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to  their  perfection  at  the  next  annual  meeting.  An  election  of  officers  was  then 
held,  and  resulted  as  follows  :  W.  H.  Averill,  Frankfort,  President  ;  Vincent 
Davis,  Louisville,  1st  Vice-President  ;  G.  A.  Zwick,  Covington,  2d  Vice-President; 
M.  Hermance,  Covington,  3d  Vice-President;  W.  G.White,  Richmond,  Recording 
Secretary;  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Louisville,  Corresponding  Secretary;  Peter  Nodler, 
Covington,  Treasurer. 
The  Committee  on  Queries  reported  a  series  of  ten  queries  for  general  accept- 
ance, and  for  discussion  at  the  next  annual  meeting.  The  President,  with  the  advice 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  was  empowered  to  appoint  delegates  to  the  meeting 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  Atlanta.  After  the  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  standing  committees  for  the  year,  the  Association  adjourned  to  meet  in 
Louisville,  during  the  month  of  May,  1879  5  tne  day  and  hour  to  be  named  by  the 
President. 
The  meeting  was  well  attended  by  pharmacists  representing  the  various  sections 
of  the  State,  and  the  two  sessions  held  were  characterized  by  complete  harmony 
and  singleness  of  purpose. 
C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Corresponding  Secretary. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — The  fifteenth  annual  meeting  will  be  held 
at  Dublin,  Ireland,  commencing  on  Tuesday,  August  1 3,  at  10  A.  M.  The  sessions 
will  be  held  in  the  hall  of  the  King  and  Queen's  College  of  Physicians,  under  the 
presidency  of  Mr.  Geo.  F.  Schacht.  The  general  secretaries  are  Prof.  Attfield, 
editor  of  the  "  Transactions,"  and  Mr.  F.  Baden  Benger.  Dr.  A.  Senier  is 
assistant  secretary,  Mr.  Wm.  Hayes  local  secretary,  and  Mr.  Louis  Siebold  editor 
of  the  "Year-Book  of  Pharmacy.1' 
After  the  adjournment  of  the  conference,  an  excursion  through  the  Devil's  Glen 
to  Glendalough,  or  the  Seven  Churches,  is  proposed,  the  localities  being  in  the 
county  of  Wicklow,  the  scenery  of  which  is  stated  not  to  be  inferior  to  any  in  the 
kingdom. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — Mr.  Mehu  presided  at  the  meeting  held 
June  6.  A  communication  by  M.  Defresne  announced  the  isolation  of  three 
distinct  ferments  from  pancreatic  juice  (see  p.  386)  ;  it  was  referred  for  investigation 
and  report  to  a  committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Petit,  Yvon  and  Wurtz. 
Mr.  Bourgoin  stated  that  a  liter  of  water,  at  i$°C.  (59°F.),  would  dissolve  1-25 
gram  of  salicylic  acid. 
Mr.  Cazeneuve  reported  on  the  preparation  of  brucia  and  strychnia  from  hoang 
nau  bark  ;  the  two  alkaloids  are  separated  from  each  other  as  oxalates,  brucia  being 
precipitated  at  once  ;  strychnia  only  at  the  end  of  24  hours. 
As  a  further  characteristic  of  the  aikaloid  duboisina,  Mr.  Petit  mentioned  its 
behavior  to  polarized  light,  which  is  deviated  15*5°  to  the  left  by  an  aqueous  solution 
of  the  alkaloid  and  its  sulphate.  Under  the  same  conditions  atropia  shows  no 
deviation. 
The  impurity  of  some  commercial  iodide  of  potassium  was  likewise  referred  to; 
some  samples  were  stated  to  contain  only  75  per  cent,  of  pure  iodide. 
