900 
Pharmaceutical  Plant  Society. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     December,  1920 
conclusive,  interesting  and  readable  report  results.  In  some  cases, 
special  arrangements  are  made  to  assist  the  members  in  doing  this. 
These  arrangements  include  the  providing  of  special  materials, 
books  and  apparatus  and  the  granting  of  freedom  from  usual  tasks 
in  order  to  provide  the  time  for  the  work.  This  item  of  "order  of 
business"  has  developed  into  one  of  the  most  successful  activities 
of  the  Society.  The  papers  and  notes  presented  at  the  meetings 
total  over  two  hundred  for  the  six  years  of  the  existence  of  the  So- 
ciety. Most  of  these  papers  and  notes  consisted  of  proved  sugges- 
tions for  economy  in  labor  and  materials,  the  prevention  and  utiliza- 
tion of  wastes  and  improvements  in  the  products  manufactured 
by  and  processes  used  in,  the  several  Departments  of  the  Com- 
pany represented  in  the  membership  of  the  Society.  Some  of  these 
papers  were  publishable  and  were  published  and  others  which  car- 
ried suggestions  which  were  of  value  to  Departments  of  the  Com- 
pany which  were  not  represented  in  the  Society  were  presented  to 
the  consideration  of  these  Departments  accordingly. 
The  following  list  of  titles  of  a  few  of  the  papers  and  notes  pre- 
sented at  these  meetings  will  indicate  both  the  scientific  and  prac- 
tical interest  shown  by  the  members  of  the  Society  in  the  business 
of  the  Company: 
"The  Assay  of  Tablets  Containing  Calomel  and  Calomel  and 
Sodium  Bicarbonate." 
"Soft  Gambir." 
"Some  Criticisms  of  (a  Product  Marketed  by  the  Company)." 
"The  Determination  of  Potassium  in  Colloidal  Silver  Prepara- 
tions." 
"Standard  for  Dried  and  Powdered  Magnesium  Sulphate  for 
Use  in  " 
"The  inconsistency  of  designating  (a  Product  Marketed  by  the 
Company)  as  an  Elixir." 
"The  Taking  of  Samples  for  the  Chemical  Laboratory." 
"Improvements  in  the  Manufacture  of  Emetine  Bismuth  Iodide." 
"The  Assay  of  Creosote  Tablets." 
"The  Duties  of  an  Analytical  Chemical  Laboratory  Connected 
with  a  Pharmaceutical  Manufacturing  Plant." 
"The  Time  Required  by  Rennin  for  Coagulation  of  Milk  is  In- 
versely Proportional  to  the  Amount  of  Rennin  Employed." 
"Uses  of  Centrifuges  in  the  Anal3rtical  and  Chemical  Labora- 
toiies." 
