Am.  Jour.  Pk\.rm.  ? 
Feb.  1,  1872.  $ 
Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
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The  Contributing  Committee  for  the  relief  of  the  pharmaceutists  of  Chicago 
suffering  from  the  late  fire,  reported  through  Mr.  Steele  that  $744.50  had  been 
collected,  from  which  should  be  deducted  $2.50,  exchange  paid  for  gold.  The 
first  remittance,  of  $800,  currency,  was  made  by  telegraph  draft,  and  the  sec- 
ond, $30,  by  postal  order. 
A  communication  from  Prof.  Ebert,  of  Chicago,  was  read,  acknowledging, 
with  grateful  expressions  of  appreciation,  on  behalf  of  the  Chicago  College  of 
Pharmacy,  the  Society's  opportune  and  munificent  remittance.  The  startling 
intelligence  was  also  disclosed  that  sixty  retail  and  all  but  one  wholesale  drug 
houses  had  been  swept  away  by  the  disastrous  fire. 
Messrs.  Mallinckrodt  &  Co.,  manufacturing  chemists,  of  St.  Louis,  donated 
to  the  Society  a  box  of  chemicals,  which  was  gratefully  accepted. 
Mr.  Wenzell,  by  request,  then  read  a  paper  on  f<  Abietene,"  a  new  hydrocar- 
bon, obtained  from  the  Pinus  Sabiniana,  an  indigenous  tree  found  on  the  foot- 
hills of  the  Sierra  Nevada  mountains  and  the  foot-hills  of  California.  Mr.  W. 
illustrated  his  subject  with  specimen  preparations,  and  was  listened  to  by  all 
present  with  wrapt  attention. 
Mr.  Wood  moved  that  the  thanks  of  the  Society  be  tendered  to  the  author 
for  his  able  and  exceedingly  interesting  paper.* 
The  British  Pharmaceutical  Society  held  an  interesting  pharmaceutical 
meeting  December  6th.  Among  the  specimens  presented  to  the  museum  of  the 
Society,  the  barks,  roots  and  sections  of  stems  of  different  species  of  cinchona 
are  especially  noteworthy,  all  the  specimens  beit)2  in  illustration  of  Mr.  How- 
ard's paper  noticed  on  pages  25 — 29  of  our  last  number. 
A  paper  by  Prof  Redwood  was  read,  on  "The  Substitution  of  Proportional 
or  Relational  Numbers  for  Specified  Weights  and  Measures  in  the  Description 
of  Processes  in  the  Pharmacopoeia."  The  Professor  advocates  the  use  of  the 
terms  part  and  measure  ;  the  latter  term,  where  it  occurs  together  with  the  for- 
mer in  one  formula,  meaning  the  water  measure  of  the  unit  of  weighty  whatever 
that  might  be. 
A  paper  by  T.  Miller,  of  Sheffield,  "On  a  Method  for  the  Estimation  of 
Morphia  in  Opium,"  was  read  and  discussed.  The  method  proposed  is  based 
upon  the  liberation  by  morphia  of  iodine  from  iodic  acid,  dissolving  the  iodine 
rapidly  in  bisulphide  of  carbon,  and  comparing  it  with  a  similar  standard  solu- 
tion made  with  morphia.  The  solution  deepest  in  color  is  then  diluted  with 
measured  quantities  of  bisulphide  of  carbon  until  the  two  are  alike  in  color; 
by  simple  calculation  the  percentage  of  morphia  is  readily  found.  Several  pre- 
cautions must  be  observed,  to  which  we  may  allude  in  our  next  number. 
The  President,  Mr.  A.  F.  Hazelden,  also  read  a  paper  containing  practical 
observations  on  "  The  Syrup  and  Resin  of  Tolu,  and  Tincture  of  Cinnamon." 
Ecole  Superieure  de  Pharmacie  de  Paris. — This  school  was  re-opened  on 
the  15th  of  November,  the  Director,  Mr.  Bussy,  presiding.  Mr.  Buignet,  Pro- 
fessor of  Physics,  and  General  Secretary  of  the  Paris  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
pronounced  a  eulogy  on  Guibourt.    Professors  Jungfleisch  and  Bourgoin  read 
•!:  Mr.  Wenzell's  paper  will  be  published  in  our  next  number. — Ep.  Am.  Journ.  Ph. 
