November 26 , 1870 .] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2G, 1870. 
Communications for this Journal , and boohs for review, etc., 
should be addressed to the Editor, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the 
transmission of the Journal should be sent to Elias Brem- 
jtlDGE, Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 
Advertisements to Messrs. Churchill, New Burlington 
Street, London, W. Envelopes endorsed “ Pharm. Journ.” 
HENRY DEANE. 
We cannot too cordially thank our contemporary, 
the Chemist and Druggist, for the admirable memoir 
given in its last number of Mr. Deane. The editor 
exercised a wise discretion in publishing the paper 
intact as an autobiography, although, as we gather 
from the apology offered for doing so, it was sent 
rather as memoranda from which he might cull such 
material as suited him for the pages of his journal. 
No curtailment could have made the record more 
modest, no addition more interesting and valuable. 
We would that this memoir could be perused by 
every registered apprentice and student of our So¬ 
ciety, nay, by every youth entering on the business 
of life, to whom it is all-important to feel that “ there 
is nothing beneath the dignity of a man which is not 
.dishonourable!” 
To those who know Henry Deane the perusal 
must be a source of immense pleasure. We laid 
aside the paper, refreshed by the contemplation of 
Ms continuous effort to pursue the right path, to 
build up knowledge brick by brick, and, while fol¬ 
lowing science for pure love of her, yet so to utilize 
her benefits at every step as to make liimself a bene¬ 
factor to liis fellow-men as well as an ornament to 
liis profession. Long may Henry Deane be with 
us to continue his career of usefulness, and enjoy 
ihe respect he has so justly earned! 
A few copies have lately arrived in England of the 
“ Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia of India,’ which 
consists of a catalogue of Indian synonyms of the 
medicinal plants, products, and inorganic and organic 
substances included in the Indian Pharmacopoeia, in 
fourteen languages, with explanatory and descriptive 
remarks. It has been prepared by Mooden Sheriff, 
G.M.M.C., and printed and published by order of 
the Government at the request of the Committee of 
the Pharmacopoeia of India. We hope shortly to be 
furnished with a cop}' - , so that we may be enabled to 
give a much fuller notice of the work in our pages. 
We are sorry to hear that the delay in the arrival 
of the October number of the Chicago Pharmacist, 
has been caused by the occurrence of a fire at the 
establishment in which it was printed. The whole of 
the stock of the Pharmacist, which was unfortunately 
not insured, has been entirely destroyed. 
The persistency with which the word “ Ozokerit” 
was kept before the public in advertisements for a 
considerable time caused an amount of curious spe¬ 
culation, which was remarkably illustrative of the 
general ignorance prevailing even among the edu¬ 
cated classes in regard to natural productions and 
phenomena. At a time when petroleum and paraffin 
are things of every-day familiarity, it seems strange, 
indeed, that no one should have recognized in the 
name which caused so many silly surmises, an ordi¬ 
nary mineralogical designation of earth-wax, or the 
natural paraffin, occurring abundantly in Galicia, 
the Danubian provinces adjoining the Carpathians, 
and even in this country to some extent. Specimens 
of it exist in most mineralogical collections, and a 
report of a chemical examination of the substanee 
was published in the first series of this Journal.* 
As will be seen by an advertisement in another 
part of the Journal, dispensers are required for two 
of her Majesty’s foreign hospitals. The candidates 
must have passed the Major examination of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, and be not less than twenty 
or more than twenty-five years of age. 
The fact that the highest of Civic dignities in tliis 
country is now held by a member of the drug trade 
will be sufficient reason for our pointing out that in 
several provincial towns the office of mayor is held 
by members of the trade. Thus at Heading the 
mayor is Peter Spokes, Pharmaceutical Chemist; 
at Launceston, John Ching, Chemist and Druggist; 
at Richmond, Yorkshire, Thomas Thomson, Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemist; and at Newbury, 11. A. Ryott 
Chemist and Druggist. 
Visitors at the Liverpool meeting of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference will be glad to learn that at a 
late meeting of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association 
the valuable services of Mr. A. H. Mason, in con¬ 
nection with the exliibition of pharmaceutical objects, 
met with special recognition, and that the President 
presented him with three handsomely bound volumes. 
Longfellow’s ‘ Hyperion,’ and Meteyard’s ‘ Life of 
Wedgewood,’ containing the following inscription:— 
British Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Liverpool Meeting, 1870. 
This volume, with two others, was presented to Mr. 
Alfred II. Mason by the Local Committee, as an ex¬ 
pression of their high appreciation of his services, espe¬ 
cially in connection with the arrangements for the exhi¬ 
bition. 
(Signed) Chairman, John Abraham. 
Hon. Secretary, Edward Davies, F.C.S. 
It must be as gratifying to Mr. Mason, as it is well 
deserved to receive such a mark of appreciation. 
* Pliarm. Journ. Vol. XIV. 381. 
