302  Pharmaceutical  M&eiing.  { Am/june?imrm 
In  reply  to  a  question  by  Mr.  Joseph'  W:  Enfffand  as  to  the  use 
of  preservatives  in  evaporated  cream,  Mr.  Kennedy  stated  that  in 
the  case  of  plain  heavy  condensed  milk  the  cane  sugar  which  is 
added  owes  its  antiseptic  properties  in  all  probability  to  the  bisul- 
phite of  calcium  which  it  contains,  and  that  in  evaporated  cream 
nothing  was  added.  He  further  stated  that  albumen  was  coagulated 
at  1 57°  and  casein  at  i8o°. 
Melvin  W.  Bamford,  P.D.,  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Nomenclature 
of  the  Glycerophosphate  Preparations,"  and  offered  a  resolution 
recommending  that  an  effort  be  made  to  secure  greater  uniformity 
in  the  strength  and  nomenclature  of  these  preparations.  (See  page 
277.)  The  resolution  was  seconded  by  Professor  Kraemer,  who  sug- 
gested that  copies  of  the  same  be  sent  to  the  Committee  on  National 
Formulary,  to  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmaco- 
poeia, and  to  the  American  Medical  Association,  after  which  it  was 
adopted  by  the  members  present. 
"  A  Quarterly  Report  on  Progress  in  Pharmacy,"  by  M.  I.  Wil- 
bert,  Ph.M.,  was  read  by  title  owing  to  the  lateness  of  the  hour. 
(See  page  286,) 
Professor  Kraemer  called  attention  to  some  authentic  specimens 
of  Pilocarpus  leaves  sent  by  Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power,  Director  of  the 
Wellcome  Chemical  Research  Laboratories,  London,  as  follows : 
Pilocarpus  Jaborandi  Holmes  (Jaborandi  Folia,  B.  P.);  P.  micto- 
phyllus  Stapf  (Maranham  Jaborandi) ;  P.  racemosus  Vahl  (Guada- 
loupe  Jaborandi);  P.  pennatifolius  Lem.  (Paraguay  Jaborandi);  P. 
spica  us  A.  St.  Hil.  (?)  (Aracati  Jaborandi) ;  and  also  False  Maran- 
ham Jaborandi  (?  Sivartzia  decipiens  Holmes)  and  Piper  Jaborandi 
Veil. 
Attention  was  also  directed  to  a  number  of  specimens  of  vegetable 
origin  collected  by  Jacob  S.  Beetem  in  Jamaica.  They  were  as 
follows:  Cacao  pods,  coffee  berries,  bay  leaves,  Ceylon  cinnamon 
leaves,  gamboge,  lace  bark,  fruit  of  Mucuna  pruriens  (cowhage), 
seeds  of  Abrus  precatorius,  and  some  seeds  and  fruit  known  to  the 
natives  as  ''stinking  foe,"  "Job's  tears,"  "soap  berries,"  "John 
crows,"  "  woman's  tongue,"  and  "  baby's  tongue." 
On  motion  of  Joseph  W.  England  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered 
those  who  contributed  to  the  interest  and  value  of  the  meeting. 
Henry  Kraemer,  Secretary. 
