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PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  The  time  is  drawing  near  for  the 
twenty-sixth  annual  meeting,  which,  as  our  readers  know,  will  be  the  first  one  held 
in  the  State  of  Georgia,  and  will  doubtless  be  attended  by  many  pharmacists  and 
druggists  from  the  Southern  States.  A  considerable  attendance  is  likewise  expected 
from  the  more  Northern  States,  since  aside  from  the  attractions  of  the  meeting,  the 
locality  selected  will  induce  many  to  embrace  the  opportunity  for  paying  a  visit  to 
one  of  the  fairest  portions  of  the  South,  which  is  reached  by  passing  through  a  sec- 
tion of  country  full  of  interest  and  scenic  beauty.  It  is  contemplated  to  organize 
an  excursion  party,  and  we  may  now  state  that  the  route  will  be  at  a  considerable  dis- 
tance from  those  districts  which  may  be  considered  as  being  under  malarial  influence 
throughout  a  portion  of  the  warm  season.  The  details  will  be  communicated  to 
the  members  in  due  season  5  in  the  meantime  the  secretary  would  invite  those  who 
contemplate  to  be  present  to  inform  him  of  their  intentions. 
In  order  to  make  the  necessary  preparations'  for  the  exhibition  of  pharmaceutical 
novelties  and  objects  of  interest  to  pharmacists,  it  is  very  desirable  that  the  local 
secretary,  Mr.  J.  W.  Rankin,  be  informed  without  delay  of  the  space  desired. 
We  are  pleased  to  give  publicity  to  the  following  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Prize  Essays,  awarding  the  Ebert  prize  to  Mr.  Fr.  B.  Power,  for  his  valuable  in- 
vestigation on  resin  of  podophyllum  : 
To  the  President  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  : 
The  Committee  on  Prize  Essays  would  respectfully  report,  that  having  carefully  examined  all  the 
original  essays  presented  at  the  Twenty-fifth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, they  have  unanimously,  and  independently  of  each  other,  decided  to  award  the  "Ebert  Prize,"  for 
the  year  1877,  to  Mr.  Frederick  B.  Power,  for  his  essay,  "On  the  Resiu  of  the  Rhizome  of  Podophyllum 
peltatum.  Linn." 
The  considerations  that  prompted  the  committee  to  make  the  award  to  Mr.  Power  were  : 
1.  The  evidently  scrupulous  care  in  the  identification  of  the  drug  and  in  the  execution  of  the  experi- 
ments which  the  author  conceived  to  be  necessary,  thereby  insuring  a  series  of  results  that  will  stand 
conclusive  for  the  sample  of  podophyllum  rhizome  experimented  with. 
2.  The  results,  which  are  confirmatory  in  some  directions  and  contradictory  in  others,  contribute 
materially  to  our  knowledge  of  the  constituents  of  the  podophyllum  rhizome,  and,  if  not  conclusive,  are 
calculated  to  incite  renewed  investigation,  particularly  as  regards  the  hitherto  undisputed  presence  of 
berberia  in  the  drug 
The  committee  do  not  consider  it  expedient  to  subject  the  essay  to  a  nearer  criticism.  The  results 
obtained  by  Mr.  Power  may  be  disputed  or  confirmed  by  future  experimenters  ;  but  they  have,  beyond  a 
doubt,  rendered  the  existence  of  berberia  as  a  constituent  of  the  rhizome  of  Podophyllum  peltatum  ques- 
tionable, and  clearly  prove  its  absence  in  the  particular  sample  examined  by  Mr.  Power. 
A  strict  interpretation  of  the  "by-law  "  governing  the  action  of  this  committee  prevents  .direct  refer- 
ence to  other  meritorious  essays  that  were  selected  by  the  committee  for  special  consideration, 
C.  LEWIS  DIEHL, 
J.  F.  JUDGE. 
E.  SCHEFFER. 
Cincinnati,  June  19th,  187S. 
Association  of  the  Alumni  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy.— At  the 
meeting,  June  6th,  the  Syrups  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  were  the  subjects  of  discussion, 
several  members,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  having  experimented  and 
presented  the  results  of  their  observations.  Mr.  Sheppard  detailed  an  interesting 
account  of  his  experience  with  Syrup,  and  gave  his  opinion  that  cold  percolation  or 
agitation  were  to  be  preferred  to  heat,  and  that  fifteen  (15)  parts  by  weight  of 
sugar  to  8  parts  by  weight  of  water  gave  a  syrup  leaving  nothing  to  be  desired. 
