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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
X      July,  1905. 
Whitney,  Kansas  City;  Membership  and  Attendance,  William  H. 
Lamont,  St.  Louis  ;  Papers  and  Queries,  Prof.  Francis  Hemm,  St. 
Louis;  Trade  Interest,  H.  D.  Faxon,  Kansas  City;  Transportation, 
Aug.  T.  Fleishmann,  Kansas  City ;  United  States  Pharmacopoeia, 
William  Mittelbach,  Boonville. 
A  special  committee  on  Fire  Insurance  was  appointed  in  response 
to  a  communication  from  the  Ohio  Valley  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion. 
The  meeting  was  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  and  enjoyable  in 
the  history  of  the  Association.  The  1906  meeting  will  be  held  at 
Pertle  Springs,  June  1 2th— 1 5th. 
H.  M.  Whelpley. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  closing  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  series  for  1904-05  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday  afternoon, 
May  1 6th,  with  E.  M.  Boring,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
in  the  chair. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  Ph.M.,  who  has  been  librarian  of  the  College 
for  some  years  past,  read  a  paper  entitled  "  Practical  Notes  on  Phar- 
maceutical Subjects  "  (see  page  326),  and  exhibited  in  connection 
therewith  some  apparatus.    He  said  : 
"  It  may  be  well  to  exhibit  a  few  vessels  that  render  the  methods 
just  noted  for  percentage  solutions  of  easy  execution.  For  the  solu- 
tion of  corrosive  sublimate,  which  is  frequently  used  in  sterilizing 
articles  used  in  surgical  cases,  a  bottle  is  to  be  selected  which  holds 
exactly  7,000  grains  (1  pound  avoirdupois),  7  grains  of  the  salt  are 
mixed  with  a  small  quantity  of  distilled  water,  the  solution  poured 
into  the  bottle  and  then  filled  with  distilled  water  ;  this  bottle  should 
be  kept  ready  for  use  at  all  times.  For  strychnine  sulphate  to  be 
used  in  dispensing,  a  2-ounce  glass  stoppered  vial  that  contains 
exactly  2  fluid  ounces  when  the  stopper  is  in  its  place  is  desirable. 
This  vial  should  be  properly  labeled  and  the  formula  strychnia 
sulphate,  grs.  iv,  distilled  water  /§j,  should  be  marked  on  it.  All 
these  active  remedies  should  be  kept  in  a  special  part  of  the  dis- 
pensing counter  used  only  for  such  active  remedies." 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  remarking  on  the  use  of  preservatives  for  solutions 
of  salts  of  cocaine,  said  they  were  not  permissible,  particularly  boric 
