38o 
P liar  mac  entical  Meeting. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1895. 
The  Buffalo  Druggist  is  a  claimant  for  honors  in  the  field  of  pharmaceu- 
tical literature  ;  it  is  devoted  to  the  advancement  of  pharmacy  and  the  inter- 
ests of  the  general  drug,  paint  and  oil  trade. 
The  Graduate,  which  has  been  issued  annually  by  the  Alumni  Association 
of  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  will  in  future  appear  quarterly. 
Proceedings  of  the  Missouri  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
held  at  Excelsior  Springs,  Mo.,  June  12  to  15,  1894.  A  number  of  original 
papers  appear  in  the  volume,  some  of  which  have  already  been  printed  in  this 
Journal. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  meeting  was  held  Tuesday,  May  21st,  at  3  P.M.  Prof.  F.  X.  Moerk, 
Ph.G.,  was  elected  Chairman. 
On  motion  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  was  dispensed 
with. 
A  specimen  of  Chene  gommey  an  educt  of  the  Spermolepes  tannifera,  was 
presented  to  the  cabinet  by  Prof.  E.  Haeckel,  an  honorary  member  of  our 
College,  residing  at  Marseilles,  France.  It  is  said  to  contain  about  25  per  cent, 
to  30  per  cent,  of  tannin.  The  gum  is  obtained  in  Algiers,  and  is  said  to  be  very 
abundant  there. 
Mr.  Henry  N.  Rittenhouse,  Ph.G.,  presented  a  specimen  of  California  licorice 
root,  gathered  in  San  Joaquin  Valley,  where  it  has  been  growing  wild  for  twenty 
years  under  rather  unfavorable  circumstances. 
A  paper  upon  the  Tannin  of  Cloves,  by  W.  L.  Peabody,  Ph.G.,  was  presented. 
His  attention  was  called  to  the  subject  by  the  statement  that  cloves  contained 
18  per  cent,  of  tannin.  The  samples  examined  showed  the  presence  of  10  03 
t°  I3"35  per  cent,  of  tannin.  A  cheap  specimen  of  cloves  showed  5  per  cent,  of 
tannin  ;  examination  showed  the  tannin  to  be  identical  with  nutgall-tannin. 
It  was  thought  that  the  percentage  of  tannin  might  be  used  as  a  means  of  form- 
ing a  proximate  judgment  regarding  the  purity  of  cloves,  as  a  tannin-bearing 
substance  would  not  likely  be  used  as  a  sophistication. 
Anatolian  Licorice  Root  was  the  subject  of  a  paper  by  James  W.  Nickum, 
Ph  G.,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  From  this  paper  we  learn  that  the  root  con- 
tains 23-84  per  cent,  of  extract  by  the  use  of  acetone,  but  it  yields  less  with 
ethylic  alcohol.  Turkish  root  yielded  14*06  ;  Spanish  root,  7*02  ;  Persian  root, 
7'02  with  acetone.  Anatolia  is  a  corruption  of  the  word  Andoli,  and  the  district 
meant  by  this  term  is  almost  identical  with  Asia  Minor. 
The  remaining  paper  of  pharmaceutic  character  was  one  by  Miss  Florence 
Yaple,  of  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  upon  Twelve  Varieties  of  Commercial  Cocoas. 
The  examination  showed  that  there  had  been  little  or  no  adulteration  practiced 
in  any  of  the  specimens  tested.  The  papers  in  full  are  contained  in  the  June 
number  of  the  Journal. 
There  being  no  further  business,  a  motion  to  adjourn  was  made  and  carried. 
T.  S.  Wiegand. 
