€Mtoriai  department. 
The  late  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — Our 
readers  will  find  a  full  account  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Association  at  its 
recent  meeting  in  this  city,  with  several  of  the  papers  read  during  the  sessions, 
in  the  preceding  pages  of  this  number.  The  occasion  was  marked  with  more 
than  ordinary  interest,  the  attendance  being  quite  numerous,  representing 
the  States  of  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Connecticut, 
New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  Ohio, 
Michigan  and  Illinois.  Good  feeling  prevailed  during  the  several  sittings, 
and  nothing  occurred  to  mar  the  interest  of  the  members.  After  the  ad- 
journment, the  strangers  present  were  invited  to  partake  in  an  excursion 
to  Fairmount,  Laurel  Hill  and  the  Wissahickon  in  the  afternoon,  and  an 
entertainment  was  given  to  them  in  the  evening  at  the  College  Hall  under 
the  superintendence  of  the  Local  Committee,  which  passed  off  pleasantly. 
"We  take  advantage  of  this  opportunity  to  state  that  the  "  Proceedings  " 
of  the  Association,  published  by  its  authority  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, is  now  ready  for  the  members,  and  is  a  volume  of  180  pages,  octavo. 
The  Committee  have  had  a  number  of  copies  bound,  so  as  to  be  more  readily 
preserved,  and  as  the  work  contains  several  valuable  papers  it  is  well 
worth  a  place  in  every  pharmaceutical  library.  The  price  of  the  work  in 
paper  cover,  is  24  cents,  the  postage  on  it  9  cents.  The  price,  bound,  is  39 
cents,  and  postage  15  cents.  These  prices  merely  cover  the  cost.  All  who 
want  copies  can  get  them  by  enclosing  11  letter  stamps  for  the  unbound,, 
and  18  letter  stamps  for  the  bound  copies,  directed  to  the  Chairman  of  the 
Executive  Committee,  Samuel  S.  Garrigues,  108  north  5th  street,  Philada. 
Compound  Syrup  op  Phosphates,  or  Chemical  Food. — Several  years  ago, 
Dr.  Samuel  Jackson,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  introduced  a  pre- 
scription of  the  phosphates  of  iron,  lime,  soda  and  potassa,  which  was  con- 
siderably prescribed  at  that  time  by  himself  and  some  other  physicians,  in 
solution  by  aid  of  an  excess  of  phosphoric  acid.  The  proportion  of  ingre- 
dients have  varied,  and  the  manner  of  making  the  solution — sometimes  phos- 
phoric acid  and  sometimes  muriatic  and  lactic  acids  being  employed  as  the 
solvents.  The  favorable  results  from  the  use  of  the  phosphates  so  combined 
gradually  led  to  their  being  made  into  a  comparatively  permanent  com- 
pound syrup,  first  by  Durand  &  Tourtelot,  and  subsequently  by  H.  C. 
Blair  &  Co.,  and  others.  The  last  named  firm  claim  for  their  syrup  the 
approval  of  Professor  Jackson,  and  we  had  hoped  to  have  been  able  to 
give  to  our  readers  the  formula  for  its  preparation  ;  but  as  they  decline 
making  it  public,  we  have  availed  ourselves  of  the  recipe  of  our  friend 
Edward  Parrish,  who  has  communicated  at  our  solicitation  the  following 
recipe.  Whatever  difference  there  may  be  between  these  formulae,  we  be- 
lieve it  has  reference  almost  entirely  to  the  modus  operandi  and  the  unes- 
