198 Scientific Intelligence — Miscellaneous. 



Messrs Batten, Ramsay, Falconei", Jameson, and M. P. Edgeworth. 

 To illustrate the survey, a series of maps, shewing the distribution of 

 plants and animals, will be appended ; also sections, shewing the geo- 

 logical structure of the Himalayas, of which little is at present really 

 known, from their base to Thibet. — (Delhi Gazette, February 1848.) 



26. The Calcutta Star has noticed the appointment of Lieut. 

 Strachey to investigate the physical geography of Kumaon and Gurh- 

 wal, assibted by several naturalists ; the inquiry to last a year. The 

 talent and zeal already displayed by this promising young officei", lead 

 us to anticipate great acquisitions to our knowledge of these sub-Hi- 

 malayan ranges. And if Dr Jameson's more pressing official duties 

 permit him to pursue his geological and physical observations along 

 the new line of interesting country recently opened up to our ex- 

 plorers, we shall have an outline survey of these regions completed, 

 suggestive, no doubt, of inquiries in detail, as important for the pur- 

 poses of theory as for the increase of our mineral resources. 



27. Adulteration in Medicines. — From a printed circular by the 

 Trustees of the College Pharmacy, New York, we cite the following 

 facts with regard to the adulterations in medicines used in the 

 United States. Bromide of potassium is imported and sold for the 

 iodide of potassium, some parcels being mixtures, and others entirely 

 bromide. The iodide is also adulterated frequently in large propor- 

 tion with other salts of an entirely different character. 



Blue pill is imported, containing a per-centage of mercury from 

 ten down to seven and a half, mixed with blue clay and Prussian 

 blue, to give the proper density and colour. Two importations of 

 this kind, from the manufactory of William Bailey of Wolverhamp- 

 ton, have been publicly exposed by this College in the newspapei'S, 

 the first in the year 1845, and the second and worst lot during tho 

 present month. Its composition, according to the analysis of our 

 Professor Reid, is — 



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An account of the fo-mer, with the correspondence between our late 

 President Adamson and Mr Bailey, was also published in the Ame- 

 rican Journal of Pharmacy, vol. xi. (New Series), p. 148. The lat- 

 ter appears in the New York Journal of Medicine for September. 



Very large quantities of rhubarb, much decayed, the better parts 

 of which are dark coloured, with scarcely any taste or smell, having 

 probably been exhausted to make extract, came from England, in- 



