380  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.        {A  1^3^* 
life.  It  shall  be  furthermore  the  future  aim  of  this  Association  to  erect  a 
School  of  Pharmacy  for  the  Southern  part  of  this  State,  at  the  city  of  Belle- 
ville, as  soon  as  possible  and  practicable,  in  order  to  educate  therein  theoreti- 
cally and  practically  studied  Pharmaceutists,  so  that  our  worthy  profession  may 
derive  honor,  and  the  medical  faculty  as  well  as  the  public  in  general  may  re- 
ceive benefit  by  it. 
We  sincerely  wish  good  success  to  every  pharmaceutical  association  devoting 
its  energies  to  the  welfare  and  progress  of  pharmacy,  but  we  trust  that  our 
friends  of  Southern  Illinois  will  well  weigh  the  apparent  necessities  before  they 
attempt  to  carry  out  their  aim  to  establish  a  School  of  Pharmacy.  Pharma- 
ceutical education  in  the  United  States  knows  no  geographical  limits,  and  is 
not  confined  by  narrow  State  boundaries  ;  an  indefinite  multiplication  of  phar- 
maceutical schools  could,  in  our  opinion,  be  hardly  otherwise  than  unfortunate 
in  its  results.  Belleville,  we  believe,  is  distant  but  twelve  or  fifteen  miles  from 
St.  Louis,  where,  for  a  number  of  years,  a  college  of  pharmacy  has  been  strug- 
gling for  a  foothold,  which  it  now  seems  to  have  gained,  and  will  doubtless 
maintain  if  it  receives  the  hearty  support  of  all  those  pharmacists  of  St.  Louis 
and  vicinity  who  acknowledge  the  value  of  pharmaceutical  education. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — At  the  meeting  held  May  7th,  a  paper 
by  Mr.  Carles,  On  a  New  Variety  of  Opium,*  was  read  and  discussed.  Mr. 
Boudet  spoke  of  a  paper  by  Mr.  Chautard,  read  before  the  Academy  of  Medi- 
cine, On  the  Spectrum  of  Chlorophyll.  Mr.  Buignet  stated  the  principal 
results  to  be  as  follows  :  A  solution  of  chlorophyll  shows  in  the  spectrum 
between  the  red  and  orange  a  large  absorption  band  ;  with  the  micrometer  'of 
the  field  divided  into  100  parts  and  its  position  regulated  so  that  the  sodium 
line,  D,  corresponds  with  40,  the  black  band  occupies  the  space  between  the 
points  22  and  30.  If  to  the  chlorophyll  solution  a  small  quantity  of  caustic 
potassa  or  soda  is  added,  the  central  portion  of  the  band  acquires  its  lumin- 
osity, so  that  two  dark  lines  are  now  perceived,  corresponding  to  the  extreme 
edges  of  the  primitive  band,  and  consequently  situated  at  22  and  30  of  the 
micrometer. 
A  report  by  Messrs.  Mialhe,  Lefort  and  Latour,  on  iodized  tar  water  and 
syrup,  recommended  by  Mr.  Bretet,  of  Cusset,  was  read  ;  the  iodine  it  appears 
is  partly  taken  up  to  form  substitution  compounds  with  the  constituents  of  the 
tar,  a  portion  beiug  converted  into  hydriodic  acid. 
Mr.  Grassi  exhibited  ceresin  (see  page  11  of  our  January  number).  Mr. 
Guichard  spoke  of  the  crystallized  benzoic  acid  exhibited  by  him  before  (see 
June  number  p.  282),  some  crystals  weighing  0*7  grams  and  having  the  crys- 
talline form  of  gypsum  ;  he  was  unable  to  crystallize  ordinary  benzoic  acid  in 
any  other  form  except  the  well  known  small  plates. 
Mr.  Latour  presented  specimens  of  fused  nitrate  of  zinc  and  of  caustic 
pencils  made  from  it.  The  concentrated  solution,  a  paste  made  from  it  with 
wheat  flour,  mixtures  of  the  nitrate  and  chloride  of  zinc  and  the  pencils  hav© 
been  used  as  caustics  in  the  Hotel-Dieu  at  Lyons. 
Mr.  Roucher  recommends  the  addition  of  a  little  glycerin  to  plasters,  to 
*  See  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  July,  page  314. 
