,\m.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Feb.  1, 1873.  J 
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in  place  of  M.  Robioet,  deceased,  a  member  of  the  Universal  Pharmacopoeia 
Committee,  appointed  some  years  ago,  and  it  was  decided  to  increase  the  num. 
3>er  from  five  to  nine,  at  the  next  session. 
M.  Regnault  was  elected  Vice-President,  M.  Yigier,  Secretary,  and  M. 
Desnoix,  Treasurer,  for  1873. 
M.  Doray,  of  Saint  L6,  suggested  laurel  leaves  (Laurus  nobilis),  as  a  sub- 
stitute for  cinchona  ;  no  observations  with  it  are  mentioned. 
M.  Gnichard  exhibited  a  dropping  glass,  the  liquid  running  from  a  lateral 
•orifice  of  three  millimetres  diameter,  and  producing  drops  of  water  weighing 
exactly  five  centigrams. 
M.  Boudet  reported  on  a  question  pending  before  the  Academy  of  Medicine, 
and  which  was  raised  by  a  letter  of  the  prefect  of  police,  inquiring  whether, 
under  the  present  laws,  a  midwife  is  authorized  to  prescribed  ergot  in  cases  of 
confinement,  and  whether  it  should  be  furnished  by  the  pharmacist.  Dr.  Tarnier 
•had  reported  that  ergot  is  not  named  in  the  list  of  poisons.  M.  Poggiale  is 
of  the  opinion  that  a  midwife  ought  not  to  have  the  right  to  prescribe  such  a 
•dangerous  medicament. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Societies  of  Belgium  were  formally  united  in  an  As- 
sociation pharmaceutique  generate  de  Belgique,  in  which  delegates  only  were 
allowed  to  speak  and  vote.  A  number  of  members  demanded  the  same  privi- 
leges for  all  members,  and,  this  being  refused,  formed  themselves  into  a  Feder- 
ation pharmaceutique  beige,  which  held  its  first  meeting  October  26th,  in  the 
free  university  of  Brussels,  and  was  formally  organized  by  the  election  of  offi- 
cers. It  is  to  be  hoped  that  a  reconciliation  may  be  effected  upon  a  basis 
recognizing  the  right  of  every  member  to  a  full  expression  of  his  views. 
(fiftitorial  {Department 
What  is  in  a  Name?  On  page  524  of  our  last  volume  we  expressed  the 
hope  that  the  Columbia  Pharmaceutical  Association  might  not  adopt  the  title 
of  National  College  of  Pharmacy;  Professor  Oscar  Oldberg,  in  his  inaugural 
address,  considers  it  his  duty  to  profit  by  the  sneers  of  the  uncharitable,  and 
to  so  manage  that  in  the  u  future  all  our  institutions  may  partake  of  the  nation- 
alism of  the  city  itself."  To  enable  our  readers  to  judge  of  the  claims  of  the 
aew  institution  to  its  name,  we  quote  from  the  Professor's  address,  premising 
that  the  italics  in  the  following  quotation  are  his  : 
"  Washington  is  to  our  country  the  natural  rendezvous  of  communicative  and 
curious  minds  of  all  orders.  People  from  all  parts  of  the  Union  meet  here 
continually,  and  men  of  learning,  imagination,  and  wealth,  will  congregate  here 
as  fast  as  we  are  prepared  to  receive  them.  This  cosmopolitan  American 
capital  of  ours  has  always  attracted  visitors  from  the  most  remote  corners  of 
our  country,  but  the  trouble  heretofore  has  been  that  they  did  not  deem  it 
profitable  or  pleasant  to  remain  with  us.  This  difficulty  is  now,  to  a  great  ex- 
tent, remedied,  and  we  are  at  last  able  to  present  such  inducements  as  will 
both  make  the  concourse  greater  and  their  stay  longer.  Here  is  the  place  then 
to  compare  notes,  and  our  city  will  eventually  become  the  intellectual  aud  edu- 
