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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to have to record the decease of Mr. Bucklee, of 86, New Bond Street, 
who died on Saturday morning, October 3, aged fifty-one. In the death of Mr. Bucklee, 
the Pharmaceutical Society loses a staunch supporter. For thirteen years he was a mem¬ 
ber of, and regular attendant at the Council Board, and an active and assiduous member 
of the finance and other committees until the time of his decease. His loss will be 
greatly felt by all those who were acquainted with his amiable and kindly disposition. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
De la Pharmacie. Par M. Fumouze. Paris: F. Chamerot, Libraire-Editeur. 
On the Characters, Actions, and Therapeutic Uses op the Ordeal Bean op 
Calabar. A Graduation Thesis, for which a Gold Medal was awarded by the Edin¬ 
burgh University, August, 1862. By Thomas R. Fraser, M.D. Edin., etc. Edinburgh : 
Oliver and Boyd, 1863. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Henry Hill (Kendal).—Fownes’s ‘Chemistry;’ ‘The Pharmacopoeia;’ Bentley’s 
‘ Manual of Botany ; ’ ‘ Selecta e Prescriptis and Royle’s ‘ Materia Medica.’ 
An Apprentice (Aberdare).—(1) Bentley’s ‘ Manual of Botany,’ price 12s. 6c?.; and 
Fownes’s ‘ Manual of Chemistry,’ price 12s. Qd. (2) The new Pharmacopceia may be 
expected about the 1st of December next. 
J. Jones (Cardiff.)—‘ Selecta e Prescriptis.’ 
An “ American Pharmaceutist" would probably succeed better in preparing “Phos¬ 
phorus Paste” by reducing the phosphorus to a granular condition by brisk agitation 
with spirit, before mixing it with the other ingredients. 
V. A. (Brighton).—Bentley’s ‘Manual of Botany.’ 
E. S. (Bristol).— Walnut Pomade for darkening the Hair. We suppose this is made 
with the juice of the fruit, or leaves. 
T. R .—The label, a copy of which has been received, would be liable to the Stamp 
Duty. 
A Registered Apprentice. —Lane’s ‘ Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, 
adapted to the Pharmacopoeia.’ Churchill. 
E. C. (York).— Solution of Malate of Iron may be made by beating to a pulp 6 lbs. 
of unripe crab-apples, to which add 1 lb. of coils of iron wire ; digest in a water-bath 
for eight days, take out the wire and express ; evaporate the clear liquor in a porcelain 
vessel, with constant stirring, to the consistence of a soft extract. One part of this 
extract should be mixed with twelve parts of water to form the solution. 
J. J. (Nottingham), wishes to know the method of preparing Carbonized Paper , used 
in taking copies of letters. 
X. Y. Z .—The ‘Pharmaceutical Latin Grammar’ will be found useful, but other 
works on the same subject must not be neglected. 
J. B. S. (Leighton Buzzard).—(1) We are unacquainted with the article referred to, 
and therefore cannot give the caution required. (2) Liq. Bignonice. We know of no 
formula for this preparation. A tincture of the bark of the root of yellow jasmin is 
used in America. In the absence of any authentic formula, we think the liquor might be 
prepared in the proportion of four ounces to the pint. 
Mr. T. Lowe (Liverpool), Mr. J. F. Thursfield (Evesham), Mr. Henry Long, Mr. E. 
White, Mr. Emerson J. Reynolds, A Major Associate, and others, are thanked for their 
communications. 
Erratum.— Page 188, line 21 from the bottom, for “bisulphate” read “ bisulphite.” 
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