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cylindrical, intercellular passages, which are limited to the sieve tubes of the 
vascular bundles, three or four occurring in each of the bundles. It probably 
represents a product of metastasis, of no further use in the plant, similar to the 
etherial oils in the resin canals of the umbelliferoa. 
Preparation . — Six kilogrammes of finely-powdered Radix perezice, rich in 
glucose, were boiled for half an hour on the water bath with ten times their 
weight of alcohol. The solution poured off from the insoluble residue was 
filtered, and about nine-tenths of the alcohol distilled off. The mass was 
again treated with alcohol twice more. The concentrated alcoholic extract was 
poured into five or six times its weight of water at 50° C., whereby 3^ per cent, 
pipitzahoic acid was precipitated. It can be recrystallised from dilute alcohol or 
benzine. 
Characters . — It consists of golden-yellow flat plates, melting at 103° C, and 
subliming easily. It distils with steam, but it is decomposed by protracted boiling 
with water. It dissolves readily in alcohol, ether, chloroform, glacial acetic 
acid and benzine ; it is also somewhat soluble in light petroleum. Hot glacial 
acetic acid appears to decompose it. 
Composition. — C 16 H 19 (O a ).OH. It probably contains monohydroxybenzo- 
quinone with two side-chains, of which the one is a hydrocarbon radicle of 
the formula CnH2nfi> the other a hydrocarbon radicle of the formula C n H‘ 2 n- 1 ; 
and one of the side-chains will contain a pair of doubly-linked carbon-atoms. 
Use . — It acts as an energetic purgative, without any disagreeable results. 
The estate of Dr. Robert Peel, of Collins-street, Melbourne, medical prac- 
titioner, was compulsorily sequestrated in the Insolvency Court on the 28th of 
October. 
The quarterly examinations under the Pharmacy Act will take place the first 
week in December. A large number of candidates are expected to present 
themselves. 
The following honour appears in the London G-azette .-—Frederick M‘Coy, 
Professor of G-eology, Melbourne University, Companion of the Order of St. 
Michael and St. George. 
We learn by cablegram that Mr. Joseph Bosisto, C.M.G., the President of 
the Victorian Commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and Mr. James 
Thomson, the secretary, have been entertained at a banquet. 
We have been requested to state that an error has been made in describing 
Mr. J. A. Pond as the only public analyst in Hew Zealand. Mr. Pond is the 
analyst for the Auckland district only, Canterbury, Wellington, and Dunedin 
having each a resident analyst. 
The esteemed President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, Mr. 
William Bowen, left England on his return journey to Australia in the P. and 
O. steamer Shannon on the 8th October, and may be expected to arrive in 
Melbourne about the 20th November. 
Mr. James W. Smith, chemist, Footscray, reported to the police on Saturday, 
the 30ch October, that two men stuck him up near the Punt Hotel, close to the 
Saltwater River, and robbed him of £45 in notes and gold ; also a gold watch 
and albert and a gold pin, valued at £30. He was injured slightly about the 
face through the violence used. The complainant’s breast pin was afterwards 
found by the police near where the robbers, who are described as young men of 
the larrikin type, committed the offence. 
