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VARIETIES. 
color  and  brilliancy  they  may  be  compared  to  silver.  The  iron  and  man- 
ganese alloy  furnishes  a  very  simple  means  of  adding  to  iron  or  steel  a 
given  amount  of  manganese  ;  by  the  addition  of  from  I- 10  to  5  per  cent, 
very  satisfactory  results  are  obtained. — London  Chem.  News,  Jan.  5, 1866. — 
Deutsche  Industrio-Zeitung,  clxxxv.,  184. 
Mining  Statistics  of  Great  Britain  for  1864. — 
Produce  of  mines. 
Coal,   92.787,873  tons. 
Iron  ore,  -  .       .       10.064,890  " 
Pig  iron,   .       .        4,767,951  u 
Copper  ore,         ......  214,604  " 
Metallic  copper,    13,302  " 
Lead  ore   94,433  " 
Metallic  lead,   91,283  " 
Silver  (from  lead  ore),  ....  641,088  ounces. 
Zinc  ores  (nearly  all  sulphuret),  .       .  15,407  tons. 
Metallic  zinc,   4,040  " 
Tron  pyrites  (for  sulphuric  acid  and  soda  works),     94,458  " 
Tin  ore,       .......  15,211  " 
Metallic  tin,        ......  10,108  " 
Gold  (from  Merionethshire),       .       .       .  2,887  ounces. 
The  gross  value  of  the  above  mineral  products  was  £39,979,837.  There 
were  2,351,342  tons  of  coal  taken  to  London  in  1864  and  1,786,713  tons  in 
1863.  Eight  and  a  half  millions  of  tons  of  coal  were  exported  in  1864.  and 
nearly  half  a  million  of  tons  of  iron. — Athen.,  Aug.  19  — ■Silliman's  Jour, 
nal,  November,  1865. 
American  Pjarmamtimtl  Association* 
The  fourteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation will  be  held  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  on  Wednesday,  August  22d,  at 
3  o'clock,  P.  M.  The  objects  of  the  Association  are  now  so  well  known, 
that  it  is  believed  a  simple  notice  is  all  that  is  needed  to  insure  a  full  at- 
tendance of  its  members.  In  order  to  facilitate  the  business  of  the  meet- 
tng,  it  is  hoped  that  all  members  of  Committees  having  reports  to  make, 
or  any  members  desiring  to  offer  any  papers,  will  be  prepared  to  present 
them  at  an  early  period  of  the  meeting.  Those  unable  to  attend,  are  re- 
quested to  send  them  in  season  to  the  care  of  Frederick  Stearns,  Esq., 
Detroit,  Michigan.  ■  Henry  W.  Lincoln, 
President  A.  P.  A. 
Boston,  June  11th,  1866. 
