Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
November,  1911.  j 
Pharmaceutical  Meetings. 
541 
P.  Busch,  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  and  Professor  Kraemer.  Dr.  Lowe 
referred  to  a  few  of  the  drugs  which  are  to  be  retained  and  which 
he  thought  were  too  seldom  used  to  merit  a  place  in  the  pharmaco- 
poeia. Mr.  Busch  said  that  the  pharmacopoeia  is  no  longer  a  theo- 
retical standard  but  should  be  a  book  of  practical  standards  for 
commercial  use.  Dr.  Wood  especially  called  attention  to  the  large 
amount  of  work  which  had  been  done  by  the  Sub-committee  on 
Scope  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  in  arriving  at  its  conclusions  as  pre- 
sented in  the  tentative  report  already  published.  Professor  Krae- 
mer emphasized  the  desirability  of  deleting  obsolete  substances 
and  their  preparations  and  said  that  the  work  in  connection  with  the 
deletions  and  additions  of  the  pharmacopoeia  is  of  necessity  a  compro- 
mise and  that  the  work  thus  far  in  his  opinion  had  been  well  done. 
President  French  sent  several  interesting  specimens  for  the 
museum.  Among  these  were  some  Chinese  tung  nuts  from  which 
China  oil  is  made ;  specimens  of  China  wood  oil  and  soya  bean  oil ; 
and  four  large  photographs  showing  Chinese  coolies  handling  "  wood 
oil  "  in  Hankow,  China.  The  specimens  and  photographs  were 
given  President  French  by  L.  C.  Gillespie  &  Sons,  whose  office  is 
located  in  Hankow,  China.  Mr.  French  also  sent  a  bottle  of  cam- 
phorated spirits  which  was  made  and  put  up  by  A.  S.  Watson  &  Co., 
Hong  Kong,  China.  Prof.  Charles  H.  LaWall  made  a  polariscopic 
examination  of  the  specimen  and  found  it  to  contain  lo  per  cent., 
or  a  normal  amount  of  camphor,  for  this  preparation,  and  the  iden- 
tity tests  showed  that  the  camphor  is  of  natural  and  not  of  synthetic 
derivation. 
Professor  Samuel  P.  Sadtler  presented  a  specimen  of  mangrove 
bark  which  assayed  46.05  per  cent,  of  tannin. 
Messrs.  Parke  Davis  &  Co.  presented  to  the  college  a  large  photo- 
graph in  colors  of  medicinal  plank,  the  drugs  derived  from  which 
are  standardized  by  chemical  or  physiological  means.  They  also 
sent  for  distribution  to  the  members  present,  a  booklet  giving  valua- 
ble information  on  those  drugs  which  are  standardized  by  chemical 
or  physiological  means  and  also  illustrated  with  handsome  photo- 
graphs in  colors  of  the  plants  from  which  they  are  derived. 
Professor  Kraemer  exhibited  a  large  gourd  containing  Barbadoes 
aloes  which  he  had  recently  purchased  for  the  college.  He  stated 
that  from  the  information  that  he  had  thus  far  received  the  aloes 
industry  had  been  resumed  in  Barbadoes  during  the  past  few  years 
and  that  the  annual  crop  is  said  to  be  about  1500  pounds. 
H.  K. 
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