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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
/Am.  Jour  Pharm. 
I      March,  L906. 
adopted  as  the  national  standards,  while  the  remaining  will  be 
included  in  an  appendix  at  the  end  of  the  book. 
The  Bulletin  of  the  A.Ph.A. — The  initial  number  of  the  Bulletin 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  made  its  appearance 
with  the  advent  of  the  new  year,  and  is  generally  considered  as 
being  a  thoroughly  creditable  as  well  as  a  readable  pamphlet. 
The  title-page  is  headed  by  the  suggestive  and  evidently  oppor- 
tune motto  "  Pharmacia  Vera  Prevalebit."  While  this  is  undoubt- 
edly true  of  true  pharmacy  we  trust  that  it  will  also  prove  true  of 
the  Bulletin. 
This  initial  number,  in  addition  to  a  salutatory  by  the  editor,  Prof. 
C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  contains  the  annual  address  of  the  president  and 
also  a  number  of  reports  of  committees  that  are  of  current  interest. 
The  second  number  of  the  Bulletin  is,  if  anything,  even  more 
interesting  than  the  first  in  that  it  contains  an  exhaustive^account  of 
the  very  interesting  and  highly  important  meetings  of  the  Section 
on  Education  and  Legislation,  at  Atlantic  City,  in  September,  1905. 
Ten  Years  of  Electro-Chemistry  at  Niagara  Falls. — The  Journal  of 
the  Franklin  Institute  (Jan.,  1906,  page  42)  gives  a  resume  of  the 
progress  that  has  been  made  in  the  electro-chemical  industry  at 
Niagara  Falls.  On  October  19,  1895,  tne  current  was  turned  on  at 
the  plant  of  the  Carborundum  Company,  the  first  to  use  electric 
power  at  this  point.  At  the  present  time  more  than  a  dozen  elec- 
tro-chemical industries  are  flourishing  within  a  radius  of  two  miles 
of  the  Falls. 
The  list  of  products  alone  is  an  imposing  one,  while  their  economic 
value  represents  an  annual  total  of  many  millions  of  dollars.  Of  the 
products  that  are  more  directly  of  interest  to  pharmacists  we  may 
enumerate  :  Aluminum,  aluminum  hydrate,  phosphorus,  sodium, 
potassium,  sodium  hydrate,  sodium  dioxide,  potassium  hydrate, 
calcium  carbide,  chlorinated  lime,  chlorine,  potassium  chlorate, 
sodium  chlorate,  hydrochloric  acid  and  vanillin. 
The  Production  of  Borax  in  the  United  States  All  of  the  output 
of  borax  in  the  United  States  comes  from  California  and  the  larger 
part  of  that  from  the  Colemanite  deposits  in  San  Bernardino  County. 
The  total  product  for  the  year  1904  amounted  to  45,647  tons 
crude,  valued  at  $698,810.  Of  this  amount  38,000  tons,  valued  at 
$508,000,  came  from  San  Bernardino  County,  Cal.,  the  remainder 
coming  from  Ventura  and  Inyo  Counties. 
