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is  brought  in  direct  contact  with  the  vegetables,  as  lettuce,  celery, 
etc.  He  also  alluded  to  the  fact  that  it  has  been  proved  that 
certain  bacteria  even  enter  into  the  tissues  through  the  stomata. 
The  next  paper  was  one  on  "  Methods  and  Interpretation  of  Water 
Analysis,"  by  Dr.  A.  Robin,  bacteriologist  to  the  Water  Department 
of  Wilmington,  Del.  (See  page  101.)  The  paper  was  illustrated  with 
a  number  of  cultures,  one  of  which,  Bacillus  violaceus,  he  presented 
to  the  college.  In  the  discussion  of  the  paper  afterwards  Dr.  Robin 
stated  that  in  1893  a  semi-mechanical  filter  was  built  in  Wilmington, 
Del.,  in  which  the  oxidation  was  carried  to  an  extreme,  and  in  the 
same  year  a  slow  sand  filter  was  established  in  Lawrence,  Kan., 
where  the  water  was  also  badly  polluted.  As  proving  the  superiority 
of  the  slow  sand  filter  the  death-rate  from  typhoid  in  Lawrence  has 
been  reduced  very  considerably,  whereas  in  Wilmington  the  rate  has 
not  diminished  appreciably. 
Professor  Kraemer  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  this  was  the 
third  meeting  in  recent  years  at  which  there  had  been  a  discus- 
sion on  the  subject  of  water  analysis.  The  first  paper  was  by  Dr.  G. 
T.  Moore,  who  had  studied  the  subject  of  water  contamination  in 
Boston,  and  was  entitled  "Algae  as  a  Cause  of  the  Contamination 
of  Water"  (see  this  Journal,  1900,  page  25);  the  second  was  by 
Mr.  Toplis,  on  the  "Filtration  of  Water"  (see  this  Journal,  1902, 
p.  67),  and  he  said  that  on  the  present  occasion  we  were  for- 
tunate in  having  a  symposium  on  water  analysis  from  a  chemical 
and  biological  point  of  view,  and  moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be 
tendered  the  several  speakers  who  contributed  the  papers,  which 
motion  was  unanimously  carried. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  read  some  extracts  from  a  quarterly  review 
on  "  Progress  in  Pharmacy."    (See  page  129.) 
The  following  provisional  programme  has  been  arranged  for  the 
next  meeting : 
"Aromatic  Elixir,"  illustrated  with  samples,  by  Prof.  Wilbur  L. 
Scoville,  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. 
"A  Percolator  Stand,"  by  Harold  Bertram  Morgan,  P.D. 
"  A  Physician's  Experience  with  Pharmacists,"  by  Dr.  Carl 
Freese,  L.S.A. 
Notes  from  Joseph  Ince's  book  on  "  Elementary  Dispensing,"  by 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M. 
"  Price  Lists  of  Forty  Years  Ago,"  by  William  Mclntyre,  Ph.G. 
Henry  Kraemer,  Secretary. 
