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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1872. 
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IMPORTS OF DRUGS, ETC., IN 1871. 
The mucli earlier publication of the annual state¬ 
ment of the trade of the United Kingdom with 
foreign countries and British Possessions for the year 
1871, enables us to furnish an abstract of those articles 
most interesting to the chemist and druggist. But 
this earlier official publication is attended with some 
-disadvantages, seeing that the return is shorn of 
many details and figures which were given in former 
.years under the section of “ other articles,” in which 
were formerly enumerated the minor drugs and 
varieties of imports that are now omitted altogether. 
Thus, in previous years we were able to ascertain 
the official imports of aloes, annatto, arrowroot, 
balsams, unenumerated barks, berries, cardamoms, 
cantharides, cassia fistula, cocculus indicus, cubebs, 
various extracts, gentian, grains of paradise, mis¬ 
cellaneous medicinal gums, honey, ipecacuanha, 
jalap, leeches, manna, musk, myrrh, nux vomica, 
pomatum, quassia,quinine, sarsaparilla, seneka root, 
senna, mineral waters, and other articles, about 
which we are now left in the dark. And we con¬ 
sider this omission to enumerate the miscellaneous 
articles is but a false economy, which deteriorates 
from the value of the returns for statistical and 
commercial reference. 
However, in the absence of the minor articles, we 
must be content with the return of the major ones. 
Glancing at them in the alphabetical order in which 
they appear, of alkali of various kinds the imports 
last year were close upon 100,000 cwt., valued at 
.£143,741; bark for tanners’ or dyers’ use 415,528 lb.^ 
value, £100,529 ; extract of bark, or other vege¬ 
table substances, for the same purpose, £29,GIG 
in value; Peruvian bark, 21,043 cwt., valued at 
£285,970; other sorts of bark, 29,525 cwt., valued 
at £70,483 ; sulphur, 935,131 cwt., valued at 
£303,003; chemical manufactures and products of 
the value of £851,757, of which Italy sent £353,724, 
France £203,240, and Germany £149,750; 
.£5,429 cwt. of cochineal was received, valued at 
£719,024; cutch, 5339 cwt., valued at £111,140; 
drugs, unenumerated, of the value of £405,090; dye- 
.stuff of various kinds, 234,548 cud., valued at 
.£502,738; and dye-woods, 02,734 cwt., valued at 
£183,518 ; extracts, unenumerated, £27,490 ; fari¬ 
naceous substances, such as arrowroot, tapioca, etc., 
to the value of £274,281 ; gambier, 25,207 tons, valued 
at £399,955; gums—Arabic, 70,130 cwt., valued 
at £250,088 ; lac, of all lands, 00,005 cwt., value, 
£348,089; unenumerated gums, 95,420 cwt., value, 
£324,229 ; indigo, 100,307 cwt., value, £2,937,224; 
isinglass, 4200 cwt., value, £72,189; madder, mun- 
jeet, and garancine, 277,093 cwt., value, £805,592; 
mjTobalans, 145,450 cwt., value, £100,095 ; naphtha, 
crude, 1,985,845 gallons, value, £72,030 ; Cubic 
nitre, 1,451,520 cwt., value, £1,131,700; oil nut 
31,120 tons, value, £417,007 ; cocoa-nut oil, 190,492 
cwt., value, £357,200 ; olive oil, 38,281 tons, value > 
£1,858,779 ; palm oil, 1,047,882 cwt., value* 
£1,820,098; seed oil of all kinds, 10,354 tons, value’ 
£404,380 ; oil and spirit of turpentine, 178,015 cwt.’ 
value, £317,877 ; chemical and essential oils, 530,401 
lb., value, £174,910; other oils to the value of 
£195,093; opium, 591,400 lb., of the value of 
£590,158, of which 514,800 lb. came horn Turkey 
and Egypt; perfumery unenumerated to the value of 
£00,710; petroleum, refined and unrefined, value > 
£014,017; rosin, 730,942 cwt., value, £330,994; 
safflower, 15,333 cwt., value, £138,808 ; saltpetre, 
329,501 cwt., value, £419,099 ; sumach, for tanning 
and dyeing, 10,481 tons, value, £206,017; ginger, 
raw, 32,723 cwt., value, £70,884; turpentine, rough, 
0650 cwt., value, £2,698; valonia, for tanning, 
27,999 tons, value, £448,458; wax, 10,730 cwt., 
value, £99,529. 
Glancing from the above aggregate quantities to 
the imports from special countries, and taking 
those of the East first, we find that from India 
there is an increase in the value of unenu¬ 
merated drugs. The quantity imported last year 
was of the declared value of £53,309, an increase 
of more than cent, per cent, in the last five years; 
for only £10,000 worth was received in 1807, and 
£29,000 in 1868. The value of the chemical pro¬ 
ducts imported from India in 1871 was a little over 
£23,000, which is a decline upon the previous two 
years,— £52,953 having been received in 1809, and 
£33,620 in 1870, Of cutch, 90,210 tons were re¬ 
ceived from British India last year against 108,453 
tons in 1870. In dye-stuffs there is a large increase, 
for although indigo keeps steady at about two mil¬ 
lion cwt. per annum (a little more or less), the 
unenumerated dye-stuffs imported in 1871, were 
75,535 cwt., against 45,690 cwt., in 1870. There is 
a large decline in the quantity of galls received 
from India, which ^amounted to but 1457 cwt. in 
1871, whilst in 1869, nearly 29,000 cwt. were re¬ 
ceived from there. The supply of East India gin¬ 
ger does not fluctuate much, the average import 
being about 28,000 cwt. Of gums, Arabic is de¬ 
creasing, only 8548 cwt. were imported in 1^71 
against 19,17a cwt. in the previous year; but of lac 
