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April.  1904.  J 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
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Wm.  Mclntyre  exhibited  a  collection  of  price-lists  of  forty  years 
ago,  and  said : 
"  The  object  of  the  committee  in  having  this  subject  brought  to 
the  meeting  is  largely  the  historic  side,  and  while  I  can  show  some 
lists  of  the  period,  you  will  find  the  exhibit  contains  names  of  firms 
still  in  business,  and  many  others  who  have  been  part  of  the  drug, 
chemical  and  allied  industries  of  our  city. 
"  With  such  a  large  and  representative  meeting  of  druggists  I  will 
take  occasion  to  distribute  some  pictures  of  members  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  with  a  short  account  of  the  meeting 
held  at  Washington  in  1884,  my  object  being  to  invite  all  who  are 
not  now  members,  to  become  such,  and  meet  with  them  this  year  at 
Kansas  City  and  St.  Louis. 
"  To-day  I  will  give  a  short  history  of  one  of  the  leading  chemical 
concerns — Rosengarten  &  Sons.  My  reason  for  which  is,  I  have 
been  in  the  business  forty  years  on  an  uptown  street,  which  in  my 
early  life  was  distinguished  by  having  at  one  end  Carl  Zeitler  and 
at  the  other  J.  W.  Farr,  names  somehow  intertwined  with  chemical 
history. 
"  Much  of  interest  can  be  developed  from  reading  a  few  orders, 
bills  and  letters.  While  they  show  that  but  little  was  spent  with 
the  printer,  they  contain  names  of  strong  men  who  have  left  with  us 
results  of  their  energy. 
"  In  1824  bottles  were  bought  at  T.  W.  Dyatt's  factory,  Aramingo 
Creek  and  Delaware  River.  1834,  Al.  E.  Roberts  sold  quicksilver 
at  56  cents,  and  saltpetre  at  9^  cents.  1836,  Lennig  &  Co.  sold 
opium  at  $4.12%.  1837,  John  Henshaw  bartered  100  pounds  of 
opium  at  $4.25  for  morphine  at  $4.50  per  ounce;  the  letters  show 
that  '  bark '  came  by  sloop  from  Baltimore.  A  sale  made  to  W. 
L.  Krumbhaar  of  sulphate  and  acetate  of  morphine  in  drachm  bot- 
tles— put  up  in  French  style — illustrates,  even  at  that  day,  some  of 
the  difficulties  of  introducing  American-made  goods  under  correct 
labels. 
"  In  closing,  I  call  attention  to  a  series  of  price-lists  illustrating  the 
growth  of  the  firm  of  Keasby  &  Mattison.  With  this  many  of  us 
are  familiar,  even  some  having  been  students  under  Dr.  Mattison's 
care.  Both  members  of  this  firm  are  graduates  of  this  College,  and, 
no  doubt  the  chemistry  learned  here  was  the  corner-stone  of  their 
success.    To  illustrate  what  I  have  in  my  mind,  carbonate  of  mag- 
