128 
Varieties. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharni 
Mar.  875. 
VA  R  I  E  T  I  E  S. 
Opium  Trade  at  Smyrna. — We  clip  from  Circular  No.  25  of  the  Philadelphia 
Drug  Exchange,  the  following  information  of  the  amount  of  opium  received  at 
Smyrna  and  shipped  from  that  port : 
187+. 
1873. 
1872. 
1871. 
1870. 
1869. 
Receipts  to  Dec.  19, 
1705  -c 
igainst 
2172 
2919 
5356 
2792 
2798  baske 
Stocks,  new. 
842 
(.(. 
II23 
1243 
1216 
975 
741  " 
"  old, 
412 
a 
640 
431 
75 
<< 
"  second-hand, 
200 
(.i 
200 
150 
400 
150 
100  " 
"  inferior. 
500'^ 
iC 
725 
975 
1700 
1 1 25 
950  " 
total, 
1954 
(( 
2688 
2799 
3391 
2250 
1791  " 
Price, 
2  3  OP 
I9OP 
2 1  OP 
133P 
205P 
255P 
Shipments  of  Opiu?n  from  Jaftuary  i  to  December  31,  1874. 
To  London,      .           .           .           .  . 
•  505 
cases> 
To  Liverpool,  .... 
221 
To  Rotterdam,  njia  Liverpool, 
•  331 
n 
To  America,  " 
902 
u 
To        "          ....  . 
702 
<( 
To  Rotterdam,  .... 
21 
To  Marseilles,  &c.,      .           .           .  . 
.  96 
n 
To  Trieste,  &c.,  .... 
48 
To  Singapore,  Batavia,  &c.,f 
160 
:  2986 
Iodine. — From  recent  advices  regarding  this  article,  we  make  some  extracts^ 
which  may  prove  of  interest. 
At  present,  iodine  is  ruling  at  very  low^  figures — very  much  lower,  indeed,  than 
it  has  for  years  past — but  it  is  now  firmly  held,  and  an  advance  is  not  improbable, 
as  prices  are  regarded  as  not  being  remunerative.  In  this  connection  it  may  be 
]>roper  to  observe  that  quotations  for  iodide  of  potassium  also  are  quite  low,  even 
at  the  minimum  rates  named  for  crude  iodine. 
"  Iodine — an  article  of  so  much  importance  in  medicine  and  the  arts — is  produced 
chiefly  in  Scotland,  where  it  is  made  from  kelp.  Sea-weed  is  collected  on  the  w(  st 
coast  of  Ireland  and  the  western  islands  of  Scotland.  The  sun-dried  sea-weed  is 
incinerated  in  shallow  excavations,  at  a  low  temperature  5  for,  if  the  temperature  was 
allowed  to  rise  too  high,  a  considerable  quantity  of  iodide  of  sodium  would  be  lost 
by  volatilization.    The  half-fused  ash,  or  kelp,  which  remains,  is  broken  into  frag- 
*  "Computing  the  crop  at  2,750  baskets,  which  figure  may  easily  be  attained,  if  not  exceeded,  inasmuch 
as  receipts  between  here  and  Constantinople  are  now  nearly  2,300  baskets." 
I  70  cases  at  80  chequees  (Dutch  Co. 
90    "     at  io  " 
