4 REPORT OF N. T. COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
M. Rabourdin, Pharmacien at Orleans, employs the fol- 
lowing process, viz : About eleven pounds of valerian to 
be distilled with a sufficient quantity of water, containing 
three troy ounces of concentrated sulphuric acid. When 
thirty pints of product has been obtained by distillation, the 
volatile oil is separated and the liquid saturated with from 
22 to 25 drams of carbonate of soda, then evaporated to 
one pint, a slight excess of sulphuric acid added, and then 
distilled. By this process M. Rabourdin obtained from 11 
to 12 drams of valerianic acid — a much larger quantity 
than is usually obtained. 
By whatever process made, there should always be suf- 
ficient water to hold all the valerianate in solution when 
the liquid is hot, else a portion may be lost in separating 
the excess of carbonate of zinc. The salt requires about 
fifty times its weight of water for solution. 
ART. III. — REPORT OF THE NEW YORK COLLEGE OF 
PHARMACY. 
At a Stated Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 
College of Pharmacy of the city of New York, held April 
3d, 1845, an extract from the minutes of the last meeting 
of the College was read, in which a report from the Com- 
mittee of Inspection was referred to the present Board, 
with instructions to proceed with it as they may think ad- 
visable. 
Whereupon, it was on motion 
Resolved, That a copy of the report of the Committee 
of Inspection be forwarded to the publishers of the Ameri- 
can Journal of Pharmacy for publication, with the addi- 
tion that the article has been sold by the importors to 
