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PRIZE OFFERED BY THE 
Adelaide Resin. — What is the source of the red resin 
from the colony of South Australia ? 
(JV*. B. The various gums yielded by many trees and 
barks affording tannin in Australia require careful investi- 
gation.) 
Is the true cinnamon of Ceylon the production of one 
species, or are other kinds employed? What occasions the 
red color of the oil of cinnamon from Ceylon ? 
Tacamahacaoi Ceylon. — Specimens obtained from Calo- 
phyllum inophyllum are desirable in order to aid pharma- 
cologists in accurately determining the Tacamahaca of 
European commerce. 
Ceylon {Long or Wild) Cardamom. — What is the plant 
so called in Ceylon, and named by Mr. Moon Alpinia 
Granum Paradissc? Can it be identical with the true 
Grains of Paradise of the western coast of Africa? 
Bice paper of China. — This has been incorrectly referred 
to the Shola [JEschynomene asperata :) but we are still 
quite ignorant of the origin of this familiar and exquisitely 
delicate substance. It is the pith of some plant, but what ? 
— Pharm. Journal, Dec. and Jan. 
ART. XXXVIII.— PROGRAMME OF PRIZE PROPOSED BY THE 
SOCIETY OF PHARMACY OF PARIS. 
It has long been an important question with pharmaceu- 
tists how to obtain a substitute for sulphate of quinia pos- 
sessed of the same therapeutic effects, or how to reduce the 
price of its production so as to permit its employment in 
all the numerous cases in which its use is indicated. 
This question has been examined in its different phases 
in numerous publications; it would be useless to enter 
more at large upon the advantages which attach to its 
solution. 
The Society of Pharmacy have thought that the problem 
