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Eucalyptus Oil of an exceptionally fine quality 
has been recently received from Adelaide, Australia. 
It is said to have been distilled from the leaves 
of Eucalyptus odorata, obtained from a Government 
forest of some 13,000 acres. — Burgoyne's Export 
Prices Current. 
Artificial Coffee. — The Prussian Minister of in- 
dustry has published an account from which it seems 
that the artificial coffee beans recently referred to 
consist principally of lupines, and contain about 
half per oent of oaffeine, derived from a slight propor- 
tion of kola nuts. The huBks contain a tannin and 
some resinous matter. — Chemist and Druggist. 
Lantanine. — This is an alkaloid discovered by Buiza 
& Negreta. of Lima, in the Yerba Sagrada (Lantana 
brasiliensis), one of the Verbena family. This alkaloid 
acts upon the circulation, retards the nutrition, and at 
the same time reduces the temperature ; it is borne 
well by the weakest stomach. Two grammes of Lan- 
tanine are said to have cured intermittent fevers where 
Quinine failed. As an antipyretic 1 or 2 grammes in 10 
oentigramme pills are given in the tweoty-four hours. 
In intermittent fever Lantanine should be given im- 
mediately after the paroxysm, and it is said that in 
99 cases out of 100 the fever will not again appear. 
The tincture of the herb is so intensely bitter that 
it would be useless to prescribe it. These results have 
not as yet been confirmed in this country, as no raw 
material has been obtainable to enable the necessary 
experiments to be made. — Christy's " New Commercial 
Plants and Drugs." 
Miles Joseph Berkeley. — Full of years, rich in 
the respect and affection whioh a long life of 
singular manliness and almost unparalleled servioe 
to Science and Horticulture have most worthily 
won, Miles Berkeley died on the 30th ultimo at 
Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, of which place 
he had been Vicar since 1868. Berkeley's eminence 
was gained in the field of Cryptogamic botany, and 
especially in the discrimination and description of 
fungi ; but in almost all departments of botany 
and natural history his knowledge was both wide 
and deep, while his classical attainments were 
very considerable, and his general knowledge, as 
we have said, so encycloptedic, that it is difficult to 
point to any subject of which he did not know 
something. His mind was eager and receptive almost 
to the last ; it is only a few years since that we 
once found him busy in acquiring some knowledge 
of Polish, for the purpose of making himself 
acquainted with the results of some investigations 
made by Kostafinski and others. Miles Joseph 
Berkeley was born in the Parish of Oundle, 
Northamptonshire, in 1803. Mr, Berkeley was the 
first, and till quite recently, the only botanist in 
tbis country who devoted systematic attention to 
the diseases of plants ; and his papers on vegetable 
pathology, which were commenced in these columns 
in 1854, and continued at intervals till 1857, still 
remain the most comprehensive of their kind in 
the language. In 1857 Berkeley published his 
Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany, which like his 
papers on Vegetable Pathology, occupied the field 
without a rival, till the recently published work of 
Messrs. Bennett* Murray, to whioh it will be our 
duty shortly to call attention. Outlines of British 
Fungology followed in 1860 ; and a work on British 
Mosses in 1863. In addition to these standard 
treatises, Berkeley was oontinually at work on the 
description of fungi from all parts of the world, 
often in conjunction with the late Mr. Broome, whose 
patient skill, judgment, and loistire were valuable aids 
to the more hardly pressed Berkeley, These continued 
labours were recognized by the scientific societies, 
who were proud to enrol so distinguished a naturalist 
among their Fellows. In 1863 the Koyal Society 
did itself oredit in conferring on Mr. Berkeley, not 
then a Fellow of that body, the greatest honour 
in its power to confer, viz., one of the Eoyal Medals. 
Major-General Berkeley, a son of the deceased 
gentleman, is known to many of our readers as an 
assiduous student of Orohids in Burmab and other 
parts of India.— Qardener'8 Ohroniele, Aug. 8rcl, 
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