PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETINGS. 
85 
From  Edward  Parrish,  7  volumes  ;  Samuel  F.  Troth,  10  do.;  Thomas  P. 
James,  21  do.;  Samuel  N.  James,  28  do.;  Total  66. 
Deposited  by  Samuel  F.  Troth,  19  volumes  ;  Publication  Committee,  6  do.; 
Total  25, 
A  copy  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Seventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  presented  by  S.  S.  Garrigues 
in  the  name  of  the  Association. 
Donations  to  the  Cabinet. 
From  F.  L.  Johns,  specimen  of  Chinese  sac  musk;  the  interior  of  this 
being  nearly  filled  up  with  pieces  of  leather,  lead,  &c.  In  fact,  the  getting 
up  of  the  sac  was  well  calculated  to  deceive  the  best  judges,  and  it  has  no 
doubt  been  prepared  in  China;  also  two  varieties  of  Chinese  fly  (Mylabris 
cichorii.) 
C.  Bullock,  presented  a  specimen  of  a  cinchona  bark  from  Prof.  Aikin, 
of  Baltimore,  it  having  been  found  in  an  invoice  of  cinchona  barks  ;  on  com- 
paring it  with  a  specimen  in  the  College  Cabinet,  it  proved  to  be  Cinchona 
bicolorata. 
William  Procter,  Jr.,  exhibited  a  specimen  of  the  Botany  Bay  Kino,  being 
the  concrete  juice  of  the  Eucalyptus  resinifera ;  also  the  juice  of  the  same 
tree  in  a  liquid  form.  These  specimens  are  from  S.  W.  Osgood,  formerly  of 
New  York,  now  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  are  described  in  a  note  to  the 
Eleventh  Edition  of  Wood  and  Bache's  Dispensatory.  According  to  Prof. 
Procter,  it  is  entirely  soluble  in  alcohol,  and  contains  67  per  cent,  of  matter 
soluble  in  water. 
E.  Parrish  exhibited  quite  a  number  of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical 
products,  such  as  pulverulent  extract  of  Nux  Vomica,  Belladonna,  &c,  oil  of 
cumin,  oil  of  eggs,  oil  of  European  wormseed,  (Artemisia  Vahliana,  Kost,) 
Quinium,  Asparagin,  Kamala  (Rottlera  tinctoria,)  Oxalate  of  Cerium,  and 
a  superior  article  of  genuine  Elaterium  made  by  Allen  &  Hanburys. 
He  also  exhibited  and  explained  the  working  of  a  neat  French  apparatus 
for  making  carbonic  acid  water  in  small  quantities. 
He  also  called  attention  to  the  metallic  foil  on  the  corks  of  Blanchard's 
pill  bottles,  used  to  prove  the  impervious  coating  of  the  pills.  In  a  bottle 
in  his  p  >ssession,  the  coating  being  cracked,  displayed  the  characteristic  re- 
action of  iodine  on  metallic  surfaces.  This  fact  appeared  more  important 
as  disproving  the  asserted  protection  of  the  foil  by  a  varnish,  preventing 
its  being  attacked  by  the  iodized  vapor. 
One  of  the  firm  of  Z.  Locke  &  Co.  made  an  exhibition  of  the  so  called 
non-explosive  burning  fluid,  showing  that  it  is  quite  as  explosive  as  the  burn- 
ing fluid  made  in  the  usual  way.  In  his  experiments  before  the  meeting, 
the  exhibitor  expressed  his  opinion  that  the  only  protection  against  the 
explosions  of  burning  fluid  was  to  use  the  safety  can,  in  which  the  openings 
were  protected  by  wire  gauze,  thus  preventing  the  flame  from  passing  into 
the  can. 
