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Prof.  Maisch  read  a  paper  upon  an  indigenous  species  of  croton  received 
from  Georgia,  and  showed  under  the  microscope  the  stelhite  glandular 
scales  from  the  leaves,  branches,  and  from  the  silver-white  flowers.  The 
paper  was  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee,  and  the  specimen  donated 
to  the  cabinet. 
A  cabinet  of  botanical  materia  medica  specimens,  designed  for  the  use  of 
pharmaceutical  students,  was  exhibited  ;  it  is  put  up  by  Parke  Davis  &  Co., 
of  Detroit,  and  contains  288  different  drugs,  packed  in  turned  wooden 
boxes.  Each  box  is  numbered,  and  the  catalogue  accompanying  the  set 
gives  the  appropriate  name,  with  its  corresponding  number. 
Prof.  Maisch  stated  that  he  was  glad  that  such  a  cabinet,  at  a  moderate 
price,  was  now  accessible  to  students,  many  of  whom  had  little  opportu- 
nity in  the  stores  of  their  employers  of  seeing  all  or  most  officinal  drugs  in 
their  natural  condition.  In  reply  to  a  criticism  that  the  odor  of  the  wooden 
boxes  in  which  the  specimens  are  packed  gave  an  odor  to  some  of  the 
drugs  that  is  unnatural  to  them,  Prof.  M.  stated  that  this  taught  the  les- 
son to  refrain  from  judging  exclusively  or  mainly  by  the  odor  or  taste,  and 
to  rely  more  upon  the  internal  structure  and  characteristic  growth. 
There  being  no  further  business,  the  meeting  adjourned. 
Thos.  S.  Wiegand,  Registrar. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCLiTIONS. 
Alumni  Association,  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — At 
the  flrst  social  meeting,  held  Oct.  13th,  Prof.  Kisley  delivered  a  lecture  on 
hyoscyamus,  belladonna,  and  allied  mydriatics,  including  also  the  alka- 
loids atropine,  duboisine,  hyoscyamine,  homatropine,  cocaine  and  others. 
At  the  second  social  meeting,  held  Nov.  10th,  Prof.  Woodbury  gave  a 
lecture  on  the  relations  existing  between  practical  medicine  and  pharmacy/ 
and  the  debt  which  medical  science  owes  to  pharmacy. 
Western  Alumni  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
— In  response  to  a  generally  expressed  desire  of  the  many  graduates  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  residing  in  the  Western  and  Middle 
States,  an  informal  meeting  was  held  November  22d,  in  Chicago,  to  discuss 
the  formation  of  a  Western  Alumni  Association.  There  were  present 
Albert  E.  Ebert,  Henry  C.  C.  Maisch,  Edward  A.  Mannheimer,  Carl  S. 
Hallberg,  Andrew  J.  H.  McGuire,  Chas.  L.  Feldkamp,  and  others,  all 
residents  of  Chicago.  It  was  stated  that  there  were  nearly  fifty  graduates 
of  the  College  in  Chicago  and  its  immediate  vicinity  alone,  while  in  the 
surrounding  States  the  number  would  reach  in  the  hundreds.  It  was  the 
sense  of  the  meeting  that  an  organization  through  which  an  annual 
reunion  could  be  held  in  Cliicago  about  Commencement  time  (comrnenc- 
ing  next  year,  188(3),  would  be  very  desirable,  and  would  keep  alive  the 
pleasant  recollections  of  the  Alma  Mater  with  the  older  graduates,  besides 
being  of  interest  and  profit  to  those  who  come  westward  after  leaving  the 
College. 
