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At  the  meeting  held  April  4,  Mr.  Sheppard  introduced  the  subject  of  the  growing 
habits  of  physicians  to  prescribe  non-officinal  and  proprietary  articles  ;  in  the 
discussion  it  was  urged  that  efficient  and  equally  elegant  preparations  should  be 
made  officinal,  or  prepared  by  the  pharmacists  for  their  use. 
Mr.  Sheppard  gave  a  brief  history  of  the  patented  articles  cosmoline  and  vasaline, 
and  similar  preparations  of  the  so-called  neutral  oils  of  the  petroleum  products.  He 
stated  that  Mr.  Chas.  Toppan,  of  Wakefield,  Mass  ,  had  at  last  succeeded  in 
obtaining  a  similar  article  without  infringing  on  any  patent.  It  is  made  by  throwing 
the  heavy  residue  left  in  the  still,  the  same  material  from  which  the  articles  men- 
tioned are  made,  in  the  form  of  spray,  into  a  current  of  live  steam  ;  the  resulting 
product,  which  has  but  a  very  slight  petroleum  odor,  is  made  by  the  Binghampton 
Oil  Refining  Co.,  of  Binghampton,  N.  Y.,  and  can  be  furnished  for  about  25  cents 
a  pound. 
Mr.  Sheppard  also  exhibited  some  specimens  of  pure  <wax,  one  made  by  direct 
heat,  the  other  by  the  aid  of  a  water-bath,  the  latter  being  much  lighter  and  hand- 
somer; 75  lbs.  of  comb  honey  had  yielded  only  1  lb.  9  oz. 
The  subject  of  coating  pills  extemporaneously  was  introduced  by  Mr.  Kelley  ;  the 
meeting  did  not  favor  a  coating  of  tolu,  as  being  insoluble  in  the  fluids  of  the 
stomach. 
In  some  remarks  on  making  dialyzed  iron  it  was  stated  that  Mr.  Lowd  uses  as  a 
dialyser  a  glass  lamp  shade,  and  Mr.  Kelley  an  inverted  glass  funnel. 
National  College  of  Pharmacy,  Washington,  D.  C— At  the  annual  meeting, 
held  in  April,  the  usual  routine  business  was  transacted  and  the  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year,  viz.: 
President/John  A.  Milburn  ;  Vice-Presidents,J.  S.Jones  and  J.  R.  Major  ;  Secre- 
tary, Chas.  Becker  (Georget'n);  Treasurer,  W.  G.  Duckett  ;  Additional  Trustees, 
Messrs.  Cromwell,  CTDonnell,  DeMoll,  Scala,  Thompson,  Fill  and  Lewis.  Messrs. 
Oscar  Oldberg,  W.  S.  Thompson  and  R.  B.  Ferguson  were  elected  delegates  to  the 
Pharmaceutical  Convention  of  1880. 
The  Georgia  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  third  annual  meeting  in 
Augusta  on  the  9th  of  April,  President  R.  H.  Land  in  the  chair,  and  W.  A.  Taylor 
Secretary.  Mr.  H.  P.  Tarrant,  on  behalf  of  the  druggists  of  Augusta,  extended  a 
hearty  and  cordial  welcome,  which  was  responded  to  by  Mr.  Th.  Schumann,  of 
Atlanta.  A  large  number  of  members  were  elected,  after  which  the  reports  of  the 
officers  and  committees  were  read  and  disposed  of,  and  the  following  officers  elected 
for  the  ensuing  year: 
President,  O  Butler,  Savannah.  Vice-Presidents — H.  P.  Tarrant,  Augusta  ;  J. 
M.  Madden,  Brunswick;  J.  W.  Jaynes,  Rome.  Treasurer,  John  Ingalls,  Macon. 
Secretary,  Walter  A.  Taylor,  Atlanta. 
Resolutions  of  regret  were  passed  relating  to  the  death  of  Dr.  J.  A.  Taylor,  the 
first  that  has  occurred  since  the  organization  of  the  society  amongst  its  members. 
