls, periostacun layer with only half the present wages pearls, Hinge pearls). All these classes, would lay from 800 to 1,000 bricks a Rome valuable, some worthicas, are, from day. Now with double wages, he had the biological point of view, pearls heard, though he trusted it was not true, Biologically speaking, the Mikimoto

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peari satisfies all the conditions which that the union told its members they go to make up a pearl as defined above. must not lay more than 450. If that It differs from a natural pearl only in were so, and it was a generally accepted that it contains a foreign nucleus larger ides, then it denoted neither honesty nor than any foreign nucleus which I have. efficiency.

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William small natural pearl of a inferior quality, or concentrically Crookes, who, to the result of numerous experi. crystallised bead of carbonate of lime, mente, combining glase with various metals could be used as a nucleus. A trade in Las succeeded in producing a material which the worthless pearls of Mytilus might

even be revived for this purpose; accordents off 98 per cent. of the infra-red or hent ing to Garner they were once exported rays together with the ultra-rio'st or chemical from this country to China for the maau rays-called Sir William Crookes Glass, facture of "medicine." The somewhat Crookes lenses of any prescription in either greater transparency, on the average,

of Mikimoto pearls, when compared with regular or Toris form are manufactured by the natural pearls, could be remedied by Hongkong Optical Co., Sncoessors to Clark & either of these processes.

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