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Qualitative analysis forms the second part, and is mostly a condensa- 

 tion of the rules of M. Rose. A condensed view of the outline of or- 

 ganic analysis is then given, and the work concluded by a set of tables 

 for calculation of the results of an analysis. These tables, so important 

 to the working chemist, and which form so valuable a portion of Mr. 

 Rose's work, were strangely omitted by Mr. Griffin in his English trans- 

 lation of that work. 



6. The Chemical Gazette, or Journal of Practical Chemistry, in all 

 its applications to pharmacy, arts, and manufactures; conducted by 

 William Francis and Henry Croft, late students in the universities of 

 Berlin and Giessen. London, Nov. 1, 1842. No. 1, (published on the 

 1st and 15th of every month,) pp. 32, 8vo. — Chemistry is certainly on 

 the ascendant in England. The establishment and activity of the Chem- 

 ical Society, the number and value of the recent chemical treatises — wit- 

 ness Daniel, Kane, Graham, Turner, (by Gregory and Liebig,) Parnell, 

 Brande, &c, and now the issuing under such favorable auspices of this 

 Journal — all show conclusively that both the demand and the supply is 

 better than heretofore. In all this can be seen the influence of the Brit- 

 ish Association, and the benefit (as one part of the results of that institu- 

 tion) of a more familiar and personal knowledge of continental chemists 

 and their doings. 



Messrs. Francis and Croft have for some time past contributed valuable 

 notices of what was doing on the continent to the Philosophical Magazine. 

 The " Gazette," they state, is intended to be eminently practical, giving 

 to the working chemist and pharmaceutist, the earliest possible information 

 of all that occurs on the continent and in England, which is important to 

 be known by them. The complexion of this their first number bears out 

 their proposal. We copy the table of contents. 



Introduction : Table of Elementary Bodies, with their Symbols and 

 Atomic Weights. Scientific and Medicinal Chemistry. — On test- 

 ing for Arsenic in cases of Poisoning: On the conversion of Ligneous 

 Fibre into Starch, by Prof. Liebig : On Digestion : On Glucinum and its 

 compounds : Fluid of the Spina Bifida : Solubility of the Sesquioxide 

 of Iron in Carbonate of Ammonia : Analysis of the Gall Stone of a 

 Sheep : Action of Sulphuretted Hydrogen on an acid solution of Zine 

 and Arsenic Acid. Analytical Chemistry. — Separation of Chloride 

 of Magnesium from the Chlorides of Potassium and Sodium : Separation 

 of Zinc from Nickel and Cobalt : Separation of Lead from Bismuth : 

 Tests for Iodine and for Copper. Pharmacology. — Adulteration of 

 Saffron : On the Barks of commerce. Chemical Preparations. — Pre- 

 paration of finely divided Calomel, of Hyperchloric Acid, of pure Sul- 

 phuric Acid, of Chloride of Zinc, of pure Potassa and Soda : Unguen- 

 tum contra Tineam : Employment of Sulphuret of Iron in cutaneous 



