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Nev.,  1876.  J 
Varieties. 
VARIETIES. 
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French  Pharmaceutical  Statistics.  —  According  to  the  recent  statistics, 
quoted  in  the  last  issue  of  the  Bulletin  Commercial,  there  are  at  the  present  time  in 
France  2,121  pharmaciens  of  the  first  class  and  4,089  of  the  second  class  being  a 
total  of  6,210  pharmaciens.  Ten  years  since,  in  1866,  there  were  2,457  of  the  first 
class,  and  3,346  of  the  second,  or  altogether  5,803  pharmaciens.  Next  to  the  depart- 
ment of  the  Seine,  in  which  alone  there  are  820  pharmaciens  (495  first  class  and  325 
second),  the  departments  having  the  highest  number  of  pharmacists  are  the  Bouches- 
du-Rhone,  Gironde,  Nord,  Seine-Inferieure,  Seine-et  Oise,  Var,  and  Haute-Garonne. 
Between  trie  1st  of  January,  1803,  and  the  ist]of  January,  1876,  the  superior  schools, 
the  medical  juries,  and  the  preparatory  schools  of  pharmacy  have  conferred  no  less 
than  16,650  degrees  of  pharmacien  of  which  6,462  have  been  of  the  first  class  and 
10,188  of  the  second.  On  the  average  there  is  now  in  France  one  pharmacy  to 
10,000  inhabitants  and  a  territorial  area  of  2,000  hectares. — Phar.  Jour,  and  'Trans  , 
The  Number*  of  Pharmacies  in  St.  Petersburg  is  leagally  regulated,  so  that 
for  every  12,000  inhabitants  one  apothecary  store  may  be  established,  and  each  store 
should  on  an  average  of  three  succeeding  years,  put  up  30,000  prescriptions.  Ac- 
cording to  statistical  computations  of  the  Russian  department  of  the  Interior,  the 
inhabitants  of  St.  Petersburg  are  only  3,471  in  excess  over  the  number  fixed  for  the 
apothecary  stores,  and  the  prescriptions  compounded  by  the  latter,  during  the  three 
years,  1873  to  x^75  inclusive,  averaged  only  29,785  5  the  establishment  of  new  stores 
will  for  these  reasons,  at  present,  not  be  permitted. — Apoth.  Zeit.,  No.  21. 
Medical  Statistics  of  Wurttemberg. — In  1866  the  number  of  physicians 
was  447,  residing  in  191  communities,  or  one  for  every  3,970  inhabitants;  towns 
and  cities  of  over  5,000  inhabitants  had  one  physician  for  1,334,  and  the  country  one 
for'  5,898  of  the  population.  In  1876  the  number  of  physicians  had  increased  to 
500,  who  resided  in  194  localities;  1,464  of  the  population  of  towns  and  cities,  and 
5,971  of  the  country  population,  have  now  one  physician. — Phar.  Zeitung. 
M.  J.  Schleiden,  the  well-known  botanist  and  pharmacologist,  celebrated  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  doctorate,  August  20th. 
Sulphide  of  Carbon  as  an  Insecticide. — The  use  ©f  carbon  sulphide  Is, 
recommended  by  J.  B.  Schnetzler,  of  the  Lausanne  Academy,  as  a  means  of  destroy- 
ing the  inserts  which  infest  herbaria  and  entomological  collections.  The  Academy 
collection  ®f  Swiss  flowering- plants  having  been  attacked  by  Anobium  paniceum,  M« 
Schnetzler  had  a  wooden  box  made  large  enough  to  contain  five  fasciculi  of  the 
herbarium,  each  composed  of  about  200  plants.  Four  ounces  of  carbon  sulphide 
were  poured  into  the  five  fasciculi ;  the  box  was  tightly  closed,  and  the  whole  left 
for  a  month.  All  tlae  insects  were  destroyed,  and  no  injury  was  done  to  the  speci- 
mens, or  to  the  papers  to  which  they  were  fastened.    The  expense  of  the  operation 
