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Matter, its Ministry to Life in Health and Disease ; and Earth, as the Natural 
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The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. Vol. xliv. July—December, 
1866, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street. Edinburgh: 
Maclachlan and Co. Dublin; Fannin and Co. 
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Messrs. Wootton and Son (Luton), would be glad to know the present address of 
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‘‘ Exonian.” — Aqna Menthce viridis is intended. 
(Horncastle).— De Valangin’s Solutio Solventis ^nineralls, solution of 
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• W. A. (Dumfries.)—The medicinal properties of Taylor’s hypophosphites of lime, of 
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610, but no formulae for their preparation have been published; Messrs. Savory and 
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“ yEs "'—Nitric acid would be the solvent for oxide of silver; our correspondent may 
easily ascertain for himself how much oxide would be dissolved by a given quantity of 
cyanide of potassium. 
. S. Cassia. —There is no work of moderate price that will exactly suit your require¬ 
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I found the order was forged by some unknown swindler.” 
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Errata.— We regret that in consequence of the lateness of the date at which the 
papers read at the Edinburgh Meeting in December were received by us, we were unable 
to avail ourselves of the author’s corrections to Dr. E, E. Scoresby-Jackson’s “Analyti¬ 
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