PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
*241 
MEMBERS. 
Edward Jolm Owles.. 
Jacques Leon Olivier 
James Aston Briggs., 
Bungay. 
Mauritius. 
.Wolverhampton. 
EDINBURGH, November 10 th, 1863. 
MAJOR EXAMINATION. 
John Young.Galashiels. 
James Walls White.Kirkwall. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday , November 4 th, 1863. 
MR. G. W. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
The following 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced, and the thanks of the meeting given to the respective donors 
thereof:— 
The Proceedings of Hie Linnean Society. 
Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de Paris. From the respective Societies. 
The Chemical Neves. 
The Chemist and Druggist. 
The Dental Revieiv. 
The British Journal of Dental Science. 
The Journal of the Chemical Society of London. 
The Photographic Journal. 
The Educational Times. 
The Technologist. 
The Journal of the Society of A rts. 
The Veterinarian. From the respective Editors. 
lodoformognosie, on Monographic Chimique , Physiologique , el Pharmaceutique , de 
VIodoforme. Par Giovanni Righini. From the Author. 
A Specimen of Sulphur Ore. From a mine at Gesena, in the Apennines. Presented 
by Mr. R. J. Bearcroft. 
A Specimen of Glycerine spontaneously separated from olive oil. Presented by 
Mr. R. B. Groves, Weymouth. 
ON THE MANUFACTURE OE BALSAM OE PERU. 
BY DANIEL HANBURY, F.L.S. 
It is now thirteen years since the late Dr. Pereira laid before the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society of Great Britain some account of the process by which the liquid 
known as Balsam of Peru, is prepared in the State of Salvador inCentral America, 
and at the same time described, so far as the imperfect materials at his disposal 
would allow, the tree from which the Balsam is obtained. Subsequently to this, 
namely in the year 1860, Dr. Charles Dorat of Sonsonate in the State of Sal¬ 
vador communicated to the American Journal of Pharmacy a notice of the manu¬ 
facture of Balsam of Peru completely confirmatory of that given by Dr. Pereira, 
which account was republished in the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
The Balsam-tree, which Pereira at first regarded as Myroxylon pubescens 
I1BK, was afterwards called by him provisionally (until materials for a complete 
