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PHAEMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday^ April 2>rd^ 18G7. 
MR. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced as follows, and the thanks of the Meeting given to the respec¬ 
tive donors:— 
British Journal of Dental Science,—Chemical News,—Chemist and Druggist,—Educa¬ 
tional Times,—Photographic Journal,—Technologist,—Watts’s Dictionary of Chemistry, 
— L’Union Pharmaceutique,—Revista Farinaceutica: from the Editors. Journal of 
the Chemical Society,—Journal of the Linnean Society,—Journal of the Society of 
Arts,—^Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh,—Proceedings of the Royal 
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London : from the respective Societies. The Calen¬ 
dar of the University of London for 1867: from the University. Report of the Proceed¬ 
ings of the International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress held in London 
in May, 1866: from the Committee. An Account of a Second Case in which the Corpus 
Callosum was defective: by Dr. Langdon Down. The Distinctive Characters of the 
principal British Natural Orders of Plants: by Mr. W. A. Tilden. Ensino da Pharmacia 
em Portugal e nas Principaes Na 9 oes da Europa: por Pedro Jose da Silva,—Cenno sopra 
un nuovo rimedio contro il Cholera-Morbus e Appendice; pel Farmarcista V. F. Merletta: 
from the Authors. Specimens of Cocoa-nut Palm, and several other Fruits: from 
Daniel Hanbury. 
* 
The President directed the attention of the meeting to a number of spe¬ 
cimens of fruits which were on the table, and which had been kindly placed 
at the disposal of the Society by Mr. Daniel Hanbury. 
The following papers were then read 
THE CODEX AND THE BRITISH PHARMACOPCEIA, 1864. 
By a. F. HiASELDEN. 
{Continuedfrom p. 583.) 
In resuming the subject of the Codex and the P. B., I would observe in 
explanation that the three or four articles of the Materia Medica mentioned in 
my former communication were set down without any particular regard to order, 
and simply to give an idea of the kind of observations I was likely to make. I 
shall now give some precisely as arranged in the Codex, in order to show clearly 
wdiat the arrangement is, reserving for myself the privilege of adding my own 
remarks in English, and, as before stated, shall select those upon which useful 
or interesting comments are most likely to follow. 
^Bdellium d’Afrique. Gomme-resine produite par le Balsamodendrum africci- 
mim Endlicher {Heudelotia africana Guillemin); Terebinthacees-burseracees. 
Beccabunga, Veronica Beccahunga Linn.; Scrofulariacees. Plante fraiche. 
These two—the first with the asterisk, and the second without—I have tran¬ 
scribed exactly as in the Codex, which will afford a pretty correct notion of the 
arrangement of the articles in the Materia Medica, with the addition, in some 
instances, of remarks. Neither Bdellium, the gum-resin of which is said to 
'resemble myrrh, nor Beccabunga, Brooklime, the green plant of wdiich is to be 
used, have any place in the P. B.; the last time the Beccabunga figured in the 
Materia Medica of the P. L. was in that of 1787, and both Bdellium and Becca¬ 
bunga formed part of the Materia Medica of Lewis’s New Dispensatory in 1785. 
Bdellium is not now very often imported in separate chests, it comes more as 
