_Reagents_. _Hyoscyamine_. _Atropine_. Picric acid. An oil solidifying Crystalline precipitate. immediately into tabular crystals. Mercuropotassic White cheesy Same. iodide. precipitate. Iodized potassic An immediate A brown oil crystallizing iodide. precipitate of after a time. periodate. Mercuric chloride. Same as picric acid. Same. Tannic acid. Slight cloud. Cloud hardly visible. Platinum chloride. O. O. _(To be continued.)_ * * * * * DETECTION OF SMALL QUANTITIES OF MORPHIA. By A. JORISSEN. The solution of morphia, free from foreign bodies, is evaporated to dryness, and the residue is heated on the water bath with a few drops of sulphuric acid. A minute crystal of ferrous sulphate is then added, bruised with a glass rod, stirred up in the liquid, heated for a minute longer, and poured into a white porcelain capsule, containing 2 to 3 c.c. strong ammonia. The morphia solution sinks to the bottom, and where the liquids touch there is formed a red color, passing into violet at the margin, while the ammoniacal stratum takes a pure blue. The reaction is very distinct to 0.0006 grm. Codeine does not give this reaction. If sulphuric acid at 190° to 200° is allowed to act upon morphia, there is ultimately formed an opaque black green mass. If this is poured dropwise into much water, the mixture turns bluish, and if it is then shaken up with ether or chloroform, the form takes a purple and the latter a very permanent blue. Codeine gives the same reaction, but no other of the alkaloids. This reaction can be obtained very distinctly with 0.0004 grm. of morphia. * * * * * ON THE ESTIMATION OF MANGANESE BY TITRATION. [Footnote: _From Jernkontorets Annaler_, vol. xxxvi.--_Iron_.] By C. G. SARNSTROM.