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retary,  Jacob  H.  Stein,  Reading.  Treasurer,  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  Lebanon.  Exec- 
utive Committee — Chas.  H.  Cressler,  Chambersburg  5  W.  F.  Horn,  Carlisle;  J.  A, 
Meyers,  Columbia. 
Various  resolutions  were  adopted.  The  officers  of  the  association  were  empow- 
ered to  obtain  a  charter;  a  Committee  on  Pharmaceutical  Legislation,  consisting  of 
Dr.  W.  H.  Egle,  Charles  T.  George  and  Dr  George  Ross,  was  appointed,  and  the 
Secretary  was  authorized  to  send  a  circular  to  every  druggist  in  the  State  explaining 
the  objects  of  the  organization  and  invite  him  to  become  a  member.  The  associa- 
tion then  adjourned  to  meet  in  Reading  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  June  next. 
Those  present  at  the  meeting  were  very  much  gratified  with  the  success  of  the 
movement,  and  expressed  their  belief  that  in  a  short  time  the  association  would 
embrace  in  its  membership  all  the  reputable  pharmacists  throughout  the  State. 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  final  meet- 
ing of  the  session  was  held  February  7,  1878,  President  Mattison  in  the  chair.  In 
point  of  attendance  it  surpassed  any  previous  one,  over  seventy  persons  being  pres- 
ent. The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  Mr.  Kennedy 
gave  the  result  of  an  assay  of  a  sample  of  gun-powder  which  he  had  analyzed.  He 
also  gave  the  particulars  of  the  case  of  poisoning  by  potassium  chlorate,  to  which  he 
alluded  at  a  former  meeting  (see  page  112).  The  President  mentioned  a  case  where 
the  careless  use  of  the  troches  of  the  substance  had  produced  alarming  symptoms. 
Mr.  Trimble  read  a  paper  prepared  by  Mr.  Pennypacker,  containing  valuable 
information  on  the  subject  of  the  Salicylates  (see  page  114). 
Mr.  Betz  reported  an  examination  of  the  expressed  oil  of  wild  cherry  pits,  referred 
to  him  at  an  earlier  meeting  (see  page  111). 
Dr.  Miller  gave  a  resume  of  some  curious  facts  connected  with  Chinese  and 
Mexican  pharmacy,  gathered  from  the  respective  exhibits  of  those  countries  at  the 
Centennial.  He  also  submitted  a  label  for  specimens,  which,  on  being  filled  out,, 
would  state  much  information  connected  with  the  Materia  Medica  specimen  on 
which  it  was  employed.  Samples  of  drugs,  with  the  appropriate  facts,  were  shown, 
and  presented  to  the  Alpha  Phi  Society.  Highly  aromatic  oil  of  mace,  obtained 
from  mace  by  hydraulic  expression,  was  brought  to  the  notice  of  the  meeting  by 
the  same  gentleman. 
The  President  showed  a  convenient  and  desirable  little  addition  to  the  dispensing 
counter, .in  an  apparatus  for  rapid  filtration,  which  deserves  to  be  generally  adopted 
(see  page  105).  A  paper  on  dialysis,  explaining  the  meaning  of  the  term,  and  pro- 
cess, was  also  read  by  Mr.  Mattison  (see  page  102). 
Mr.  Sayre  remarked  on  the  use  of  dialyzed  iron  as  an  arsenical  antidote,  and  the 
necessity  of  changing  it  into  the  form  of  a  magma ;  also  desired  information  on  the 
subject  of  chrysophanic  acid,  which  at  present  he  is  making  from  the  East  India 
goa-powder.    Its  use  in  certain  skin  diseases  was  adverted  to. 
The  names  of  a  number  of  specimens  which  had  been  submitted  to  the  class  for 
examination  were  then  announced.  They  were  very  generally  recognized  by  the 
students. 
On  motion  the  meeting  adjourned.  Wallace  Procter,  Secy. 
