410  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  trip  extended  to  Lake  Erie,  affording  an  excellent  view  of 
the  villages,  country  seats,  manufactories,  and  scenery  generally 
of  this  outlet  of  the  great  northern  lakes. — Editor  Am.  Jour. 
Pharm.] 
Prof.  Edward  Parrish  read  a  paper  on  Titles,  which  on  motion 
was  accepted  and  referred  for  publication. 
Dr.  Duffield,  of  Detroit,  read  an  important  paper  on  the  influ- 
ence of  hypodermic  injection  in  toxicology,  showing  the  difficulty 
if  not  impossibility  of  detecting  poisonous  alkaloids  after  they 
are  introduced  into  the  circulation  in  that  way. 
Some  discussion  ensued,  and  the  importance  of  keeping  this 
knowledge  from  popular  journals  was  insisted  on. 
Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch  read  a  paper  on  the  assaying  of  Sherry 
wine,  and  another  on  brandy  and  whiskey. 
The  same  writer  read  a  paper  on  the  specific  gravity  of  chlo- 
roform, and  another  on  the  statistics  of  the  U.  S.  Army  Labora- 
tory at  Philadelphia. 
Mr.  C.  Lewis  Diehl  read  a  paper  entitled  Remarks  on  some 
Chemical  Processes. 
All  these  papers  were  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee  for  publication. 
Prof.  Procter  exhibited  a  Chinese  prescription,  written  on 
Chinese  paper,  and  the  original  package  of  medicine  it  called 
for,  put  up  in  San  Francisco  by  a  Chinese  doctor.  The  same 
member  exhibited  a  dried  specimen  of  the  leaves  of  the  so-called 
"vanilla  plant"  of  North  Carolina,  Liatris  odoratissima,  which 
he  had  on  a  former  occasion  shown  to  owe  its  odor  to  coumarin, 
as  in  tonka  bean.  The  leaves  are  used  in  Carolina  to  preserve 
clothes  from  moths. 
Mr.  A.  B.  Spencer,  of  Rochester,  exhibited  a  beautiful  and 
elaborately  finished  atmospheric  filter  for  condensing  fluids  and 
extracts.  It  is  a  more  complete  arrangement  than  the  one 
exhibited  and  figured  last  year,  and  may  be  used  for  distillation 
in  vacuo  as  well  as  for  filtering.  Mr.  Spencer  had  been  at  great 
expense  in  getting  up  the  apparatus,  which  he  had  not  patented, 
and  had  come  specially  to  exhibit  it  to  the  Association.  A  vote 
of  thanks  was  tendered  the  author  and  contriver,  and  his  appa- 
ratus directed  to  be  figured  in  the  proceedings. 
