302  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  {^'^l',?^^' 
At  this  juncture  the  Section  took  a  recess  of  a  few  minutes  to  permit  of  a 
Special  General  Session  for  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  Council.  It  was 
reported  that  ten  members  had  been  added  to  the  committee  to  prepare  an 
auxiliary  report  on  the  National  Formulary  ;  also  that  a  new  section  of  the 
Association,  to  be  known  as  the  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispens- 
ing, should  be  instituted. 
The  Scientific  Section  having  resumed  its  work,  Dr.  F.  E.  Stewart  gave  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Chairman's  Address,  which  recommended  that 
the  suggestion  of  the  chairman  to  bring  the  matter  of  drug  cultivation  before 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  be  favorably  acted  upon  and  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  for  the  purpose.  The  report  was  adopted  and  a  committee  was 
selected  as  follows  :  H.  H.  Rusby,  New  York  ;  Henry  Kraemer,  Philadelphia, 
and  D.  M.  R.  Culbreth,  Baltimore. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  U.S. P.  was  read,  in  the 
absence  of  the  Chairman,  Leo  Eliel,  by  F.  W.  E.  Stedem. 
The  report,  which  was  a  brief  one,  embodied  recommendations  for  an 
alternative  process  for  chlorine  water  ;  a  25  per  cent,  solution  of  carbolic  acid 
in  alcohol,  to  be  known  and  dispensed  as  "  household  carbolic  acid,"  and  exact 
figures  or  working  formulas  for  saturated  solutions. 
The  following  papers  were  then  presented  : 
ON  ALCOHOL  AS  AN  ANTIDOTE  FOR  CARBOLIC  ACID  POISONING. 
By  E.  V.  Howell. 
(Read  by  H.  W.  Whelpley.) 
The  experiments  carried  out  by  the  author  tended  to  show  that  the  effect  of 
alcohol  in  counteracting  the  effects  of  carbolic  acid  is  probably  one  of  dilution. 
A  motion  by  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  recommending  that  a  25  per  cent,  alcoholic 
solution  of  carbolic  acid  be  suggested  to  retail  druggists,  to  be  sold  for  house- 
hold purposes,  was  adopted. 
A  paper  on 
CERATE  OF  CANTHARIDES, 
By  G.  E.  Barksdale, 
and  one  on 
A  NEW  FORMULA  FOR  AROMATIC  SPIRIT  OF  AMMONIA, 
By  W.  C.  Alpers, 
were  read  by  title. 
ADLUMIA  CIRRHOSA— A  NEW  PROTO PINE-BEARING  PLANT. 
BY  J.  O.  SCHLOTTERBECK. 
Protopine,  as  stated  by  the  author,  was  the  only  alkaloid  present  in  the  plant, 
and  its  separation  and  purification  were  very  easily  accomplished.  The  author 
also  said  that  protopine  and  fumarine  appear  to  be  very  similar,  and  that  if 
they  were  found  to  be  identical,  the  Fumariacese  should  not  be  regarded  as  an 
independent  family,  but  should  be  included  in  the  Papaveracese.  Following 
the  rule  of  botanists,  with  regard  to  priority,  the  name  of  the  principle 
should  be  fumarine. 
