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EDITORIAL. 
The  Ironmonger,  and  Metal  Trades'  Advertiser;  a  Monthly  Trade  Circu- 
lar. London,  May  31,  1860,  and  July,  1860. 
This  Journal  is  issued  by  the  proprietors  of  the  "  Chemist  and  Drug- 
gist/' and  got  up  in  the  same  style.  Each  number  contains  32  pages  of 
short  extracts,  letters,  receipts,  etc.,  having  some  relationship  with  the 
subject  in  its  title,  whilst  from  60  to  72  pp.  are  devoted  to  advertisements, 
of  which  a  great  variety  are  found.  The  extract  will  exhibit  one  of  its 
features  : — 
Several  veins  of  nickel,  nine  inches  in  depth,  are  said  to  have  been 
discovered  in  Chili.  This  is  the  first  discovery  of  this  metal  in  that 
country  so  rich  in  most  of  the  valuable  minerals. 
By  incorporating  into  melted  steel  from  2  to  5  per  cent,  of  tungsten,  a 
superior  alloy  for  cutting-tools  is  obtained.  It  is  dense,  hard,  and  strong, 
and  the  tools  keep  their  edge  much  longer  than  those  made  of  common 
steel. 
A  body  falling  only  one  foot  strikes  with  a  force  eight  times  its  own 
weight. 
The  shortest  method  of  calculating  the  horse-power  of  engines  is  to 
use  the  unit  of  550  lbs.  moved  one  foot  per  second,  instead  of  33,000  lbs. 
one  foot  per  minute. 
Fifty  years  ago  a  steam  engine  of  40-horse  power  cost  £4,000. 
It  is  estimated  that  the  annual  loss  by  wear  of  the  gold  coinage  of  the 
world  amounts  to  £480,000. 
Obituary. — Germer  Bailliere,  proprietor  of  the  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie, 
and  noted  as  a  scientific  publisher,  died  at  Paris  on  the  18th  of  December 
last.  He  was  born  in  1806,  at  Beauvais,  France,  and  enjoyed  a  wide 
reputation  for  liberality  and  erudition,  in  the  conduct  of  his  business  as  a 
publisher  and  editor  of  scientific  and  medical  works. 
 Edmond  Robiquet,  son  of  the  celebrated  Robiquet,  and  himself  one 
of  the  most  promising  pharmaceutical  savants  of  Paris,  died  on  the  29th 
of  April  last,  after  three  days'  illness,  owing  to  perforation  of  the  intes- 
tine. M.  Bobiquet  had  only  recently  received  the  appointment  of  Profes- 
sor of  Physics  in  the  Ecole  de  Pharmacie.  He  is  well  known  for  his 
researches  on  aloes,  on  picric  and  crysoleptic  acids,  and  on  the  gallic  fer- 
mentation,and  gave  much  of  his  time  to  improvements  in  photography,  on 
which  art  he  has  left  a  Manual. 
 George  W.  Smith,  for  a  long  period  the  Secretary  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain,  who,  since  1856,  has  been  in  bad  health, 
died  in  April  last  at  Brighton.  For  fifteen  years,  and  during  its  early  and 
later  difficulties,  Mr.  Smith  was  an  earnest  laborer  in  the  service  of  that 
Society,  and  greatly  respected  by  its  members. 
