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dating with the syrups of the phosphates, and inquired 
whether it might not he accounted for by impurities in 
•the sugar. Some manufacturers of these preparations 
-had assured him that they gave the preference to “ Love¬ 
ring’s Sugar,” and found no difficulty with it. T. S. 
Wiegand, Professor Parrish and others dissented from 
this view, stating that there was, according to their ex¬ 
perience, very little difference between the products of 
the several sugar refineries that supply our market. 
Professor Maisch having observed a crystalline pre¬ 
cipitation in mixing solution of morphia with cyanide of 
potassium, exhibited the results of some of his experi¬ 
ments, and reported that hydrocyanate of morphia is 
nearly insoluble in water and in an excess of the preci¬ 
pitant, but dissolves readily in diluted mineral acids. 
The experiments were made with granular cyanide of 
potassium and with cyanide of ammonium, prepared 
from hydrocyanic acid and ammonia. 
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Tuesday . Society of Biblical Archaeology, at 7.30 p.m. 
July 4. —“ On the Flora of Palestine.” By B. T. 
Lowne. 
Friday . Royal Botanic Society, at 4 p.m. —“ Economic 
July 7. Botany.” By Professor Bentley. 
Saturday . Royal Botanic Society, at 3.45 p.m. 
VACANCIES AND APPOINTMENTS IN CONNEC¬ 
TION WITH PHARMACY. 
The Editor will be glad to receive early notice of any 
vacancies of pharmaceutical offices connected with public 
institutions, and likewise of appointments that are made ,— 
in order that they may be published regularly in the Journal. 
APPOINTMENT. 
Dispenser for the Gambia Settlement; must have passed 
the Minor or Modified Examination of the Pharmaceutical 
Society. For particulars, see advertisement in the Journal of 
last week. 
D arlranwtttojr a nit fain fntatMnp. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Pharmacy Bill. —Jane 22. —Petitions against the 
Pharmacy Act Amendment Bill were presented from— 
Bolton-le-Moors, by Mr. Hick. 
Brighton, by Mr. James White. 
Bury, by Mr. Philips. 
Crewe, by Mr. Tollemache. 
Devonport, by Mr. J. D. Lewis. 
Dewsbury, by Mr. Serjeant Simon. 
Driffield, by Mr. Sykes. 
Dundee, by Mr. Armitstead. 
Eastwood and Bawtry, by Mr. C. Forster (for the 
Speaker). 
Glasgow, by Mr. Graham. 
Halifax and District, by Mr. Stansfeld. 
Hampstead, by Lord Geirge Hamilton. 
Hyde, by Mr. C. Brooks. 
Islington, by Mr. M‘Cullagh Torrens. 
Leamington, by Mr. John Hardy. 
Lee, Lewisham, and Blackheath, by Mr. J. G. Talbot. 
Leek, by Sir C. Adderley. 
.Maidstone, by Sir J. Lubbock. 
Nottingham, by Mr. C. Seeley. 
Oldham, by Mr. Hibbert. 
Richmond, Yorkshire, by Sir Roundcll Palmer. 
Rochdale, by Mr. B. Potter. 
Sittingbourne, by Mr. Pemberton. 
Southport, by Mr. Cross. 
iStockport, by Mr. Tipping. 
Sunderland, by Mr. Candlish. 
' Wakefield, by Mr. S. Beaumont. 
June 23.—Mr. W. M. Torrens gave notice that on the 
order for the second reading of the Pharmacy Act 
Amendment Bill on June 26, ho should move that it bo 
read a second time that day three months. Petitions 
against the Bill were presented from— 
Bacup, by Mr. Holt. 
Bayswater and Kensington, by Sir Henry Hoare. 
Beverley and Bridlington, by Mr. Broad ley. 
Bishop Auckland, by Mr. Pease. 
Brigg, Louth, and Barton-on-Humber, by Mr. R. 
Winn. 
Cradley, Lye, and Quarry Bank, by Mr. Lyttelton. 
Eastbourne, by Mr. Dodson. 
Evesham, by Colonel Bourne. 
Kendal, by Mr. W. Lowther. 
Liverpool, by Mr. W. Rathbone. 
Lytham, by Colonel Wilson-Patten. 
North London and elsewhere, by Mr. M‘Cullagh 
Torrens. 
Plymouth, by Mr. Morrison. 
Reading, by Mr. Benyon. 
Scarborough, by Sir H. Johnstone. 
Sheffield, by Mr. Hadfield. 
Staleybridge, by Mr. Buckley. 
Stockton-upon-Tees, by Mr. Dodds. 
Swansea, by Mr. Dillwyn. 
Todmorden and Selby, by Mr. Fielden. 
Warminster, by Lord H. Thynne. 
Woolwich and Plumstead, by Sir D. Salomons. 
June 26.—The second reading of the Pharmacy Act 
Amendment Bill was deferred till Thursday, July 6. 
Petitions against the Bill were presented from— 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, by Lord J. Manners. 
Ashton-under-Lyne, by Mr. Mellor. 
Bewdley, by Colonel Anson. 
Bideford, by Sir S. Northcote. 
Blackheath, Lee, and Lewisham, by Mr. Mills. 
Burnley, by Mr. R. Shaw. 
Buxton, by Lord G. Cavendish. 
Carnarvon, by Mr. Jones-Parry. 
Clitheroe, by Mr. Assheton. 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, by Mr. Aider- 
man Lusk. 
Durham, by Mr. Henderson. 
Gateshead, by Sir William Hutt. 
Helensburgh and Dumbarton, by Mr. Bouverie. 
Heywood and Eccles, by Mr. A. Egerton. 
Kentish Town, by Mr. T. Chambers. 
Leeds, by Mr. Baines. 
Lincoln, by Mr. Seeley. 
Middlesborough, by Mr. Bolckow. 
Newport, Isle of Wight, by Mr. C. Clifford. 
Pembroke and Pembroke Dock, by Mr. T. Meyrick. 
Ramsbottom, by Mr. J. Snowden Henry. 
Reading, by Mr. Shaw Lefevre and Colonel Lloyd 
Lindsaj r . 
Ringwood, by Mr. Cowper-Temple. 
Spalding, Sleeford, and Heckington, by Mr. Welby. 
Wandsworth, by Mr. Peek. 
Whitehaven, by Mr. C. Bentinck. 
June 27.—Petitions against the Pharmacy Act Amend¬ 
ment Bill were presented from— 
Aylesbury, by Mr. N. de Rothschild. 
Bath, by Sir W. Tite. 
Barnstaple, by Mr. T. Cave. 
Blackburn, by Mr. Hornby. 
Boughton, near Faversham, by Mr. G. Milles. 
Bradford, by Mr. W. E. Forster. 
Canterbury, by Captain Brinckman. 
Carlisle, by Sir W. Lawson. 
Cleckheaton and Harrogate, by Mr. J. Fielden. 
Coventry, by Mr. Eaton. 
Derby, by Mr. Bass. 
Dewsbury, by Mr. Serjeant Simon. 
