Am3ii?cn,  wfm'}  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  I  5  5 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  held  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  February  20,  1894,  Edwin  M.  Boring  in  the  chair.  The  minutes  of 
the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  Donations  to  the  Library  were 
received  as  follows,  and  a  vote  of  "Thanks  of  the  College  "  was  made  to  the 
donors  : 
DONATIONS  TO  LIBRARY. 
Government  Reports.  Department  of  Agriculture.  Report  of  the  Botanist. 
1886,  1888,  1890,  1891,  1892. 
Contributions  from  U.  S  National  Herbarium.  Vol.  1,  Nos.  4,  5.  7,  8  ;  Vol. 
2,  Nos.  1,  2  ;  Vol.  3,  No.  1  ;  Vol.  4,  Bulletin,  Nos.  3,  6  (Grasses). 
Special  Bulletin  (Agricultural  Grasses  and  Forage  Plants). 
DIVISION  OF  BOTANY. 
Illustrations  of  N.  A.  Grasses.    2  Vols.  4to. 
Consular  Reports.  Vol.  44,  No.  160.  January,  1894.  Vol.  44,  No.  161.  Feb- 
ruary, 1894. 
SMITHSONIAN  REPORTS. 
Internal  Work  of  the  Wind.  (Langley.) 
Proceedings  U.  S.  National  Museum.    Vol.  15.  1892. 
Bulletin  U.  S.  National  Museum.    Nos.  44,  45,  46.  1893. 
U.  S.  BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION. 
History  of  Education  in  Delaware  (Powel.)  1893. 
Reports  on  Secondary  School  Studies.  1893. 
From  Prof.  Sadtler.    Simon's  Man.  of  Chemistry. 
From  Baron  von  Mueller.  Extra  Tropical  Plants.  Census  of  Australian 
Plants.    Part  I. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Jayne,  chemist  and  manufacturer  of  Coal  Tar  Products,  read  a 
very  interesting  and  instructive  paper  on  "Crude  Carbolic  Acid,"  exhibited 
sections  of  wood-piling,  creosoted  and  not  creosoted,  and  in  reply  to  many 
questions  much  interesting  information  was  elicited.  It  was  thought  that 
naphthaline  had  little  or  no  preservative  influence  on  wood.  Several  distillates, 
each  having  different  boiling  points  and  used  in  mechanical  arts  as  solvents, 
etc.,  were  called  Naphtha. 
Joseph  Crawford,  Ph.G.,  read  a  paper  in  continuation  of  "  Forestry  at  the 
Columbian  Exposition."  His  painstaking  labor  will  insure  careful  reading 
by  every  one.    Beautiful  samples  of  wood  from  many  exhibits  were  shown. 
Charles  C .  Manger  read  a  paper  on  a  crystalline  principle  from  Eupatorium 
purpureum  and  exhibited  a  sample. 
Mr.  Boring  said  the  meeting  would  be  gratified  by  the  reading  of  this  and 
other  papers  of  this  nature,  and  they  were  typical  and  praiseworthy  as  show- 
ing the  progress  of  work  in  the  College  laboratory  ;  while  25  years  ago,  we 
read  papers  of  such  work  from  German  laboratories. 
W.  B.  Thompson  spoke  of  the  acoustic  properties  of  the  museum  and  moved 
