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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[July 1,1871. 
MINOR (as Chemists and Druggists). 
*Rammell, Edward .Crediton. 
^Hughes, James.Swansea. 
* Butcher, Henry ..Sheffield. 
* Williams, Jabez Vivian.Ramsgate. 
^Wood, Alexander.New Brentford. 
* Beach, Tom Clarke.Great Malvern. 
Mills, Robert.London. 
Knight, John Tomlinson .... Nottingham. 
Holme, William James .Bacup. 
"3 ( Baldock, James Thomas.Rochester. 
\ Sharp, Alfred Joel .Spalding. 
Bradley, William.Dudley. 
*3 ( Watmore, James.Wokingham. 
g ( Wenham, George Daniel ... .King’s Lynn. 
Tomlin, Albert Roberts .Barnsley. 
-a ( Cooper, William J.Cockermouth. 
£ \ Goulden, Herbert.London. 
Jones, William Ellis .Barmouth. 
Dunn, Henry .Shipley. 
Rogers, John Maulden .Newport Pagnell. 
The above names are arranged in order of merit. 
EIRST, OR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 
The certificate presented by the undermentioned was 
received in lieu of this examination. 
Haworth, James Bury.Camden Town. 
Erratum. —Page 996, line 22, for Brown, James Mac¬ 
donald, read Brown, John Macdonald. 
IpromMnp of SfitnMc Jtomtifj. 
CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
June lti. —Professor Frankland, F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. The following gentlemen were elected Fel¬ 
lows :—H. Adrian, II. Durham, G. Martineau, E. Neison. 
Dr. Debus, F.R.S., delivered a lecture on “ Ozone.” 
The first who had observed that the passage of electric 
.sparks through oxygen brings about a change in the 
properties of this gas was Van Marum. The next to 
take up the subject was Schonbein, in 1840. He as¬ 
cribed the peculiar odour and the more energetic oxidi¬ 
zing properties of the altered oxygen to a substance 
which he termed ozone. He also found that ozone may 
he prepared by many other methods. His experiments, 
however, led to no positive results as regards the nature 
of ozone. It was through the researches of Marignac 
and De la Rive that ozone was shown to be nothing but 
an allotropic modification of oxygen. 
Dr. Debus then discussed the question whether there 
existed another modification of oxygen called antozone, 
and answered the proposition negatively; the substance 
called antozone was only peroxide of hydrogen. The 
lecturer concluded by calling special attention to one of 
the characteristic reactions of ozone, viz. the decomposition 
of potassic iodide, which reaction is differently explained 
Yy the various observers. Schonbein has shown that 
potassic iodide protects free iodine against the action of 
potassic hydrate. It may be assumed that potassic 
hydrate and an iodine solution react upon one another 
thus:— 
KHO + Ij = KIO + HI, 
and then— 
KH0 + HI = KI + H„0; 
if now an excess of potassic iodide be added, the potassic 
hypo-iodide and potassic iodide produce again potassic 
oxide (which becomes, in its turn, a hydrate) and iodine, 
and the excess of iodide prevents the action of K H 0 on 
the iodine, but not that of the latter on starch. 
* Passed with honours. 
CALIFORNIA PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
At the twenty-first Meeting of the California Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, recently held in San Francisco, the 
Constitution and Bye-laws, drawn up with a view to 
the incorporation of the Society, were read and approved, 
and the Committee empowered to take active steps to 
secure that object. The following report of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee was also read:— 
The Executive Committee of the California Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society herewith present the Constitution and 
Bye-laws of the Society, amended with a view to the 
speedy incorporation of the Society, according to the 
laws of the State of California. 
The Pharmaceutists throughout the country are gra¬ 
dually awakening to the importance of a thorough prac¬ 
tical and scientific pharmaceutical education, in order to 
place the practice of pharmacy where it properly belongs 
—among the learned professions, a rank already accorded 
to it in most parts of Europe—and as to further develope 
this sentiment among our fellow-pharmaceutists was the 
prime motive in organizing the California Pharmaceuti¬ 
cal Society, we regard it the duty and interest of all 
pharmaceutists to identify themselves with us. 
That, in order to elevate the standard of pharmaceuti¬ 
cal education in our midst, an institution aiming at the 
objects expressed in our Constitution is absolutely neces¬ 
sary, we think, all must concede. 
The practice of pharmacy has been placed under legis¬ 
lative restriction in most parts of Europe, and, as is well 
known, sumptuary and restraining laws have been passed 
recently by the legislatures of various States of the 
Union; and a regard for our own reputation would seem 
to require us to prepare and offer a Bill providing for 
the examination and registration of apothecaries to the 
Legislature at its next session. 
Knowing it to be the will of our organization that we 
enroll ourselves among the incorporate bodies of the land, 
that thereby we may strengthen and increase our influ¬ 
ence, and provide for our future prosperity; and be¬ 
lieving that our action herein is but the prelude to the 
early establishment of a College of Pharmacy, we offer 
this report with a sincerely expressed hope that the 
wishes of our hearts in the matter of the elevation of the 
character of the pharmaceutical profession in our State 
may be gradually and effectually accomplished. 
(Signed) William Simpson, William Geary, W. T. 
Wenzell, William E. May hew, James G. Steele, Com¬ 
mittee.—Chicago Pharmacist. 
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
At the Meeting held May 16th, 1871, Dr. Wilson H. 
Pile presiding, a paper was read by Professor Maisch, 
on the Seeds of a Species of Strychnos, brought to New 
York by a vessel from the East Indies, and exhibited at 
the meeting in February. He finds them destitute of 
the alkaloids. 
Dr. Pile exhibited four specimens of syrup of iodide 
of iron, made with glucose, instead of syrup, which is 
directed in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. His object had 
been to ascertain whether the effect of such substitution 
would be to promote the preservation of the iodide with¬ 
out change. Three of the specimens had undergone 
more change of colour than would have been expected 
in the officinal syrup, and the other was nearly in the 
condition that would have been anticipated if prepared 
by the Pharmacopoeia process. 
S. Mason M‘Collin stated that he used glucose as an 
addition to a variety of syrups, or rather to simple syrup 
to be used as a basis to medicated or flavoured syrups, 
with a view to giving it more body, without increasing 
the tendency to precipitate. 
Dr. Pile called attention to the tendency to precipi¬ 
tate, which constitutes one of the difficulties in manipu- 
