52  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  {Am)^*£?BU 
Gustavus  J.  Luhn,  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  was  elected  president  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  fifty-eight  new  members  were  elected. 
The  Association  adjourned  on  Friday  morning,  Nov.  29th,  to  meet  at  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  September,  1879. 
After  the  adjournment  most  of  the  members  returned  immediately  home,  but 
quite  a  number  embraced  the  opportunity  of  making  a  brief  visit  to  Florida,  receiv- 
ing on  the  way  the  hospitality  of  the  pharmacists  of  Macon,  Ga. 
Two  of  the  delegates  were  unable  to  attend  the  meeting,  and  Mr.  James  T. 
Shinn,  who  was  present,  was  added  to  the  delegation. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
Alonzo  Robbins,  ] 
James  T.  Shinn,       !  Delegates  in= 
F.  Marion  Murray,  J  Attendance. 
J.  L.  Patterson,  J 
December  30th,  1878. 
James  T.  Shinn  entertained  the  meeting  with  an  interesting  description  of  a 
journey  which  was  undertaken  by  a  part  of  the  delegation,  under  the  guidance  of 
Mr.  Hunt,  southward  through  Florida.  Everything  was  done  by  those  in  charge 
to  make  the  trip  agreeable  and  instructive,  and  the  delegation  returned  home  with 
many  pleasant  recollections  of  the  journey. 
Prof.  Maisch  made  a  verbal  report  of  the  transactions  of  the  Conference  of 
Schools  of  Pharmacy,  held  in  Atlanta  Nov.  26th. 
A  letter  from  the  Society  of  Pharmacy  of  Paris,  directed  to  the  President  of  the 
College,  was  read,  conveying  the  thanks  of  the  Society  to  the  members  of  this 
College  for  the  collection  of  American  drugs  sent  to  the  Paris  Exposition.  The 
collection  has  been  placed  in  the  museum  of  the  school  in  the  Champ  de  Mars, 
where  it  can  be  advantageously  consulted  by  the  members  of  the  Society. 
On  motion  of  Prof.  Remington  the  letter  was  directed  to  be  entered  on  the 
minutes. 
There  being  no  further  business,  then  adjourned. 
William  J.  Jen ks>  Secretary. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  December  7th,  1878. 
Dillwyn  Parrish,  President,  called  the  meeting  to  order  5  the  minutes  of  the  last 
meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
Prof.  Sadtler  gave  an  account  of  some  of  the  properties  of  the  so-called  Califor- 
nia oil  of  turpentine,  which  was  referred  to  in  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  for  last 
month  ;  in  many  particulars  it  coincides'  with,  and  in  others  it  differs  from,  the 
characters  referred  to  the  abietin  described  by  Prof.  Wenzel,  which  is  obtained  from 
the  Pinus  Sabiniana.  ("Amer.  Jour.  Phar."  1872,  p  97.)  The  specific  gravity  of 
ordinary  oil  of  turpentine  is  o*86  to  o*88  ;  of  abietin  0*6945  of  oil  examined  0*6974. 
The  boiling  point  of  ordinary  oil  is  near  i6o°C;  of  abietin,  ioi°C;  of  oil  examined 
101  to  io3°C.  The  optical  rotatory  power  of  English  oil  of  turpentine  is  (a)=-|-i8  6°j 
of  French  oil  (a)= — 35*4°  ;  of  Venetian  oil  (a)= — 5  2  ;  of  templin  oil  (a)  = — 76-9 
of  abietin  not  ascertained  ;  of  oil  of  Pinus  ponderosa  (a)= — 1'58°. 
Mr.  Gaillard  called  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  the  character  of  the  residues- 
