Frankincense
a resin obtained from a great number of trees of the fir species, and greatly esteemed as an incense. The article now universally known as frankincense is the the resin called thus, a common, inodorous article, FRANKLAND which discovery led to the theory of "equivalents." He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, in 1851, and there developed the process of making water gas. Becoming Professor of Chemistry in the Royal School of Mines in 1865 he turned his attention to water analysis, the purification of sewage and the means of preventing pollution. Subsequently he proved that compressed gases are calittle better than common white resin. pable of giving out a flame of constant FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN The article once so highly valued, and which, with gold and myrrh, was deemed a gift to lay before the Saviour, must have been some other drug.