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Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {AmxJ?nr'ifioarm' 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
SECTION  ON  PRACTICAL  PHARMACY. 
Our  annual  meeting  will  soon  be  here  and  the  Committee  on 
Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing,  the  section  for  the  practical 
retail  pharmacist,  is  soliciting  papers. 
Being  a  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  year,  constructive  papers 
on  U.S. P.  subjects  will  be  greatly  appreciated  and  will  also  be 
helpful  to  the  U.S. P.  Revision  Committee  as  well  as  to  the  members 
in  general. 
Select  your  subject  as  soon  as  possible,  and  in  order  to  avoid 
duplication  send  in  the  title  of  your  paper  now. 
Give  this  matter  your  immediate  attention  and  let  us  make 
the  Richmond  meeting  the  most  important,  the  most  interesting, 
the  most  instructive,  and  the  most  enthusiastic  in  the  history  of 
the  A.  Ph.  A.  Otto  Raubenheimer, 
Chairman. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
FEBRUARY  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday,  February  15,  at  3  o'clock,  with 
E.  M.  Boring  in  the  chair. 
Dr.  D.  W.  Horn  read  a  paper  entitled  "  Is  there  Caramelization 
in  Rivas's  Test?"  (See  p.  151.) 
The  paper  was  a  suggestive  one,  and  those  taking  part  in  its 
discussion  were  Dr.  C.  S.  Brinton,  Professors  Remington  and 
La  Wall,  and  Messrs.  R.  W.  Hilts,  W.  L.  Cliffe,  and  the  chairman. 
Professor  Remington  said  there  were  some  who  claimed  that  the 
color  of  straight  whisky  stored  for  four  years  in  charred  barrels 
is  due  to  caramel  produced  by  the  action  of  heat  on  the  wood  in 
the  charring  process,  and  asked  in  what  respect  the  color  of  straight 
whisky  differs  from  that  of  true  caramel,  at  the  same  time  stating 
that  there  are  those  who  claim  that  the  caramel-colored  whisky  is 
just  as  good  as  straight  whisky.  He  then  remarked  that  a  reliable 
test  would  have  to  be  found  for  whisky. 
As  instances  of  the  darkening  of  sugary  preparations,  Mr.  Boring 
cited  that  of  commercial  syrup  of  hydriodic  acid  when  partly  used, 
