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Minutes  of  the  College. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      July,  1885. 
flourish  equally  well  ou  albumins  as  on  amides.  When  heated  at 
140°  in  Lintner's  digester  for  six  hours  the  albuminoids  of  lupines 
suffer  much  change ;  there  was  an  increase  of  nearly  double  of  the 
non-albuminoids  whilst  the  albuminoid  nitrogen  soluble  in  water  wa& 
increased  by  13*9  per  cent.  In  peas,  soluble  non-albuminoid  nitrogen 
was  increased  from  35  to  87*8  per  cent,  and  36*6  per  cent,  of  the 
insoluble  albumin  was  made  soluble.  Maize  and  dari  were  also  much 
affected.  Experiments  with  potatoes  showed  that  if  they  had  been 
previously  dried  at  110°,  a  part  of  the  albumin  being  thus  rendered 
insoluble,  the  after  heating  by  steam  at  a  high  temperature  was  inca- 
pable of  restoring  all  the  coagulated  albumin  to  a  condition  of  solu- 
bility. To  ascertain  whether  working  on  the  large  scale  produced  the 
same  effect  on  albuminoids,  as  the  small  laboratory  experiments,  maize 
and  dari  were  heated  in  a  Henze's  steamer  under  a  pressure  of  four 
atmospheres.  The  results  obtained  to  a  certain  extent  corroborated 
the  original  experiments,  but  the  changes  were  not  so  marked.  A 
short  steaming  dissolves  the  albumin,  but  long  continued  steaming 
converts  the  albumin  into  amides. — Jour.  Chem.  Soc,  May,  1885,. 
p.  617  ;  from  Bied.  antr.,  1885,  51-56. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  June  29,  1885. 
A  stated  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
was  held  in  the  Hall  of  the  College,  Monday,  June  29, 1885,  Charles  Bullock,. 
President,  in  the  chair. 
14  members  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  (March)  were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  April,  May  and  June,  were  also 
read  and  approved. 
The  following  named  gentlemen  were  elected  delegates  to  the  meeting  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  be  held  in  Pittsburg  in  Sep- 
tember next : 
Alonzo  Bobbins,  Wallace  Procter,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Gustavus  Pile, 
Wm.  P.  Jenks. 
Mr.  Wm.  Melntyre  announced  the  death  of  G.  W-  Eld  ridge,  a  member 
of  the  College,  which  occurred  suddenly  on  the  25th  inst. 
Mr.  Alonzo  Bobbins  presented  the  following  report  of  the  Delegates  to 
the  last  meeting  of  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  : 
The  undersigned.  Chairman  of  the  Delegation  elected  to  attend  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  respect- 
fully reports  as  follows  : 
The  meeting  was  held  at  Erie,  commencing  on  the  evening  of  June  2d. 
The  Association  was  welcomed  in  a  few  words  by  the  Mayor  of  the  city.^ 
