AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
495 
On  motion,  the  resolution  was  adopted  without  dissent. 
The  subject  of  sending  delegates  to  the  third  International 
Congress,  to  be  held  in  Vienna  in  1869,  being  brought  up,  it  was 
on  motion  resolved  that  the  President  and  Executive  Committee 
be  empowered  to  appoint  delegates  to  the  conference  at  Vienna, 
should  such  action  become  necessary  or  advisable. 
The  recommendation  of  the  late  President  to  instruct  the 
Pharmacopoeia  Committee  to  introduce  decimal  weights  and 
measures  was  negatived,  because  this  Association  cannot  send 
representatives  in  the  Pharmacopoeia!  Convention  at  Washington 
to  advocate  such  a  measure. 
Then  adjourned  until  8  o'clock  this  evening,  for  the  purpose 
of  reading  the  answers  to  queries  and  other  scientific  papers. 
Fourth  Session. —  Wednesday  Evening. 
President  Parrish  in  the  Chair. 
In  answer  to  query  1st,  Joseph  P.  Remington  read  a  paper  on 
the  quality  of  Hydrargyrum  cum  Creta  as  found  in  the  market, 
accompanied  by  specimens  of  the  samples  analyzed.  The  mi- 
croscopic results  were  quite  interesting,  red  and  black  oxide  of 
mercury  being  visibly  present  in  old  samples,  and  the  globules 
were  seen  bright  and  unstained  in  the  recent  powder.  The  paper 
was  referred  for  publication. 
Query  No.  2,  on  Hydriodic  Acid  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  re- 
ferred to  Mr.  Dunn,  of  Brooklyn,  was  also  read  by  Mr.  Reming- 
ton, and  was  accepted  and  referred. 
Query  No.  3  was  not  replied  to,  but,  by  request,  was  continued 
to  Isaac  W.  Smith. 
Query  No.  4,  referred  to  Mr.  Colby,  of  New  York,  was  not 
replied  to,  and  as  its  prosecution  was  declined,  Prof.  Maisch 
volunteered  to  reply  to  it  next  year. 
Query  No.  5,  on  Oil  of  Camphor,  was  not  replied  to  by  Mr. 
Archibald. 
Query  No.  6.  Mr.  Markoe  stated,  in  answer,  that  the  con- 
sumption of  chicory  for  taraxacum  in  Boston  amounts  to  about 
10,000  pounds  annually,  whilst  true  taraxacum  is  used  to  the 
extent  of  only  2000  pounds. 
