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scarlet  color :  this  is  much  the  same  effect  (as  is  very  well  known)  pro- 
duced by  alkalies  on  the  coloring  matter  ;  and  when  the  latter  has  been 
turned  red  by  an  alkali  an  acid  restores  it  to  yellow. — Cbem.  News, 
Nov.  16. 
Falmouth,  Jamaica,  Oct.  6,  1877. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  Twelfth  month  31st,  1877. 
A  Stated  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this  day 
at  the  Hall  of  the  College,  No.  .145  North  Tenth  street. 
Dillwyn  Parrish,  President,  in  the  chair  5  eighteen  members  in  attendance. 
The  minutes  of  the  meeting  in  September  last  were  read  and  on  motion  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  last  three  months  were  read  by  the 
Secretary  of  the  Board,  and  on  motion  adopted. 
These  minutes  show  that  the  Board  has  appointed  Thomas  S.  Wiegand  Actuary 
of  the  College,  who  will  be  in  attendance  daily  during  the  Lectures  from  3  to  5 
and  from  6  to  10  o'clock  P.  M.,  to  discharge  the  duties  of  Librarian,  Curator,  etc. 
A  report  of  a  committee  appointed  by  the  Board  to  adopt  a  By-Law  specifying 
the  duties  of  the  Actuary,  and  which  had  been  referred  to  the  College  for  its  action, 
was  read  and  laid  over  under  the  rules  for  consideration  at  the  meeting  in  March 
next. 
William  C.  Bakes,  Secretary  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee,  stated  that  the 
committee  had  entered  upon  their  duties  and  that  they  had  met  jointly  with  similar 
committees  of  the  Philadelphia  County  Medical  Society,  and  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians of  Philadelphia;  that  work  had  been  laid  out  and  arranged  for  the  sub-corn - 
unittees,  and  would  be  attended  to  in  due  season. 
Then  adjourned.  William  J.  Jenks,  Secretary. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  January  15,  1878. 
The  fourth  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  series  wss  held  this  day  at  the  College 
hall,  President  Dillwyn  Parrish  calling  the  meeting  to  order.  The  minutes  of  the 
last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
Mr.  A.  P.  Brown  presented  a  copy  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  New  Jersey  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  and  Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch,  on  behalf  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  presented  a  copy  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Annual  Report  of 
their  Proceedings,  also  the  Year-Book  of  Pharmacy,  from  the  British  Pharmaceu- 
tical Conference. 
On  motion,  the  Registrar  was  directed  to  return  thanks  for  said  donations  to  the 
different  bodies  and  preserve  the  volumes  in  the  library. 
Professor  Maisch  called  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  the  black  root  of  Georgia 
(Pterocaulon  pycnostachyum,  Ell.),  James1  tea  (Ledum  latifolium,  Lin.),  the  rheu- 
matism root  of  Virginia  (Dioscorea  villosa,  Lin.),  the  black  haw  of  Florida  (Vibur- 
num obovatum,  Walt.),  specimens  of  which  plants  and  drugs  were  exhihited  to  illus- 
trate two  papers  read  by  him,  entitled  "Notes  on  a  Few  American  Drugs"  (see 
