TAKAMINE, JOKICHI

(1854), a Japanese chemist; b. in Takaoka, Japan. He graduated from the chemical engineering course in the Engineering College of the Imperial University of Tokio, after which he studied in Glasgow University, Scotland, as a Japanese Government student. On his return home he was chief chemist in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, in Tokio, later being sent as Imperial Japanese Commi ioner to the Cotton Centennial in New Orleans. In 1890 he settled in New York, where he perfected a proce for producing diastatic enzyone, used in the manufacture of starch. He then established a laboratory for extracting the active principle of suprarenal glands, on a commercial scale, the product being known as ‘Adranalin.’ W. section of the Gobi Desert, lies N. of the Kuen-lun ranges and is bordered N. W. and E. by the Tarim River,