192      Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Apr.  1,  1874. 
Ittato  of  %  f  fmrmamttitai  Siting, 
The  regular  monthly  meeting  was  held  March  17th,  1874  ;  fourteen  members 
present. 
Dillwyn  Parrish  was  requested  to  occupy  the  chair,  and  the  minutes  of  the 
last  meeting  being  called  for,  they  were  read  and  approved. 
Under  the  head  of  donations  to  the  Library,  which  was  first  in  the  order 
of  business,  Mr.  T.  H.  Hazard  presented  to  the  College  Library  a  valuable  col- 
lection of  engraved  plates  of  various  plants.  They  were  bound  in  three  large 
volumes,  and  the  title  page  bore  the  name  Herbier  Artificiel;  the  number  of 
plates  contained  in  this  work  was  nearly  a  thousand.  The  thanks  of  the  Col- 
lege were  presented  to  Mr.  Hazard  for  the  acceptable  gift. 
Professor  Maisch  presented  on  behalf  of  the  patentee,  Mr.  Jas.  H.  Plaisted, 
of  Waterville,  Maine,  a  suppository  mould,  for  which  the  inventor  claims  merit. 
The  mould  is  in  two  pieces,  held  in  their  places  by  a  rubber  band  ;  they  are 
prevented  from  slipping  horizontally  by  a  very  simple  arrangement,  which, 
however,  permits  them  to  slide  in  a  plane  parallel  to  the  axes  of  the  supposi- 
tories ;  on  this  point  the  inventor  claims  superiority,  for  he  argues  that, 
when  the  suppository  is  cold  enough,  a  slight  sliding  motion  in  the  direction 
indicated,  suffices  to  drop  them  out. 
Joseph  P.  Remington  presented  a  urethral  suppository  mould  on  behalf  of 
W.  S.  Wellcome,  a  graduate  of  the  last  class,  who  had  written  his  thesis  on 
the  subject ;  the  cooling  box  was  nicely  made  of  zinc,  which  was  an  improve- 
ment on  the  tin  ones  usually  employed. 
A  general  discussion  was  entered  into  on  the  subject  of  suppository  moulds, 
during  which  Edward  Chiles  spoke  of  a  mould  made  by  Maw  &  Sons,  which 
was  somewhat  similar  to  Plaisted's,  and  which  he  was  much  pleased  with  ;  the 
horizontal  slipping  movement  was  controlled  by  a  pin  at  the  end,  which  fitted 
in  a  corresponding  depression  in  the  other  mould. 
Professor  Maisch  exhibited  a  sample  of  what  was  said  to  be  wild  cherry 
bark,  but  which  on  examination  proved  to  be  very  largely  adulterated  ;  it 
seemed  to  be  principally  composed  of  the  bark  of  the  sassafras  trunk.  He  also 
showed  a  sample  of  Vanilla  pampona  from  Laguayra,  and  two  beans,  the  origin 
of  which  was  not  exactly  known  ;  they  were  very  much  broader  than  the  regu- 
lar bean,  and  although  possessed  of  a  number  of  the  characteristics  of  the  true 
bean,  did  not  possess  the  delightful  odor  of  the  genuine.  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller 
said  that  they  had  been  offered  for  sale  in  the  city  at  much  less  than  the  cost 
of  the  genuine,  and  the  statement  was  made  that  they  were  the  product  of  the 
wild  plant. 
Mr.  T.  H.  Hazard  presented  two  specimens  as  contributions  to  the  cabinet ; 
one,  the  seed  vessel  of  Trappa  Bicornis  (ox-head),  the  other  from  a  species  of 
Maitynia. 
The  reading  of  papers  being  now  in  order,  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller  read  one  on 
"  Disinfectants,  Antiseptics,  and  Deodorizers,"  which  was  referred  to  the  Pub- 
lication Committee. 
