'^ju^e^'tmr"'}  Minutes  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings,  281 
Resolved,  That  the  drug-gists,  pharmaceutists  and  chemists  of  the  State  of 
Mississippi  be  requested  to  call  a  convention  at  an  early  day,  and  organize  a 
State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  meet  annually  at  the  same  time  and  place 
that  the  Medical  Association  does,  and  co-operate  with  it  in  any  and  all  meas- 
ures of  mutual  interest  and  importance. 
Knowing  that  at  least  one  attempt,  which  was  then  unsuccessful,  has  been 
made,  of  establishing  a  State  pharmaceutical  association,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  pharmacists  of  jVIississippi  may  renew  their  efforts,  so  that  they  may  be 
represented  as  a  body  at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associ- 
ation to  be  held  in  St.  Louis  in  September  next. 
At  the  meeting  held  May  16th,  1871,  Dr.  Wilson  H.  Pile  presiding,  the  min- 
utes of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
A  paper  was  read  by  Prof.  Maisch,  on  the  Seeds  of  a  Species  of  Strychnos, 
brought  to  New  York  by  a  vessel  from  the  East  Indies,  and  exhibited  at  the 
meeting  in  February.  On  motion,  it  was  referred  to  the  Publication  Commit- 
tee.   He  finds  them  destitute  of  the  alkaloids.    (See  page  241.) 
Dr.  Pile  exhibited  four  specimens  of  syrup  of  iodide  of  iron,  made  with  glu- 
cose, instead  of  syrup,  which  is  directed  in  the  U.  S.  Pharm.  His  obiect  had 
been  to  ascertain  whether  the  effect  of  such  substitution  would  be  to  promote 
the  preservation  of  the  iodide  without  change.  Three  of  the  specimens  had 
undergone  more  change  of  color  than  would  have  been  expected  in  the  officinal 
syrup,  and  the  other  was  nearly  in  the  condition  that  would  have  been  antici- 
pated if  prepared  by  the  Pharmacopoeia  process. 
S.  Mason  McCollin  stated  that  he  used  glucose  as  an  addition  to  a  variety  of 
syrups,  or  rather  to  simple  syrup  to  be  used  as  a  basis  to  medicated  or  flavored 
syrups,  with  a  view  to  giving  it  more  body,  without  increasing  the  tendency  to 
precipitate. 
Dr.  Pile  called  attention  to  the  tendency  to  precipitate,  which  constitutes 
one  of  the  difficulties  in  manipulating  with  the  syrups  of  the  phosphates,  and 
inquired  whether  it  might  not  be  accounted  for  by  impurities  in  the  sugar^ 
Some  manufacturers  of  these  preparations  had  assured  him  that  they  gave  the 
preference  to  "  Loveriug's  Sugar,"  and  found  no  difficulty  with  it.  T.  S.  Wie- 
gand.  Prof.  Parrish  and  others  dissented  from  this  view,  stating  that  there  was, 
according  to  their  experience,  very  little  difference  between  the  products  of  the 
several  sugar  refineries  that  supply  our  market. 
Prof.  Maisch  having  observed  a  crystalline  precipitation  in  mixing  solution 
of  morphia  with  cyanide  of  potassium,  exhibited  the  results  of  some  of  his  ex- 
periments, and  reported  that  hydrocyanate  of  morphia  is  nearly  insoluble  in 
water  and  in  an  excess  of  the  precipitant,  but  dissolves  readily  in  diluted  mineral 
acids.  The  experiments  were  made  with  granular  cyanide  of  potassium  and 
with  cyanide  of  ammonium,  prepared  from  hydrocyanic  acid  and  ammonia. 
Then  adjourned. 
Clemmons  Parrish,  Secretary. 
