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A list of new members is next given, and then follow reports isea. 

 of the Executive Committee, of the Committee on the Progress American 

 of Pharmacy, of that on the Drug Market, of those of Scientific Pharm. 

 Queries and on Internal Bevenue Law, concluding with a report 

 of the delegates to the International Pharmaceutical Congress, 

 held in Paris last August. 



Various books and pamphlets were also laid before the 

 meeting, the first-mentioned being the proceedings of the 

 British Pharmaceutical Conference held at Nottingham. An 

 inaugural address from the President, Mr. Stearns, was, in his 

 absence through ill-health, read by Professor Parrish. The 

 reports presented at a previous sitting were next taken up, and 

 necessarily occupied a considerable time. That on Scientific 

 Queries brought forward the various papers on scientific subjects 

 which had been offered to the Association, among which the 

 following may be mentioned : 



A paper on the use of Benzoin in Ointments, by Mr. Doliber. 



On the Tartrates of Potash and Tartaric Acid from American 

 Tartar; on Quicksilver in North Carolina, and on Mata, a 

 leaf used by Mexicans to flavour tobacco ; on American Opium, 

 the analysis of which showed it to contain over 10 per cent, of 

 morphia, all by Mr. E. S. Wayne, of Cincinnati. 



On the inner coat of the gizzard of the South American 

 Ostrich, as a remedy for dyspepsia. (I hope we shall not be 

 called upon to provide this new medicine.) 



Mr. William Saunders, of London, Canada West, contributed 

 a paper on the relative value of the rhizoma and rootlets 

 of Podophyllum peltatum, proving that the rootlets afford 

 most resin. 



This will suffice to show the useful and practical character 

 of the work done by our transatlantic brethren ; now, gentle- 

 men, let us take a brief review of some of the contributions 

 to pharmaceutical knowledge made in our country since we 

 last met. 



The detection and exact recognition of the vegetable alkaloids Detection of 

 is one of the most important and delicate operations that it can Alkaloids - 

 fall to the lot of the chemist to attempt, and any addition to 



