Ae'ep<t,!?;i872RM'}        Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  425 
A  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  South  Carolina  is  about  being  organ- 
ized, and,  we  have  been  informed,  will  probably  be  represented  at  the  Cleve- 
land meeting  of  the  National  Association. 
The  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  held  their  regular  meeting  at  their 
hall,  Mo.  332  Bush  street,  on  July  10th,  Vice-President  Painter  in  the  chair. 
The  report  of  directors  exhibited  a  large  increase  of  members.  A  collection 
of  seventeen  rare  and  valuable  chemicals  was  presented  by  Mr.  Henry  G. 
Hanks  to  the  Society,  and  for  which  thanks  were  voted  to  the  donor.  The 
Corresponding  Secretary  read  interesting  correspondence  from  home  and 
abroad,  and  Mr.  Steele,  on  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  offered  the  follow- 
ing resolutions : 
Whereas,  It  is  incumbent  upon  the  members  of  the  California  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  to  take  all  needful  steps  for  the  advancement  of  Pharmaceutical 
science,  and  the  most  complete  education  practicable  for  those  who  embrace 
it  as  a  profession,  and  such  education  not  being  possible  without  some  organ- 
ized system  of  teaching;  be  it  therefore 
Resolved,  That  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  So- 
ciety be  authorized  and  empowered  to  act.  ex  officio,  as  a  Committee  to  take 
all  needful  steps  for  the  establishment  of  a  College  of  Pharmacy  in  the  City 
and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and,  if  deemed  advisable  by  them,  to  add  to  their 
number  from  among  the  members  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
Be  it  further  resolved.  That  said  Committee  are  empowered  to  assume  the 
management  of  the  financial  and  educational  business  requisite  in  such  estab- 
lishment, and  to  act  as  a  Board  of  Trustees  after  such  establishment,  for  the 
management  of  the  affairs  of  said  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Resolved,  That  said  Committee  be  authorized  to  issue  100  shares  of  stock,  of 
$100  per  share,  and  to  solicit  subscriptions  for  the  same,  one  twentieth  to  be 
due  upon  delivery  of  certificate  of  stock,  and  the  remainder  in  19  equal  pay- 
ments, at  intervals  of  thirty  days,  until  ihe  whole  amount  subscribed  for  shall 
have  been  paid.  All  moneys  accruing  from  the  sale  of  said  stock  to  constitute 
the  capital  of,  and  to  be  devoted  solely  to,  the  maintenance  of  said  College  of 
Pharmacy. 
Resolved,  That  the  Committee  shall  organize  for  the  transaction  of  business 
by  the  election  of  a  President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  who  shall  hold  office 
until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  [Then  followed  the  usual  du- 
ties of  the  officers.] 
Resolved,  That  the  Committee  authorized  and  empowered  to  act  as  above 
mentioned,  are  required  to  report  semi  annually  to  the  California  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society,  and  annually  to  submit  a  full  and  complete  report  of  their  proceed- 
ings to  the  same. 
These  resolutions  were,  upon  motion,  adopted  ;  and  after  a  prolonged  discus- 
sion of  various  plans  towards  the  successful  establishment  of  lectures  at  an 
early  day,  the  Society  adjourned.  W.  T.  W. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — At  the  meeting  held  June  5th,  Mr. 
Mehu  stated  that  he  had  published,  in  1868,  in  the  Archives  de  Medicine,  that 
benzoate  of  iron  dissolves  in  oils ;  the  cinnamate  is  likewise  soluble,  but  the 
arseniates  of  iron  are  insoluble  in  oils. 
Mr.  Ferrand  proposes  to  detect  the  adulteration  of  oil  of  bitter  almonds  with 
nitro-benzole  by  the  red  color  obtained  on  heating  3  or  4  c.c.  of  an  alcoholic  so- 
