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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       April.  18S9. 
F—  Name  the  different  compounds  into  which  Zinc  enters  in  succession  dur- 
ing the  analysis  of  a  solution  containing  a  soluble  salt  of  it. 
G — A  certain  official  salt  forms  heavy,  colorless  crystals  or  crystalline  masses, 
which  are  odorless  and  soluble  in  water.  The  aqueous  solution  reddens  blue 
litmus  paper.  With  NH4OH  it  yields  a  white  precipitate;  with  an  excess  of 
H2S  a  black  one;  with  KI  a  red  one,  soluble  in  an  excess  of  the  reagent,  and 
with  AgN03  a  white  precipitate,  insoluble  in  HN03.  What  is  the  name  of  the 
salt? 
In  addition  to  answering  the  questions  submitted  to  his  section,  each  candi- 
date was  required  to  detect  the  bases  and  acids  in  a  mixture  of  salts,  some  of 
which  were  soluble  in  water,  and  others  insoluble  in  water. 
Time  allowed  for  written  examination,  one  hour;  for  analysis,  three  hours. 
SECOND  YEAR  EXAMINATION. 
PHARMACOGNOSY.  v 
(i)  Give  the  Pharmacopoeial  names  of  all  the  crude  drugs  in  the  collection 
before  you.  A  collection  of  about  fifty  crude  drugs  in  small  fragments.  (2) 
Identify  the  following  powders.  State  approximate  degree  of  purity  of  each 
and  on  what  you  base  your  determinations.  Draw  any  characteristic  features. 
Stramonium  seed,  hyoscyamus  leaves,  red  cinchona,  compound  licorice  pow- 
der and  powdered  opium  containing  25  per  cent,  "wheat  middlings."  (3) 
Determine  the  value  of  the  specimen  of  Strophanthus.  (4)  What  is  contained 
in  the  sediment  of  the  specimen  of  urine  ?  Draw  any  characteristic  features. 
An  alkaline  urine  containing  phosphates,  ammonium  urate  and  bacteria. 
OFFICIAL  UST  OF  SPECIMENS  FOR  SECOND  YEAR  EXAMINATION. 
(1)  Aqua  Menthse  Piperita^.  (2)  Tinctura  Cardamomi  Composita.  (3) 
Linimentum  Chloroformi.  (4)  Tinctura  Aurantii  Amari.  (5)  Pulvis  Cretse 
Compositus.  (6)  Sodii  Bicarbonas.  (7)  Ammonii  Chloridum.  (8)  Potassii 
Nitras.  (9)  Magnesii  Sulphas.  ( 10)  Acidum  Sulphurosum.  (11)  Belladonnas 
Radix.    (12)  Granatum.    (13)  Conium.    (14)  Aconitum.    (15)  Digitalis. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  March  21,  1899. 
The  regular  monthly  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  was  held  in  the  Museum  of 
the  College  with  George  M.  Beringer  in  the  chair. 
The  meeting  was  very  well  attended,  and,  considering  the  number  of  papers 
presented  together  with  the  interest  manifested  in  the  discussions,  was  one  of 
the  most  successful  of  the  present  series. 
F.  W.  E.  Stedem  was  the  first  speaker  on  the  programme  and  read  a  paper 
containing  useful  suggestions  for  practical  pharmacists,  and  having  the  title 
"  Shorter  Methods  for  the  Preparation  of  Some  Pharmacopoeial  Products." 
(See  page  162.) 
In  discussing  methods  for  the  preparation  of  tincture  of  iodine,  Mr.  Wallace 
Procter  alluded  to  a  method  which  is  simple  and  expeditious.  It  consists  in 
placing  a  layer  of  absorbent  cotton  in  the  lower  end  of  a  test  tube  which  has 
been  perforated  (or  a  small  cylindrical  funnel  may  be  used) ,  then  introducing  the 
