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and  are  recited  with  the  hope  of  encouraging  other  members  to  contribute  to 
the  interest  of  these  meetings. 
Niccoli  bromidum  is  seldom  written,  and  requires  a  second  look  to  recog- 
nize bromide  of  nickel. 
A  box  of  "Ace  of  Spades"  is  the  name  of  a  shoe  polish  ;  but  Flake  White 
seems  innocence  itself,  and  any  caution  is  resisted  when  statement  is  made — 
"  it  is  carbonate  of  lead  and  a  poison." 
By  an  accident  to  a  boy  the  crown  of  a  tooth  was  broken  and  a  splinter 
of  oak  wood  forced  through  the  body  and  root  of  the  tooth.  Extraction 
revealed  the  nature  of  the  injury. 
Glass  splinters  in  bottles  are  of  rather  frequent  occurrence  and  should  be 
removed  at  the  time  the  bottles  are  washed. 
When  aniseed  is  sold  down  to  bottom  of  the  drawer,  the  remainder  will 
usually  be  heavily  laden  with  small  fragments  of  rock  and  earth. 
It  is  well  to  remember  that  syrup  of  cubebs  is  used  as  a  diluent,  and  should 
not  be  made  by  mixing  fluid  extract  and  syrup. 
Some  extract  of  belladonna  and  water  when  rubbed  with  an  iron  spatula 
gave  to  the  latter  a  copper  coating. 
A  trade  package,  labelled  ground  belladonna  root,  was  found  to  be  belladonna 
leaves. 
Information  is  wanted  as  to  the  composition  of  a  red  powder  called  coaline  ; 
it  is  sold  as  an  improver  of  poor  coal  and  to  hasten  a  dull  fire. 
WlLIvIAM  McIntyre. 
Mr.  Moerk  read  a  paper  upon  the  rapid  assay  of  hydrogen  peroxide,  and 
showed  the  process  to  be  a  practical  one. 
Professor  Remington  showed  the  method  of  preparing  hydrogen  peroxide 
extemporaneously  by  the  use  of  barium  dioxide  and  syrupy  phosphoric  acid, 
the  barium  dioxide  is  to  be  dissolved  and  the  diluted  acid  is  then  added  gradu- 
ally with  certain  precautions  ;  the  resultant  liquid  contains  some  barium  in 
solution,  which  is  separated  b}'  diluted  sulphuric  acid. 
A  vote  of  thanks  was  passed  to  the  gentlemen  having  contributed  subjecCs  of 
interest,  and  the  meeting  then  adjourned. 
T.  S.  Wiegand,  Registrar \ 
EDITORIAL. 
The  Eleventh  International  Congress  of  Medicine  will  convene  in  the  city 
of  Rome,  Italy,  September  24,  1893.  The  provisional  committee  announces 
that,  in  consonance  with  Articles  III  and  XVII  of  the  General  Regulations, 
pharmacists  may  be  inscribed  as  members  of  this  Congress,  and  that  a  special 
Section  on  Pharmacology  will  be  organized  by  a  committee  composed  of  dis- 
tinguished professors  of  that  branch  of  science. 
The  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  of  Pennsylvania  held  an 
examination  in  the  Central  High  School  at  Philadelphia,  on  Monday,  January 
16,  the  candidates  numbering  262,  namely,  118  for  registered  pharmacists  certi- 
ficates and  144  for  qualified  assistants  certificates.  Fosty-four  of  the  former 
and  90  of  the  latter  class  were  successful. 
At  the  preceding  examinations,  held  in  October  in  Philadelphia  and  Pitts- 
