THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 07 



COLLEGE NOTES. 



Professor H. H. Rusby, dean of the College and president-elect of 

 theA.Ph.A., with his daughter Constance, left July 20th for a seven 

 weeks' trip to Los Angeles. The first stop will be in Minnesota, 

 where the doctor will spend a week in the study of drug plants 

 peculiar to that section. Then the party will proceed to Banff, Canada, 

 in the same study. Seattle will be the next stopping place, and there 

 Dr. Rusby will meet Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, Division of Drugs, 

 Washington. Together they will make arrangements regarding the 

 importation of drugs and foods at Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland. 

 While at Seattle the party will spend some time at the exposition. 

 Frequent excursions will be made to the forests of Oregon, California 

 and Colorado by Dr. Rusby, for the purpose of adding to his already 

 extensive knowledge of domestic drug plants, and in all these trips, 

 which are severe physical tests for man, the doctor will be accom- 

 panied by his daughter, who is a third year student in the Newark 



(N. J.) of High School. 



Professor Geo. C. Diekman, will attend the session of the American 

 Pharm. Assn. in Los Angeles. 



Dr. Mansfield has taken a trip to Europe and at present is in France. 



DENATURED ALCOHOL HAS BEEN DISAPPOINTING. 



Seventeen inspectors and four revenue agents on the denatured 

 alcohol rolls of the Internal Revenue Bureau have been dismissed be- 

 cause their services are no longer needed. 



It is explained that the expectation that denatured alcoho! would 

 quickly supplant gasoline for small farm engines, automobiles, &c., 

 has been disappointing; first, because the engines now in use are not 

 adapted to alcohol ; and, second, because of its comparatively high 

 cost of manufacture by present methods. So far as being any direct 

 benefit to farmers of the country, the removal of the tax of $i.io a 

 gallon on denatured alcohol has been up to this time inconsequential. 



It was expected by the friends of the measure that by removing the 

 tax low-grade potatoes, cornstalks and other cheap products and by- 

 products of the farm could be utilized in the production of denatured 

 alcohol that could successfully compete in a large and growing field 

 with gasoline and other mineral oils, but very little progress in that 

 direction lias been made. The total production of denatured alcohol 

 in the United States during 1908 was 3,321,451 wine gallons, and in 

 1909 about 4,500,000 gallons. 



