378  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {Am-/U0iy^if8^arm- 
was  discussed  in  its  various  bearings.  Papers  were  read  by  Dr.  J.  P. 
Barnum  on  the  Mineral  Waters  of  Kentucky,  and  by  W.  Chapman  on  Fluid 
•Extract  of  Liquorice  suitable  for  quinine  mixtures.  The  following  officers 
were  elected  :  E.  C.  Pfingst,  Louisville,  president ;  J.  J.  Brooks,  Richmond, 
W.  B.  McRoberts,  Stanford,  and  C.  F.  Edmunds,  Glasgow,  vice-presidents ; 
J.  W.  Gayle,  Frankfort,  secretary ;  and  E.  W.  Lillard,  corresponding  secre- 
tary; and  W.  S.  Johnson,  Henderson,  treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will 
take  place  at  Richmond  on  the  third  Wednesday  of  May  1890. 
The  Nebraska  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  at  its  eighth  annual 
meeting  in  Lincoln,  May  1st,  President  Shryock  in  the  chair.  The  address 
of  the  president,  the  report  of  officers  and  committees,  and  various  matters, 
under  the  head  of  trade  interests  claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting  : 
Papers  were  read  on  Household  Poisons,  by  Prof.  Nicholson ;  on  the  Micro- 
scope, by  Prof.  Whelpley ;  on  the  Waters  of  Nebraska,  by  A.  H.  Keller  ; 
and  on  Fluid  Extracts,  by  C.  L.  Mullen.  Mr.  C.  F.  Goodman  of  Omaha, 
was  elected  president;  C.  J.  Daubach,  Lincoln,  secretary;  Jas.  Forsyth t 
Omaha,  treasurer  and  S.  A.  Hereth,  Omaha,  local  secretary  for  the  meeting 
to  be  held  at  Omaha  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  May,  1890. 
The  Ohio  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  in  annual  session  in  Mans- 
field on  June  4th,  President  Fulton  presiding.  The  first  day's  sessions  were 
devoted  to  the  reading  of  the  president's  address  and  the  reports  of  the 
other  officers  and  committees ;  the  election  of  officers,  resulting  as  follows  : 
President,  L.  Sherwood,  Columbus ;  Vice-Presidents,  A.  H.  McCullough, 
Mansfield,  and  F.  M.  Heath,  White  House ;  Treasurer,  F.  A.  Kautz,  Cincin- 
nati; Executive  Committee,  Philip  Acker,  Cleveland,  J.  H.  Von  Stein, 
Sandusky,  and  M.  A.  Burkhardt,  Dayton  ;  and  the  reading  of  the  following 
papers  :  Uncertain  Medicines  by  J.  U.  Lloyd,  Nux  vomica  by  W.  Simon- 
son  and  Powdered  Borax  by  Mary  H.  Spenzer.  In  the  second  day's  ses- 
sions, next  year's  meeting  was  decided  to  be  held  at  Toledo,  on  the  second 
Monday  in  June ;  six  papers  were  read  :  Three  on  Commercial  Glycerin 
by  E.  S.  Ely,  J.  G.  Spenzer  and  John  G.  Buehler ;  Glycerin  :  Vegetable  and 
Animal  by  J.  G.  Spenzer;  Ammonium  Chloride  by  Mary  H.  Spenzer;  and 
Commercial  Chloride  of  Lime  by  E.  A.  and  J.  G.  Spenzer.  An  interesting 
exhibit  was  one  of  the  attractions. 
The  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  twelfth  annual  meet- 
ing in  the  hall  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  the  city  of 
Scranton,  commencing  June  4th.  President  Wm.  Harris  presided  ;  Dr.  J.  A. 
Miller,  secretary.  Mr.  Morgan,  chairman  of  the  local  committee,  read  a 
letter  of  welcome  from  Mayor  E.  H.  Ripple  whose  time  was  now  occupied 
with  duties  connected  with  the  relief  of  the  sufferers  from  the  calamity  in 
the  Conemaugh  Valley.  President  Harris  responded  and  then  read  his 
annual  address  in  which  he  referred  to  the  various  projects  proposed  for 
retaining  and  increasing  the  membership.  He  suggested  the  appointment 
of  several  new  committees,  viz.  one  on  botany  to  promote  its  study,  ascer- 
tain localities  of  plants  and  collect  material  for  publishing  a  catalogue  of 
Pennsylvania  plants ;  also  a  committee  on  chemistry  to  promote  its  study 
by  pharmacists ;  and  one  on  remedies,  to  report  annually  upon  such  which 
