590  Minutes  of  the  FharmaceutiGal  Meeting.        \  ^"ko^'^isS^'^'"' 
The  terms  of  three  members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  expiring  with  this 
■date,  as  also  the  yearly  term  of  the  Committee  on  Deceased  Members,  an 
election  was  ordered  and  Messrs.  Gust.  Pile  and  E.  McC.  Boring  appointed 
Tellers.  The  names  of  the  following  gentlemen  were  placed  in  nomina- 
tion : 
Trustees  {for  three  years). — William  C.  Bakes,  Edward  C.  Jones,  Wm. 
E.  Krewson,  Andrew  Blair. 
Committee  on  Deceased  Members  {for  one  year). — Chas.  Bullock,  Alfred 
B.  Taylor,  Gustavus  Pile. 
The  Tellers  announced  as  the  result  of  tlie  ballot  the  election  of  Messrs. 
Bakes,  Jones  and  Krewson  as  Trustees,  and  of  Messrs.  Bullock,  Taylor  and 
Pile  as  Committee  on  Deceased  Members. 
No  other  business  being  j^resented,  on  motion,  adjourned. 
William  B.  Thompson,  Secretary. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  October  20,  1885. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Andrew  Blair,  Mr.  Robert  England  was  called  to  the 
•chair.  The  first  business  was  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  last  meet- 
ing, which  on  motion  were  adopted. 
The  Registrar  exhibited  an  improved  label  draiver^  designed  to  prevent 
the  drawer  being  removed  from  tlie  frame  of  the  counter,  and  thus  emjDty- 
ing  it  of  its  contents.  Every  druggist  knows  the  loss  of  time  and  danger  of 
having  articles  mislabeled  in  consequence  of  such  accidents  ;  the  improve- 
ment consists  in  having  movable  slides,  in  wliich  the  drawer  moves,  but 
from  which  it  cannot  be  detached  ;  these  in  turn  again  are  fastened  to  the 
frame  of  the  counter  ;  they  supi)ort  the  drawer,  even  drawn  out  to  its  full 
extent.  These  drawers  have  been  in  use  for  more  than  a  year  by  our  fellow- 
member,  Mr.  C.  H.  Clark,  Thirty-sixth  and  Race  streets,  and  were  made 
by  Mr.  Thos.  H.  Grigg,  3820  Lancaster  avenue. 
Prof.  Trimble  exhibited  specimens  of  the  cochineal  insect^  sent  from 
Texas  by  Mr.  Plerman  Schuchard,  of  San  Antonio,  a  graduate  of  our  Col- 
lege, class  18'^5  ;  with  the  insects,  which  were  of  both  sexes,  the  prickly 
pear  plant  was  sent,  and  this  contained  patches  of  a  white  cotton-like  sub- 
stance, in  which  they  were  secreted. 
Prof.  Maisch  exhibited  some  specimens  of  false  ginseng  ;  the  first  sample 
shown  was  obtained  in  1881,  and  had  no  similarity  in  appearance  to  true 
ginseng  ;  it  was  a  rhizome  of  some  monocotyledonous  plant.  The  other 
sample  seems  to  be  the  root  of  one  of  the  umbelliferse,  but  which  he  was 
unable  to  say  ;  it  is  a  fusiform  root  of  the  size  and  color  of  ginseng,  but  is 
not  branched  below. 
Prof.  Maisch  exhibited  a  variety  of  specimens  of  Spanish  saffron^  upon 
which  he  based  the  paper  published  in  the  "  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy "  for  October,  and  explained  the  nature  and  characters  of  the  admix- 
tures and  adulterations  there  described.  Three  specimens  of  absolutely 
pure  saffron  were  exhibited  ;  two  of  them  were  of  Pennsylvania  origin. 
