THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



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Eiiphorbiacece. — Hevea braziliensis, 

 Mull.; H. spruceana, Mull.; H. discolor, 

 Mull.; H. pauciflora, Mull.; H. rigidi- 

 folia, Mull.; H. Bentliamiana, Mull.; H. 

 lutea, Mull.; H. guyanensis, Mull.; Mi- 

 cranda siphonoides, Benth.; M. minor, 

 Benth; — the caoutchouc derived from all 

 these species is known commercially as 

 Para rubber, from the principal shipping- 

 point. They are all natives of the Ama- 

 zon and Guiana. Manihot Glaziovii, 

 Mull; — the source of Ceara rubber, na- 

 tive of the Rio Janeiro district. 



Urticacea\ Tribe Artocarpe(V . — Ficus 

 elastica, Roxb.; F. hispida, L; — East 

 India rubbers, natives ot Assam. F. 

 brasi, R B; — Sierra Leone, African rub- 

 ber, F. macrophylla, Desf. ; F. rubigi- 

 nosa, Desf; — Australian rubber, natives 

 of Northern Australia. Urostigma Vo- 

 gelii, Miq; — African rubber, native of 

 Liberia. U- laccifera, Miq; — East India 

 rubber, native of Assam, Castilloa elas- 

 tica, Cervant; C. Markhamiana. Collins; 

 — these trees are the sources of all the 

 various Central American and Western 

 South American rubbers. 



ApocynacecB- — Hancornia speciosa, 

 Gom ; — native of Pernambuco. Willough- 

 uii edulis, Roxb.; W. firma, D. C ; W. 

 martobanica, D. C; — natives of Mada- 

 gascar and India; these are held as high 

 grades of rubber. Landorphia owarensis, 

 de Beauv. L. florida, Benth.; Vahea 

 madagascariensis, Boj., (Landorphia, B. 

 & H.); V. comerensis, Boj., (Landorphia, 

 B.&H.); V. Gummifera, Lam., (Landor- 

 phia, B. & H.); V. Senegalensis, A. D. 



C, (Landorphia, B. & H.); Carpodinus 

 R. Br., various species, (Landorphia, B. 

 & H.); — all natives of Tropical Africa 

 yielding the various African rubbers ; 

 nearly all climbing plants of great size. 

 Urceola elastica, Roxb., (charannesia, A. 



D. C); — Borneo. U. esculenta, Benth, 

 (charannesia A. D. C); — Burmah. Leu- 

 conotis eugenifolia. A. D. C; Alstonia 



costulata, Miq.; A. scholaris, R Br; — 

 Malay Archipeligo. A. plumosa, Labill, 

 — Fiji islands. 



Lobe'iacece. — Siphoncampylus caout- 

 chouc, Don.; S. jamesonianus, D. C; — 

 natives of Central America. 



Asdepiadacecv. — Periploca grseca, L. ; — 

 Island of Re-union. Ciyptostegia grand- 

 ibora, RBr.r — Coasts of India. Cynan- 

 chum ovalifolium, Wight; — Penang, 

 Asclepias cornuti, De.sc.; — North Amer- 

 ica. Attempts were made to obtain 

 caoutchouc from this source in Canada. 



Compositcf . — Durango rubber obtained 

 from some unknown composite plant was 

 exhibited at the exhibition in Philadel- 

 phia, in id,"] 6. — Through Drug Circ. 



Much time of the meeting was occu- 

 pied with a discussion of the Pharmacy 

 Law. The sentiment of the members 

 was in favor of a "re-registration" amend- 

 ment to to the law now in force. Through 

 the report of the committee, the Associa- 

 tion was informed of a number of bills 

 that had been brought before the State 

 Legislature to regulate the practice of 

 pharmacy, among them the perennial one 

 of dispensing poisons in a special bottle, 

 this brought out a full discussion by mem- 

 bers ot the Association, and the almost 

 universal sentiment was opposed to the 

 adoption of any mechanical device. The 

 meeting next year will be held at 

 Oswego. 



The following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing : President, Charles F. Fish 

 Vice-Presidents, I. C. Chapman, L. A. 

 Baker, E. S. Gregory; Secretary, Clay 

 W. Holmes; Treasurer, W. B. Fuller. 



NEW LITERATURE.* 



Bakterienkutide. — G. Itzerott. — Ein kuizer 

 Leitfaden fur Studerende und Aerzta. 



Bchrens, H. — A Manual of Micro-Chemical 

 Analysis. 



* Readers desiring any of the works contained in this 

 list can obtain them through B. Westerman & Co., 8-2 

 Broadway: Gustav E. Stechert, 8io Broadway, or other 

 foreign booksellers- 



