256  Progress  in  Pharmacy  {^j^\$S?m' 
as  is  necessary  and  desirable,  and  applicable  for  use  in  medicines, 
foods,  or  drugs,  and  are  requirements  which  no  honest  refiner  of 
glycerin  can  reasonably  make  objection  to. 
The  question  of  sugar  adulteration  was  investigated  about  three 
years  ago  by  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  prompted 
by  the  assertion  that  no  American  glycerin  was  obtainable  that 
would  not  reduce  Fehling's  solution.  The  investigation  led  to 
finding  that  the  glycerin  of  reputable  American  refiners  did  not 
reduce  Fehling's  solution.  Sugar  adulteration  of  glycerin,  how- 
ever, has  long  since  ceased  to  be  practised,  and  the  test  with 
Fehling's  solution  is  no  longer  employed,  as  sugar,  if  present, 
would  increase  the  carbonaceous  residue,  and  is,  therefore,  covered 
by  the  definite,  fixed  limits  of  carbonaceous  residue  in  the  proposed 
requirements. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  INTERESTING  LITERATURE 
RELATING  TO   PHARMACY   AND   MATERIA  MEDICA. 
By  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Pharmaceutical  history  has  been  materially  augmented  by  the 
recent  happenings,  both  in  this  country,  as  well  as  abroad,  though 
the  observer  would  be  rash,  indeed,  who  would  attempt,  at  this 
early  date,  to  designate  which  of  the  several  happenings  is  destined 
to  have  the  more  far  reaching  influence  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy 
at  large. 
The  annual  meeting-  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, coming,  as  it  did,  immediately  before  the  decennial  meet- 
ing of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  was  unusually  well 
attended  and  the  members  present  appeared  to  take  more  than 
ordinary  interest  in  the  program  that  had  been  provided  for  their 
consideration.  The  general  meetings  of  the  Association  as  well 
as  all  of  the  sessions  of  the  several  sections  were  well  attended, 
the  papers  presented  were  both  numerous  and  meritorious  and  the 
discussions  were,  usually,  much  more  interesting,  certainly  more 
comprehensive,  than  in  former  years. 
Pharmacopceial  revision  was  freely  discussed  both  in  and  out 
of  meeting  and  at  least  several  of  the  features  of  the  meeting, 
in  this  connection,  were  unusually  interesting  and  will  undoubtedly 
