504        Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { Am  o^^a*"** 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  President  has  issued  the  following 
ANNOUNCEMENT. 
The  Twenty-sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
will  be  held  in  the  City  of  Atlanta,  Georgia,  during  the  last  week  in  November,, 
beginning  on  Tuesday,  the  26th,  at  3  P.M. 
In  consequence  of  the  general  alarm  produced  by  the  rapid  spread  of  that  terrible 
scourge,  yellow  fever,  in  some  of  the  towns  and  cities  along  the  Mississippi,  the 
officers  and  executive  committee  of  the  Association,  having  obtained  the  consent  of 
our  friends  in  Georgia,  concurred  in  the  desirability  of  postponing  our  Annual 
Meeting,  which  was  appointed  to  be  held  in  Atlanta  on  the  first  Tuesday  in 
September,  until  some  time  in  November.  After  further  consultation  with  our 
Southern  friends,  as  well  as  with  many  of  our  leading  members  in  the  North,  the 
above  date  has  been  fixed  on  as  most  likely  to  meet  the  convenience  of  the  greater 
number  of  those  who  would  be  disposed  to  attend.  It  is  confidently  predicted  that 
long  before  the  end  of  November  frosts  will  have  destroyed  the  germs  of  the 
pestilence,  so  that  not  the  slightest  apprehension  need  be  felt  of  danger  in  the 
journey  on  this  account. 
I  trust  that  as  many  of  our  members  as  possibly  can  will  make  it  a  point  to  attend 
this  meeting,  even  at  the  risk  of  a  little  inconvenience  to  themselves.  By  turning 
out  in  good  force  we  shall  stimulate  the  progress  of  pharmacy  in  the  South,  and 
best  show  our  sympathy  for  our  fellow-laborers  there  in  their  efforts  to  elevate  phar- 
macy and  pharmacists  to  a  higher  position.  We  shall,  also,  by  availing  ourselves  of 
this  opportunity,  have  the  privilege  of  exchanging  a  week  or  two  of  the  most  unplea- 
sant part  of  the  wintry  weather  of  the  North  for  that  of  the  mild  and  genial  atmos- 
phere of  the  South.  The  proximity  of  the  place  of  meeting  to  the  far-famed  winter- 
resorts  in  Georgia  and  Florida  will  no  doubt  be  an  additional  attraction  to  many. 
Let  there  be  a  hearty  response  to  the  cordial  invitation  extended  by  our  Southern, 
brethren,  and  a  general  rally  around  the  standard  of  the  A.  P.  A.  in  the  beautiful; 
city  of  Atlanta. 
Applications  for  membership  should  be  addressed  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee,  Geo.  W.  Kennedy,  Pottsville,  Pa.         Wm.  Saunders,  President 
The  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  in  the  United  States,  with  the  exception  of  that  of 
California,  will  have  commenced  their  lecture  season  by  the  time  this  issue  will  be 
in  the  hands  of  our  readers.  From  what  we  can  learn  at  this  early  date  there  is  at 
very  good  prospect  of  a  fair  attendance  at  all. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.— The  fifteenth  annual  meeting  was  held  at 
Dublin,  Ireland,  August  13  and  14,  Mr.  G.  F.  Schacht  presiding.  After  the  usual 
routine  business  had  been  transacted,  the  business  of  the  meeting  was  continued  by 
the  reading  of  a  report,  by  Dr.  Wright  and  Mr.  Luff,  of  some  of  the  latest  results 
they  have  obtained  in  the  examination  of  the  aconite  alkaloids.  These  results  have 
already  been  communicated  to  the  Chemical  Society,  and  partially  published  in  its., 
journal.  To  a  great  extent  they  consist  of  rectifications  of  those  stated  in  the  report 
presented  last  year  to  the  Conference.  Thus,  for  instance,  it  is  now  reported  that 
the  substance  to  which  the  name  pseudaconitia  was  then  applied  was  not  a  definite 
base,  but,  in  fact,  a  mixture  of  that  base  with  a  decomposition  product  derived 
from  it  by  removal  of  water.  Consequently  the  authors  now  propose  the  formula. 
C36H49N012  in  place  of  that  which  they  gave  last  year  as  indicating  the  composition 
of  pseudaconitia.    This  alkaloid  is  described  as  crystallizing  with  one  molecule  of;' 
