Am'octu""i87b6arm'}  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  445 
ever,  that  Fliickiger,  in  his  "  Pharmakognosie  "  (1867,  p.  187),  and 
Fliickiger  and  Hanbury,  in  their  "  Pharmacographia "  (page  629),. 
attribute  the  irritation  produced  by  squill  to  the  presence  of  very 
sharp  and  brittle  crystals  of  oxalate  of  calcium. 
The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Papers  stated  that  a  paper  "  On 
the  presence  of  sulphuric  in  commercial  tartaric  acid  "  (query  24)  had 
been  mailed  but  not  yet  received  ;  it  was  referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee. 
Mr.  Louis  Dohme  read  a  paper  "  On  the  presence  of  arsenic  in  phos- 
phorus "  (query  26).  It  appears  that  at  present  only  two  brands  of  phos- 
phorus are  sold  in  this  market,  one  made  by  Gibbs  &  Deacon,  Mount 
Holly,  N.  J.,  the  other  by  Albright  &  Wilson,  Oldbury,  England.  A 
sample  of  the  former  was  found  to  be  free  from  arsenic  ;  two  samples 
of  the  latter  were  found  to  contain  0*562  and  i#o66  per  cent,  of  the 
metal  named.  The  arsenic  was  weighed  as  arseniate  of  magnesium, 
and  ammonium. 
The  Association  adjourned  until  i\  o'clock. 
Sixth  Session — Saturday  afternoon,  September  16. 
The  session  was  opened,  Vice-President  Sheppard  occupying  the 
chair.  The  appointment  of  a  special  committee  of  three  to  report  on 
adulterations  and  sophistications  was  ordered,  and  Prof.  E.  Painter  of 
San  Francisco,  E.  H.  Sargent  of  Chicago  and  W.  H.  Pile  of  Phila- 
delphia appointed. 
The  report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  suggestions 
contained  in  the  annual  report  of  the  officers,  recommended  the  appro- 
val of  the  action  of  the  Executive  Committee  in  providing  badges  for 
the  officers  and  the  standing  committees  on  active  duty  during  the 
meetings  of  the  Association  ;  the  report  was  adopted. 
Mr.  Henry  J.  Rose,  of  Toronto,  was  nominated  and  duly  elected 
Local  Secretary  for  the  ensuing  year. 
A  paper  by  Mr.  M.  S.  Bidwell,  "  On  liquor  ferri  chloridi  dilutus  " 
(query  31),  was  read  and  referred;  it  argues  in  favor  of  reducing  the 
alcoholic  strength  of  the  present  tincture  of  ferric  chloride  to  one-half. 
Prof.  Sharpies  read  a  paper  "  On  the  substitution  in  the  '  Pharmaco- 
poeia '  of  parts  by  weight  for  absolute  quantities "  (query  30) ;  the 
author,  by  his  examination  of  the  subject,  had  arrived  at  a  conclusion 
