38  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting*  {k*jl™ljm™' 
vaded  the  meeting'  at  the  loss  of  one  so  young,  and  who  had  just  entered  on  a 
life  of  usefulness.    The  report  was  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee. 
Letters  were  received  from  Messrs.  W  G.  Buchanan  and  Charles  L.  Jeffer- 
son, resigning  their  right  of  membership  in  the  College.  On  motion,  their 
resignations  were  accepted,  and  the  Secretary  was  ordered  to  notify  them  of 
the  fact. 
A  letter  was  received  by  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Corresponding  Secretary,  an- 
nouncing the  organization  of  the  Richmond  Pharmaceutical  Association,  on 
the  10th  of  November  last  This  College  extends  to  the  association  the  hand 
of  fellowship  and  a  warm  welcome.  The  Corresponding  Secretary  was  di- 
directed  to  acknowledge  its  receipt. 
A  letter  from  Jos.  L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  on  the  subject  of  the 
stamp  tax,  was  also  read  and  directed  to  be  filed. 
Then  on  motion  adjourned. 
William  J.  Jenks,  Secretary. 
[iiurtes  of  %  f  larmaautol  lUeting. 
The  regular  meeting  was  held  December  16th,  1873.  Present,  twenty  mem- 
bers. On  motion  Charles  Bullock  was  elected  President,  and  the  Registrar 
read  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting,  which  were  approved 
Under  the  head  of  donations  to  the  cabinet,  Dr.  W.  H.  Pile  presented  an 
accurately  graduated  standard  minim  pipette,  and  on  behalf  of  the  manufactu- 
rers. Andrew  Blair  presented  a  new  drug-mill,  made  by  the  Enterprise  Manu- 
facturing Company,  which  was  received  and  the  thanks  of  the  meeting  directed 
to  be  forwarded  for  the  gift. 
The  reading  of  papers,  essays,  etc.,  being  next  in  order,  R.  V.  Mattison  pre- 
sented "  Purified  Crab  Orchard  Salt  and  Tasteless  Chloride  of  Iron  Salt,"  and 
read  a  paper  on  the  "  Purification  of  Crab  Orchard  Salts,"  which  elicited  some 
discussion  from  the  members,  in  the  course  of  which  it  was  stated  that  for  a 
number  of  years  a  large  wholesale  house  in  Louisville  manufactured  Crab 
Orchard  Salt  from  Epsom  Salt  and  Sulphate  of  Iron,  and  that  with  one  maker 
of  Crab  Orchard  Salt,  it  was  customary  to  throw  into  the  concentrated  solution 
two  barrels  of  Epsom  Salt. 
Dr  A.  W.  Miller  read  a  continuation  of  his  paper  on  cosmoline,  vaseline, 
etc.,  detailing  an  improvement  in  making  his  paraffin  ointment  which  makes  it 
approximate  more  closely  to  cosmoline  ;  his  paper  was  accompanied  by  a  num- 
ber of  interesting  specimens  illustrating  the  various  steps  in  the  process  of 
making  cosmoline.  Dr.  Pile  presented  four  samples  of  vaseline  to  the  College, 
which  had  been  sent  to  him  by  the  agent. 
Professor  Maisch  presented  a  carefully  selected  specimen  of  Cantharis 
vittata,  from  J.  W.  Eckfeldt,  Delaware  county,  also  a  curious  pine  cone  from 
Robert  C.  Davis,  both  of  which  were  received  with  thanks. 
A  discussion  was  now  entered  into  upon  the  merits  or  demerits  of  the  Enter- 
prise Company's  drug-mill,  in  the  course  of  which  Professor  Procter  remarked 
that  the  principal  objection  he  had  to  the  mill  was  that  the  throat  was  not 
