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<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\        May,  1904. 
many  years  that  large  quantities  of  cotton-seed  oil  are  exported  to 
Italy  from  this  country  and  returned  to  us  as  olive  oil.  He  said  that 
cotton-seed  oil  is  generally  used  by  the  Italians  for  burning  in  their 
lamps,  it  being  free  from  odor.  According  to  Mr.  Augusto,  when  a 
good  olive  oil  is  burned  there  is  no  odor,  but  if  a  second-quality  oil 
be  used,  the  odor  is  quite  disagreeable.  Another  point,  which  was 
emphasized  by  Mr.  Augusto,  was  the  fact  that  the  so-called  Italian 
olive  oil  on  the  American  market  is  manufactured  in  New  York. 
Professor  Kraemer  confirmed  this  statement  by  referring  to  a  bulletin 
recently  issued  by  Dr.  Wiley,  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture, in  which  he  showed  that  the  so-called  olive  oil  on  our  markets 
is  a  product  due  to  the  genius  and  skill  of  certain  manufacturers  in 
New  York. 
In  view  of  the  statement  made  by  Mr.  Augusto  in  regard  to  the 
testing  of  the  oil,  namely,  that  the  tester  must  be  familiar  with  the 
genuine  product  in  order  to  judge  of  the  quality  of  a  sample,  Pro- 
fessor  Kraemer  remarked  that  one  would  be  inclined  to  look  upon 
the  usual  tests  as  more  or  less  fallacious.  He  then  referred  to  the 
practice  of  testing  teas,  wines,  etc.,  by  means  of  the  senses,  and 
also  to  the  fact  that  this  is  one  of  the  methods  employed  by  the 
U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  for  testing  tobaccos. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  presented  a  paper  entitled,  "  The  Pharmacist 
and  the  Pharmacopoeia,"  in  which  he  traced  the  evolution  of  the 
U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  several  dispensatories.  (See  page  203.) 
J.  W.  P.  Outerbridge,  P.D.,  a  recent  graduate  of  the  college, 
exhibited  and  described  a  prescription  file  of  his  own  devising. 
(See  page  221.) 
Mr.  Boring  said  that  he  used  a  device  somewhat  similar,  that  is, 
a  perpendicular  wire,  but  that  he  used  clothes-pins  for  shoving  the 
prescriptions  up  and  down.  Mr.  Wilbert  said  that  at  the  German 
Hospital  it  was  desirable  to  refer  to  the  prescriptions  on  file  fre- 
quently and  rapidly,  and  that  he  had  found  a  box-file  having  two 
horizontal  wires,  so  that  the  prescriptions  hang  on  the  wires,  adapted 
to  this  purpose.  When  referring  to  the  prescriptions  the  arrange, 
ment  is  such  that  the  prescriptions  stand  in  place,  and  those  ahead 
can  be  turned  down,  thus  facilitating  the  work. 
George  E.  Outhette  exhibited  a  typewriting  machine  manufactured 
by  the  Blickensderfer  Manufacturing  Company,  and  adapted  for 
writing  labels.  \         Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
