8-K

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                   FORM 8-K
                                 
                                 CURRENT REPORT


     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.


     Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  January 30, 1996
    

                                Pure World, Inc.

             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


   Delaware                       0-10566                       95-3419191
(State or other                 (Commission                  (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction of                 File Number)                 Identification No.)
incorporation)


           376 Main Street, P.O. Box 74, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
         --------------------------------------------------------------
              (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)


              Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
                                 (908) 234-9220




Item 5. Other Events

     On February 6, 1996 Pure World,  Inc.  announced in a Press Release that it
had filed suit in a Dallas, Texas Federal District Court seeking the appointment
of a receiver  for the assets and  business  of American  Industrial  Properties
Reit. A copy of the Press Release is attached as Exhibit 99 to this Form 8-K.




                                   SIGNATURES


     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                   PURE WORLD, INC.


                                   By:  /s/ Mark Koscinski
                                        Senior Vice President
                                        Principal Accounting Officer


Dated:  February 7, 1996

EX-99

    

                              NEWS RELEASE

February 6, 1996                                       Direct Inquiries to:
                                                       Paul O. Koether, Chairman
                                                       908 234 9220


     BEDMINSTER,  NEW JERSEY - Pure World,  Inc.  ("Pure World") (PURW - NASDAQ)
announced  that it had filed  suit in a Dallas,  Texas  Federal  District  Court
seeking the  appointment  of a receiver  for the assets and business of American
Industrial  Properties  REIT, a Texas real esate investment trust (the "American
Industrial" or the "Trust"). According to the complaint, Trust Managers, Charles
Wolcott and William H. Bricker,  have failed to secure the  favorable  vote of a
majority of  outstanding  shares to be reelected for two  consecutive  years and
failed even to secure a plurality of votes  actually cast at the Annual  Meeting
held in December 1995. Although Pure World's nominees did win a plurality of the
votes cast at the December,  1995 Meeting they did not receive the 2/3 vote that
the Bylaws  enacted  by Messrs  Bricker  and  Wolcott  require of  non-incumbent
nominees.  As a result the shareholders of American  Industrial have not elected
Trust  Managers  for two years and the  shareholders  are  deadlocked  in voting
power.  Pure World alleges that this deadlock,  particularly  when combined with
the  acts  of the  unelected  Trust  Managers  in  giving  themselves  excessive
salaries, bonuses and Trust Manager fees and unlawfully enacting Bylaws designed
to  entrench   themselves  and  avoid  shareholder   oversight,   justifies  the
appointment  of a receiver  under Texas law. Pure World has  requested  that the
Court strike the Bylaws it says were unlawfully enacted.

     Messrs  Wolcott  and  Bricker  were  also  sued  derivatively  by  American
Industrial,  for  squandering  its assets in the  payment  to them of  excessive
salaries, bonuses and Trust Manager fees and for expending exorbitant amounts of
the assets of American  Industrial in connection with their losing  campaigns to
be re-elected  as Trust  Managers.  The suit in the name of American  Industrial
also  complains that Messrs  Wolcott and Bricker took  negligently  actions that
precipitated  a declaration  of default on a loan from its  principal  creditor,
Manaufacturer's  Life  Insurance  Company,  and embroiled the Trust in expensive
litigation  the loss of which  could  throw the  Trust  into  bankruptcy.  These
matters were inadequately  disclosed to shareholders,  according to Pure World's
complaint.

     Pure World  defeated an attempt by Messrs Wolcott and Bricker in the Spring
of 1994 to merge  American  Industrial  into a Maryland  entity which Pure World
said  was  designed  to  entrench  the  Trust's  management  at the  expense  of
shareholders  rights.  At the 1994 Annual Meeting of American  Industrial,  Pure
World proposed its nominees for election as Trust Managers. Neither Pure World's
nominees nor Messrs Bricker or Wolcott were elected.  At the 1995 Annual Meeting
Pure World again  proposed  its nominees who did not receive the 2/3 majority of
the  outstanding  shares required for election but did win the favorable vote of
the majority of votes cast at the meeting.  At the meeting Mr. Bricker  defended
his management record by telling  shareholders "I do have a job. And I do make a
living other than screwing around with this."





         After  the vote  was  validated  by the  official  judge of  elections,
American  Industrial  sued  Pure  World and its chief  executive  officer  in an
attempt, according to Pure World's complaint, to intimidate Pure World and other
major  shareholders of American  Industrial from attempting to dislodge  Messrs
Wolcott and Bricker from their sinecures as Trust Managers.

     Paul  Koether,  the chief  executive  officer of Pure  World,  said that by
filing this  complaint  Pure World was  seeking  help form the courts to restore
democracy to American Industrial and to hold the Trust Managers  accountable for
their actions  which he said were  detrimental  to the  financial  health of the
Trust.

     Pure World owns  888,000  shares  (9.785%) of the  9,075,000  shares of the
oustanding common stock of American Industrial.