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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm^ 
\     January,  1896. 
creditably  written.  It  is  not  this  work  in  particular  that  we  single  out  for  dis- 
approval ;  it  is  the  whole  class. 
The  Physicians'  Visiting  List  for  1896.  P.  Blakiston,  Son  &  Co.  This 
well-known  list  has  reached  its  forty-fifth  year  of  publication,  and  comes  with 
several  new  features  that  make  it  better  than  ever. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  December  17,  1895. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Wiegand,  Mr.  George  M.  Beringer  was  chosen  chairman. 
On  motion  of  Prof.  Trimble,  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  previous  meet- 
ing was  omitted,  and  they  were  ordered  to  stand  as  published. 
The  next  in  order  of  business  were  presentations  to  the  Library  and  Museum. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  the  books  presented  ;  sixteen  volumes  of  the  Labor 
Commissioner's  Reports  ;  British  Year-Book  of  Pharmacy,  1895  ;  No.  4  of  Vol. 
Ill,  Department  of  Agriculture;  United  States  National  Herbarium;  Reprint  of 
Collection  of  Plants  from  Northern  Idaho;  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics, 
third  edition,  by  J.  V.  Shoemaker,  M.D.  Through  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy:  Stewart's  Compend  of  Pharmacy;  Scoville's  Art  of  Compounding; 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Boston,  1895; 
Special  Consular  Reports — Highways  of  Commerce,  1895;  Contributions  from 
the  Herbarium  of  Franklin  and  Marshall  College,  1895;  and,  through  the  instru- 
mentality of  Mr.  Howard  B.  French,  eighty-five  volumes  of  Reports  of  the 
Interior  Department  were  presented  by  General  H.  H.  Bingham. 
Attention  was  called  to  a  set  of  hydrometers,  presented  by  Mr.  Charles  Bullock, 
on  behalf  of  Mr.  L.  C.  Francis,  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  reliable  makers  of 
physical  and  scientific  apparatus  in  this  country. 
Two  samples  of  carborundum,  from  the  Niagara  Electric  Works,  presented 
by  Charles  Bullock  and  C.  A.  Seither,  Ph.G.,  were  shown. 
A  sample  of  dry  Anti-Diphtheritic  Serum,  manufactured  by  Messrs.  Bur- 
roughs, Wellcome  &  Co.,  of  London,  and  sent  by  Messrs.  Fairchild  Bros.  & 
Foster,  was  exhibited.  The  serum,  in  the  form  of  golden  scales,  is  put  up  in 
tubes  containing  one  gramme,  which  is  said  to  represent  ten  cubic  centimetres 
of  normal  liquid  Anti-Diphtheritic  Serum.  Professor  Trimble  was  of  the 
opinion  that,  if  it  retained  its  potency,  this  would  probably  become  the  leading 
form. 
The  first  paper,  on  "  Distilled  Water,"  by  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  of  Cincinnati, 
was  read  by  Professor  Trimble,  who  remarked  that  this  paper  was  of  particular 
interest  on  account  of  the  action  taken  during  the  past  year  to  enforce  the  Pure 
Food  Law  in  Ohio.  Two  samples  of  distilled  water,  prepared  and  tested  as 
described  in  the  paper,  were  shown.  One  of  these  contained  a  flaky  sediment, 
and  the  residue  obtained  upon  evaporation  of  1,000  c.c.  of  a  similar  sample  was 
also  shown.  Considerable  discussion  arose  in  reference  to  the  composition  of 
this  sediment,  Professor  Trimble  believing  it  to  be  due  to  the  solvent  action  of 
the  water  on  the  glass.  Mr.  Kebler  held  a  different  opinion,  and  stated  that  it 
was  calcium  sulphate  from  the  still.  Mr.  F.  W.  Haussmann  raised  the  question 
as  to  its  bacteriological  character,  but  the  fact  of  the  water  containing  this  sedi- 
