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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
1  Am.  Jour.  Pliariu. 
1        May,  1907. 
Prof.  C.  B.  Lowe  commented  favorably  on  a  number  of  the 
formulae,  but  objected  to  the  title  "  Mistura  contra  Diarrhcearn  "  on 
the  ground  that  it  is  not  advisable  to  give  opium  at  first  in  diar. 
rhceal  complaints,  these  formulae  all  directing  opium.  The  speaker 
also  regretted  that  the  formula  for  Liquor  morphiae  sulphatis  was 
not  included,  as  a  good  many  clerks  are  not  familiar  with  it. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  said  that  the  passage  of  the  Pure  Food  and 
Drugs  Act  must  be  credited  with  being  the  cause  of  a  more  critical 
examination  of  the  National  Formulary  and  the  Pharmacopoeia  than 
would  otherwise  have  been  the  case,  and  with  opening  the  mouths 
of  pharmacists  to  talk  as  they  had  never  done  before,  and  suggested 
that  the  discussion  be  continued. 
Prof.  E.  Fullerton  Cook  said  that  heretofore  only  a  very  few  took 
an  interest  in  these  subjects,  but  that  now  manufacturers  who  for- 
merly could  not  be  begged  to  do  so,  were  offering  suggestions. 
At  the  close  of  the  discussion  Professor  La  Wall  presented  a 
paper  on  "  The  Gambir  of  Commerce  "  (see  page  203). 
Professor  Kraemer  followed  with  a  sketch  of  Linnaeus,  in  commem- 
oration of  the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  the  famous 
naturalist  and  teacher,  and  in  introducing  his  subject  made  the 
following  preliminary  remarks  : 
The  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Linnaeus,  the  great  Swedish 
naturalist,  falls  upon  May  23,  1907.  When  we  consider  the  work  which  Lin- 
naeus did  in  the  field  of  natural  history,  including  botany,  mineralogy  and 
zoology,  and  the  profound  influence  which  his  work  has  had  upon  the  subse- 
quent development  of  these  sciences,  it  is  eminently  fitting  that  this  anniversary 
of  his  birth  should  be  celebrated  and  reference  made  to  his  life  and  work.  I 
have  always  been  very  much  impressed  by  the  life  and  teachings  of  Linnaeus, 
and  at  the  close  of  the  Columbian  Exposition,  in  a  paper  which  I  read  here  at 
the  college  and  also  in  New  York  before  the  Torrey  Botanical  Club,  I  expressed 
the  hope  that  the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  Linnaeus's  birth  would  furnish 
the  occasion  for  an  international  botanical  exposition  to  be  known  as  the 
"World's  Linnaean  Exposition."    (Am.  Jour.  Pharm.,  Vol.  66,  p.  92.) 
Such  an  exposition  has  not  been  planned,  but  the  time  is  none  the  less  signifi- 
cant. A  year  ago  we  celebrated  the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  Franklin, 
and  while  the  memory  of  Linnaeus  is  not  revered  by  the  people  at  large  like 
that  of  Franklin,  his  work  as  a  scientist  will  probably  be  as  enduring  as  that  of 
"  the  self-taught  sage  of  Philadelphia." 
Mr.  Wilbert  approved  of  the  effort  to  honor  the  memory  of  Lin- 
naeus here  in  Philadelphia,  partly  on  account  of  the  fact  that  several 
of  his  correspondents  resided  in  this  vicinity.    He  said  that  Dr. 
