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THE AL UMNI JO URN A L . 



Quinoline Sulphocyanate. — This combination 

 is being put forward by Merck as a strong an- 

 tiseptic, possessing every advantage of phenol 

 without any of its offensiveness. Pus, diph- 

 theria and cholera organisms are rapidly de- 

 stroyed by it. It is recommended in cases of 

 blennorrhagia. — Pharm. Zeitung. 



Methyl Salicylate has been found in Gaul- 

 theria Procumbens L- G. Punctata, Blume ; G. 

 leucocarpa, Blume; G. leschenaultii, D. C. ; 

 Betula lenta, Willd ; Polygala senega L. ; P. 

 alba; P. vulgaris; P. depressa, ^Vender; P. 

 calarea, F. Schulz ; Monatropa hypopitys ; 

 Laurus benzoin ; Spirae Ulmaria, h. — Pharm. 

 Journal. 



Codeine. — M. Goelich {Arch, der Pharm.) 

 has obtained a compound of codeine and ethyl- 

 ene bromide by heating a mixture of the two 

 bodies in a sealed tube for several hours at ioo° 

 C. After several recrystallizations, he obtained 

 a salt in small crystals, having a melting point 

 I77°-I79° with the composition 



2C 18 H 2 ,N0 3 + C 2 H 4 Br 2 +H 2 0. 



Artificial Glucosides — Not content with his 

 famous synthetic work on sugars, Professor 

 Emil Fischer is hard at work on the prepara- 

 tion of artificial compounds of these bodies 

 with alcohols, that is, of elementary glucosides. 

 He has prepared and described the following: 

 Methyl glucoside, both the dextro and laevo- 

 bodies, ethyl glucoside, methyl galactoside, 

 methyl glucoside, the methyl compounds of 

 glucoheptose, a seven-carbon sugar, xylose, 

 rhammose, sorbose and fructose. There is no 

 doubt that in the hands of Fischer, the chem- 

 istry of the glucosides will undergo some re- 

 markable developments. — Br. and Col. Dr. 



Chitine has been obtained from Agaricus 

 competris and from ten other species of mush- 

 room by Eugene Gilson. 



Chitine is a proximate principle heretofore 

 only found in the animal kingdom; the discov- 

 ery of its presence in the mushroom adds an- 

 other body to the list of those common to both 

 animals and plants. — Chem. News. 



New Quinine Derivatives — An important 

 paper on the chemistry of several new deriv- 

 atives has just been published by O. Hesse. 

 Crystahzed quinine is digested in alcoholic 

 solution with an equimolecular quantity of 

 methyl iodine. After some time crystals of 

 quinine methyl iodine separate out, and when 

 pure corresponds to the formula. 



C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 CH 3 I,2H 2 O. 



By digesting this iodine with water, and the 



equivalent quantity of silver sulphate., a neutral 

 sulphate separates out, which possesses the 

 composition. 



C 20 H 24 N 2 O 2 CH 3 2 S0 4 +6 H 2 O, 



As determined by estimation of the water and 

 the sulphuric acid. By mixing the aqueous sol- 

 ution with the proper quantity of baryta water, 

 and evaporating under a dessicator, the corres- 

 ponding hydroxide is obtained, easily soluble 

 in water and alcohol, but insoluble in ether. 

 The aqueous solution is strongly basic and cor- 

 rodes the skin. Carbonic acid is easily ab- 

 sorbed with the formation of the carbonate. 

 (C ?0 H 24 N 2 O 8 .CH s ) s CO 3 +4H 2 O. 



The remainder of the paper deals with the 

 action of halogen hydrides on the hydrobases 

 and with apoquinine.— berichte. — Brit, and 

 Col. Drug. 



New Antipyrin Compounds. — An important 

 piper on some new antipyrin compounds has 

 just been published in the Berichte, by Adolf 

 Schuftan. Knorr had already shown that anti- 

 pyrin combined with benzaldehyde to form a 

 definite compound, and the author has now 

 succeeded in preparing similar compounds 

 with fatty aldehydes. He has described the 

 formaldehyde and acetaldehyde compounds, 

 and also the salicylic aldehyde compound. 

 The bodies are easy to prepare, as the com- 

 ponents combine, under suitable conditions, 

 with the elimination of water, in the propor- 

 tions of two molecules of antipyrin to one of 

 aldehyde. The reactions take place as follows: 



2C,HN 2 0(CH 8 ) 2 (C 6 H S )+CH,0=H 8 0+ 

 C 3 N,0(CH,),(C 6 H,) 



/ 



CH 2 



\ 



C 3 N 2 0(CH 3 ) 2 (C (! H 5 ) 



— Berichte. 



NEW LITERATURE 



Baillon, H. Histoire des plantes. Mono- 

 graphic des palmiers. Paris, 1895. 8°. Avec 

 68 fig. 10 fr. 



Bibliotheca zoologica. Herausgegeben von 

 Rdf. LeuckardtundC. Chun. 14. Heft, Nach- 

 trag. Rudimentare Wirbelthieraugen. Von 

 C. Kohl. III. Thl. Zussamenfassung. Stutt- 

 gart, 1895. E. Nagele, 4 . p. 179 274. 12 M. 

 S. Nr. 930. 



Durand, Th., et H. Schinz. Conspectus 

 florae Africae ou enumeration des plantes 



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