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phor,  which  he  has  secceeded  in  preparing  without  using  hermetically  sealed 
vessels,  and  thus  doing  away  with  the  danger  of  explosions  ;  a  considerable 
quantity  of  hydrobromic  acid  is  likewise  obtained  by  this  process,  which,  by  the 
old  method,  was  mostly  lost.  The  experiments  not  being  completed  yet,  the 
results  will  be  communicated  in  detail  at  a  subsequent  meeting. 
Mr.  Boring  exhibited  a  sample  of  purified  suet,  which  was  very  handsome. 
It  was  made  by  treating  the  melted  fat  with  table  salt  and  alum,  and  after  con- 
gelation, washing  out  the  salts  By  large  quantities  of  water ;  the  remelted  fat 
is  then  benzoinated.  Prof.  Maisch  stated  that  this  was  essentially  the  process 
employed  by  perfumers  in  purifying  their  fats  for  pomade. 
The  meeting  then  adjourned. 
Clemmons  Parrish,  Registrar. 
(Editorial  Department* 
Two  Pharmaceutical  Schools  in  One  City. — We  cheerfully  insert  the  sub- 
joined letter  correcting  an  error  into  which  we  had  been  unwittingly  led,  be- 
cause we  have  never  seen  the  charter  of  Georgetown  College,  and  because  we 
have  heard  frequently  of  this  Institution  as  a  medical  college,  but,  to  the  best 
of  our  remembrance,  never  as  an  university. 
"Washington,  D.  C,  April  8th,  1872. 
Editor  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  : 
"  Dear  Sir. — Permit  me  to  present  to  your  attention  the  facts  in  the  matter 
of  conferring  degrees  in  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  Georgetown  College. 
"The  School  of  Pharmacy  is  only  a  part  of  the  Medical  Department,  inas- 
much as  two  Professors  of  the  latter  (viz.,  Materia  Medica  and  Chemistry),  are 
acting  with  one  Professor  of  Pharmacy,  and  constitute  the  school.  The  de- 
grees are  not  conferred  by  the  Medical  Department  of  Georgetown  College,  but 
by  the  mother  institution  through  its  School  of  Pharmacy.  The  Diplomas  are 
signed  by  the  President  of  Georgetown  College,  and  have  the  corporate  seal  of 
the  President  and  Directors  of  Georgetown  College  attached. 
"A  reference  to  a  law  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  passed  in  March, 
1815,  will  show  that  Georgetown  College  is  an  University,  clothed  with  all  the 
powers  and  privileges  of  such  institutions,  and  therefore  it  has  the  right  to  con* 
fer  degrees  in  all  the  arts  and  sciences. 
"  I  hope,  sir,  you  will  do  us  the  justice  to  correct  your  error  in  the  next  issue 
of  the  Journal  of  Pharmacy.         With  respect,  I  remain,  yours, 
D.  P.  HlCKLING, 
Professor  of  Pharmacy,  Georgetown  College.'11 
It  will  be  seen  from  this  letter  that  our  National  Capital  has  set  an  example 
which,  we  trust,  will  not  be  followed  by  any  other  city,  namely,  to  have  two 
pharmaceutical  schools  in -one  locality.  We  are  earnestly  advocating  the  proper 
education  of  the  pharmacist,  and  are  in  favor  of  the  multiplication  of  Colleges 
of  Pharmacy,  but  not  to  an  indefinite  number,  which  would  be  fraught  with  re- 
sults similar  to  those  which  the  medical  profession  throughout  the  country  is  en- 
deavoring to  correct.  Favoring,  as  we  do,  the  education  of  pharmacists  by  phar- 
macists, it  is  not  too  much  to  hope  that,  if  the  necessity  for  a  College  of  Phar- 
