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coated  pills,  which  presented  a  handsome  appearance.  Some  samples  of 
Gordon's  glycerine  of  fine  quality  were  also  exhibited  by  this  firm. 
Hance,  Griffith  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  exhibited  a  handsome  medicine 
chest,  filled  with  samples  of  fluid  extracts  and  sugar-coated  pills.  The 
chest  and  contents  were  donated  to  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy 
by  the  firm. 
W.  T.  Fry  &  Co.,  New  York,  exhibited  a  new  style  of  breast  pump  and 
cupping  cups,  exceedingly  simple  in  their  construction  and  application, 
and  superior  to  anything  for  the  purpose  now  before  the  public. 
B.  H.  Sleeper  &Co.,  Philadelphia,  exhibited  a  set  of  graduates,  made 
by  Hodgson's  patent.  They  are  moulded,  and  the  divisions  on  the  grad- 
uate are  made  accurate  by  the  careful  adjustment  of  a  conical  plunger. 
They  are  infinitely  superior  in  accuracy  to  the  great  majority  of  the  grad- 
uates sold. 
The  New  England  Glass  Co.  exhibited  some  handsome  quart  glass 
stoppered  bottles. 
The  Pennsylvania  Salt  Company,  Pittsburgh,  exhibited  specimens  of 
cryolite  and  its  preparations. 
R.  Dudgeon,  New  York,  exhibited  a  hydraulic  press,  occupying  not 
more  than  four  square  feet  of  floor  room,  and  capable  of  a  pressure  of 
ten  tons. 
Mardon  Wilson,  Jr.,  Philadelphia,  exhibited  several  sizes  of  the  India- 
rubber  water  and  ice  bags  made  under  Chapman's  patent,  intended  for 
local  application  in  disease. 
0.  B.  Gray,  New  York,  exhibited  a  great  variety  of  India  rubber  goods, 
such  as  are  usually  sold  by  the  pharmaceutist,  including  syringes  of  all 
styles,  flesh  rubbers,  speculums,  pessaries,  stethoscopes,  water  bags,  and 
chair  cushions. 
G.  E.  Ranous,  New  York,  exhibited  Wheelock's  Reserve  Flow  Syringe, 
two  patterns. 
The  Mattson  Syringe  Co.,  New  York,  exhibited  the  new  pattern  of 
"  Mattson  Syringe,"  which  possesses  some  advantages  over  the  styles 
prevalent  of  late.  They  also  make  a  new  instrument  called  "  The  Vagi- 
nal Irrigator,"  which  can  be  attached  to  any  elastic  tube  syringe. 
Borden  &  Currie,  Elgin,  111.,  and  New  York,  exhibited  their  extract  of 
beef.  This  article  is  the  best  of  the  kind  made,  being  the  true  juice  of  the 
meat  evaporated  in  vacuo  to  a  solid  consistence,  and  represents  twenty 
times  its  weight  of  meat.  This  article  is  made  in  Illinois  from  fatted 
cattle,  and  not,  as  some  of  the  so-called  extracts,  from  scrap-ends  of 
meat  unfit  for  sale. 
Zimmerman  &  Co.,  New  York,  exhibited  specimens  of  Catawba  brandy 
and  deodorized  alcohol. 
E.  B.  Phillips  &  Co.,  Newfoundland,  a  sample  of  cod-liyer  oil  of  fine 
quality. 
W .  C.  Bakes,  Philadelphia,  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  exhibited  an  oil-painted  photograph 
of  William  Procter,  Jr.,  until  recently  the  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in 
that  College. 
P.  W.  Bedford,  New  York,  exhibited  a  photograph  album  containing 
seventy-five  photographs  of  members  of  the  Association.  Also,  a  frame 
with  fourteen  photographs  of  prominent  members  of  the  British  Pharm- 
aceutical Conference. 
An  engraving  of  the. interior  of  J.  Bell's  laboratory  in  London  in  1840. 
J.  ]).  Williams,  New  York,  exhibited  samples  of  tin  boxes,  for  drug- 
gists' purposes. 
