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of  the  leaves  being  mistaken  for  belladonna,  for  instance  in 
Berg's  and  in  Wiggers'  Pharmacognosies  in  Henkel's  "  Die 
Merkmale  der  Aechtheit,"  etc.,  in  Wolff  and  Hirsch's  "  Priifung 
der  Arzneimittel,"  in  the  "  National  Dispensatory,"  etc.  Ac- 
cording to  Moeller's  Pharmakognosie  the  leaves  resemble- — 
more  than  those  of  Solatium  nigrum — the  leaves  of  belladonna, 
but  they  are  smooth  and  are  free  from  cells  containing  crys- 
talline sand. 
Regarding  the  distribution  of  the  plant  in  the  southern 
part  of  Central  Europe,  Kosteletzky  states  that  it  grows  in 
shady  woods  in  Bavaria,  Carniola,  Hungary  and  Croatia;  but 
according  to  Garcke  [Flora  von  Deutschland)  it  is  indigenous  to 
Carniola,  and  within  the  boundaries  of  Germany  it  has  merely 
run  wild  in  grassy  places,  for  instance  in  Silesia. 
MINUTES  OF  THE   PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Phii.adKi.phia,  January  21,  1890. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  asking  Mr.  A.  Robbins  to  preside. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read,  there  being  no  corrections  called 
for  they  were  ordered  to  stand  approved. 
A  copy  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was 
presented  to  the  library  by  Professor  Maisch,  the  permanent  Secretary. 
The  Year-Book  of  Pharmacy  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference, 
which  answers  in  many  respeqts  to  the  report  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  also  presented  to  the  library  by 
the  Conference. 
The  third  edition  of  the  Pharmacopcea  Nederlandica,  published  in  1889,  was 
exhibited.    This  has  just  been  received  from  Europe. 
A  paper  upon  beef,  wine  and  iron  was  read  by  E.  G.  Eberhardt,  a  member  of 
the  present  senior  class,  which  exhibited  the  character  of  some  of  this  prepa- 
ration as  found  in  the  market. 
A  paper  upon  Eupatorium  purpureum  was  read  by  Professor  Trimble.  Pro- 
fessor Maisch  inquired  if  any  experiments  had  been  made  to  ascertain  its  color 
reactions.  Professor  Trimble  said  that  an  alcoholic  solution  of  ferric  chloride 
merely  darkened  the  solution  somewhat,  giving  scarcely  any  reaction.  He  thought 
that  Mr.  Ray  failed  to  obtain  the  crystalline  principle,  because  of  the  small 
quantity  of  material  he  worked  with.  Professor  Maisch  stated  that  since  the 
crystalline  principle  had  been  received  from  Professsor  Lloyd  in  1876,  it  had 
been  sent  to  him  by  three  or  four  other  parties  ;  samples  which  he  had  tested 
had  given  a  dark  green  color  with  ferric  chloride,  similar  to  that  produced  by 
quercitrin  ;  Professor  Trimble  had  now  shown  that  after  purification  the  princi- 
ple does  not  give  this  reaction. 
Professor  Maisch  showed  some  frames  from  the  first  volume  of  a  work, 
entitled  American  Woods,  and  published  by  R.  B.  Hough,  Lowville,  N.  V.  ; 
