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Cremical Notices from Foreign Sources. {Caan Ws
Meat of its Nutritive Properties.—G. Le Bon.—Meat bigin. Botany.—(Medal) Mr. Lord; (Certificate) Mr,
steeped in a solution of pure borax, or covered with the Scammell. Materia Medica.—(Medal) Mr. Newbigin;
powdered salt, may be preserved unchanged for along time, (Certificates) Mr. Lemmon and Mr. Harrison, equal.
but if taken as food such meat produces intestinal Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing.— (Medal) Mr,
derangements, which necessitates its disuse. Borax, Lemmon; (Certificate) Mr. Lord. Silver Medal of the
taken in small successive doses, is a poisonous agent, the School, for Session 1877-78.—Mr. Tohn E. Phillips.
ase of which in the preservation of alimentary substances —
sught to be strictly prohibited. M. Peligot has already NOTES AND QUERIES.
pointed out the poisonous action of borax upon plants. . i .
Several compagnies in America, who had begun to use Aschalte Pitch.—Will any of your correspondents kindly give me
this salt for the preservation of meat, have been obliged A od Of making Anal pitch, and the
to give it up. The author further shows the necessity of Peroxide of Hydrogen.—Willany of your readers inform me how
avoiding saline substances altogether for the preservation Lean ouain ntrstion boi i liste pisonds of Bydiogeg of en
of food, an obje& which he considers attainable solely by (yoo 578 want it lor commercial purposes.
the use of cold. Distillation of Tar.—(Reply to R. ].)—The best work on the
distillation of tar, &c., is by Dr, George Lunge, published by Vieweg
and Sohn, Brunswick.—DEsTRUCTIVE DiSTiLLATOR.
MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK,

University of London.—The following are lists of
the candidates who have passed the recent examinations:
—Second B.A. and Second B.Sc. Examinations.—Examitations
 for Honours (B.A. and B.Sc. conjointly).—Mathematics.
 First Class: J. Larmor, B.S:. (Scholarship), St.
John’s College, Cambridge; W. H. Gunston,* B.A., St.
John’s, Cambridge. Third Class: J. A. Owen, B.Sc.,
private study. Logic and Psychology. First Class: W.
K. Griffin, B.Sc., University College and private study.
Second Class: S. W. Bowser, B.A, University and Re.
gent’s Park College; J. Enright, B.Sc.. St. Mary’s Hos.
pital and King’s College; J. Browne, B.A., Stonyhurst
College. Third Class: I. Abrahams, B.A., Jews’ and
University Colleges ; R. Gill, B.Sc., St. Bartholomew's
Hospital; G: A. Stebbing, B.A., Catholic University
College, Kensington; G. E. Ford, B.A., University Col--ege;
 J. W. Greig, B.A., University College; J. J. Beuzemaker,
 B.A., private study; R. A. Freeman, B.A, private
study. Classics (B.A only). First Class: F. C. Montague
 (Scholarship), Balliol College, Oxford; A. W.
Lockyer, private study. Second Class: E. Etherington,
Stonyhurst College ; G. F. Colborne, private study and
tuition; H. H. C. Thurston. Stonyhurst College; T.
Slater, Stonyhurst College. Third Class: J. Browne,
Stonyhurst College; C. G. Higginson, Owens College;
C. T. Galton, Stonyhurst College. French. First Class:
J. W. Greig (Prize) University College; O. E. Bodington,
 Giggleswick School and private tuition; F. J. Morrish,
 Cheshunt College and private study. Second Class:
F. P. Hartley, private study; C. G. Higginson, Owens
College. Third Class: E. A. Durham, private study; G.
Board, private study. German. Second Class: C. T,
Galton, Stonyhurst ; J. T. Christie, King’s College, London,
 and Exeter, Oxford. Chemistry (B.Sc. only). R.
Gill, St. Bartholemew’s Hospital; C. F. Cross, King’s
and Owens Colleges. Experimental Physics. Second
Glass: L. H. Edmunds, University College. Third Class:
M. F. O'Reilly, St. Joseph’s College, Clapham; G. W.,
von Tunzelmann, University College. Physical Geography
and Geology. Second Class: T. Gough, private study
and Royal College of Chemistry, Third Class: G. H.
Bailey, University College and private study; P. N,
Bose, University College. Botany. First Class: T.
Gough, private study and Royal College of Chemistry.
Third Class: P. N. Bose, University College. Zoology.
Second Class: S. H. C. Martin, University College.
South London School of Pharmacy.—The sixth
Annual Dinner took place at the Horns Assembly Rooms
on Friday, the 20th ult. There were about 130 old and
new students present, together with a large number of
gentlemen interested in the progress of the School. Dr.
Julius Pollock presented the prizes to the following successful
 students :— Senior Chemistry.— (Medal) Mr.
Pocock; (Certificate) Miss Stammwitz. Yunior Chemistry.—(Medal)
 Mr. Harrison; (Certificate) Mr. New.
# Obtained the number of marks qualifying for the Scholarship,

MoNDAY, Jan, 6th.—Medical, 8.
—_— London Institution, s.
Tuespay, 7th.—Mineralogical, at 116, Victoria Street, 8. “On Pilo.
lite, an unrecognised species,” by Prof. M. F,
Heddle. “On so-called Green Garnets from the
Urals,” by Prof. A. H. Church. “On the Magnetism
 of Rocks and Minerals,” by J. B. Hannay,
F.C.S, * On the Celestine and Baryto-celestine of
Clifton,” by J. N. Collie ; communicated by W, W ,
Stoddart. ** On some Sil.cates of Copper,” by W.
Semmons. * Contributions towards a History of
British Meteorites, by L'ownshend M. Hall, F.G.S.
“ Notes on some Crystals of Iron,” by Amos
Beardsley, I\G.S. ‘‘ Additional Note on Pen:
withite,” try J. H. Collins, F.G.S.
—— Anthropological, 8,
WEDNESDAY, 8th.~Geological, 8.
—_— Microscopical, 8,
THURSDAY, gth.—Royal, 8.30.
FriDAY, 10th.—Astronomical 8.
—_ Quekett, 8.
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