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with  those  obtained  in  the  study  of  the  wheat  starch  grain  by  the 
method  just  described. 
The  author  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  to  Miss  Florence 
Yaple  for  valuable  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  this  paper.  <- 
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PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  THE  MORE  IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN  PHAR- 
MACY AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlLBKRT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  forty-fourth  annual  meeting  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference,  in  Manchester,  during  the  week  of  July  22d,  constitutes 
one  of  the  more  notable  events  of  the  recent  past. 
From  the  very  complete  reports  that  were  published  in  all  of  the 
British  pharmaceutical  journals,  within  a  few  days  of  the  adjourn- 
ment of  the  meeting,  it  would  appear  that  the  Conference  meeting 
was  unusually  well  attended  and  that  all  present  had  been  fully 
repaid  for  their  time  and  trouble.  The  papers  were  well  up  to  the 
usual  standard  of  excellence  that  has  long  distinguished  the  com- 
munications read  before  the  Conference.  While  not  epoch-making, 
a  number  of  these  papers  contain  practical  hints  that  will  prove  to 
be  of  value  to  the  everyday  pharmacist. 
The  following  concise  abstracts  have  been  adapted  from  the 
