■394  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  {X^m^ 
Maryland* College  of  Pharmacy. — A  regular  meeting  was  held  July  9th, 
3|  P.  M.,  President  Hancock  in  the  chair.  The  Treasurer's  report  for  the  six 
months  ending  June  30th  evidenced  a  healthy  financial  condition  of  the  Col- 
lege. Mr.  L.  Dursse,  of  Grafton.  West  Ya  ,  exhibited  a  new  glass  percolator 
designed  to  prevent  loss  of  menstruum  during  use,  for  which  he  has  letters- 
patent.  The  President  read  his  annual  address,  which  was  referred,  with 
accompanying  suggestions,  to  the  Board  of  Trustees;  at  its  conclusion  the 
College  proceeded  to  the  election  of  officers,  which  resulted  in  the  re-election 
of  the  present  incumbents,  to  wit,  Jno.  F.  Hancock,  President;  Dr.  Edward 
Eareckson,  Secretary  ;  J.  Brown  Baxley,  Treasurer;  and  L.  Dohme,  Board  of 
Examiners,  The  following  members  were  elected  delegates  to  the  twenty- 
second  annual  meeting  A.  P.  A.  Prof.  J.  Faris  Moore,  Chairman,  Jno.  F. 
Hancock,  Louis  Dohme,  F.  Hassencamp  and  J.  Newport  Potts.  The  alter- 
nates were  Messrs.  Jennings,  Roberts,  Sharp,  Webb  and  Monsarat.  Messrs. 
Moore,  Dohme  and  Roberts  were  delegated  to  represent  this  College  in  the 
Convention  of  Teaching  Colleges.    On  motion  adjourned. 
J.  NEWPORT  POTTS,  Reporter. 
Pharmaceutical  Associations  in  Indiana. — In  Indianapolis  a  preliminary 
meeting  was  held  July  21st,  with  the  view  of  forming  a  local  pharmaceutical 
society.  Mr.  Eli  Lilly  was  appointed  Chairman  and  Mr.  Chas.  Dennis,  Secre- 
tary. A  committee,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Jos.  R.  Perry,  H.  B.  Cole  and 
Ernest  Krauth,  to  which  the  chairman  was  added  as  an  advisory  member,  was 
chosen  to  prepare  a  constitution  and  by-laws  to  be  submitted  to  the  meeting. 
We  learn  that  it  is  also  contemplated  to  organize  a  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation at  Logansport,  Ind. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris  met  June  3d,  Vice-president 
Planchon  in  the  chair  Dr.  De  Vry  read  a  note  on  the  new  alkaloid  quinamina,* 
and  presented  a  specimen  of  it  which  had  been  prepared  from  a  red  cinchona 
bark  from  the  Rungbee  plantations,  which  are  situated  in  Sikkim  at  the  foot  of 
the  Himalaya  mountains.  The  following  process  was  employed  :  The  mixed 
alkaloids  were  converted  into  neutral  sulphates,  and  their  aqueous  solution 
mixed  with  a  solution  of  Rochelle  salt,  whereby  quinia  and  cinchonia  are 
precipitated  as  sparingly  soluble  tartrates  ;  the  filtrate  was  treated  with  caustic 
soda  and  ether;  the  residue  from  the  evaporation  of  the  ether,  consisting  of 
quinamina  and  the  amorphous  cinchona  alkaloid,  was  converted  into  neutral 
acetates,  and  these  dissolved  in  a  rather  large  quantity  of  water,  from  which 
sulphocyanide  of  potassium  precipitated  the  amorphous  alkaloid,  and  caustic 
soda,  from  the  filtrate,  the  new  alkaloid. 
Dr.  De  Yry  also  read  a  note  on  the  occurrence  of  ammonia  in  normal  urine, 
which  was  proven  by  him  about  25  years  ago  ;  the  urine  is  rendered  slightly 
alkaline  by  the  addition  of  bicarbonate  of  sodium,  and  the  filtrate  treated 
"with  some  sulphate  of  magnesium,  avoiding  excess,  when  ammonio-phos- 
*See  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1872,  p.  302. 
