EDITORIAL.  291 
these  drugs  the  directions  which  accompany  them,  they  become  in  spite  of 
themselves  accomplices  in  the  violation  of  the  laws,  since  they  are,  in  some 
degree,  blind  doctors  and  secret  apothecaries.  It  is  in  vain  that  they  con- 
tend against  these  crying  abuses.  Considerations  of  a  kind  that  we  can- 
not explain,  decide  the  governments  to  permit  these  nostrums  to  be  made 
and  sold,  and  the  legitimate  complaints  of  our  confreres  beyond  the  Rhine 
are  not  heard. 
It  is  to  unite  new  forces  and  prepare  new  arms  against  quackery  that 
tjhe  Congress  of  Brunswick  has  been  organized. 
The  Cavendish  Society. — Those  of  our  readers  who  feel  interested  in 
the  proceedings  of  this  Society  will  learn  by  the  following  article,  pub- 
lished in  the  Chemical  News  for  March  9th,  the  prospects  of  the  Society. 
We  hope  the  suggestion  that  the  17th  volume,  now  partially  printed,  will 
complete  the  text,  and  that  the  general  index  will  soon  follow,  will  prove 
true. 
Cavendish  Society. — The  annual  meeting  of  the  Cavendish  Society  was 
held  in  the  rooms  of  the  Chemical  Society  on  March  1,  Mr,  Graham, 
President,  in  the  chair.  The  report,  read  by  the  Secretary,  Dr.  Redwood, 
stated  that  the  Council  had  agreed  to  accept  a  proposal  made  by  Mr. 
Harrison  to  undertake  the  publication  of  the  remaining  volumes  of 
Gmelin's  "  Chemistry"  at  his  own  risk,  supplying  them  to  the  members  at 
one  guinea  each  volume.  Two  volumes,  it  is  anticipated,  will  complete 
the  work.  A  considerable  part  of  Yol.  XVII.  is  in  type,  and  this  volume 
it  is  expected  will  be  completed  in  about  four  months.  The  Council  be- 
lieve that  the  public  demand  for  scientific  works  of  a  superior  character 
is  now  so  large  that  there  is  no  longer  any  field  for  a  publishing  society 
like  the  Cavendish,  and  they  think  the  operations  of  the  Society  may  fitly 
close  with  the  completion  of  Gmelin's  work.  In  reply  to  some  questions 
asked,  the  Secretary  stated  that  the  back  stock  of  the  Society  formed  part 
of  the  consideration  to  Mr.  Harrison  for  undertaking  the  publication  of 
the  remaining  volumes.  There  were  about  300  complete  sets  of  the  or- 
ganic part  in  stock,  but  no  complete  set  of  the  inorganic  part  was  left.  An 
arrangement  had  been  made  with  Mr.  Harrison  by  which  he  was  debarred 
from  selling  the  volumes  still  to  be  issued  for  less  than  a  guinea  each  for 
the  next  two  years.  The  index  volume  is  to  be  supplied  to  the  subscrib- 
ers gratis.  The  balance-sheet  showed  a  sum  of  183Z.  in  hand,  and  the  out- 
standing liabilities  of  the  Society  were  said  to  be  very  small.  The  report 
was  adopted  by  the  meeting.  A  resolution  to  continue  the  present  coun- 
cil and  officers  was  also  carried,  as  were  the  usual  votes  of  thanks. 
Artificial  Mineral  Waters. — We  are  informed  that  Mr.  Eugene 
Roussel,  who  has  been  manufacturing  mineral  waters  in  this  city  for  over 
25  years,  and  whose  chemical  knowledge  fully  enables  him  to  prepare  all 
the  various  kinds  of  medicated  waters,  has  now  commenced  manufacturing 
the  different  mineral  spring  waters  as  now  prepared  by  Sbultz  and  War- 
ker  of  New  York,  such  as  Carbonic  Acid,  Seltzer,  Vichy,  Kissingen,  Vichy 
with  Lithia,  and  Lithia  Waters. 
These  waters  are  put  up  in  glass  syphons  containing  a  quart,  are  strictly 
prepared  according  to  the  latest  chemical  analysis  of  the  different  springs, 
