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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I    February,  1899. 
Kracke,  New  York;  W.  A.  Withers,  Raleigh,  N.  C.  President,  First  Vice- 
President  and  Secretaries  are  ex-officio  members. 
Chairmen  of  Committees. — Dr.  William  Frear,  Executive,  State  College, 
Pennsylvania ;  D.  N.  Perky,  Finance,  Massachusetts ;  Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley, 
Legislative,  Washington,  D.  C;  J.  H.  Beal,  State  Legislation,  Scio,  O. ;  Frank 
Hume,  Advisory,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Advisory  Committee. — Frank  Hume,  Chairman,  Washington,  D.  C;  Mat- 
thew Trimble,  First  Vice  Chairman,  Washington,  D.  C;  Dr.  William  C. 
Woodward,  Second  Vice  Chairman,  Washington,  D.  C;  Robert  N.  Harper, 
Treasurer,  Washington,  D.  C;  J.  D.  Hird,  Washington,  D.  C;  Beriah  Wilkins, 
Washington,  D.  C;  J.  F.  Oyster,  Washington,  D.  C;  Alexander  J.  Wedder- 
burn,  Washington,  D.  C. 
In  summing  up  the  important  features  of  this  second  Congress,  it  may  be 
said  that  as  large  a  number  of  delegates  from  the  various  States  and  Territories 
and  various  organizations  were  present  as  a  year  ago.  Thirteen  different  reso- 
lutions were  offered,  most  of  them  seeking  to  introduce  modifications  to  the 
Bill,  which  were  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions,  who  reported  in 
favor  of  Two  modifications  of  the  Bill  only. 
The  first  that  the  word  "  producer  "  shall  be  added  in  the  Bill  wherever  the 
words  "  manufacturers  and  dealers"  occur  now  ;  also,  some  transposition  of 
that  part  of  the  Bill  referring  to  adulteration  of  candies.  All  other  proposed 
amendments  or  changes  in  the  Bill  offered  were  rejected  by  the  Congress.  It 
is  the  impression  that  the  Bill  cannot  be  considered  at  the  present  session  of 
Congress,  although  it  is  believed  that  there  is  a  fair  chance  of  its  being  enacted 
into  a  law  at  the  next  session.  Dr.  Frear,  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  who  is,  and  has  been,  at  the  head  of  the  practical  work  of  the 
organization,  was  re-elected,  and  is  really  deserving  of  a  great  deal  of  credit 
for  the  excellent  work  which  he  has  done.  Professor  Beal,  of  Ohio,  who  was  a 
year  ago  made  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Uniform  State  Food  Legis- 
lation, made  a  most  excellent  report,  and  reports  were  also  read  on  the  same  sub- 
ject by  Professor  Hamilton,  of  our  own  Agricultural  Department,  and  Dr.  Frear. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  January  17,  1899. 
The  regular  monthly  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  was  held  in  the  Museum  of 
the  College,  with  Charles  Bullock  in  the  chair. 
The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting  were  allowed  to  stand  as  published. 
There  was  an  unusually  good  attendance,  and  the  papers  and  discussions 
were  both  interesting  and  instructive. 
F.  W.  Haussmann  was  the  first  speaker,  and  having  been  engaged  in  phar- 
macopoeial  research  work,  reported  the  results  which  he  had  obtained  in 
experiments  on  "  Syrup  of  Hydriodic  Acid."  The  paper  will  be  published  in 
full  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
After  a  preliminary  discussion  of  the  merits  of  this  syrup  in  connection  with 
the  objections  which  have  been  urged  against  it  from  time  to  time  in  various 
journals,  Mr.  Haussmann  said,  "syrup  of  hydriodic  acid,  prepared  according 
to  official  directions,  is  equal  to  any  similar  preparation  in  the  market,  may  be 
confidently  recommended  as  such,  and  the  material  decrease  in  cost  by  self- 
