A  June  ii  if?"'}  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  301 
Michigan  Pharmaceutical  Association. —  Pursuant  to  a  call  of  Saginaw  Val- 
ley Pharmaceutical  Association  a  convention  of  the  druggists  of  Michigan  was 
held  at  the  Biddle  House,  Detroit,  May  20.  The  call  stated  the  object  of  the 
convention  to  be  to  form  a  State  association,  with  the  view,  among  other  ob- 
jects, of  securing  the  enactment  of  laws  regulating  the  drug  business  in  the 
State.  About  fifty  pharmacists  and  druggists  from  various  parts  of  the  State 
were  present.  The  meeting  was  organized  by  calling  Dr.  S.  S.  Garrigues,  of 
East  Saginaw,  to  the  chair  ;  James  Yernor,  of  Detroit,  was  chosen  Secretary. 
A  Committee  on  Organization,  consisting  of  John  Harvey,  Ohas.  0.  Curtis 
and  B.  E.  Sickler,  reported  in  favor  of  adopting  the  Constitution  of  the  Maine 
Pharmaceutical  Association  for  temporary  purposes,  and  that  an  organization 
should  be  effected  under  it  The  report  was  adopted,  and  the  Committee 
continued,  with  the  addition  of  Prof.  Douglas,  to  prepare  a  constitution  and 
by-laws. 
The  pharmaceutical  law  before  the  Legislature  of  Michigan  was  discussed  at 
some  length,  and  the  following  committee  appointed  to  prepare  a  perfected 
pharmacy  bill  :  Dr.  Garrigues,  Jas.  Yernor,  Theo.  Ronnefeld,  S.  H.  Wagner, 
O.  Eberbach. 
The  following  officers  were  elected:  President,  S.  S.  Garrigues,  East  Sagi- 
naw; Yice-President,  S.  M.  Sackett,  Monroe;  Corresponding  Secretary,  S. 
H.  Wagner,  Muskegon  ;  Recording  Secretary,  James  Vernor,  Detroit  ;  Trea- 
surer, J.  C.  Mueller,  Detroit;  Auditor,  Ottmar  Eberbach,  Ann  Arbor. 
The  following  appointments  were  then  made  : 
Delegates  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
— E.  C.  Saunders,  of  Detroit ;  A.  B.  Lyon,  of  Detroit;  F.  Yan  Walshausen, 
of  Bay  City  ;  S.  H.  Wagner,  of  Muskegon  ;  C.  C.  Curtis,  of  Hillsdale. 
Committee  to  prepare  a  list  of  antidotes,  to  be  printed  on  poison  labels — 
Profs.  Prescott  and  Douglass  and  Mr.  Eberbach,  of  Ann  Arbor. 
Committee  to  prepare  queries  for  discussion — 0.  Eberbach,  P.  Plessner  and 
J.  Yernor. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Detroit  on  the  third  Wednesday  of  October 
next. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — At  the  meeting  held  March  4th,  a 
letter  from  M.  Phallide,  of  Bucharest,  was  read,  recommending  the  rapid  pre- 
paration of  oil  emulsions  by  using  definite  proportions  of  gum  and  water.  MM_ 
Buignet  and  Bourgoin  stated  that  similar  results  had  been  published  by  OverT 
beck  in  1851.*  The  remainder  of  the  session  was  occupied  with  discussions  on 
the  antiseptic  properties  of  chloral,  on  the  behaviour  of  phosphorus  and  of 
phosphates  during  putrefaction,  and  of  the  causes  which  give  to  the  urine  an 
alkaline  reaction. 
At  the  session  held  April  1st,  M.  Petit,  read  a  memoir  on  unfermentable 
substances  and  on  diastase,  which  lead  to  some  remarks  on  fermentation. 
Professor  Planchon  exhibited  the  root  of  Rheum  rhaponticum,  which  had  been 
cultivated  in  the  garden  of  the  Paris  School  of  Pharmacie;  he  showed  its  simi- 
•  See  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1851,  p.  377  ;  also  18f>8,  p.  205. 
