90 
Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Phabm. 
1     Feb.  1, 1873. 
laws,  and  that  it  granted  to  that  old  organization  just  the  powers  we  were 
seeking,  and  they  proposed  that  a  sufficient  number  of  members  of  the  old  Col- 
lege should  unite  in  aVequest  to  the  President  thereof  for  a  called  meeting  of 
the  same,  and  that  at  said  meeting  propositions  should  be  submitted  from  this 
new  organization  looking  to  their  absorption  by  the  old,  and  a  transfer  of  the 
properties,  moneys,  &c,  of  this  organization  to  the  old  one.  A  resolution  em- 
bodying this  proposition  and  continuing  the  Committee  for  the  purpose  of 
reporting  details  of  arrangements,  was  adopted  at  a  meeting  of  the  College  on 
May  7th.  In  pursuance  of  this  arrangement,  at  the  request  of  several  members 
of  the  old  College,  the  President,  W.  J.  M.  Gordon,  called  a  meeting  thereof, 
which  convened  at  College  Hall,  on  May  9th,  when  the  proposition  of  the  new 
College  having  been  submitted,  it  was,  by  a  unanimous  vote,  accepted,  and  the 
members  then  present  proceeded  to  ballot  for  and  elected  as  members  those  of 
the  recent  organization  (eighty  in  number),  as  were  not  already  members  of 
the  old  College.  The  organization  of  1871  subsequently  held  a  meeting  and 
passed  a  resolution  approving  of  the  consolidation  and  transfer  of  property,  and 
adjourned  without  day." 
The  College  has  now  98  members  in  good  standing. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — At  the  meeting  held  November  6th, 
Mr.  Stan.  Martin  in  the  chair,  a  committee  previously  appointed  reported  ad- 
versely to  M.  Mayet  and  in  favor  of  M.  Mehu  in  regard  to  the  priority  of  the 
discovery  of  the  solubility  of  benzoate  of  iron  in  oils,  the  latter  having  pub- 
lished the  facts  in  1868.  A  new  ebullioscope  made  by  M.  Malligand,  was  ex- 
hibited and  referred  to  a  special  committee  for  examination  and  report.  M.. 
Roucher  spoke  about  the  collection  of  the  materials  for  a  universal  pharmaco- 
poeia ;  several  competent  persons  having  promised  their  assistance,  he  desired 
to  be  charged  with  the  execution  of  the  work.  The  subject  was  referred  to  a 
Committee.  M.  Poggiale  read  a  note  by  M.  Dubois  on  two  new  processes  for 
the  preparation  of  sulphovinate  of  sodium.  After  cooling  the  sulphovinic  acid, 
prepared  in  the  usual  manner,  it  is  mixed  with  96  per  cent,  alcohol  and  satu- 
rated with  powdered  purified  carbonate  of  sodium.  No  particular  precautions 
are  necessary,  since  an  excess  of  the  carbonate  will  be  left  on  the  filter  with 
the  sulphate  of  sodium,  aud  no  elevation  of  temperature  taking  place,  the 
chances  of  loss  are  avoided.  The  filtrate  and  alcoholic  washings  are  distilled 
and  evaporated  in  a  water-bath  to  crystallization.  Should  the  crystals  be  col- 
ored, one  recrystallization  from  water  and  evaporation  of  the  solution  to  a 
density  of  36°  or  38°  will  yield  them  perfectly  white. 
An  editorial  note  in  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie  calls  attention 
to  the  possibility  of  an  admixture  of  sulphovinate  of  sodium,  prepared  by  means 
of  barium  carbonate,  with  sulphovinate  of  barium  ;  hence  the  necessity  of  test- 
ing the  salt  with  dilute  sulphuric  acid  for  barium,  and  with  chloride  of  barium 
for  carbonate  (and  sulphate)  of  sodium.  When  heated  to  about  120°  C,  sul- 
phovinate of  sodium  gives  off  inflammable  alcoholic  vapors,  and  leaves  acid 
sulphate  of  sodium. 
The  meeting  of  December  4th  was  mainly  occupied  with  a  discussion  on  the 
proposed  European  Pharmacopoeia*  and  the  Universal  Pharmacopoeia,  as 
suggested  by  the  Pharmaceutical  Congress  of  1867.1    M.  Planchon  was  elected 
*  See  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1872,  p.  ">H7. 
t  Ibid.,  1867,  p.  562. 
