280  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc,  {k^lim^ 
tion  of  impurities  in  phosphate  of  iron,  while  much  valuable  discussion  ha& 
taken  place. 
The  annual  supper,  at  the  American  House,  was  attended  by  members  and 
invited  guests  of  the  Association,  and  addresses  were  made  by  a  number  of  the* 
participants. 
Literary  and  Scientific  Society  of  the  German  Apothecaries  of  New 
York. — Under  this  title  the  two  German  pharmaceutical  organizations  which 
had  existed  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  city  of  New  York,  are  now  united 
into  one  chartered  corporation,  numbering  about  eighty  pharmacists.  They- 
hold  quarterly  stated  meetings  and  weekly  conversational  meetings,  and  keep 
the  best  German  pharmaceutical  periodicals  circulating  among  the  members. 
Their  library,  which  contains  some  very  valuable  works,  is  located  in  the^ 
library  room  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy.  They  will  be  represented  by  a  dele- 
gation at  the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  Board  of  Trustees,  at  their  meeting 
held  May  1st,  authorized  the  expenditure  of  a  sum  of  money  to  organize  a. 
summer  course  in  practical  botany  and  analytical  chemistry.  A  resolution,, 
offered  by  Mr.  Rice,  to  have  the  arrangements  for  each  course  of  lectures  made 
in  the  month  of  January,  to  enable  the  lecture  committee  to  issue  the  prospec- 
tus early  in  the  spring,  was  referred  to  the  next  College  meeting.  On  motion 
of  Mr.  Balluff,  seconded  by  Mr.  Peixotto,  the  Secretary  was  directed  to  send 
short  extracts  of  the  minutes  to  the  "  Druggists'  Circular,"  the  "American, 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  and  to  the  "  Pharmacist  and  Chemical  Record." 
Drs.  William  Neergaard  and  W.  Manlius  Smith  having  resigned  their  posi- 
tion as  members  of  the  New  York  Board  of  Pharmacy,  a  special  meeting  of 
the  College  was  held  May  22d  to  fill  these  vacancies. 
Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  monthly  meeting  held  April  8tb, 
Professor  Wayne  presented  to  the  College,  among  other  specimens,  some  ex- 
pressed and  essential  oil  of  peach  kernels,  the  former  bland  and  sweet  like  the- 
expressed  oil  of  almonds  ;  the  latter  having  all  the  properties  of  essential  oil  of 
almonds,  but  the  yield  being  only  one  and  a  half  drachms  from  twenty-five? 
pounds  of  kernels.  In  the  discussion  on  fluid  extracts  of  the  new  pharmaco- 
poeia, the  use  of  glycerin  was  favorably  commented  upon  for  those  containing 
much  tannin,  like  cinchona,  as  tending  to  prevent  change  and  precipitation  £ 
but  the  opinion  was  that  it  had  been  carried  too  far,  and  that  it  was,  in  many 
cases,  an  expensive  addition  without  material  benefit. 
Professor  Wayne  observed  that  the  reduction  of  oxide  of  mercury  by  oleic 
acid  did  not  occur,  if  the  acid  was  obtained  by  saponification  instead  of  by  dis- 
tillation. A  specimen  of  mercurial  plaster  was  exhibited,  made  by  decomposing 
soda  soap  by  mercuric  chloride ;  it  was  of  a  pale  yellow  color,  contained  32  per 
cent  of  mercury,  dissolved  freely  in  oils  and  is  recommended  as  a  substitute  for- 
the  oleate  of  mercury,  having  the  same  therapeutic  value. 
Professor  Judge  presented  specimens  of  Mylabris  ctchoru  and  phaleratct,, 
and  gave  an  account  of  their  occurrence,  uses  and  strength  in  cantharidin. 
