250 ON THE MANUFACTURE OF ROSE-WATER AND UTUR. 
ART. LIII THE ACTIVE PRINCIPLE OF THE BARK OF 
THE ROOT OF THE ELDER (SAMBUCUS NIGER.) By E. 
Simon, Pharmaceutist at Berlin, 
M. Simon concludes from bis researches upon this sub- 
stance, that its active principle is a soft resin, and that it does 
not contain a crystallizable matter. The bark of the root 
dried at 20° R. was reduced to powder and treated by several 
portions of alcohol of 0.825 until it ceased to dissolve any- 
thing; these tinctures were filtered and distilled on a salt 
water bath; to withdraw the alcohol the resulting syrupy mass 
was mixed with ether, which separated a hard resin, of but 
little activity, and the liquid was evaporated to a thick extract. 
Twenty grains of this extact were sufficient to produce four 
or five vomitings, and as many stools. 
Ann. der Pharm. and Journ. de Pharm. 
ART. LI V.— -ON THE CULTIVATION OF ROSES AND THE 
MANUFACTURE OF ROSE WATER AND UTUR AT 
GHAZEEPORE. 
We are indebted to Dr. Jackson, Civil Surgeon at Ghazee- 
pore, for the subjoined very interesting note on the celebrated 
Rose trade of that district. The information was sought for, 
for a work now in progress on " Indian Materia Medica 
meanwhile we have much pleasure in giving publicity in this 
Journal to the curious facts Dr. Jackson has collected. 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of May, 1839 
I have now the pleasure of sending you the information 
you require on the manufacture and trade of Rose-water in 
this district. Ghazeepore seems to have been long famed 
