314  Pharmaceutical  Colleqes  and  Associations.  /  Am  Jour  Pharm. 
^  [      June,  1881. 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year :  President,  J.  N.  Reed,  Toledo;  Vice-presi- 
dents, T.  L,  A.  Greve,  Cincinnati  and  F.  O.  McCoy,  Kenton;  Secretary 
Lewis  C.  Hopp,  Cleveland  ;  Treasurer,  Charles  Huston,  Columbus.  The 
next  annual  meeting  will  be  held  at  Zanesville,  of  which  place  Dr.  Peters 
was  elected  Local  Secretary.  An  excursion  by  steamer  on  the  river  and 
Lake  Erie  was  had  after  adjournment. 
Missouri  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.— At  a  call  meeting^ 
convening  at  Sedalia  May  5th,  nine  druggists,  representing  the  different 
portions  of  the  State,  were  recommended  to  the  Governor  from  which  to 
select  three,  which  latter  number  will  constitute  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
for  the  State  of  Missouri.  The  nine  are:  M.  W.  Alexander,  Ph.G.,  St. 
Louis;  R.  S.  Miller,  M.D.,  Sedalia;  W.  S  Ford,  Kansas  City;  M.  A. 
Brown,  M.D.,  Miami;  H.  C.  Churchill,  Windsor;  H.  C.  Brown,  M.D., 
Moberly;  W.  A.  Hall,  M.D.,  Springfield ;  A.  H.  Coffee,  Carthage;  J.  F. 
Hurt,  Ph.G.,  Columbia.  Delegates  were  also  appointed  to  attend  the- 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  Kansas  Citv  in. 
August  next. 
Pharmacy  in  West  Virginia.— Under  the  pharmacy  act  recently 
passed  in  this  State,  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  on  May  18th,  appointed 
the  following  three  Commissioners  of  Pharmacy:  Edmund  Bocking, 
Wheeling;  J.  W.  L.  Baker,  Martinsburg,  and  Ed.  L.  Boggs,  Charleston. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain.— The  pharmaceutical 
meeting,  held  Feb.  2d,  was  occupied  by  the  reatiing  and  discussion  of  a 
I)aper,  by  Professor  Redwood,  on  "the  weights,  balances  and  measures 
emi)loyed  in  pharmacy,  their  defects  and  the  remedy."  Among  the  many 
interesting  points  discussed  were  the  limits  of  deviation  of  weights  from 
the  legal  standards  which  were  given,  as  being  in  the  direction  of  excess,, 
for  ^  grain  —  0*02  gr.,  for  gr.  i  to  J^ss  =  0*05  gr.,  for  9i  to  ^iv  =  O'lO  gr.  and 
for  ,^i  to  .^x  =  0-25  gr.  The  different  shapes  of  measures  were  discussed, 
notably  those  used  for  minims,  and  the  advantages  and  disadvantages  of 
the  conical  and  cylindrical  measures,  the  minim  pipette  and  syringe 
pipette  pointed  out.  Prof.  Redwood  insisted  that  all  graduations  should 
be  made  according  to  a  uniform  plan,  and  suggested  for  this  purpose  the 
bottom  of  the  meniscus,  since  that  was  the  only  part  which  could  be  clearly 
defined. 
At  the  meeting  of  March  2d  Mr.  Holmes  read  a  paper  on  Jajferabad 
aloes  (see  April  number,  p.  174),  and  Mr.  Baker,  of  Kew,  gave  an  interest- 
ing account  of  the  botany  of  the  genus  Aloe  and  allied  genera,  which  was- 
further  continued  by  Prof.  Bentley  and  Mr.  Holmes. 
A  paper  by  Mr.  T.  E.  Greenish  on  artificially  colored  rose  leaves  was 
read.  The  petals  were  found  to  be  colored  by  rosanilin,  which  imparted  to 
the  tincture  made  with  proof  spirit  a  deep  crimson  color.  Two  ounces  of 
the  tincture  were  made  alkaline  by  ammonia,  a  few  threads  of  fine  white 
wool  were  added,  and  the  whole  boiled  until  the  spirit  and  ammonia  were 
