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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 



[Jantjari I, 1884, 



of an alkali. The P. G. requires that it shouU dissolve 

 clear in an e [ual weight of a mixture of 1 iJart of dilute 

 ftcetiu acid a id 9 parts of water so as to leave scarcely 

 anv residue; it must also foim a clear solution with uine 

 tiincs its weight of cold dilute spirit. Both works limit 

 the amouut of ash to 07 per cent. 



GmclumUli.ue ISidphas, U. S. P. (new).— The neutral sulph- 

 ate of cinclionidiue is made official in the U. S. P., and 

 is described as occurring in white, silky lustrous needles, 

 or thin qu;i Iratic prisms, soluble in 100 parts of water 

 or 71 parts of alcohol at 15= C, in 4 parts of boiling 

 wati'r, in l:i parts of boiling alcohol, freely in acidulated 

 wat^'r' and in 1000 parts of chloroform, the undi.ssolved 

 portions b'^coming gelatinous. This salt crystallizes from 

 a dilute aqueous solution mth 6 to 7 molecules of water, 

 hut from a concentrated solution with only 3 niolecules. 

 It is the form with 3 molecules which is ofEcial. 



C/ziWiO./ 1 /w, U. S. P. (uew).— Sulphate of cinchoiiine was 

 already o.'licial in the U. S. P., and now the alkaloid is 

 included; It is described as occurring in white, somewhat 

 lustrous prisms or needles, almost insoluble in cold or 

 hut water, soluble in 110 parts of alcohol at 15° 0., in 

 28 parts of boiling alcohol, 371 parts of ether, 350 parts 

 of chlor jform and readily soluble in dilute acids. A solu- 

 tion in dilute sulphuric acid should not exhibit more than 

 a faint fluorescence, showing absence of more thau traces 

 of quinine or quinidine; it is distinguished from quinme 

 by sparing sohibiUty in solution, of ammonia, and from 

 quinine, quinidiue and cinchouidine by being much less 

 solulile in ether. 



Chi.:honinif Suljihan, V. S. P.— Hard, white, shining prisms 

 of the clino-rhombic .system, permanent in the air, having 

 a very bitter taste and neutral or faintly alkaline reaction. 

 Soluble in about 70 parts of water at 15° 0., or 6 of 

 allcoh'il; iu 14 of boihug water or 15 of boihng alcohol; 

 and ill 60 of chloroform ; insoluble iu ether and benzol. 

 Heated to 100 ■= 0. it should not lose more than 4-8 per 

 cent in weight (two molecules of water); melts with 

 partial subUmatioa at about 240° 0. — Pharmaceutical 

 JoV' iial. 



TEANSACTIONS OF THE PHAPvAMACEUTIOAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Meeting of the OouNcir,. 

 Wednesday, October 3, 1883. 

 Peesentatiom of the Hanbukv Medal. 

 The President said the next part of the programme 

 was of a different character from the first, which had 

 been more or less connected with the work of students 

 and examinations. He now had to perform, in conformity 

 with a trust which devolved on the Council of the Pharm- 

 aceutical Society, another duty of a very agreeable 

 chiiraoter, that of handing over one of the greatest honours 

 which could possibly be offered iu the domain of the 

 particular branch of science included iu the trust to a 

 gentleman who was selected vithov.t examinution. Before, 

 however, handing over the Hanbury Medal, it would be 

 necessary to state the circumstances under which it was 

 founded. Mr. Daniel Haubury, a distinguished member of 

 the Society, and at the time" of his death in 1875 prob- 

 ably one of the greatest, if not the greatest ph.irniaco- 

 logist in the world, died at a comparatively early age, far 

 too early for the work he might have accompli.shed. He 

 had done so much work for the advancemtut of pure 

 Bcience, especially that of pharmacology, that it was 

 thought only fit and proper that some memorial of him 

 should be estabhshed in connection with pharmacy. Ac- 

 cordinglv, a limited subscription was suggested and im- 

 mediately responded to ; the result was, that .shortly after 

 his death, a fund was raised, and the influential Committee 

 that had charge of it. decided that the Viest way of per- 

 petuating Daniel Haubury's memory would be to award 

 Bgold medal bieiiuially for high excellency iu the prose- 

 cution of original research in the chemical and natural 

 history of drugs. There was no limit as to country or 

 place. It was a medal open to all the word. A trust-deed 

 was drawn to meet the resolutions of the Committee 

 and the Pharmaceutical Society w.is made the tru.stee. 

