Am.  Jour.  Pharm.\ 
November,  1894.  / 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
557 
Report  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  1894. 
Proceedings  of  the  Eleventh  Annual  Convention  of  the  National  Confec- 
tioners'' Association  of  the  United  States,  held  at  Boston,  July  10,  11  and  12, 
1894. 
Some  interesting  information  about  adulteration  of  candies  may  be  gleaned 
from  this  report. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Phar- 
macy. 1894. 
The  New  United  States  Customs  Tariff.  In  effect  August  28,  1894.  By  J. 
W.  Hampton,  Jr.,  &  Co.,  Philadelphia  and  New  York. 
A  handsome  pamphlet  of  seventy-five  pages,  containing  the  most  desirable 
information  about  the  tariff  schedule. 
Minnesota  Botanical  Studies.  Conway  MacMillan,  State  Botanist.  Contents  : 
"  On  a  New  Registering  Balance,"  by  Alex.  P.  Anderson  ;  "  On  a  New  Electri- 
cal Auxanometer  and  Continuous  Recorder,"  by  W.  D.  Frost;  "Titles  of 
literature  Concerning  the  Fixation  of  Free  Nitrogen  by  Plants,"  by  D.  T. 
MacDougal. 
The  Spatula  is  the  title  of  a  small,  handsomely  illustrated  journal  which  has 
just  made  its  appearance  in  Boston.  It  chiefly  concerns  the  trade  and  news 
side  of  the  pharmacist's  life.  The  peculiar  dash  and  freshness  of  its  editorial 
columns,  and  its  well-executed  illustrations  ought  to  make  it  a  permanent  and 
welcome  visitor  to  relieve  the  monotony  of  the  long  hours  which  tie  down  the 
pharmacist. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  October  16,  1894. 
On  motion,  Mr.  E.  M.  Boring  was  called  to  the  chair.  The  minutes  of  the 
last  meeting  having  been  printed  in  June,  their  reading  was  dispensed  with. 
Messrs.  H.  O.  Wilbur  &  Sons  presented,  through  Mr.  Tilton,  one  of  our 
graduates,  samples  of  nearly  every  commercial  variety  of  cacao  ;  it  was  from 
these  samples  that  Professor  Bastin  made  his  study  of  the  starches  of  the  cacao, 
which  was  published  in  the  August  number  of  the  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  A 
sample  of  English  oak  bark,  Quercus  robur,  was  presented  by  Professor  Trim- 
ble, and  one  of  live  oak  bark,  Quercus  virens,  from  Mississippi,  by  Mr.  E.  D. 
Heine. 
Mr.  C.  H.  I,aWall  read  a  paper  upon  Ointment  of  Mercuric  Nitrate,  see  p. 
525.  Inquiry  was  made  as  to  the  temperature  which  the  mixture  attains  when 
the  acid  nitrate  is  added.  I^ard  oil,  it  was  thought,  is  by  far  the  best  material 
for  making  the  ointment,  but  the  frequent  adulteration  of  this  oil  with  cotton- 
seed oil  makes  it  important  to  observe  caution  in  purchasing  a  pure  article.  The 
experiments  of  Mr.  L,aWall  were  endorsed  by  Mr.  Iy.  F.  Kebler,  who  thought 
it  would  be  well  to  rely  upon  the  nitrate  of  silver  test  for  cotton-seed  oil. 
It  was  inquired  if  there  was  any  method  of  preventing  the  granular  condi- 
tion which  is  so  common  in  this  ointment  as  it  becomes  older  ;  it  was  thought 
the  best  that  could  be  done  was  to  rub  it  up  upon  a  slab  with  a  muller  Lefore 
dispensing. 
