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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Manual of the Medicinal Preparations of Iron, including their Preparation, 
Chemistry, Physiological Action, and Therapeutical Use. With an Appendix, 
containing the Iron Preparations of the British Pharmacopoeia. By Harry Napier 
Draper, F.C.S. Dublin: Fannin and Co., Grafton Street; London: Robert Hard- 
wicke ; Edinburgh : Maclachlan and Co. 1864. (From the London Publisher.) 
Selecta e Prescriptis. Selections from Physicians’ Prescriptions ; to which is 
added a Ivey, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form, with literal trans¬ 
lation. For the use of Medical and Pharmaceutical Students. By Jonathan Pereira, 
M.D., F.R.S. Fourteenth edition. London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington 
Street. 1864. (From the Publishers.) 
The British and London Pharmacopoeias compared ; with an abbreviated Materia 
Medica : giving the Chemical Symbol, Equivalent, Natural Order, Habitat, Properties, 
Strength, and Dose of Every Article in the British Pharmacopoeia. By George Barber, 
Pharmaceutical Chemist. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Simpkin, 
Marshall, and Co. 1864. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
To be placed on the Register as a Pharmaceutical Chemist and to participate in the 
privileges of Membership, it is necessary to pass the Examinations as indicated in the 
Regulations of the Board of Examiners (Copy of which may be had of the Registrar). 
The Board do not require that any special course or courses of Lectures or Laboratory 
instruction should have been attended; if the Candidate evince an acquaintance with the 
subjects on which he is examined, the usual Certificate of competency is granted, and he 
is Registered accordingly. 
X. Y. Z. (Rochdale).—The Quinine may be recovered from the solution by precipita¬ 
ting with Carbonate of Soda. 
A Constant Reader .— The Proposed Pharmacy Act. See Section 5 of the proposed 
Act, ‘Pharmaceutical Journal,’ page 558. 
Vir (Newcastle-on-Tyne).—A so-called “Patent Medicine,” recommended for the 
relief or cure of any complaint, requires a Stamp, and can be sold only under a Patent 
Medicine Licence, whether a Patent be taken out for it or not. 
Aqua DestiUata (Manchester).— (1) It is not probable that a new edition of the 
British Pharmacopoeia will be published in less than twelve months from the present 
time. (2) The required information will be obtained on application, by letter, to the 
Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
B. R. (Buxton).— Such a knowledge of the Pharmacopoeia is required that would 
indicate an acquaintance with all the more important preparations and their constituents. 
The Regulations of the Board of Examiners may be obtained of the Secretary. 
Chemicus. — Nitro-prusside of Sodium may be obtained of any Operative Chemist. 
See any text-book of Chemistry. 
Inquirer (Aberdare).—(1) Riddle’s Latin Dictionary. (2) Apply, by letter, giving 
name and address, to the Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
B. (Whitchurch, Hants) proposes that “ a Central Office should be established, where 
both Principals and Assistants could apply respecting Situations ; a payment of Five 
Shillings to be made on being suited.” [We beg to remind our Correspondent that such 
a Central Office already exists at 17, Bloomsbury Square, where a book is kept for the 
names of applicants, whether belonging to the Society or not, and free of any charge.] 
A Young Member. —Pereira’s ‘ Materia Medica and Therapeutics.’ 
An Apprentice (Manchester).—Fownes’s ‘Manual of Chemistry,’ and Bentley’s 
‘Manual of Botany.’ 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the transmission of the 
Journal before the 25th of the month, to Elias Bremridge, Secretary, 17, 
Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 
Advertisements (not later than the 23rd) to Messrs. Churchill, New Bur¬ 
lington Street. Other communications to the Editors, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
