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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[July 23, 1870. 
derogatory to the dignity of the Association to con¬ 
tinue their labours; but we understand the Council 
resolved that there was no necessity for it to inter¬ 
fere. 
LIEBIG ON FERMENTATION. 
"What is Fermentation ?—almost like the question, 
what is combustion ?—is a fundamental problem in 
chemistry. Many years ago, Liebig was the first to 
give a chemical interpretation of this subject. He 
has now returned to it, and recently presented to the 
Bavarian Academy an important memoir on Fer¬ 
mentation ; a translation of the first part of which 
is to be found at the opening of this week’s Journal. 
The Secretaries of the British Pharmaceutical 
Conference are busy issuing a circular to announce 
particulars of the meeting in Liverpool, and to in¬ 
vite Pharmacists to become members. In future, 
an annual report is to be published, under the title 
of ‘ The Year-Book of Pharmacy,’ and a specimen- 
page is sent with the circular. We hope this under¬ 
taking will succeed, and that it may prepare the 
■way for similar reports on other branches of science, 
which have long been needed and talked of. 
We have it on reliable authority that several lead¬ 
ing surgeons have determined to visit the seat of the 
war, in order to make observations on wounds, and 
advance the science of military surgery. 
A Phahmacist, writing to the ‘ Lancet,’ draws 
attention to the difficulty caused by the continuation 
of the uncertain term, spt. aether, chloric, by medi¬ 
cal men. The strength of such a preparation never 
having been given authoritatively, dispensers are 
quite at a loss what to use, and the preparation 
known under this name varies from 1 part chloro¬ 
form in 6 of spirit to 1 in 14, 1G, or 20 parts,—the 
result being alike unsatisfactory to prescriber, dis¬ 
penser, and patient. He therefore urges medical 
men to adopt the recognized Pharmacopoeia prepa¬ 
ration and name spiritus chloroformi, containing 1 
part chloroform in 20. 
The ‘ Pharmaceutisclie Zeitung ’ states that the 
chloral-hydrate made by Roussin, of Paris, is alco- 
holate, and not hydrate of chloral. It yielded 61’7 
per cent, of chloroform; and contained 23 ‘7 per cent, 
of alcohol. 
We learn from the ‘ Chicago Pharmacist,’ that a 
small lot of quinine, stated to have been manufac¬ 
tured hi London, and bearing the label “ Light 
Sulphate of Quinine,” was found to be devoid of 
- quinine. The alkaloid appeared to be cinchonine in 
the state of liydroclilorate. In appearance it resem¬ 
bled sulphate of quinine, but on closer examination 
the crystals were found not to be so much inter¬ 
laced. 
We have received from M. Soubeiran the proof- 
sheets of an article about to be published by him in 
the ‘ Journal cle Pharmacie et de Chimie,’ giving an 
account of the history and organization of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society. 
We leam from the ‘ Times’ that milk is an article 
of export from the States. The total value of con¬ 
densed milk exported from the port of New York in 
the year 1869 was $79,652. Milk of the value of 
$21,870 came to England. 
We have received from Dr. Chandler a copy of 
his report to the Metropolitan Board of Health of 
New York on poisonous cosmetics sold in New York 
under the names Circassian Rejuvenator, Bloom of 
Youth, Eugenie’s Favourite, etc. He finds that 
most of them contain lead in considerable amount. 
This report lias given rise to a complaint by the 
proprietor of one of these nostrums, that it has 
“inflicted a great wrong upon him, and almost 
ruined his business.” 
We are glad to hear that Dr. Weddell has a 
paper on the Cinchona in press, which will, we trust, 
settle, in some degree at least, the synonymy of 
the genus. It will be published in the ‘ Bulletin de 
la Societe Botanique de France.’ 
The case of Hatun Huamang, the labourer em¬ 
ployed by Tscliudi “in very laborious digging” 
(mentioned in the article on Coca which we published 
last week), reminds us forcibly of the Welsh fasting 
girl. What would have been the result of a Guy’s 
Hospital investigation into the powers of endurance 
of Hatun Huamang ? By the bye, we learn from 
the daily papers that the father of the Welsh girl 
has been sentenced to twelve months’, and the mother 
to six months’ imprisonment. 
fnmsattiims d \\t .fotwfjr. 
EXAMINATION IN LONDON. 
July 20th, 1870. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Bird, Carteighe, Cracknell, 
Davenport, Edwards, Gale, Garle, Hanbury, Haselden, 
and Sonthall. 
Thirty-two candidates presented themselves for exa¬ 
mination,—ten Major and twenty-two Minor; the fol¬ 
lowing passed, and were duly registered:— 
MAJOR (As PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS). 
* Clarke, Richard Feaver .Torquay. 
Gibbs, James.Bedford. 
Romano, Frederick William 
Richard...Rio Grande do Sul. 
Hartt, Charles Henry.Torquay. 
Cotterill, Samuel .Southampton. 
Griffiths, Waldron .Harrow. 
Jackson, John Pirn.Leeds. 
Pilley, Henry Thomas.Lincoln. 
Robson, James Crosby.Darlington. 
MINOR (As CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS). 
* Hay don, William Frederic... .Blandford. 
* Bo wen, John William...Handsworth. 
*Hogg, Joseph Fawcett .North Shields. 
Cooper, James .Wycombe. 
