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Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    Sept.  1, 1874. 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  after  which  the  Society  adjourned 
until  the  second  Monday  in  October. 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  Board  of  Pharmacy  has,  in  June 
^nd  August,  examined  forty-nine  persons,  of  whom  thirty-one  passed  satisfac- 
torily. 
The  New"  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  summer  meeting  at 
the  Mansion  House,  Long  Branch,  August  12th;  Mr.  R.  Rickey,  of  Trenton, 
presided,  and  Dr.  B.  P.  Nichols,  of  Newark,  acted  as  Secretary.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Legislation  reported  that  the  pharmacy  bill  had  passed  both  Houses 
of  the  Legislature  (see  page  137  of  Maich  number),  but  after  the  departure  of 
the  Committee,  was  again  called  up,  reconsidered  and  laid  upon  the  table,  and 
thus  failed  to  become  a  law.  An  act  of  incorporation  was  passed,  and  approved 
on  February  18th  last;  the  consideration  and  adoption  of  this  charter  was  laid 
over  to  the  regular  annual  meeting  in  February  next.  Wm.  Neergaard.  M.D  , 
of  New  York,  was  elected  honorary  member  of  the  Association.  After  the 
election  of  members  and  the  transaction  of  some  routine  business,  the  Associa- 
tion adjourned. 
The  Indianapolis  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  organized  July  30th, 
by  the  election  of  the  following  officers  :  President,  Eli  Lilly;  Yice  Presidents, 
George  W.  Sloan  and  John  B.  Dell;  Recording  Secretary,  Charles  Dennis; 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Ross  W.  Perry ;  Executive  Committee,  Messrs. 
Bowen,  Sloan  and  Jos.  R.  Perry. 
According  to  the  constitution,  any  druggist  or  apothecary,  who  has  been 
established  in  business  not  less  than  four  years,  is  eligible  for  membership,  pro- 
vided he  had  been  in  no  way  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  any  nostrum,  or 
so  called  patent  medicine,  and  has  a  good  moral  character  and  business  integ- 
rity. The  Association,  we  hope,  will  be  represented  at  the  next  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy  has  published,  with  the  Eighth  Annual 
Announcement  of  Lectures,  the  Constitution  and  By-laws,  and  a  list  of  the  con- 
tributions to  its  library  and  cabinet  from  October,  1871,  to  January,  1874.  We 
are  glad  to  observe  that  these  contributions  have  been  quite  numerous  and 
valuable. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris  met  July  1st,  M.  Planchon  in  the 
chair.  A  communication  from  D.  Phollides,  of  Bucharest,  was  read,  advocating 
the  making  of  suppositories  by  hand  ;  also  a  paper  by  M.  Carles,  of  Bordeaux, 
on  reduced  iron,  and  on  the  employment  of  a  standardized  solution  of  iodine 
to  ascertain  its  purity.  M.  Bussy  has  determined  the  amount  of  metallic  iron 
by  dissolving  the  reduced  iron  in  sulphuric  acid,  and  measuring  the  resulting 
tiydrogen. 
A  new  process  for  the  preparation  of  crystallized  digitalin  was  described  in 
