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censurable  course  of  sending  them  to  auction,  which,  as  the  judge  charged, 
was  at  his  own  risk,  if  not  agreed  to  by  the  opposite  party.  We  believe 
both  parties  were  well  intentioned  in  the  beginning,  but  both  were  wrong, 
both  lost  their  temper,  and  they  should  have  shared  the  loss  according  to 
their  deserts.  We  were  not  a  little  amused  at  the  interest  manifested  by 
judge,  lawyers,  and  jury  in  the  subject  of  litigation,  whose  reputation  for 
causticity  appeared  to  have  preceded  their  introduction  to  court. 
Quinologie.  Des  Quinquinas  ct  des  questions  qui,  dans  Vetat  present  de  la  science 
et  du  commerce,  s'y  rattachent  avec  le  plus  cV  actxialitc ;  par  M.  A.  Delondre, 
Pharmacien  et  Fabricant  de  Sulphate  de  Quinine  d  Graville  (Havre ;)  et  par 
M.  A.  Bouchardat;  Professor  d'hygiene  a  la  Faculte  de  Medecine  de 
Paris,  &c.    Avec  23  planches.  Paris,  Germer  Bailliere,  1854,  quarto,  pp.  48. 
The  work,  of  which  the  above  is  the  title  page,  has  just  been  published, 
and  is  unique  in  its  character  ;  differing  from  the  work  of  Weddell  in  being 
more  specially  devoted  to  a  description  of  the  barks  as  they  occur  in  com- 
merce, and  their  relative  alkaloidal  value,  than  to  their  botanical  relations 
and  origin. 
The  first  part  of  the  book  gives  a  general  historical  notice  of  the  inves- 
tigators of  the  subject,  in  which  the  authors  endeavor  to  do  justice  to  the 
celebrated  Dr.  Mutis,  of  Bogota,  whose  reputation  as  a  medico-botanical 
discoverer  has  greatly  suffered  from  the  injustice  of  his  cotemporaries  and 
subsequent  writers. 
The  second  part  is  an  episode  of  the  visit  of  M.  Delondre,  to  the  western 
coast  of  South  America.  The  name  of  this  gentleman  has  long  been  known 
in  connection  with  the  manufacture  of  quinine,  as  a  member  of  the  old  firm 
of  Pelletier,  Delondre  &  Levaillent.  On  the  third  of  October,  1846,  M.  De- 
londre embarked  at  Bordeaux  with  apparatus,  etc.,  on  a  private  expedition 
to  Bolivia,  with  the  design  of  extracting  the  barks  of  all  qualities,  and  thus 
avoid  the  transportation  of  a  vast  bulk  of  useless  material.  On  his  arrival 
at  Valparaiso,  he  met  M.  Pinto,  the  Chief  of  the  Bolivian  monopolists,  and 
failed  in  all  his  propositions  to  induce  the  latter  to  furnish  him  with  regular 
supplies  of  bark,  M.  Pinto  preferring  the  offers  which  he  had  received  from 
a  New  York  house.  Soon  after,  the  news  of  the  death  of  his  partner,  M. 
Levaillent,  added  to  his  difficulties.  In  April,  1847,  owing  to  the  offers  of 
Messrs.  Vincueza  and  Santo  Domingo  of  Cusco,  who  agreed  to  furnish  him 
with  100  serons  of  bark  per  month,  from  the  forests  of  Santa  Ana  in  South- 
ern Peru,  he  engaged  to  establish  his  laboratory  at  Valparaiso,  but  he  was 
again  disappointed  by  the  failure  of  these  gentlemen  to  deliver  the  bark. 
He  then  set  out  on  the  1st  of  July,  as  a  last  resort,  on  a  visit  to  Cusco,  to 
see  for  himself.  Arrived  at  the  latter  city,  he  found  M.  Vincueza  absent  in 
the  forest,  where  he  was  soon  after  massacred  by  the  Indians ;  whilst  banto 
Domingo,  from  the  chagrin  arising  from  ill  success  in  his  mining  operations. 
Boon  after  committed  suicide.  About  this  time  he  met  with  M.  Weddell  at 
Cusco,  on  his  return  from  the  Bolivian  forests,  and  together  they  set  out 
under  the  auspices  of  M.  Romainville  and  an  Indian  guide,  over  the  Cor- 
