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decomposed  with  25  cc.  y2  N.  hydrochloric  acid  and  warmed  on  the 
water  bath,  filtered,  washed  and  weighed. 
In  the  solution  of  the  soluble  barium  salts,  the  excess  of  barium 
is  determined  by  means  of N.  hydrochloric  acid,  as  also  the  total 
amount  of  barium  as  sulphate.  From  the  three  determinations,  the 
amounts  of  the  insoluble  fatty  acids,  the  soluble  fatty  acids  calcu- 
lated as  butyric  acid,  and  the  respective  amounts  of  barium  com- 
bined with  them  are  obtained.  The  author's  results  are  given  in 
the  table  on  the  preceding  page. 
By  distilling  the  solution  containing  the  acids  from  the  soluble 
barium  salts,  figures  were  obtained  which  did  not  agree  with  those 
obtained  by  the  Reichert-Meissl  method.  The  weight  of  the  acids 
of  the  insoluble  barium  salts  agreed  with  those  obtained  by  Hehner's 
method. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  and  ASSOCIATIONS. 
The  Iowa  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  assembled  at  its  twelfth  annual 
meeting  at  Spirit  Lake,  July  21.  President  Torbert's  address  contained  many 
suggestions  which  furnished  material  for  discussion  and  action,  more  particu- 
larly in  relation  to  the  cut-rate  problem.  A.  A.  Broadie,  Waverly,  was  elected 
president  for  the  current  year,  and  treasurer  J.  B.  Webb,  DeWitt,  and  secretary 
Rosa  Upson,  Marshalltown,  were  re-elected  to  these  positions. 
The  Maine  Pharmaceutical  Association  is  the  oldest  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association  in  the  country,  having  been  organized  in  July,  1867,  and  in  the 
month  of  September  following  was  represented  at  the  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  by  Dr.  H.  T.  Cummings  and  Chas.  K.  Partridge. 
Both  gentlemen  were  present,  and  the  last-named  presided,  at  the  meeting  in 
Portland,  July  23,  last,  at  which  the  activity  of  the  association  was  revived, 
after  a  dormancy  extending  over  a  number  of  years.  The  meeting  attracted 
very  general  attention  outside  the  realm  of  pharmacy,  owing  to  the  vigorous 
denunciation,  in  the  president's  address,  of  the  Maine  prohibitory  laws  which, 
after  nearly  half  a  century's  trial,  he  characterized  as  a  moral,  political,  demi- 
religious  fraud  ;  in  illustration  he  stated  that  if  alcoholic  stimulants  are  pre- 
scribed for  a  patient,  the  apothecary,  on  filling  such  a  prescription,  has  his 
legal  place  of  residence  in  the  county  jail,  and  in  addition  thereto,  his  pocket- 
book  should  be  legally  mulcted  of  a  handsome  sum. 
The  officers  for  the  present  year  are  :  C.  K.  Partridge,  Augusta,  president  ; 
H.  B.  Pennell,  treasurer  ;  H.  E.  Bowditch,  Augusta,  secretary  ;  and  H.  T. 
Cummings,  Portland,  corresponding  secretary.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held 
in  Bangor,  at  a  time  to  be  announced  hereafter. 
The  New  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  thirteenth  annual 
meeting  at  Bluff  Point,  near  Plattsburg,  June  23,  President  W.  G.  Gregory, 
presiding.  The  treasurer  reported  a  balance  of  $679  on  hand  ;  the  member- 
ship was  increased  to  over  800.    The  customary  reports  were  read  ;  also  a 
