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H. V. Arny, Librarian. 

 Adelaide Rudolph, Bibliography. 

 Hugo H. Schaefer, Queries. 



ANSWERS TO QUERIES . 



Potassium Metabisulphite. — R. T. N., 

 New York. — This is a synonym for 

 potassium pyrosulphite, K0S0O5 which is 

 now used to some extent as a photo- 

 graphic developer. The above formula 

 shows that it can be considered as a com- 

 bination of K2SO3 with SO2. It can be 

 prepared by passing SO, gas into a sat- 

 urated solution of potassium carbonate. 

 On cooling the pyrosulphite deposits in 

 hard tabular crystals. 



Lister's Solution. — R. P. H., New- 

 York. — We find this name in Hiss and 

 Ebert's "Pharmaceutical Preparations" 

 as one of the synonyms of liquor anti- 

 septicus, U. S. P. VIII. We might point 

 out that U. S. P. IX has dropped this 

 popular preparation and that the recipe 

 for liquor antisepticus of the new Na- 

 tional Formulary differs in several re- 

 spects from the former pharmacopoeial 

 formula. 



Hand Lotion for Electroplaters. — 



A. K. H., Brooklyji, desires a recipe 

 for a hand lotion to be used by workers 

 in a plating factory to relieve the cor- 

 rosive effect of the alkaline cyanide 

 fluids used as "baths" in the process of 

 electro-plating. We have been unable to 

 find a recipe suggested for this specific 

 purpose, but we would be inclined to try 

 as a remedy a tragacanth or quince-seed 

 hand lotion containing a considerable 

 quantity of boric acid. Recipes for the 

 basic lotion are easily obtainable, but if 

 A. K. H., desires one or more, we will 

 be glad to furnish them. 



