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BOOKS RBCEIVBD. 
On the Function of Articulate Speech, and on its Connection with the Mind 
AND THE Bodily Organs ; Illustrated by a Keference to Eecent Observations 
ON CERTAIN DISEASED STATES OF THE BrAIN. By W. T. GaIRDNER, M.D., etc. 
Bead before the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, March 7, 1866. Glasgow: Printed 
by Bell and Bain, 41, Mitchell Street, 1866. (Pamphlet.) 
The True and the False Sciences; a Letter on Homceopathy. London: John 
Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street. 1866. 
TO CORHESPONDENTS. 
The Jury Lists. —We remind our readers that churchwardens and overseers are now 
making up the list of persons qualified to be returned as jurors for the ensuing year. 
These lists will be exhibited on every church-door, etc., during the first three Sundays 
in September, and we recommend all persons qualified to claim the exemption to see 
that their names are not on the list, or, if placed on the list, to see that they are removed. 
Persons having seceded from this Society may be restored to their former status on 
piyment of arrears of subscription and the registration fee of the current year. 
Those who were Associates before the 1st of July, 1842, are privileged (as Founders 
of the Society) to become Members without examination. 
M. P. D. (Tenby).— Granular Citrate of Magnesia. See Vol. I. (2nd series), page 301. 
K. B. (Leicester).—Apply to the Director-General of the Medical Department of the 
Navy, Somerset House. 
W. G. H. (Beading) wishes to know the composition of “Goold’s Mixture for clean¬ 
ing Bifles.” 
^'■Scotland.'’ —Apply to the Secretary, with name and address. 
F. D. (Liverpool).—We know of no work on the subject. 
Halley's Acid Solution. —Mr. J. Tomalyn Potts, of 128, Brompton Eoad, S.W., in reply 
to “ A Manchester Correspondent,” in our last number, sends the following formula:— 
Alcohol 3 parts; Sulphuric acid 1 part: mix. 
R. K. (London) sends the same, giving the authority:— 
“Your correspondent U. J. H. (Manchester) is no doubt mistaken in the name. I am 
much inclined to believe that Haller’s solution is meant; I therefore send you the 
formula for the Elixirium Acidum Halleri, or Mistura Sulphurico-Acida, according to 
the Prussian Pharmacopoeia, edition 1862,— 
P) Spiritus vini rect. partes 3. 
Acidi sulphurici puri, „ 1. 
Acidum sulphuricum agitando sensim in spiritum vini instilla. Sit ponderis specifici 
= 0-998, usque ad 1'002. 
“ Your correspondent will bear in mind that on the Continent, in Pharmacy, liquids 
are weighed and not measured.” 
“ Inquirer ” (Horncastle).—A preposition; see Latin Dictionary. 
M. P. S. (Cheltenham).—The article in question is sold without a stamp, and is 
thought to be not liable to the Patent Medicine Duty. 
Student (Edinburgh).—Fownes’s ‘ Manual of Chemistry ’ and Bentley’s ‘ Manual of 
Botany.’ 
IF. C .—Benned white sugar is pure sugar, and raw sugar contains some impurities in 
addition to this; the former must therefore contain most “ saccharine matter.” 
S. B. (Darlington).—The only practical method of obtaining the soda and potash from 
the solution described would be by evaporation. The alkalies could not be separated 
by precipitation. 
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February, and June, 1865 ; and January, 1866. 
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