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they  also  received  the  approval  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association. 
It  was  the  opinion  of  the  meeting  that  the  Committee  had  shown  their  ability 
and  zeal  by  their  report,  and  that  the  suggestions  made  by  them  were  the  most 
valuable  of  any  yet  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  for  the  purpose 
of  carrying  out  the  law. 
On  motion  it  was  resolved  and  adopted  that  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  approve  of  the  report  and  suggestion's  thereto  appended. 
That  the  report  be  printed  in  the  American  Journal,  of  Pharmacy  and 
the  Alumni  Report,  and  that  an  abstract  of  the  report  be  given  to  the  daily 
papers. 
There  being  no  further  business,  an  adjournment  was  ordered. 
Thos.  S.  WiiCGAND, 
Secretary  pro  tem. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  January  15,  1895. 
Frank  G.  Ryan,  Ph.G.,  was  asked  to  preside. 
The  Registrar  reported  the  donation  of  a  volume  of  the  Memoir  and  Science 
Papers  of  the  late  Daniel  Hanbury,  presented  by  Dr.  K.  R.  Squibb  on  behalf  of 
Mr.  Hanbury 's  brother.  It  was  accepted  with  thanks.  A  paper  upon  the  Cultiva- 
tion of  Licorice  Root  in  the  United  States,  by  H.  N.  Rittenhouse,  Ph.G.,  was 
read  by  Professor  Trimble.  Almost  all  the  licorice  root  of  commerce  is  of  wild 
growth ;  a  five-acre  field  is  the  largest  patch  of  cultivated  root  the  writer  had  ever 
seen.    Five-eighths  of  the  entire  supply  is  derived  from  Southern  Russia. 
Mr.  Procter  stated  that  his  father,  the  late  Professor  Procter,  had  grown  it  at 
Mt.  Holly,  N.  J. 
Mr.  F.  W.  Haussmaun  read  some  Pharmaceutical  Notes,  the  first  one  being  on 
the  contamination  of  glycerin  by  iron.  As  most  of  the  glycerin  used  in  phar- 
macy is  put  up  in  tin  containers  of  about  50  pounds  each,  it  was  thought  this 
was  the  most  common  cause  of  the  trouble .  Mr.  Beringer  stated  that  large  quan- 
tities of  the  glycerin  now  sold  is  of  foreign  make,  and  is  brought  to  this  country 
in  large  iron  tanks,  from  which  it  is  put  up  in  the  various  containers. 
This  is  one  of  the  troubles  found  in  preparing  glycerite  of  tannin,  elixirs 
and  salicylates. 
Variations  in  the  appearance  or  taste  of  vinegar  of  squill  have  been  noticed, 
by  careful  examination;  these  have  been  traced  to  the  use  of  the  red  variety  of 
squill,  which  gives  a  much  darker  preparation,  very  much  more  bitter  than 
that  made  from  the  white  squill. 
Ultramarine  in  sugar  has  been  frequently  noticed  by  pharmacists  ;  the" objec- 
tionable odor  which  is  so  frequently  noticed  occurs  particularly  after  the  addi- 
tion of  both  organic  and  inorganic  acids.  Mr.  Beringer  suggested  that  some  of  the 
contaminating  sulphides  are  derived  from  the  boneblack  which  contains  both 
iron  and  calcium  sulphides,  which  very  naturally  will  be  dissolved  in  the  syrup 
and  set  free  by  the  action  of  acids  when  added  to  such  syrups. 
Iodides  of  Tin  was  the  subject  of  a  paper  by  Mr.  Chas.  Bullock,  and  read  by 
Mr.  Beringer.    It  has  been  recommended  for  use  in  pulmonary  affections,  those 
