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course,  will  be  better  subjects  for  the  next  jubilee  papers,  should 
they  continue  to  do  well. 
I  recall  with  great  satisfaction  a  meeting  in  Baltimore  when  the 
subject  of  "  Rhubarb  "  was  considered,  and  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb,  with 
his  natural  painstaking  care,  enlightened  the  Association  with  most 
instructive  information,  and  during  the  discussion  about  all  that 
could  be  said  on  the  subject  was  there  given. 
Mr.  Charles  T.  Carney's  report  on  Home  Adulteration,  who  with 
a  committee  of  five  others,  one  alone  of  the  six  surviving  (our  hon- 
ored pioneer  friend,  Alfred  Phineas  Sharp,  of  Baltimore),  will  ever 
recall  the  beginning  of  conscientious  effort  to  make  unpopular  sub- 
stitution, sophistication  and  adulteration  of  drugs,  medicines  and 
culinary  articles. 
Almost  contemporary  with  the  organization  of  this  Association 
the  process  of  displacement  or  percolation  was  advanced.  It  was 
not  originated  by  pharmacists  so  far  as  we  are  advised.  We  are 
informed  in  Holy  Writ  of  the  probability  of  utilizing  wood  ashes  in 
leaching  the  alkali,  as  they  also  used  soap  in  that  period.  The  pro- 
cess is  an  old  one  and  the  application  of  the  art  has  had  various 
stages  of  elegance.  Edward  Parrish  notes  the  French  coffee-pot 
principle  applied  by  the  eminent  firm  of  French  Pharmaciens,  H. 
Boullay  &  Sons.  Their  work  was  fully  corroborated,  elaborated  and 
practically  applied,  as  given  in  a  paper,  an  original  communication 
on  Boullay's  filter  and  system  of  displacement  with  observations 
drawn  from  experience,  wherein  proper  recognition  is  given  to  the 
principle  of  the  Cafetiere  de  Dubelloy  (the  French  coffee  pot),  Real's 
filter  press,  the  long  adapter  of  Mr.  Robiquet,  experiments  of  Mr. 
Guillermond,  the  work  of  Elias  Durand,  Mr.  Emile  Mouchon,  an 
apothecary  of  Lyons,  France,  and  Mr.  Hany,  Jr.  We  cannot  give 
credit  to  these  men  as  inventors  of  the  art ;  at  no  time  since  the 
advent  of  the  wood  ash  lye  percolating  tub  or  hopper  has  there  been 
so  much  care  bestowed  in  its  application  as  has  been  since  the  work 
of  Procter,  Parrish,  Duhamel,  Israel  J.  Grahame,  followed  by  Dr.  E. 
R.  Squibb,  who  became  a  specialist  and  eminently  qualified  as  a  col- 
laborator with  those  named  in  developing  still  further  the  process  of 
repercolation,  which  we  presume  will  ever  remain  a  memorial  of  his 
skill  and  genius. 
We  make  this  comparison :  Do  you  remember — some  do,  we 
know — when  the  proper  way  to  make  the  old-time  tinctures  was  to 
