MARYLAND  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
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"  Mix  the  Ether,  Alcohol  and  Valerian  :  macerate  for  several  days  in  a 
close  vessel,  then  transfer  to  a  displacement  filter  and  pour  on  alcohol 
until  you  recover  the  quantity  of  menstruum  first  used.  Evaporate,  without 
the  application  of  heat,  to  eight  ounces.  Upon  the  surface  of  the  residue 
in  the  filter,  sprinkle  the  carbonate  of  soda  in  fine  powder,  and  pour  on 
diluted  alcohol  until  it  passes  nearly  pure  :  evaporate  the  liquid  thus  ob- 
tained to  eight  ounces  and  add  to  the  first  product."  A  sample  of  the 
fluid  extract  prepared  as  above  was  exhibited  by  Mr.  Roberts ;  which  is  of 
dark  color,  clear,  of  uniform  consistence,  and  seems  to  possess  the  active 
properties  of  the  root  in  an  eminent  degree. 
Mr.  Sharp,  in  behalf  of  the  different  committees  appointed  by  the  Drug- 
gists and  Pharmaceutists  of  the  city,  to  make  arrangements  for  the  late 
Pharmaceutical  dinner,  presented  the  College  with  the  sum  of  sixty-three 
dollars  and  twenty-five  cents,  it  being  the  surplus  after  defraying  all  the 
expenses  of  the  entertainment,  which  was  accepted  unanimously,  with  the 
thanks  of  the  College. 
No  other  business  having  been  brought  forward,  the  College  adjourned. 
Baltimore,  November  Qth,  1856. 
The  College  met,  and  in  absence  of  the  President  the  meeting  was  called 
to  order  by  the  First  Vice  President,  Mr.  Grahame. 
Mr.  Thompson  called  the  attention  of  the  College  to  the  specific  gravity 
of  the  Commercial  Inodorous  Glycerin  of  American  Manufacture.  The 
standard  sp.  gr.,  given  by  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  is  1-250,  that 
of  the  Dublin  1-260.  The  sp.  gr.  of  the  sample  he  examined  was  1-138  at 
60°  Farhenheit.  Four  fluid  ounces,  weighing  2080  grains  was  reduced  by 
evaporation  over  a  water  bath  to  990  grains  and  the  sp.  gr.  increased  to 
1-264  ;  rather  over  the  Dublin  standard.  The  four  fluid  ounces  he  operated 
upon  was  reduced  to  less  than  two  fluid  ounces.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Moore, 
the  remarks  of  Mr.  T.  were  ordered  to  be  placed  on  the  minutes,  and  he  was 
requested  to  communicate  with  the  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy  on  the  subject. 
A  donation  of  specimens  of  Chemicals,  &c,  manufactured  by  Messrs. 
Rosengarten  &  Sons  of  Philadelphia,  was  received  from  those  gentlemen, 
through  Messrs.  Thomsen,  Woods  and  Block.  The  articles  are  forty-four 
in  number,  and  are  handsomely  and  tastefully  put  up.  On  motion  of  Mr. 
Phillips,  the  Secretary  was  directed  to  acknowledge  their  receipt  with  the 
thanks  of  the  College,  and  also  to  return  thanks  to  Messrs.  Thomsen, 
Woods  and  Block,  for  their  agency  in  the  matter. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Moore,  the  Secretary  was  directed  to  express  the  thanks 
of  the  College  to  Mr.  E.  S.  Wayne,  of  Cincinnati,  for  his  very  handsome 
donation  of  specimens  of  vegetable  alkaloids,  &c. 
Mr.  Moore  gave  notice  of  an  amendment  to  the  By-Laws  which  he  pro- 
poses to  offer  at  the  December  meeting  ;  he  proposes  to  add  a  new  section 
to  Law  6,  as  follows : — 
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