520 
Meetings  at  the  College. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  November,  1903. 
The  minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  meeting,  held  September  6, 
1852,  close  with  the  following  paragraph  : 
"  In  order  to  obtain  the  presence  of  strangers  expected  on  the 
occasion  of  the  approaching  Pharmaceutical  Convention,  it  was  con- 
cluded to  adjourn  until  the  evening  of  the  5th  proximo. 
"  (Signed)  E.  Parrish,  Secretary." 
From  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  held  on  Tuesday,  October  5, 
1852,  we  learn  that  among  the  visitors  present  were:  C.  L.  Bache, 
of  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  G.  D.  Coggeshall,  of  New  York,  and  S.  M. 
Colcord,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
The  programme  for  the  evening  was  quite  a  lengthy  one  and 
included  the  exhibition  and  presentation  of  a  number  of  books  on 
chemistry  and  allied  subjects,  also  the  exhibition  and  presentation 
of  several  interesting  specimens  of  drugs.  Among  the  latter  was 
a  large  specimen  of  guaiacum  wood  presented  by  William  Hodgson, 
Jr.  Edward  Parrish  exhibited  a  specimen  of  Swiss  valerian  that 
had  been  offered  in  place  of  the  English  root ;  he  also  showed  a 
very  fine  specimen  of  Irish  dulce.  Among  specimens  of  adulterated 
drugs  E.  Parrish  showed  a  specimen  of  powdered  opium  adulterated 
with  coffee  or  chocolate  and  containing  less  than  3  per  cent,  of 
morphine. 
E.  Parrish  also  described  his  method  of  making  oleoresin  of  carda- 
mom and  piperoid  of  ginger;  in  connection  with  the  latter  prepara- 
tion he  also  showed  some  specimens  of  "  ginger  drops  "  made  by 
adding  one  part  of  piperoid  of  ginger  to  300  parts  of  melted  sugar, 
and  running  into  moulds. 
Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  exhibited  a  new  apparatus  for  making  pills,  and 
also  described  the  method  of  working  the  same.  As  editor  of  the 
Journal  he  also  read  a  paper  that  had  been  prepared  by  James 
Betson,  of  the  New  York  Naval  Hospital,  on  "  Prepared  Cotton  and 
Collodion."  This  contribution  appears  to  have  elicited  consider- 
able discussion.  The  consensus  ot  this  discussion  is  summed  up 
by  the  secretary  of  the  meeting  in  the  statement  that  "  the  expe- 
riences of  the  different  members  in  regard  to  these  substances  were 
found  to  be  quite  different." 
The  minutes  close  with  the  following  statement :  "  After  the  dis- 
cussion of  many  additional  subjects  of  interest,  among  which  was  that 
of  pharmaceutical  reform,  which  is  made  the  subject  of  a  National 
Convention,  to  meet  to-morrow,  the  meeting  adjourned. 
"  (Signed)  E.  Parrish,  Secretary.1 
