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EDITORIAL. 
valuable  work  from  the  publishers  through  the  hands  of  Messrs.  J.  B. 
Lippincott  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia.  We  have  already  noticed  the  other 
two  portions  of  this  work,  at  pages  189  and  573  of  the  volume  for  1863. 
This  part  includes  the  last  portion  of  the  extensive  subject  of  metallic  ox- 
ides  proper,  and  continues  to  zirconium.  Among  the  pharmaceutical  sub- 
jects that  particularly  strike  the  reader  are  palmitin,  paraffin,  paratartaric 
acid,  pectic  acid,  perchloric  acid,  phosphoric  acid  and  the  phosphates, 
phosphorus,  picric  acid  and  the  picrates,  picrotoxin,  piperin,  quinia,  re- 
sins in  great  variety,  salicin,  sanguinarina,  santonin,  saponin,  silicate  of 
soda,  starch,  stearic  acid,  succinic  acid,  sugar,  sulphuric  acid,  and  the  sul- 
plates,  the  sulphites,  sulphur,  tartaric  acid  and  the  tartrates,  valerianic 
acid,  and  the  valerates.  So  far  as  examined,  the  author  appears  to  have 
extended  the  same  care  to  this  part  as  to  the  others,  and  now  that  the 
work  is  completed,  the  whole  forms  a  complete  body  of  information  in  re- 
gard to  solubilities  nowhere  else  accessible  to  the  chemist  and  apothecary 
in  so  compact  and  well  arranged  a  form.  Guelin's  Handbook  embraces 
a  large  portion  of  the  facts  of  Storer  ;  yet  distributed  over  fifteen  large 
volumes  and  without  any  key  of  arrangement,  the  facts  are  often  inac- 
cessible to  even  the  possessor  of  the  volumes.  In  adopting  the  title,  "  First 
Outlines,"  the  author  must  have  been  fully  aware  of  the  difficulties  of  the 
task  he  had  assumed,  and  that  with  all  the  labor  he  could  put  upon  it,  the 
result  would,  in  numerous  instances,  necessarily  be  but  an  outline,  owing 
to  the  lack  of  observations,  or  of  observations  sufficiently  definite  to  afford 
positive  information  to  the  seeker.  We  believe,  however,  it  was  good  po- 
licy in  the  author  to  include  every  substance  he  could  find  recorded,  whe- 
ther its  solubility  was  known  or  not ;  so  that  in  future  revisions  of  his  work, 
he  can  fill  in  new  facts,  the  need  of  which  he  will  be  reminded  by  the  un- 
filled blanks.  In  concluding  this  brief  notice,  we  can  repeat  with  plea- 
sure what  we  have  stated  before,  that  Mr.  Storer's  work  will  prove  very 
valuable  to  the  apothecary  and  to  the  manufacturing  chemist,  who  will  find 
frequent  need  of  it,  and  it  should  find  a  place  among  the  useful  works  of 
reference  in  the  shop  and  laboratory. 
Suffolk  Gold  mining  Company  of  Colorado  ;  organized  1864  under  the  laws 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts.  100,000  shares,  $5.00  each.  Works 
in  Gregory  District,  Gilpin  Co:,  Colorado.  Treasurer's  Office  46  Congress 
street,  Boston.     Boston:  1864;  pp.  67,  octavo. 
The  above  pamphlet  of  sixty-seven  pages  is  an  elegant  specimen  of  Bos- 
ton typography.  The  statements  and  illustrations  of  the  pamphlet  are 
plausible,  and  if  the  Company's  metallic  lodes  prove  as  substantial  as  their 
paper  and  printing  they  will  reap  a  rich  return  from  their  mining  opera- 
tions. 
