AmMa>-!"iSarm"}  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  251 
Editor — Prof.  John  M.  Maisch. 
Trustees  for  3  years — T.  Morris  Perot,  J.  P.  Remington  and  James  T.  Shinn. 
A  motion  to  elect  delegates  to  represent  this  College  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Penn.  Pharm.  Assoc.,  to  be  held  at  York,  in  June  next,  resulted  as  follows  :  Dr. 
Clement  B.  Lowe,  Wallace  Procter,  Alonzo  Robbins,  John  M.  Maisch,  Joseph 
P.  Remington. 
On  motion  adjourned.  W.  B.  THOMPSON,  Secretary. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  April  22,  1890. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  E.  M.  Boring,  Wm.  B.  Webb,  Ph.M.,  was  called  to  preside. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read,  and  no  corrections  being  required, 
they  stand  approved. 
Two  quarto  volumes  of  the  second  and  third  sections  of  the  report  of  the  Fish- 
eries Industries  of  the  United  States,  for  the  year  1880,  were  presented  by  the 
department  for  the  library.  There  was  also  received  part  II  of  the  Pharmaco- 
graphia  Indica,  by  W.  Dymock,  C.J.  H.  Warden  and  David  Hooper,  and  a 
pamphlet  in  the  Spanish  language  on  Dialisis  quimica,  by  Alfonso  L.  Herrera. 
A  letter  was  read  announcing  the  presentation  of  ten  cases  of  Materia  Me- 
dica  Specimens  from  Messrs.  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  which  the  actuary  was 
directed  to  acknowledge  with  thanks  when  they  shall  have  been  received,  and 
to  report  also  to  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
A  paper  upon  Xanthoxylwn  fraxineum,  by  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  of  Cincinnati, 
was  read  by  Prof.  Trimble  ;  also  a  paper  on  crystalline  principles  of  prickly  ash 
barky  by  E.  G.  Bberhardt.  The  papers  were  accompanied  by  crystalline  principles, 
prepared  by  Mr.  Lloyd,  and  other  samples  with  several  derivatives,  prepared  by 
Mr.  Bberhardt ;  the  latter  is  still  engaged  with  the  further  investigation  of 
these  principles.  Prof.  Maisch  said  he  was  anxious  to  obtain  flowers,  leaves 
and  bark  of  the  southern  varieties  of  prickly  ash  which  seem  to  be  peculiar  to 
Florida. 
A  paper  upon  Standardization  of  drugs  was  read  by  Mr.  G.  M.  Beringer, 
Ph.G.,  which  was  listened  to  with  great  attention.  Prof.  Maisch  read  some 
paragraphs  from  the  Bphemeris  of  Dr.  Squibb,  and  closed  with  a  paper  treating 
upon  the  same  subject. 
A  member  remarked  that  whatever  the  weight  of  evidence  on  some  points 
might  be,  he  felt  that  Standardization  was  a  move  in  a  proper  direction,  it 
greater  uniformity  in  the  strength  of  medicines  could  be  secured  thereby.  The 
further  discussion  on  this  subject  related  to  the  natural  variations  in  the  com- 
position of  plant  products,  grown  under  identical  and  under  different  condi- 
tions ;  to  the  identification  and  estimation  of  constituents  of  similar  chemical 
character,  but  differing  in  physiological  action;  to  the  quality  of  drugs  agreeing 
with  pharm acopceial  descriptions,  and  to  allied  subjects.  It  was  then  suggested 
that,  owing  to  the  late  hour,  further  discussion  be  discontinued  for  the  present, 
and  that  after  reading  all  the  papers  on  the  subject  in  the  forthcoming  journal, 
and  also  others,  members  might  be  prepared  to  renew  discussion  on  this 
important  subject  at  the  next  pharmaceutical  meeting,  to  be  held  on  the  third 
Tuesday  in  May. 
There  being  no  further  business,  on  motion,  adjourned. 
T.  S.  WIEGAND, 
Registrar. 
