472  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  {^Ve^lmi^""' 
is  proposed  to  employ  this  substance  in  place  of  the  costly  albumen  for  mor- 
danting cotton,  especially  for  aniline  colors.  The  same  substance  has  been 
used  for  tanning  leather,  which  it  makes  as  hard  as  stone.  By  adding  tungstate 
of  soda  and  muriatic  acid  to  a  solution  of  gelatine,  and  heating  the  precipitate? 
a  substance  is  formed  which  may  be  used  as  a  cement  or  putty. —  Chicago  Drug- 
gists' Price  Current,  Aug.,  1871,  from  Manufacturers'  Review. 
Cinchona  Plantations. — In  a  report  of  Mr.  W.  G.  McTvor,  the  Superintend* 
ent  of  the  Government  Cinchona  Plantations  in  British  Sikkim,  he  says  that 
the  state  of  the  plantations  near  Darjeeling  is  very  unsatisfactory.  The  plants 
have  not  the  luxuriant  foliage  of  those  grown  in  the  south  of  India,  and  trees 
of  equal  height  do  not  produce  an  equal  amount  of  bark,  the  trees  being  of 
more  slender  growth  and  the  bark  thinner.  The  climate  is  very  moist,  being 
rarely  free  from  rain,  and  seems  admirably  adapted  for  the  grovv^th  of  cinchona; 
but  the  trees  appear  to  thrive  for  three  years  at  most,  and  then  to  become  dis- 
eased.— Pharm.  Journ.  and  Trans.,  Lond.^  Aug.  12.  1871. 
Plants  Killed  hy  Frost  :  Do  they  Die  in  Freezing  or  in  Thawingl — That  in 
certain  cases  plants  die  in  freezing,  is  shown  by  Prof.  Goeppert,  of  Breslau,  in 
a  very  satisfactory  way,  in  an  article  in  a  recent  number  of  Bot.  Zeitung.  The 
flowers  of  certain  Orchids,  notably  the  milk-white  blossoms  of  Calanthe  vera- 
trifolia,  produce  indigo  ;  but  only  upon  a  chemical  reaction,  which  takes  effect 
upon  the  death  of  the  parts.  When  crushed,  or  the  cells  in  any  way  destroyed 
as  to  vitality,  they  turn  blue  immediately.  Now,  upon  exposure  to  cold,  the 
flowers  turn  blue  at  once  upon  freezing,  showing  that  life  then  departed.  P/ia- 
ius  grandiflorus  and  another  species  of  that  genus,  are  said  to  show  the  same 
thing. — Amer.  Journ.  Science  and  Arts,  Sept.,  1871. 
The  Lecture  Season  has  arrived,  and  all  the  teaching  Colleges  of  Phar- 
macy will  commence  with  their  regular  courses  of  lectures  during  the  month 
of  October.  In  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  the  opening  lecture 
will  be  delivered  by  Professor  E.  Parrish.  on  the  evening  of  October  2d. 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  their  last  meeting,  held 
on  the  16th  of  August,  at  Long  Branch,  again  considered  the  draft  of  a  phar- 
maceutical law  proposed  by  them  for  enactment  in  New  Jersey,  and  referred  it 
to  a  Committee,  with  the  direction  that  they  endeavor  to  obtain  its  passage  at 
the  next  session  of  the  Legislature. 
The  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy,  at  the  annual  meeting,  held  August 
8th,  elected  the  following  officers:  President.  C.  Lewis  Diehl ;  Vice-Presidents, 
B.  F.  Scribner,  John  Colgan  ;  Recording  Secretary,  Fred.  C.  Miller;  Corres- 
ponding Secretary,  Emil  Schefi'er  ;  Treasurer,  S.  Fisher  Dawes  ;  Curator,  J .  A. 
