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Cinchona  Cultivation  in  Java.— Dr.  Hasskarl  reports  that  continual  rain  greatly 
assisted  the  growth  of  the  cinchona  plants  during  the  last  three  months,  but  greatly- 
interfered  with  the  collection  of  bark.  The  number  of  trees  in  the  different 
plantations  increased  to  the  extent  of  88,634  trees  ;  the  number  of  trees  standing  in 
the  open  air  decreased  5,834;  that  of  those  in  hot-beds  and  hot-houses  increased 
94,468.  There  is  an  increase  of  471  in  the  number  of  young  trees  of  C.  Calisaya,, 
Ledgeriana  and  C.  Hasskarliana,  and  of  9,300  in  the  number  of  trees  of  C.  succiru- 
bra,  C.  caloptera,  while  C.  officinalis  decreased  15,105,  and  C.  lancifolia  600.  The 
whole  number  of  trees,  including  the  429,618  plants  in  the  hot-beds,  is  2,461,326. 
— Pharm.  Handelsbl.,  June  18,  1879,  p.  26. 
Preparation  of  Sago. — The  sago-palm,  Metroxylon  sagus,  yields  the  principal 
food  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  islands  stretching  along  the  western  coast  of  Sumatra, 
who  obtain  the  sago  as  follows:  The  trees  having  been  sawed  into  pieces  four  to 
five  feet  in  length,  each  piece  is  split  into  four  parts,  which,  after  the  bark  has  been 
removed,  are  placed  in  a  shady  place  until  dry,  when  the  pith  is  rasped  into  a  coarse 
meal,  transferred  to  a  coarse  cotton  strainer,  suspended  over  a  wooden  trough,  and 
kneaded  into  a  smooth,  thin  paste  with  water;  this  kneading  is  continued  as  long 
as  the  milky  liquid  saturated  with  starch  runs  from  the  strainer.  The  contents  of 
the  trough  are  then  allowed  to  settle,  the  supernatant  water  is  removed,  and  the  white 
sediment  dried  in  the  air. — Ztschr.  d.  Allg.  Oest.  Apoth.  Ver.,  June  1,  1879,  P-  24^> 
from  Rosenberg's  The  Malay  Archip. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  September  29th,  1879, 
The  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this 
day  at  the  College,  Dillwyn  Parrish,  President,  in  the  chair  ;  twenty- one  members  in 
attendance. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  stated  meeting  were  read,  and,  on  motion,  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  previous  three  months  were  read 
by  Mr.  C.  Bakes,  and,  on  motion,  adopted. 
Charles  W.  Hancock,  chairman  of  the  delegation  to  attend  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  read  an  interesting  report,  giving  an 
account  of  the  trip  of  the  delegation,  and  of  some  of  the  important  matters  which 
claimed  the  attention  of  the  Association. 
On  motion,  the  report  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Publication. 
Prof.  Remington  spoke  of  the  meeting  as  a  satisfactory  one,  and  alluded  to  the 
