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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept  1, 1871. 
space  of  ground  in  one  of  the  Public  Parks,  in  which  they  establish  a  Botanical 
Garden,  and  that  admission  be  granted  to  Botanical  Classes  for  the  study  of 
Botany. 
At  the  same  meeting  Mr.  Joseph  Roberts  urged,  besides  the  establishment 
of  a  chair  on  botany,  also  one  on  practical  analysis. 
The  following  delegates  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  were  appointed:  Dr.  J.  Paris  Moore,  Dr.  J.  H.  Hancock,  Dr. 
Louis  Dohme,  John  A.  Webb  and  J.  Newport  Potts. 
The  Kansas  College  of  Pharmacy  has  appointed  the  following  delegates  to 
the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  :  Geo.  Leis? 
of  Lawrence;  E.  T.  Porter,  of  Junction  ;  J.  W.  Price,  of  Paola;  R.  Parham 
and  Jos.  Harrop,  of  Leavenworth. 
The  Mississippi  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  we  are  informed,  will  be 
represented  at  the  forthcoming  meeting  of  the  National  Association.  The 
organization  of  this  body  appears  to  have  awakened  a  lively  interest  in  phar- 
macial  affairs  in  that  State. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.  The  Annual  Meeting  of  this  body 
was  held  at  Edinburgh,  on  the  1st,  2d  and  3d  days  of  August.  After  the  de- 
livery of  the  address  by  the  President,  Mr.  W.  W.  Stoddart,  and  after  the 
usual  votes  of  thanks  had  been  proposed  and  passed,  the  further  business  of 
the  meeting  was  commenced  by  Professor  Wright,  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital, 
reading  a  paper  on  Some  Oxidation  Products  of  Essential  Oil  of  Orange  Peel, 
and  then  giving  an  interesting  account  of  the  results  obtained  in  his  experi- 
ments on  codeia.  This  investigation,  connected  with  a  material  of  great  im- 
portance in^  pharmacy,  has  well  served  to  illustrate  how  much  the  chemist's 
capacity  of  detecting  differences  has  been  developed  in  advance  of  his  power  of 
giving  verbal  expression  to  the  differences  he  has  made  out  to  exist  between 
substances.  In  a  report  on  the  chloral  of  trade,  Mr.  Mason  expressed  himself 
satisfied  with  the  quality  of  this  medicine,  and  Mr.  Pattison  Muir  sent  a  paper 
on  the  same  subject.  The  remaining  papers  read  on  Tuesday  were  "  Pharma- 
ceutical Notes  on  Rhamnus  F^rangula,  Linn.,"  Mr.  H.  0.  Baildon;  "The  Com- 
pound Iron  iVlixture  of  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,"  Mr.  C.  A.  Staples;  "Re- 
port on  the  Purity  of  the  Permanganate  of  Potassium  of  Pharmacy,"  Professor 
Allen,  F.C.S.  "  On  the  Use  of  Blistering  Flies  in  Hydrophobia,"  Henry 
Groves,  Florence  ;  "  Solutions,"  T.  B.  Groves,  F.C.S.  Some  account  was  also 
given  of  a  new  method  of  dealing  with  meat  for  the  purpose  of  preservation, 
and  Mr.  Baildon  described  a  new  wire-guard  for  the  protection  of  persons 
engaged  in  bottling  aerated  waters. 
On  Tuesday  evening  the  Conversazione  was  held  in  the  rooms  of  the  Museum 
of  Science  and  Art,  at  which  about  fourteen  hundred  ladies  and  gentlemen 
were  present.  Among  the  visitors  was  his  Majesty,  the  Emperor  of  Brazil, 
who  arrived  about  eleven  o'clock.  A  selection  of  band  and  pipe  music  was 
performed  by  the  band  of  the  93d  Sutherland  Highlanders,  and  during  the 
evening  photographic  views  of  Scottish  scenery  and  buildings  were  exhibited 
by  the  aid  of  the  oxy-hydrogen  light. 
