June 7, 1873.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
987 
comparison of the Linnean and Natural Systems would 
enable the student to refer any plant to its proper position 
in either. As the list stands at present, however, it must 
be entirely a matter of memory. 
Explanatory notes are wanting thoughout. The student 
might well be puzzled on finding Gymnospermse included 
under Monochlamydege, when, on referring to many botani¬ 
cal works, he will find they form a section of Exogense. Upon 
finding reticulated leaves given as a character of exogens, 
he might be pardoned for supposing that Dictyogeme be¬ 
longed to that class, instead of to Endogense, and that 
there must be an error somewhere. A few words in 
explanation of apparently contradictory statements would 
have entirely done away with these difficulties. It is to 
be hoped, therefore, that the next edition will form a 
really useful pocket companion for the student of botany 
in connection with the British Pharmacopoeia, for such a 
work is still a desideratum. 
Notes on the Piiarmacopceial Preparations (B. P. 
1867): Specially arranged for the Use of Students 
preparing for Examination. By W. Handsel Grif¬ 
fiths, Ph.D., L.R.C.P.E., etc. London: Bailliere, 
Tindal, and Cox. 1873. 
Dr. Handsel Griffiths is well known as an able and 
accomplished lecturer on the materia medica in the Dublin 
School of Medicine. He has already placed the student 
under considerable obligations by his system of ‘Botanical 
Analysis applied to the Diagnosis of British Natural 
Orders,’—a work on which a deservedly favourable 
opinion has been expressed in our own columns. His 
‘ Posological Tables’ made a welcome addition to the 
resources of candidates-dor examination and served still 
more to commend its author to the pharmaceutical and 
medical student as a judicious and well-informed compiler 
of “ handy-books ” for qualifying boards. His ‘ Notes on 
the Pharmacopoeia’ will prove useful to all who find 
the volume issued under the authority of the Medical 
Council in need of supplement. 
The student has only to turn to the section on the 
“ Tinctures ” to appreciate the succinctness and accuracy 
with which Dr. Handsel Griffiths has condensed into brief 
compass the chief points that he needs know about them. 
The section “Pilulse” is also a favourable specimen of neat 
and correct condensation. Though we regard with no great 
partiality publications which may be abused by the indo¬ 
lent as substitutes for thorough and independent work, we 
do not otherwise object to such specimens of the class as 
this. 
Our commendation, however, must not be unqualified. 
The carelessness with which Dr. Handsel Griffiths has 
revised the press is discreditable. We hope that in the 
next edition such blunders as “Taraxfci” and “Hyosciami” 
(p. 26); “Liquor Soda” (p. 45); “Pilula Rhei Compo- 
situs” (p. 56] ; “Syrupus Rhseadcfos” (p. 70), etc., will be 
removed. They are apt to cause misgivings as to the 
compiler’s scholarship, and to mislead the confiding can¬ 
didate. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Pharmacopoeia of the University College Hospital. 
Published by Authority of the Medical Committee, 
1873. Edited by William Martindale. London. 
1873. From the Editor. 
Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young 
Persons. Translated and Edited from Ganot’s ‘Cours 
Effimentaire de Physique,’ by E. Atkinson, Ph.D., 
F.C.S. London : Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872. 
From the Publishers. 
Dtototr. 
Notice has been received of the death of the following:— 
On the 15th May, 1873, Mr. Robert Forster, Pharma¬ 
ceutical Chemist, of Dover, aged 64. Mr. Forster had 
been a member of the Pharmaceutical Society since 1845. 
On the 8th May, 1873, Mr. Edward Coward, Chemist 
and Druggist, of Western Hill, Durham. 
On the 10th May, 1873, Mr. John Hudson Lewis, 
Chemist and Druggist, of South Street, Cockermouth. 
motes anti tffinents. 
[338.]—DISCOLOURED PRINTS.—In reference to 
the subject of the query of G. C., the Boston Journal of 
Chemistry states that all kinds of printed matter that has 
turned yellow may be completely restored by immersion,, 
for one minute, in Javalle water, without the least injury 
to the paper, if the precaution be taken to thoroughly 
wash the article in water containing a little hyposulphite 
of soda. For the preparation of Javalle water, take four 
pounds of bicarbonate of soda and one pound of chloride of 
lime ; put the soda in a kettle over the fire, add a gallon 
of boiling water, and boil for ten or fiteen minutes ; then 
stir in the chloride of lime, avoiding lumps. 
[339.]—MARKING INK.—For the information of 
C. E. G., we reproduce the formula introduced by Pro¬ 
fessor Redwood (Ph arm. Journ. 1st Ser., Vol. VI., p. 
420) of a marking ink which flows freely from the pen, 
without running or blotting, becomes perfectly black 
upon application of a moderate heat, and will not destroy 
the texture of the finest cambric. 
R Nitrate of Silver.gj 
Carbonate of Soda, crystallized . giss 
Tartaric Acid.3ij Bij 
Strong Liquor Ammonise . . . f^ij or q. s. 
Archil.f^ss 
White Sugar. 3 iv 
Powdered Gum Arabic. . . . 3 xi j 
Distilled Water. q. s. 
Dissolve the nitrate of silver and carbonate of soda sepa¬ 
rately in distilled water; mix the solutions; collect and 
wash the precipitate on a filter; introduce the precipitate., 
still moist, into a Wedgwood’s-ware mortar, and add to it 
the tartaric acid, rubbing them together until effervescence 
has ceased; add liquor ammonias in sufficient quantity to 
dissolve the tartrate of silver; then mix in the archil, 
white sugar, and powdered gum arabic, and add as much 
distilled water, if required, as will make fgvj of the mix¬ 
ture. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Barclay, A. W., M.D., has been appointed (provisionally) 
Public Analyst for Chelsea. 
Blunt, Mr. T. P., has been appointed a Public Analyst for 
Shropshire : 13s. 4 d. for each analysis. 
Brown, Dr. J. C., has been appointed Public Analyst for 
Cheshire: £100 per annum, and 6s. for each analysis. 
Also Public Analyst for Carnarvonshire : £5 per annum, 
and £1 Is. for each analysis. < . . „ 
Collins, Mr. J., has been appointed Public Analyst for 
Bolton: £30 per annum. . . 
Horsley, J., F.C.S., has been appointed Public Analyst 
for Gloucestershire : £115 per annum, with offices, etc. 
Johnson, H., M.D., has been appointed a Public Analyst 
for Shropshire : 13s. 4 d. for each analysis. 
Letheby, Dr* EL, has been appointed a Public Analyst for 
Hertfordshire and for East Sussex. 
Muter, Dr., has been appointed Public Analyst for Streat- 
ham, Tooting, and Balliam. . _ ,. . 
Turner, G., M.R.C.S., has been appointed Public Analyst 
for the borough of Portsmouth : £50 per annum. 
