Contents 
No. IV. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
On Cornus Florida. By Charles Ellis, - 265 
On the Preservation of Medicines. By Augustine Duhamel, 268 
Medico-Botanical Notices.— No. VIII, - - - - 279 
Note in reply to Art. IX. and Art. XXVIII. American Journal 
of Pharmacy. By W. & L. Krumbhaar, - - - 282 
Pharmaceutical Notices. — No. XII, 283 
Lecture Introductory to the Course of Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. Session, 
1835-6. By George B. Wood, M. D, - - 286 
On the Adulteration of Sulphate of Quinine — by John Farr ; 
and a Report of the committee of Inspection, - - 300 
SELECTED ARTICLES. 
On the Preparation of the Ioduret and Hydriodate of Iron. By 
A. T. Thompson, M. D. 305 
On the Employment of the Process of Displacement in Phar- 
maceutic Preparations. By M. A. Guillermond, - - 308 
On Sponge. By A. Baudrimont, - - - - - 318 
Chemical and Physical Properties of Spongy Platina. By J. 
W. Dobereiner, 321 
Remarks on the trees producing Cinchonas. By Auguste De- 
londre, - - - 325 
On Berberine. By MM. Buchner, senior and junior, - - 328 
New Principles in Opium. By M. Pelletier, - - - 331 
Researches of Pitaya Bark, and discovery of a new Vegetable 
Alkali, called Pitayne, 332 
New Carburet of Hydrogen. By M. M. Dumais & Pelligot, 336 
On the Preparation of Syrups and Mellites. By M. Des- 
champs, 338 
Experiments to Ascertain the Existence of Lead in the Atmos- 
phere of a White Lead Manufactory. By Arthur Dunn, 339 
Remedial Powers of the Ceanothus Americanus, - - - 341 
Minutes oe the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, - 342 
Miscellany, 345 
