THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



Charles O. Grube 

 Franklin G. Hills 

 George Frank Holland 

 John P. Hutchinson 

 George L. Johnson 

 Moses Katz 

 Cornelius D. Kay 

 Frank J. Kellar 

 Wm. Kirkpatrick, Jr. 

 Paul Koretzky 



Ferdinand N. Sauer 

 Ralph W. Shaul 

 Charles Siemann 

 Frank S. Smith 

 Harry Terhune 

 Charles L. Van Nuis 

 Louis B. Wade 

 Frank L. Wilco.x 

 Charles C Wolff 

 William C Youngs 



GOODFELLOWSHIP CLUB OF 

 PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 



Recent issues of Detroit newspapers 

 give interesting accounts of a minstrel 

 show, staged in the banquet hall of the- 

 Hotel Tuller, in the city mentioned, in 

 which the Goodfellowship Club of 

 Parke, Davis & Co. provided the talent. 

 The performance, which was highly ex- 

 tolled by the authors of the articles re- 

 ferred to, was attended by the wives and 

 friends of the club members and was 

 followed by a dance, about three hundred 

 persons participating. 



There are 140 members of the Good- 

 fellowship Club, comprising executives, 

 heads of departments and their assist- 

 ants, and scientific workers of Parke. 

 Davis & Co. The association, which is 

 now in its eighth year, meets once in 

 three months. A dinner is always a 

 feature of the meetings, and in the sum- 

 mer months the entertainments com- 

 monly take the form of outings. The 

 club was organized with a view to bring- 

 ing closer together the men in positions 

 of responsibility at the laboratories — to 

 promote friendship among its members 

 It appears to have done more than this : 

 directors at the big plant in Detroit say 

 that it has been instrvtmental in increasing 

 business efficiency. 



DR. VORISEK'S NEW BOOK. 



A complimentary copy of Dr. Vori- 

 sek's new "Qualitative Chemical Analy- 

 sis" has just been placed into our hands. 

 The book is intended to meet the needs 

 of the student whose time devoted to the 

 subject is limited. We note several 

 striking novelties in the arrangement of 

 the subject-matter. The study of the 

 basic compounds is begun with the alkali 

 metals, while the mechanism of the re- 

 actions in solution is placed at the end of 

 the book. 



Other instances of departure are : 

 Reactions are represented by equations, 

 arranged vertically and close together 

 with their description. The mutually 

 reacting acidic ions are enumerated. 

 Cadmium nitrate is employed to separate 

 sulphide, ferrocyanide and ferricyanide 

 from the rest of the members of the 

 second group of acidic ions, and to iso- 

 late tartaric and citric acids. Sulphur 

 dioxide is identified with starch iodic acid 

 .solution; iodine in iodides with acetylene 

 tetrachloride, exposed to its vapor on a 

 gauze, and is thus separated from a bro- 

 mide. Several gaseous products are ab- 

 sorbed by reagents exposed to them on a 

 gauze. A procedure for the identification 

 of the acidic ions which fully provides 

 for interferences by other ions has been 

 developed. 



The book, in its entire arrangement. 

 is evidently well suited to its intended 

 purpose and is the result of practical 

 laboratory experience. We congratulate 

 Dr. Vorisek sincerely and hope that his 

 new "Qualitative Chemical Analysis" 

 will meet with the deserved approval of 

 teachers of chemistry and with conse- 

 (juent adoption and success. 



