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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



SCHNACKENBERG reports progress in his 

 new position as proprietor at 426 Pearl street. 



MosSMANN is "running" Boetzke's Benson- 

 hurst pharmacy, and says nothing beats a 

 country store. 



NoRCROSS can be found at his old position 

 with Keeler at Far Rockaway. 



Charles Westley Smith, of bowling fame, 

 most certainly does not believe in the " Raines 

 Commandments." He is on the road pushing 

 Roman Punch. May he make as many strikes 

 as he used to when pushing the balls in 67th 

 street. 



Gerken has left Erb and New York, and is 

 now with Schlessinger, 645 Bedford avenue, 

 Brooklyn. 



Drollinger tells me he is managing the 

 " Sands Drug Store;" corner of Avenue C and 

 loth street. 



Rawlins has disposed of his store and is 

 "doing time" in one of the larger dispensaries. 



Branner is with Klussmann, Bloomfield 

 and 1st streets, Hoboken. 



Barber has resumed his position with Hart- 

 nett of Jersey City. 



Fulton, he with the curly hair, is still a 

 Jersey farmer. He is with Legget in Plainfield. 



Cantwell is enjoying life at Long Beach, 

 L. I., with E. A. Aucelin, 



While taking the Jersey examination at 

 Trenton, July i6th. I met Barber, Darmstadt 

 and Fulton. There were also several '95 grad- 

 uates present. 



IT is the desire of the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments for the next Outing to be held at the end 

 of August or beginning of September, to have 

 a baseball game between the Class of '96 and 

 Alumni Association. All those who wish to 

 participate will please communicate with the 

 reporter. 



J. H. 



A Chemical Blotting Pad. 



A ch^ap and ex cellent su bstitute forfb lotting 

 paper may be extemporized as follows: — Mix 

 fourteen parts (by weight) of gypsum and two 

 of potatoe flour with sufficient water to produce 

 a plastic paste. Pour or press into suitable 

 mould. As soon as the mass has become hard 

 and dry, it aflFords an admirable blotter. — Sci. 

 Am. 



THE PHARMACOPCEIAL STANDARD.* 



Professor J. U. Lloyd believes that 

 many of the standards of pharmacopoeial 

 products are too exacting, and should be 

 modified. He groups official compounds 

 into three classes; first, those that rapidly 

 deteriorate, and though they may be up 

 to the standard when freshly made, soon 

 fall below it ; second, those the phar- 

 macopoeial standards of which are so high 

 that their production is impracticable, or 

 needlessly expensive ; third, those that 

 are largely used in the arts and commer- 

 cial pursuits, and for which the necessi- 

 ties of manufacture or custom have estab- 

 lished different standards than those pre- 

 scribed by the Pharmacopoeia. 



Under the first class. Professor Lloyd 

 places Labarraque's solution, Goulard's 

 extract, sulphurous acid, stronger ammo- 

 nia water, spirit of ammonia, and ammo- 

 nia water, and, by recorded experiments, 

 shows how each of these preparations una- 

 voidably diminish in strength on keeping. 

 Under the second class, he names Mon- 

 sel's solution, and solution of ferric sul- 

 phate, while under the third class he des- 

 ignates chlorinated lime, sulphurated 

 lime, caustic potash and caustic soda. 



In connection with this subject, there 

 has come to our notice the excessively 

 high standard of the Pharmacopoeia in 

 connection with the official bromides of 

 potassium, sodium and ammonium. The 

 Pharmacopoeia permits in potassium bro- 

 mide a limit of only 3 per cent, of po- 

 tassium chloride, in sodium bromide a 

 limit of 2.71 per cent, total impurities 

 (including sodium chloride), and in am- 

 monium bromide a limit of but i per 

 cent, of ammonium chloride. 



It may not be generally known that it 

 is impossible to obtain these alkaline 



*Abstract of paper read at meeting of Philadelphia 

 College ot Pharmacy, from the Alumni Report. 



