12 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



ANNUAL BALL OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF 



N. Y. C. P. 



Your editor, having been appointed chairman of the Press Com- 

 mittee, and given power to select four associates on that committee, 

 takes this means of informing the following members that he has 

 selected them to make public in their respective towns or cities that 

 there will be such a ball held this year at Madison Square Concert Hall, 

 on Wednesday evening, January 30, 1907. Tickets and further infor- 

 mation from Mr. Chas. S. Erb, 108 Amsterdam Avenue, New York 

 City. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Arthur P. Kitchens, M. D., succeeds J. J. Kinyoun, M. D., as director 

 of the Biological Laboratories of H. K. Mulford Company. 



Dr. Hitchens has been connected with the Mulford Biological Lab- 

 oratories for the past eight years, during the greater period of that 

 time having had personal charge of the preparation of Antitoxins and 

 Curative Sera. He is well cjualified to conduct scientific work con- 

 nected with the production of Antitoxins and Biological Products. 



W. F. Elgin, M. D., continues in charge and direction of the ]\Iulford 

 Vaccine Laboratories. 



E. D. Reed, M. D., of Ann Arbor, Mich., has been engaged to direct 

 research work, particularly in pharmacology and physiological chem- 

 istry. 



The Jow-nal of the Medical Association and many other similai 

 medical journals are doing a grand work for the pharmacist, and ad- 

 vocating pharmacopoeial preparations and clean prescribing by phy- 

 sicians. The former journal has devoted columns each week to the 

 consideration of the Pharmacopceia, and commenting further in a fas- 

 cinatine and attractive manner on it. 



Leatlier Cement. — Asphalt, 6 ; rosin, 5 ; guttapercha, 20 ; carbon 

 bisulphide, 75 ; petroleum, 30. All the ingredients except the carbon 

 bisulphide are macerated for a few hours in a vessel standing in boiling 

 water ; the thick mass is then cooled, the carbon bisulphide added, and 

 the mixture set aside for several days with occasional agitation. — 

 Nenste Erfind. und Erfahr., 1906, 33, 254. 



