Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
Feb.,  1880.  / 
Aleurone. 
what  brown,  but  even  this  may  be  prevented  by  rubbing  the  skin  with 
the  solution,  and  keeping  the  body  as  air  tight  as  possible.  For  embalm- 
ing injection  is  to  be  combined  with  immersion,  and  to  be  followed  by 
wrapping  the  corpse  in  cloths  moistened  with  the  liquid  and  by  placing; 
it  in  well  closed  receptacles. — Die  Gartenlauhe^  Nos.  22  and  50,  andl 
Phar.  Ztg.^  Oct.  29. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  Philadel- 
phia, Mr.  Wm.  Barbeck  directed  attention  to  Wickersheimer's  pre- 
serving fluid,  and  communicated  the  above  formula.  An  interesting 
discussion  arose,  in  which  Messrs.  Leidy,  Roberts,  Potts  and  Kingsley 
participated. 
Dr.  Leidy  stated  that  the  liquid  which  had  been  used  by  Dr.  Horner 
and  himself  for  years  in  the  University  for  the  preparation  of  anatomical 
subjects  was  almost  identically  the  same  as  the  Berlin  mixture  described 
by  Mr.  Barbeck.  It  was  simply  a  modification  of  the  fluid  used  in  the 
West  for  the  preservation  of  hams,  arsenious  acid  being  substituted  for 
the  starch  of  that  mixture.  Its  use  in  the  University  had  been  attended 
with  the  most  satisfactory  results.  In  this  liquid,  we  have  been  informed^ 
methylic  alcohol  is  always  omitted,  carbonate  of  potassium  is  consid- 
erably reduced  in  quantity,  being  merely  suflicient  for  dissolving 
the  arsenious  acid,  glycerin  is  added  only  for  some  special  purposes,  and 
the  other  ingredients  are  employed  in  somewhat  different  proportions 
from  those  given  above.  J.  M.  M, 
ALEURONE. 
Aleurone  has  recently  become  the  object  of  a  certain  amount  of 
interest,  and  was  not  long  since  the  subject  of  a  question  at  one  of  the 
University  examinations.  Nothing,  however,  has  yet  been  published 
respecting  it  in  this  journal,  and  very  little  in  this  country.  The  fol- 
lowing notes,  compiled  from  various  works,  have  been  supplied  by  Mr. 
Marshall  Leigh  : 
Aleurone  grains  were  discovered  by  Hartig  in  1855  ;  their  import- 
ance, however,  was  not  generally  acknowledged  until  Dr.  PfefFer  pub- 
lished his  researches  in  1872  [Jahrb.  f.  wiss,  Bot.^  1872).  These 
researches  are  still  the  standard  work  in  Germany,  and  contain  a  larger 
amount  of  reliable  information  than  any  other. 
The  reservoirs  of  ripe  seeds,  the  endosperm  and  cotyledons,  always 