 It was also decided that the adju.licators of the Medal 

 should bo the Presidents for the time being of the Liuuean, 



Chemical aud Pharmaceutical Societies, the President of 

 the British Pharmaceutical Ooufei-euce, and one pharm- 

 aceutical chemist, who should, prior to each award, be 

 .appointed by the Presidents of the Ph.arma- 

 ceutical Society and Conference. The first award was 

 made to a distinguished German, who was Daniel 

 Haubury's coadjutor and friend, being tlie joint author with 

 him of ono of the works by which he was best known, 

 the ' Pharmacographia,' viz.. Professor Fluckiger. This year 

 the judges, having taken the matter into consideration 

 and cousideri'd the claims of American. European. British 

 and Irish competitors for the Medal, came to the con- 

 clusion that the person of all others deserving the award 

 on this occasion was an Englishman, 



MB. JOHN ELIOT HOW.VED. 



He held in his hand the official award, which he need 

 not read, signed by Sir John Bubljock, Dr. Perkin, Dr. 

 Attfield, Henry B. Brady and himself. He regretted that 

 owing in the one case to domestic affliction, and in the 

 others to accidental circumstances, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. 

 Perkin and Mr. Brady were not able to be present, but 

 they desired him to express to Mr. Howard their extreme 

 regret at not being able to .assist at this award. It would 

 ill become him to attempt to enumerate Mr. Howard's 

 qualifications, but he might just say that his scientific 

 work had been very largely, almost exclusively, in the 

 chemistry and natural history of one single bark, the cin- 

 chona bark, the importance of which everyone present 

 thoroughly recognized. He had before him three volumes 

 with which Mr. Howard was more or less identified, and 

 in one of them there were ilkistrations aud a descrip- 

 tion of no less than forty-two species of cinchona. These, 

 with many others, had been studied by Mr. Howard for 

 many years at an enormous expense, for the benefit not 

 only of those who were interested iu pharmacology, hut 

 all mankind. For having regard to the value of the barks 

 themselves, and the alkaloid quinine, it would liave been 

 impossible for the Government of India, and private growers 

 of bark in Ceylon, to have carried on their operations 

 with satisfaction and certainty if they had not been assisted 

 from first to last by Mr. Howard, and the skill he had 

 brought to bear upon the whole subject. 'Without saying 

 more he would ask Mr. Howard to receive this medal and 

 otfer him most cordially not only his own respectful con- 

 gratulations, but tliose of every pharmacologist in the 

 world. 



Mr. J. E. Howard said words would fail him to express 

 the deep gratification which he experienced in receiving 

 this proof of the appreciation of those for whose judg- 

 ment he had so great respect. AVith regard to whatever 

 he might have done in the way of scientfic labour, he 

 must say he considered himself still a studeut, and though 

 he was happy to say he hail not been subjected to an 

 examination, he was a member of that Society. He was 

 particularly gratified at receiving this medal, because it 

 reminded him of the great assistance and sympathy he 

 had received from the illustrious man in whose honour it 

 was founded. His owu love for science had sprung up 

 spontaneously, and he followed it, not with any expect- 

 ation of rew.ird, but simply from the pleasure it afforded 

 him. But he was induced and helped forward to publish 

 the results of his observations more by Mr. Hanbury than 

 any one else, and it was therefore to him very specially 

 »nd exclusively that in looking back he might say he 

 owed whatever advantage might have accrued himself or 

 otliers — from the publication of his researches. At the 

 late hour he ought not to detain the meeting longer, 

 though he should have liked to sny a few words for the 

 encouragpmeut of his fellow students. He trusted they 

 would all find the same interest that he had found in 

 the study of the works of the Great Creator, and th.it 

 they would all feel that which he would particularly seek 

 to impress upon them, that was no real contradiction 

 between Christianity an Science. For himself he coa- 

 siilered it the highest honour to he a Christian. — Pharm- 

 aceutical Journal. 



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